Layla Takes the Stage as Belle Spinoff Live Opens at MoN Takanawa
The production turns Belle's virtual world into a physical theater run, staged with LED screens on three sides and a smartphone app, which is a different way for a Hosoda film to reach an audience than a screen or a disc.
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Animersive Live "Belle and the Dragon - PROJECT LAYRA -" opened on October 10, 2026 at MoN Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives Box1000. The performance is a side story set five years after the film, with five performers cast as the diva Layla. A press preview was held on the 9th, and Mamoru Hosoda joined the cast and creative director Yuki Hiroya afterward.
The run is built as a commemorative concert for Layla, a diva produced inside the virtual world by Hiro-chan, the character who produced Belle. Five performers sing original songs as Layla: miwa, Natsumi Koh, ASCA, Maria Miki and Konomi Suzuki. Before the live, hijinks from Koga-ryu Ninja Ponpoko and Peanuts-kun set up the fiction, and a video reported that accounts in have passed 6 billion. The room itself is used as part of the staging, with LED screens on the front and both sides and a standing area closest to the stage.
- miwa: cast as Layla, appeared on stage
- Natsumi Koh: plays the main heroine
- ASCA: cast as Layla
- Maria Miki: cast as Layla
- Konomi Suzuki: cast as Layla
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