Minami's Lover Manga Gets Musical Stage Play in December
The musical marks another adaptation of the long-running manga, but is notable for changing the lead high school couple Minami and Chiyoko into a male couple, a reinterpretation of the source material that has been adapted multiple times since the 1980s.
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Shungiku Uchida's Minami's Lover manga is getting a musical stage play adaptation that runs December 6-16 at the Nippon Seinenkan Hall in Tokyo. The musical recasts the lead couple Minami and Chiyoko as a male couple, with two actors double-cast in each role. A website opened August 31 to announce the production.
The musical version of Shungiku Uchida's Minami's Lover will place the lead high school couple Minami and Chiyoko as a male couple, a change from the original manga. Idol group OCTPATH member Shunsei Ota and Who-ya of Who-ya Extended are double-cast as Sosuke Minami, while ICEx member Sena Takeno and actor Ryo Sekoguchi share the role of Chiyoko Horikiri.
Yuka Arai writes the script, Tsuneyasu Motoyoshi directs and handles lyric composition, Oreno Graffiti composes the music, and Genta Yamaguchi handles choreography. The stage run takes place December 6-16 at Nippon Seinenkan Hall in Tokyo.
The original manga, which Uchida serialized in Monthly Manga Garo magazine from 1986 to 1987, follows a high school student whose girlfriend shrinks to six inches tall and moves in with him. The story has seen multiple live-action television adaptations since 1990.
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