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Isobe Isobee Monogatari Stage Play's Additional Cast, Main Visual Revealed
posted on by Kyle Hallmark
The eighth issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed new cast information and the main visual for the stage play adaptation of Ryō Nakama's Isobe Isobee Monogatari ~Ukiyo wa Tsurai yo~ (Chronicle of Isobe -The Life Is Hard-) manga on Monday. The show's official website has also posted the visual and additional cast. The main visual imitates the volume cover for the first volume.
The play will star:
- Takuya Inoue as Isobee Isobe
- Yoshihiro Nakayama as Mother
- Shōri Kiyama as Jō Nakajima
- Keigō Murakawa as Shūsai Takasugi
- Takashi Yoshimoto as Hanao Hanaoka
- Shingo Iwasaki as Daihachi Shiga
- DAIKI Miyoshi as Gennai Hiraga
- Yūho Matsui as Hanba Hattori
- Kento Takeshita as Miyamoto Musashi
- Raikō Sakamoto as Narrator (voice only)
- Other members of Watanabe Entertainment's Gekidan Patch (Patch Stage Troupe)
Kenichi Suemitsu (K, Tōken Ranbu stage plays) is writing the scripts and directing the play, and Shunsuke Wada (Persona 4, Seraph of the End, Haikyu!! stage plays) is in charge of the music.
The play, whose full title is Ukiyo Gigen Kageki "Isobe Isobee Monogatari ~Ukiyo wa Tsurai yo~" Takaozan Jigoku Shūgyō-hen (Fleeting Life Nonsense Opera "Chronicle of Isobe -The Life Is Hard-" Mt. Takao Hell Studying Volume), will run at Osaka's ABC Hall for 10 performances from April 20-26. Tickets went on sale on December 4 and cost 6,500 yen (about US$53) in advance and 7,000 yen (US$57) at the door.
Nakama originally published the manga as a one-shot, then he launched the serialized version of the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in October 2013. Shueisha describes the manga as follows:
A loser samurai—Isobee, who lives in any way a dawdling, slacking life, takes action (sort of) in the city of Edo. Weekly Shonen Jump's gone mad with a new style Ukiyoe Gag Manga!!
Shueisha published the manga's eighth compiled volume (pictured at left) on October 3. The ninth compiled volume will ship on February 4.
The series inspired a four-episode series of online Flash anime shorts that premiered in December 2013. A new "mame anime" (bean anime) of 30-second shorts starring Daiki Yamashita as Isobee Isobe premiered online in December.
