The official website for the stage play adaptation of The Rising of the Shield Hero has released and new key visual and revealed the main casting.
The play will be showing in the Spring of 2020 at Cool Japan Park Osaka TT Hall on March 27-29, then at Theater Sun Mall in Tokyo on April 2-12.
“Naofumi Iwatani, an easygoing Japanese youth, was summoned into a parallel world along with three other people from parallel universes to become the world’s Heroes. Each of the heroes was respectively equipped with their own legendary equipment when summoned. Naofumi happened to receive the Legendary Shield, the sole defensive equipment, while the other heroes received a sword, a spear, and a bow, weapons meant for the attack. Unlike the other heroes who are fully supported by the kingdom and gain several strong allies each, Naofumi’s luck turns to the worse after his single companion, later revealed to be none other than Princess Myne, betrays him, steals all his belongings and leaves him devoid of all assistance and supplies after she falsely accuses him of raping her.
Shunned by everyone from the King to peasants, Naofumi is forced to train as a hero alone while working to make ends meet, until he buys from a slave trader a young tanuki demi-human girl named Raphtalia and an egg that hatches into a bird creature whom he names “Filo”, both quickly growing into adulthood and becoming powerful warriors under his care. As they little by little gain the trust and gratitude of the people with their heroic actions, Naofumi, and his companions work hard to fulfill their mission as saviors of the world while unraveling its deepest secrets.“
The play will be showing in the Spring of 2020 at Cool Japan Park Osaka TT Hall on March 27-29, then at Theater Sun Mall in Tokyo on April 2-12.
KEY VISUAL:
“Naofumi Iwatani, an easygoing Japanese youth, was summoned into a parallel world along with three other people from parallel universes to become the world’s Heroes. Each of the heroes was respectively equipped with their own legendary equipment when summoned. Naofumi happened to receive the Legendary Shield, the sole defensive equipment, while the other heroes received a sword, a spear, and a bow, weapons meant for the attack. Unlike the other heroes who are fully supported by the kingdom and gain several strong allies each, Naofumi’s luck turns to the worse after his single companion, later revealed to be none other than Princess Myne, betrays him, steals all his belongings and leaves him devoid of all assistance and supplies after she falsely accuses him of raping her.
Shunned by everyone from the King to peasants, Naofumi is forced to train as a hero alone while working to make ends meet, until he buys from a slave trader a young tanuki demi-human girl named Raphtalia and an egg that hatches into a bird creature whom he names “Filo”, both quickly growing into adulthood and becoming powerful warriors under his care. As they little by little gain the trust and gratitude of the people with their heroic actions, Naofumi, and his companions work hard to fulfill their mission as saviors of the world while unraveling its deepest secrets.“
CAST:
Naofumi Iwatani: Yuuya Uno
Raphtalia: Carin Isobe
Motoyasu Kitamura: Kazuyoshi Yamamoto
Ren Amaki: Yuuho Matsui
Itsuki Kawasumi: Taiga Fukazawa
Ake: Ryuuya Ishigami
Slave Trader: Kotori Kojima
Young Raphtalia: Erena Kamata
Myne: Sarah Emi Bridcutt
Elhart: Atsushi Maruyama
Aultcray: Isamu Ishizaka
STAFF:
Original Story: Aneko Usagi
Original illustration: Seina Yanan
Screenplay: Kaori Moriyama (Bobjack Theater)
Production: Ken Ogita (Bobjack Theater)
Producer: Iwaki Unevasami ( GK Scissor Blitz)
Planning / Production: GK Scissor Blitz