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Psycho- Anime's 1st Season Gets Stage Play
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The official website for the Shinagawa Prince Hotel Stellar Ball in Tokyo from October 25 to November 10.
Shinjirō Kameda is writing the scripts.
The cast includes:
(left to right in image above)
- Yūki Kubota as Shinya Kōgami
- Yūma Sanada as Nobuchika Ginoza
- Shōhei Hashimoto as Shūsei Kagari
- Takahisa Maeyama as Shōgo Makishima
Additional cast include:
- Misato Kawauchi as Akane Tsunemori
- Ayu Manaka as Shion Karanomori
- Riona Tatemichi as Yayoi Kunizuka
- Dai Isono as Gu-sung Choe
- Shōgo Ōtsuka as Toyohisa Sengūji
- Yui Fujimoto as Rikako Ōryō
- Kei Hosogai as Mitsuru Sasayama
- Nezumi Imamura as Tomomi Masaoka
Butai Psycho- Virtue and Vice, the spinoff stage play Production I.G's Psycho- franchise, ran in Tokyo at Nippon Seinenkan Hall from April 18 to 30. It will then ran in Osaka at Morinomiya Piloti Hall from May 4 to 6.
The play had an all-new story with new characters in Public Safety Bureau Criminal Investigation Department Division 3. Psycho- anime scriptwriter Katsuyuki Motohiro directed the play. Production I.G was credited as story supervisor.
The original Psycho- anime premiered in 2012 and ran for 22 episodes. The 11-episode Funimation released all three anime on home video.
The first film in the Psycho- SS or trilogy opened in Japan on January 25. The second film opened on February 15, and the third film opened on March 8.
The television anime will have a third premiere in October.
The franchise has also inspired several manga adaptations and spinoff manga, as well as the Psycho-: Mandatory Happiness game.
Sources: Psycho- stage plays' website, Comic Natalie
