Performances in Tokyo, Osaka
Kodansha revealed on Friday that Ya Boy Kongming! by Yuto Yotsuba and Ryō Ogawa! The manga (Paripi Kōmei) is being adapted into a stage play that will perform in Tokyo from May 3 to 6 and in Osaka on May 10 and 11.
Image via Ya Boy Kongming! stage play’s Twitter account
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Akira Ishida (not to be confused with the voice actor of the same name), a member of comedy duo NON-STYLE, is writing and directing the play. The play will star Ray Fujita, Haruki Iwata and Moeka Koizumi. Other cast members include Fumiya Takao, Takeshi Nadagi, Riona Tatemichi, Hiroyuki Ōno, Kōji Okino and Masato Saki.
Publisher Kodansha USA began releasing the manga digitally in English in June 2021. The company describes the manga:
General of the Three Kingdoms, Kongming struggled all his life, facing countless battles that made him a talented strategist. So, on his deathbed, he only wished to be reincarnated into a peaceful world… and taken straight to the modern-day party center, Tokyo! Can a brilliant strategist like Kongming adapt to the wild rhythms and even wilder partygoers?!
The manga launched on Kodansha’s Japanese-language Comic Days website in December 2019 and also began serialization in Kodansha’s Weekly Young Magazine in 2019. November 2021.
The manga inspired a television anime in April 2022. HIDIVE streams the series exclusively and simultaneously, and also streams the English dub. Sentai Filmworks licensed the anime and released it on home video on April 18.
Paripi Kōmei Road to Summer Sonia, the anime’s compilation film, will open in Japan on March 1.
A live-action series adaptation premiered on September 27 and concluded on November 29.
Source: Ya Boy Kongming! website of the stage play, Mantan Web, Natalie Stage