Live-Action InuYasha Play Reveals New Cast Visuals

Live-action plays of popular anime seem to be all the rage these days, with awesome adaptations of our favorite characters. One such play coming to the stage this year comes from the award winning franchise, InuYasha. Today the play released two new cast visuals for the main characters, seen below. This is following a recent reveal of a main visual of the play from the company, showing off the main cast and InuYasha in costume.

As pictured above, the cast includes for the play includes, in order from left to right and top to bottom: Yutaka Kyan as Inuyasha, Yumi Wakatsuki as Kagome Higurashi, Hiroki Sana as Sesshōmaru, JUNNA Itō as Kikyo, Yukihiro Takiguchi as Miroku, and Ryou Kimura as Naraku.

This is not the first play adaptation of InuYasha, there have been two other plays that ran back in 2000 and 2001. Both were directed by Masashi Todayama, and had fairly good reception in Japan.

The series originated in 1996 when Rumiko Takahashi launched the manga in Weekly Shonen Sunday. The series ran untill 2008, and then was licensed by Viz Media to publish as volumes in north America. Then the story was picked up as a 167-episode anime series that ran from 2000-2004. After some time, there was a new sequel series titled InuYasha: The Final Act that ran from 2009-2010. There has also been four movies as well as a 30-minute anime short based off the series.

If you are unfamiliar with the series Viz Media describes it below:

"After falling into an old well and into ancient Japan, Kagome discovers that her destiny is linked to the dog-like half demon called Inuyasha! As Kagome learns more about her connection to the past and to Inuyasha, she comes into conflict with the terrible demons that are drawn to the Shikon Jewel, including Inuyasha's own half brother, Sesshomaru. Finding the shards of the Shikon Jewel is going to require powerful magic, strange allies, and a strong heart. Kagome's got plenty of heart, but she's going to need Inuyasha's help for the rest of it, and he may not be so willing to lend a hand!"

The new live action stage play is set to run from April 6 to 15 at The Galaxy Theatre in Tokyo.