Get ready to see your favorite Yu Yu Hakusho in live-action form, as the official website and social media accounts of the upcoming stage play for the 90s anime series has just released new visuals for 10 of its main characters!
Of course, we first get our four main boys. Tsubasa Sakiyama, most known for portraying Ishikirimaru in the Touken Ranbu musicals, will be playing lead character Yusuke Urameshi. He is pictured below, really looking the part:
Here is funny guy and lovable punk Kuwabara, played by Naoya Goumoto:
Hiroki Suzuki plays (my first love) flower-boy Kurama:
Hiei, Master of the Evil Eye, will be played by Shohei Hashimoto:
And then we have six other characters, including Koenma played by Hirofumi Araki:
Yusuke’s one true love, Keiko Yukimura, will be played by Miku:
Mio Kadoshima will play Yusuke’s alcoholic mother, Atsuko Urameshi:
Botan, guide to the Spirit World and Yusuke’s friend, will be played by Yuka Hirata:
Gouki will be played by Kenta Nitta (I miss his Frankenstein look though):
And finally, we have the master spirit detective Genkai, who will be played by Elizabeth Marry:
The stage play adaptation will be written and directed by Chuji Mikasano, most known as the writer and script supervisor of the Tokyo Ghoul anime series. He also served as the director of the Touken Ranbu stage musicals.
The Yu Yu Hakusho stage play will first run at the Theater 1010 in Tokyo from August 28 to September 2. The stage play will then be brought to Osaka and will be showcased at the Morinomiya Piloti Hall from September 4 to 8, then to the Momochi Palace in Fukuoka from September 10 to 13. The play’s last stop will be in Aichi, at the Ichinomiya Community Hall from September 20 to 22. The September 22 performance will be live-streamed on WOWOW and Nico Nico Live.
Yu Yu Hakusho was written by Yoshihiro Togashi, also known as the author of the Hunter x Hunter manga series. He is also the husband of Naoko Takeuchi, the author of Sailor Moon. Togashi first published Yu Yu Hakusho in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump in 1990, and remained with the magazine until the series ended in 1994. An anime adaptation of Yu Yu Hakusho aired from 1992 to 1994, which enjoyed huge success in Japan and in other countries as well.
Source: Crunchyroll News