The Lychee Light Club manga by Usamaru Furuya is getting a new stage play adaptation scheduled to run from January 10-26 at the IMM Theater in Tokyo. The announcement was made on a new website that revealed the cast and staff for the stage play.
The cast includes Hikari Makishima as Zera, Takumi Kizu as Tamiya, Satsuki Nakayama as Jaibo, Seiya Konishi as Niko, Haruki Mochizuki as Raizō, Sōjirō Yoshimura as Kaneda, Nayuta Fukuzaki as Dentaku, Motohisa Harashima as Dafu, Kento Sakurai as Yakobu, Junko Nagao as Hagio-sensei/Mother Tsunekawa, Gaku Katō and Seira Ina as Hiroyuki Tsunekawa, Kosuke Ozeki as Lychee, and Hinako Kikuchi as Kanon. Aoto Tani is directing the stage play and writing the script.
The manga, originally published in Manga Erotics F from 2005 to 2006, follows the story of nine students at an all-boys school who create a god-like machine called Lychee to capture beautiful women. However, the machine becomes self-aware and is capable of measuring beauty and executing justice.
The manga is an adaptation of a stage play by Norimizu Ameya’s Tokyo Grand Guignol theatrical troupe. Usamaru Furuya also drew the Bokura no Hikari Club prequel manga. The Lychee Light Club manga was released by Vertical in April 2011 and was also adapted into a television anime in 2012. Crunchyroll streamed the anime in several countries.
This new stage play adaptation follows previous ones in 2012, 2013, and 2015, as well as a live-action film adaptation in 2016. The manga is available online for free in Ohta Publishing’s PocoPoco web manga magazine.
Overall, the new stage play adaptation of Lychee Light Club promises to bring the dark and captivating story to life on stage once again, captivating audiences with its unique narrative and intriguing characters.
