The Live Spectacle Naruto stage play is coming back next year, as announced by the play’s official website. They revealed that this new stage musical will be officially titled “Live Spectacle Naruto: Akatsuki no Shirabe“. In English, the titled means “Live Spectacle Naruto: The Akatsuki Investigation”. They even revealed a new key visual featuring Naruto, Sasuke, and the newly-added Itachi Uchiha.
The website also revealed that the story will be different from the two previous runs. If you can guess from the title, the play will be following the Akatsuki arc. The cast returning from the previous plays will include:
- Koudai Matsuoka as Naruto Uzumaki
- Ryuuji Satou as Sasuke Uchiha
- Yui Itou as Sakura Haruno
- Yuuki Kimisawa as Kakashi Hatake
- Hiro Yuumi as Orochimaru
However, actor Ryousuke Okada is replacing Tatsunari Kimura as Kabuto Yakushi for the play. The website also announced the other new additions, and they include:
- Rei Fujita as Yamato
- Ryou Kitamura as Sai
- Seshiru Daigo as Tsunade
- Keishi Hagio as Suigetsu Hoozuki
- Kanon Nanaki as Karin
- Tomoya Yamaguchi as Juugo
- Takeshi Hayashino as Kisame
- Hoshigaki Ryou Tsuji as Deidara
- Hironori Katayama as Tobi
The first stage play run included stops in Macau, Malaysia, and right here in Singapore. The website has also revealed that this new play will begin its run starting May 2017.
Source: Comic Natalie
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