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A website and Twitter account opened announcing that Iro Aida's Jibaku Shonen Hanako-kun (Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun) is inspiring a stage play adaptation that will open in January 2021.

Kotaro Yoshitani is directing the stage play and Sayaka Asai is in charge of the script and lyrics.

Eito Konishi is cast as the protagonist Hanako-kun. And Akari Takaishi is cast as the main heroine Nene Yashiro.

"Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun -The Musical-" is set to open at COOL JAPAN PARK OSAKA TT Hall from January 22 to 24, 2021, then at Tokyo Dome City Thater G-rosso from January 28 to 31. 

Eito Konishi's Comment:

I'm Eito Konishi, and I will be playing the role of Hanako-kun, the main character in "Hanako-kun: The Musical". I'm very honored to be able to play the main character Hanako-kun in this very popular work based on the manga and anime. As for myself, this will be my first musical and my first starring role, so I'm very excited and excited to play the role. I love this work so much, and I can't wait to share this feeling with you all. Please look forward to the show!

Akari Takaishi's Comment:

I was moved to tears by the story of the monsters within the darker side of the Seven Wonders, fascinated by the strength of Hanako-kun and Nene, and greatly healed by Mokechan, and I am very happy to be able to stand on the stage as Nene Yahiro in such a wonderful work. The thrill of stepping into the mysterious world, the different thrill of Hanako-kun and Nene, the tension that can only be experienced in a live theater, and so on. Please enjoy "Hanako-kun: The Musical" full of the suspension bridge effect at the theater!

Additional cast includes:

Minamoto Kou: Riki Tanimizu
Yugi Tsukasa: Ginga Shitara
Mitsuba: Daiki Mihara
Akane Aoi: Fuyuna Asakura
Yako: Karen Sakura
Nanamine Sakura: Yūna Sekine
Hyuuga Natsuhiko: Hiroki Kuroda
Tsuchigomori: Yūya Asato

Iro Aida's Comment:

I've always been attracted to the stage, especially musicals, so I'm very emotional and happy to see it adapted to the stage. So I'm personally very emotional and happy about this stage adaptation. Hanako-kun is going to be a musical! I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of world will unfold on stage!

Kotaro Yoshitani's Comment:

Scary things go well with a musical. Things that are unsettling and startling, full of surprising tones. It's a strange, scary, fun and fascinating world that you can see in it. On stage, I want to color Hanako-kun's world with a different approach than in manga and anime. I hope you will open the door to a fun and frightening musical version of Hanako-kun. The curtain is about to go up on the play, and, you know, she's just getting closer and closer...

Sayaka Asai's Comment:

I had a fascination with the "Seven Wonders of School". Sharing with my friends the thrilling sensation of wanting to see and touch them in spite of their fear. I wanted to knock on the bathroom door of the old school building. Many things coexist in this work. Strange and funny, cute and cool, painful and happy, hateful and lovable, past and present, life and death, this bank and the other bank.... I am very much looking forward to seeing what Hanako and Nene will bring to the table in this chaos!

Funimation streams the anime and describes the series as:

Kamome Academy is rumored to have many mysteries, the strangest of which involves the mischievous ghost of Hanako-kun. When occult-loving high schooler Nene Yashiro accidentally becomes bonded to him, she uncovers a hidden world of supernatural beings.