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Oku's GIGANT manga featuring "boy meets girl" story launches on December 8 This year's 23rd issue of Shogakukan's Big Comic Superior magazine revealed on Friday that Hiroya Oku (Gantz, Inuyashiki) and Kengo Hanazawa (I am a Hero) will each launch a new manga series in the magazine. Oku will launch the GIGANT manga in the magazine's first 2018 issue on December 8. The magazine describes the series as a "boy meets girl" manga. Shogakukan will reveal the title and premiere date of Hanazawa's new manga at a later date. Haito Torishima will launch the Kono Koi wa Tsumi nano ka!? manga in the magazine's 2018 third issue on January 12. Aki Yamamoto (Humanitas) will launch the Kenja no Gakusha (The Sage's School Building) manga in the magazine's fourth 2018 issue, which will ship on January 26. Yugo Ishikawa (Sprite, Wonderland, Yoiko, Fighting Beauty Wulong) will also launch a new historical manga titled BABEL in the second 2018 issue, which will ship on December 22. Oku

Play runs in Tokyo from January 26 through February 4 Shueisha opened a website on Friday to announce that Hiroya Oku's Gantz manga is inspiring a stage play adaptation titled GANTZ:L Ace & Action Stage. The play will run for 12 performances from January 26 through February 4 at The Galaxy Theatre in Tokyo. The play stars (Note: name romanizations for original characters aren't confirmed): (left to right in top row) Hiroki Hyakuna as Kei Kurono Kensuke Takahashi as Masaru Katō Nana Asakawa as Kei Kishimoto (left to right in middle row) Hisanori Satō as Jōichirō Nishi Fuminori Murase (30-DELUX) as Minoru Sakamoto (original character) Tatsuya Kageyama as Osamu Koike (original character) (left to right in bottom row) Kaiki Ōhara as Kōichi Takahashi (original character) Ray Fujita as Makoto Yano (original character) Yuki Kubota as Shion Izumi Katsuhide Suzuki is directing and writing the script for the play. Jūji Shimizu (30-DELUX) is in charge of the

Play runs in Tokyo from January 26 through February 4 The official website for GANTZ:L Ace & Action Stage, the stage play adaptation of Hiroya Oku's Gantz manga, revealed visuals on Saturday featuring four more of the show's cast members in costume. Kensuke Takahashi as Masaru Katō Nana Asakawa as Kei Kishimoto Yuki Kubota as Shion Izumi Hisanori Satō as Jōichirō Nishi The site previously revealed a visual of Hiroki Hyakuna as Kei Kurono: The rest of the cast includes: (Note: name romanizations for original characters aren't confirmed) Fuminori Murase (30-DELUX) as Minoru Sakamoto (original character) Tatsuya Kageyama as Osamu Koike (original character) Kaiki Ōhara as Kōichi Takahashi (original character) Ray Fujita as Makoto Yano (original character) The play will run for 12 performances from January 26 through February 4 at The Galaxy Theatre in Tokyo. Katsuhide Suzuki is directing and writing the script for the play. Jūji Shimizu (30-DELUX) is in charge o