Wataru Watanabe’s popular work Yowamushi Pedal is getting another stage play adaptation slated to run from March 2 to 11 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater in Tokyo, and from March 16-18 in Shin Kobe Theater in Kobe. This is 12th stage play under the franchise. The upcoming stage play is titled: Yowamushi Pedal Shin Interhigh-hen Hakone Gakuen Ōja Fukukaku (The Kingdom) (Stage Yowamushi Pedal New Interhigh Arc: Restoration of Hakone Gakuen’s King [The Kingdom]).
A second round of cast announcements were revealed on Friday on its official website on Friday while the first round of cast members were announced on January 11.
Below are confirmed names to be part of the stage play. Note: *- There are cast members that are different from its previous stage play):
Sohoku High School
Kotaro Daigo as Sakamichi Onoda
Hiroki Ino as Shunsuke Imaizumi*
Saku Momose as Shōkichi Naruko
Kōsuke Kujirai as Junta Teshima
Ryō Hashima as Hajime Aoyagi
Motohisa Harashima as Issa Kaburagi*
Shōta Motokawa as Kimitaka Koga
Hakone Academy
Takuya Kawaharada as Tōichirō Izumida
Yuya Tominaga as Takuto Ashikiba
Sumiya Ito as Yukinari Kuroda*
Mahiro Sugiyama as Sangaku Manami*
Kentarō Kanesaki as Masakiyo Tōbashi
Yūta Iiyama as Yuto Shinkai
Kyoto Fushimi High School
Takeshi Hayashino as Akira Midōsuji
Kento Masui as Nobuyuki Mizuta
Shōgo Amō as Komari Kishigami
Yū Ichinose as Noriyuki Yamaguchi (Ichinose will also be the “puzzle rider director” including puzzle riders Tomohira Kawano, Genki Ito, and Manatsu Nagase.)
This new play will still be directed and written by Shatner Nishida with music composed by manzo.
Its last stage play titled Shin Interhigh-hen Heat Up ran from October 19 to 23 in Tokyo, and October 26 to 29 in Osaka.
The Yowamushi Pedal manga was first released in Weekly Shonen Champion in 2008. It was the later adapted into three anime series, one anime film, and three compilation films. The anime’s fourth season premiered on January 8.
Source: Comic Natalie