Live-Action Anime Musicals: Shugo Chara! in Production
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Feb 4, 2009 17:19 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Cosplay, Fine Art, Inuyasha, Musicals, Sailor Moon, Shugo Chara, Theatre
As news has come out that shoujo series Shugo Chara! will soon be receiving an adaptation as a stage musical, it might be a good time to review past musicals based on popular anime: the Inuyasha musical and (of course) the Sailor Moon SeraMyu…
The famous Sailor Moon series of musicals (also known as セラミュー / SeraMyu) ran from 1993 to 2005, with 4 different actresses playing the lead role of Usagi and several “graduations” of the main cast as the performers aged over the long production run.
The musicals far outlived the TV series and manga (which both ended in 1997), and became something of an icon in themselves, spawning many CD albums and VHS/DVD video releases.
The musical mostly dealt with stories adapted from the manga and TV series, but also included some original storylines.
The general tone of the stories presented in the musicals will be no surprise to those who followed the classic shoujo series in the 90s (as did I – my first PVC figure was one of Minako / Sailor Venus).
Transformation sequences were mostly dealt with off stage, but battles had to be done with a variety of on-stage special effects and pyrotechnics. I will leave you to ponder what such a thing looked liked, as I have had trouble in acquiring any decent photos of said displays…
The Inuyasha musical was staged in 2001 by Shinkansen Parcomics, covering key parts of the manga up to tankoubon #6 (up to around episode 20 in the TV series).
The production included series highlights such as Kagome’s trip through time into feudal Japan, the battle with Yura, and Kikyo’s resurrection.
The musical was a limited-time affair, ending in less than a year with the introduction of the monk Miroku (meaning Sango was not among the cast).
As for the Shugo Chara! musical, it was announced by way of an advertisement for an audition in the March issue of De☆View, a show business rag.
The audition ad seeks females aged 10 – 18, and is reproduced on the De☆View website.
Plans seems set to start sometime later this year, although no definite times have been announced, nor have any details of the intended storyline. The location of the musical is known however – the Ginza Hakuninkan theatre.
More details on the Shugo Chara! musical are available at the De☆View news page.
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kagome! what have they done
THE BEST. Really looking forward to this.
Lol. There was an Inuyasha musical? xD
Haven't heard of it until now.
Let's see.. what other famous musicals are out there..
Bleach Musical wasn't that bad. It was good, imo.
The Tennis no Oujisama myu, too.
I had a hard time acquiring that HxH musical. I don't know if it was good.. :/
Those are some pretty impressive costumes...
DO NOT WANT
Isn't Maeda Yuuka going to be Amu? That's going to be terrible... A little monkey with a giraffe neck xDD
"The audition ad seeks females aged 10 - 18, and is reproduced on the De☆View website."
relevant to my interest XDD
Hey, maybe it wont be so bad. Im itching to see Spider-Man The Musical!
How about.....
A BROADWAY-STYLED DRAGON BALL Z MUSICAL?
I can play Nappa!
reminds me of School Rumble's live performance that was great, though the Eri there could have been cast better.
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Just when I needed a new hero, you came along.
nooo i will have nightmare
pretty soldier sailor moon
his grin make me shiver
argh
err 1 more time i mean "her"
I strongly sensed that trap is applied here, though..
I looked all over for the Inuyasha musical, and found nothing! Its like someone made it up.
Hmm, I guess Shugo Chara would make a proper musical.
Gonna be weird when the actors look nothing like the characters they portray.
It was indeed hard finding information on it for the article, but I did recall reading up on it years ago so I kept searching.
Furinkan.com (a Takahashi information site) had something on it somewhere in there Inuyasha area.
Thanks.
I'm gonna see if I have this one website saved. Under Internet Archive, it had some info about it, but the site itself is dead and gone.
I am surprised there is not a lot of info about it - even doing Japanese searches, and I am more surprised at the lack of an internet upload, I mean...it's the freakin internet! How did this slip by?
I can type on Youtube and find a Bleach Musical, and back stage footage of the actors, even find SeraMyu shows, but this? Like a Ghost.
*looks at Anon comment* 0_o oookay
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:3
No.
ehhh....I still like the "Bleach rock musical: sabien"- they had a sexy Orihime played by Rei Yoshii ...then I saw her toppless in "Love my life"...so I was pleased.
I saw Bleach musical too.I'm impressed that choose actors that have uncanny resemblances to their manga/anime counterpart.
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nothing being mention about Sakura Taisen musical theater???
im in despair
Sorry - I didn't want to make it too long...
shugo chara musical....
somehow i hope mizuki nana's in there