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Mononoke Stage Play Adaptation Haunts Tokyo in February 2023

A promotional image featuring the logo for the upcoming Mononoke stage play adaptation.

 

Fans of chilling and macabre tales of supernatural horror in Tokyo will soon be in for a treat, because a stage play adaptation based on the 2007 TV anime Mononoke will run at the HIKOSEN Theatre venue in February 2023. The play will adapt the "Bake Neko" story arc from the Medicine Seller's first appearance in the 2006 TV anime, Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales, which is described by Discotek Media as follows:

 

When a young samurai bride dies, the village druggist swears it’s the work of bakeneko (a catlike monster), which hunts each family member before revealing itself to horrified villagers, exposing a long forgotten scandal.

 

A key visual for the 2007 Mononoke TV anime featuring the Medicine Seller surrounded by strange and hallucinatory imagery of a shogunate era Japanese village.

 

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The 2007 Mononoke TV anime is directed by Kenji Nakamura and features animation production by Toei Animation. The cast and staff for the Mononoke ~Bake Neko~ stage play has not yet been revealed. The play will run from February 03 - 15, 2023 at the HIKOSEN Theater venue in Taito City, Tokyo, Japan.

 

Sources: Anime! Anime!Comic Natalie

 

Copyright notice: © Stage "Mononoke" Production Committee

 

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