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Under the title "Utaemaki 'Hikaru no Go' Jyo no Itte," a stage play adaptation of Hikaru no Go , a manga series written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, is set to perform at the Sunshine Theater in Tokyo from July 5 to 14, 2024. The title literally means "Picture Scroll of Songs 'Hikaru no Go' The First Move," so the play may include some musical elements. The manga ran in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump from 1998 to 2003, releasing 23 tankobon volumes. Its English edition 's publisher, Viz Media describes the series: After stumbling across a haunted go board, Hikaru Shindo discovers that the spirit of a master player named Fujiwara-no-Sai has taken up residence in his consciousness. Sai awakens in Hikaru an untapped genius for the game, and soon the schoolboy is chasing his own dream—defeating the famed go prodigy Akira Toya! Nobuhiro Mouri , known for his directorial works for...

Voice actor Teru Ikuta , best known as Natalia in The Idolm@Ster Cinderella Girls and Futaba Isurugi in Revue Starlight , will release her first photo book from Imagica Infos in the early fall of 2024. She announced the news directly to her fans at the "Teru Ikuta Birthday Event 2024" held at Live Studio Lodge in Tokyo on April 14. In 2015, she was selected as one of 21 successful candidates out of 1,474 in an audition for the stage "Transfer Student" directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro ( Psycho-pass ) and began her acting career. Then in 2018, she made her voice acting debut as Futaba Isurugi in Revue Starlight . "I was really happy when my photo book got the green light!" she said. "It was a very enjoyable time for me to think about 'What kind of photo book should I make?' and 'What kind of book is unique to me?' When I told the first idea...