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Saiyuki Manga Gets 2 New Stage Musicals
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for the Saiyuki Kageki-den stage musicals based on Kazuya Minekura's Saiyuki manga revealed on Wednesday that the musical series will get two new musicals titled Saiyuki Kageki-den -Darkness- and Saiyuki Kageki-den -Oasis-. Kaori Miura is directing both musicals. Saiyuki Kageki-den -Darkness- will run at the Hulic Hall in Tokyo from June 6 to 14, while Saiyuki Kageki-den -Oasis- will run in early spring 2020.
The cast for Saiyuki Kageki-den -Darkness- includes:
- Hiroki Suzuki as Genjō Sanzō
- Taizō Shiina as Son Gokū
- Taiyō Ayukawa as Sha Gojō
- Ryūji Sainei as Cho Hakkai
- Kōhei Norizuki as Hazel Grouse
- Yoshihiko Narimatsu as Gato
- Ujisuke as Bishop Filbert Grouse
- Mitsuru Karahashi as Ukoku Sanzō
The story for Saiyuki Kageki-den -Darkness- will center on the Sanzō party encountering a foreign priest named Hazel who can resurrect the dead. The priest is accompanied by his follower Gato.
The cast for Saiyuki Kageki-den -Oasis- includes:
- Taizō Shiina as Son Gokū
- Taiyō Ayukawa as Sha Gojō
- Yūki Fujiwara as Cho Hakkai
- Kōhei Norizuki as Hazel Grouse
- Yoshihiko Narimatsu as Gato
The story for Saiyuki Kageki-den -Oasis- begins with the party being attacked, and Son Gokū suddenly contracting a deadly illness. Genzo Sanzō goes to Hazel in an effort to track down who is responsible. Meanwhile, Son Gokū, Sha Gojō, and Cho Hakkai stay in a peaceful yōkai village, but are soon dragged into a conflict centering on the waters of an oasis that will pit yōkai and human against one another.
The previous musical in the series, Saiyuki Kageki-den -Ibun- ran last September, with Kaori Miura as director and scriptwriter.
The manga inspired the Saiyuki Kageki-den -Burial- musical in January 2015, as well as the Saiyuki Kageki-den -God Child- musical in May 2014. The Saiyuki Kageki-den -Dead or Alive- musical ran in 2009, and the Saiyuki Kageki-den ~Go to the West~ musical debuted in 2008. The Saiyuki Kageki-den -Reload- musical ran in September 2015.
The original Saiyuki manga series has also spawned the Saiyuki Gaiden and Saiyuki Ibun manga spinoffs, as well as three television anime series, an anime film, and three OVA series. The Saiyuki Reload Blast sequel manga launched in Comic Zero Sum in 2009, but Minekura slowed down her publication of the manga in 2013 due to her health.
The Saiyuki Reload Blast anime premiered in July 2017. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired, and Funimation offered a simuldub.
Sources: Saiyuki stage website, Comic Natalie
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