Ryōhei Takenaka stars as Yoichi Isagi
Kodansha announced on Wednesday that Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yūsuke Nomura‘s Blue Lock soccer manga is inspiring a stage play adaptation that will run at Osaka’s Sankei Hall Breeze on May 4-7, 2023, and at Tokyo’s Sunshine Theater on May 11-14, 2023. Ryōhei Takenaka (seen below) stars as protagonist Yoichi Isagi.
Other cast members include Nobunaga Satō as Meguru Bachira, Shōta Matsuda as Rensuke Kunigami, and Ryō Saeki as Hyoma Chigiri.
Naohiro Ise is directing and writing the stage play.
Kodansha Comics is publishing the manga in English digitally and in print, and it describes the story:
After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan’s team struggles to regroup. But what’s missing? An absolute Ace Striker, who can guide them to the win. The Japan Football Union is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers…
