The official website and Twitter account for the stage play adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man manga titled, CHAINSAW MAN THE STAGE, has released the play's main visual, main cast and in-costume visuals, staff and performance dates.
The play will run in Tokyo from September 16 to October 1 at The Galaxy Theatre, and in Kyoto from October 6 to 9 at the Kyoto Theater.
Fumiya Matsuzaki will direct and write the script for the play. Shunsuke Wada is in charge of music, and HIDALI is in charge of choreography.
Crunchyroll describes the story:
Denji is a teenage boy living with a Chainsaw Devil named Pochita. Due to the debt his father left behind, he has been living a rock-bottom life while repaying his debt by harvesting devil corpses with Pochita.
One day, Denji is betrayed and killed. As his consciousness fades, he makes a contract with Pochita and gets revived as "Chainsaw Man"--a man with a devil's heart.
The play will run in Tokyo from September 16 to October 1 at The Galaxy Theatre, and in Kyoto from October 6 to 9 at the Kyoto Theater.
MAIN VISUAL:
MAIN CAST:
Naotake Tsuchiya as Denji
Mizuki Umetsu as Aki Hayakawa
Mahiru Coda as Power
Minami Tsukui as Himeno
Haruki Iwata as Kobeni Higashiyama
Kō Kanegae as Hirokazu Arai
Masashi Taniguchi as Kishibe
Masahide Tada & Yutaka Nakasone as Chainsaw Man
Orenograffiti as Samurai Sword (human form)
Shōma Yoshioka as Samurai Sword (devil form)
Aya Hirano as Makima
Shiori Izawa is returning to voice Pochita from the TV anime series.
Crunchyroll describes the story:
Denji is a teenage boy living with a Chainsaw Devil named Pochita. Due to the debt his father left behind, he has been living a rock-bottom life while repaying his debt by harvesting devil corpses with Pochita.
One day, Denji is betrayed and killed. As his consciousness fades, he makes a contract with Pochita and gets revived as "Chainsaw Man"--a man with a devil's heart.