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If you couldn’t make it to these shows in Japan, worry not: now’s your chance to watch them online!
Creator of soundtracks for Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell franchises working on play set on the Silk Road.
A makeup studio augmented all her feline facial features until she could pass for Bombalurina!
The glittery, galactic battles of Usagi and her friends will be performed live in the United States as a 2.5-D stage production!
Weren’t able to make it to a performance of the anime stage show? Not to worry, you can now watch it anytime you want!
If you’ve got a favorite series from the hit fantasy series, odds are he’s in the huge cast of this new stage version.
Responsible for the Rurouni Kenshin musical and a musical memorial for Shakespeare, Takarazuka will bring an American president to the stage.
Next month, Hetalia, the anime and manga franchise featuring anthropomorphized nations and a hefty amount of homoerotic subtext, is getting its very own live-action musical adaptation, and the play’s producers have just released the first photos of the cast in costume as their respective nations.
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