Gegege no Kitaro Returns to the Spotlight with New Stage Play This August
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Exciting News for GeGeGe no Kitarō Fans
Also: Selection of episodes from 6 anime seasons to be rebroadcast starting on April 6
The official X (formerly Twitter) account for the stage play adaptation of Shigeru Mizuki's GeGeGe no Kitarō manga has announced a new stage play set to run this August.
Performance Details
- Location:
- Meiji-za Theater, Tokyo: August 2-16
- Shin Kabuki-za Theater, Osaka: August 18-25
Director and Cast
The new stage play will be directed and scripted by Yasuyuki Tsutsumi. The cast includes:
- Yoshihiko Aramaki as GeGeGe no Kitarō (reprising role)
- Sumire Uesaka as Neko Musume (reprising role)
- Akio Ohtsuka as Nezumi Otoko (new)
- Ryota Hirono
- Keisuke Ueda
- Rurika Miya
- Yūko Asano (played Sunakake Baba in previous play)
A previous stage play ran in Tokyo from July to August 2022.
Upcoming Episode Rebroadcast
In addition to the stage play, the franchise announced that a selection of episodes from the first six seasons will air starting April 6 at 9:00 a.m. on Fuji TV. A visual featuring Mizuki and various styles of Kitaro from the six seasons has been revealed:
© 水木プロ・東映アニメーション
Recent Developments in the Franchise
The latest GeGeGe no Kitarō anime, the sixth television incarnation, premiered in April 2018, taking over the timeslot previously held by Dragon Ball Super. The show concluded its run in March 2020 after 97 episodes.
The film Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no Nazo (The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe) opened in Japan in November 2023, selling 111,500 tickets and grossing approximately 160 million yen (about $1.07 million) in its first three days.
Additionally, the recut version of the film, Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no Nazo Shinsei-ban (True Birth Version), premiered in theaters on October 4, with a new R15+ rating.
Mizuki's manga, which began in 1959 as Hakaba Kitarō, has inspired seven television series, several animated movies, and two live-action films, focusing on an inhuman boy navigating the human and supernatural worlds.
Sources: GeGeGe no Kitarō stage plays' X/Twitter account, Stage Natalie, Comic Natalie