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New Yona of the Dawn Stage Play Reveals Cast in Costume
posted on by Karen Ressler
The official website for Akatsuki no Yona ~Hiiro no Shukimei-hen~ (Yona of the Dawn: Scarlet Destiny Chapter), the new stage play adaptation of Mizuho Kusanagi's Yona of the Dawn (Akatsuki no Yona) manga, revealed visuals for the cast in costume on Tuesday. The cast includes:
Former Nogizaka46 member Rina Ikoma as Yona
DISH// band member Masaki Yabe as Hak
Ikkei Yamamoto as Gija
Shunsuke Nishikawa as Jaeha
Chihiro Okutani as Sinha
Tsubasa Kizu as Zeno
Yūta Higuchi as Yun
Minami Tsurimoto as Tae-jun
Mayumi Tsukiyama as Gi-Gan
Tōru Kugasawa as Kum-ji
Shō Jinnai as Su-won
The play will run at Tokyo's EX Theater Roppongi from November 15-25. Yūsuke Hayakawa is writing the script and Makoto Ōzeki is directing.
An earlier stage play ran in March 2016. Risa Niigaki and Yūya Matsushita starred as Yona and Hak, respectively.
Kusanagi — the creator of Mugen Spiral, Game X Rush, and NG Life — launched the Yona of the Dawn manga in 2009. The 27th compiled volume shipped on August 20.
Viz Media licensed the manga, and it shipped the 13th volume in North America on August 7. The company describes the story: "A red-haired princess loses her family and her kingdom—now she must rise and fight for her throne!"
The series has also inspired a 24-episode anime and several original anime DVDs.
Sources: Yona of the Dawn stage play's website, Comic Natalie
