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Chihiro, Haku, and No Face all take the stage as Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece comes to life.
First new Live Spectacle Naruto production in four years adapts Pain’s Invasion, Five Kage arcs.
Live-action adaptation of Japanese-produced animated movie has an extremely ambitious performance schedule.
Sounds like the U.K. is getting its second Studio Ghibli anime-based stage production, and very soon.
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.
Lucy, Lyon among those ready for their close-ups.
The premiere of the Kuroko’s Basketball stage play is still a few months away, but the producers are giving fans of sports anime and/or dreamy boys a sneak peek with the first in-costume cast photo.
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.
We recently took a look at the first photos of the upcoming Rurouni Kenshin stage musical cast in costume, and looking at the comments for that article, more than a few fans of the hit anime and manga franchise are wishing they see the show in person. But if a trip to the Takarazuka theater in Tokyo or Hyogo Prefecture doesn’t fit into your schedule, there’s still a way to get a taste of the all-female performing troupe’s live-action spectacle, as the theatre company has released a preview video of the cast showing off their fighting moves and crossing swords!
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Studio Ghibli releases Kodama forest spirits from Princess Mononoke to light up your home
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No more using real katana for tourism activities, Japan’s National Police Agency says
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