Usamaru Furuya's Lychee Light Club Manga Is Getting a New Stage Play Adaptation in January

A website opened on Thursday to reveal a new stage play adaptation of Usamaru Furuya's Lychee Light Club manga, which will run from January 10 to 26 at the IMM Theater in Tokyo. The website also revealed the cast and staff of the new play.

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Image via Lychee Light Club's X/Twitter Account

The cast of the play includes:

Hikari Makishima as Zera Image via Lychee Light Club's X/Twitter Account

Takumi Kizu as Tamiya Image via Lychee Light Club's X/Twitter Account

Satsuki Nakayama as Jaibo Image via Lychee Light Club's X/Twitter Account

Seiya Konishi as Niko Image via Lychee Light Club's X/Twitter Account

Haruki Mochizuki as Raizō Image via Lychee Light Club's X/Twitter Account

Sōjirō Yoshimura as Kaneda Image via Lychee Light Club's X/Twitter Account

Nayuta Fukuzaki as Dentaku Image via Lychee Light Club's X/Twitter Account

Motohisa Harashima as Dafu Image via Lychee Light Club's X/Twitter Account

Kento Sakurai as Yakobu Image via Lychee Light Club Stage Play X/Twitter Account

Junko Nagao as Hagio-sensei/Mother Tsunekawa Image via Lychee Light Club Stage Play X/Twitter Account

Gaku Katō as Hiroyuki Tsunekawa (double actor) Image via Lychee Light Club Stage Play X/Twitter Account

Seira Ina as Hiroyuki Tsunekawa (double role) Image via Lychee Light Club Stage Play X/Twitter Account

Kosuke Ozeki as Lychee Image via Lychee Light Club's X/Twitter Account

Hinako Kikuchi as Kanon Image via Lychee Light Club's X/Twitter Account

Aoto Tani is directing the play and writing the script.

The manga itself is an adaptation of a stage play by Norimizu Ameya's Tokyo Grand Guignol troupe. The story revolves around nine students at an all-boys school who create a magical lychee machine to win over the world's beautiful women. However, the machine eventually becomes self-aware, “and soon becomes capable of measuring beauty and dispensing justice.”

Usamaru Furuya's one-volume Lychee Light Club manga ran in Manga erotics F from 2005 to 2006. North American publisher Vertical released the manga in April 2011. Furuya also drew the prequel manga Bokura no Hikari Club (Our Light Club), which ended in 2012. The manga is published online for free in Ohta Publishing's PocoPoco web manga magazine.

The first stage play adaptation of the manga was adapted in 2012. The second play took place in 2013, and the third play premiered in 2015.

The cast of the first stage play also lent their voices to an anime television series adaptation of the manga, also in 2012. Crunchyroll streamed the anime television series in several countries as it aired in Japan.

The manga was also adapted into a live-action film in 2016.

Source: Lychee Light Club stage play website, Natalie Comics