New Rurouni Kenshin Stage Musical Is Cancelled Due To The Pandemic

The new Rurouni Kenshin stage musical’s official website which is focused on the ”Kyoto Arc” declared on Friday that the production has cancelled the anticipated musical’s entire run, due to the spread of the CoronaVirus pandemic. 

The musical was recently scheduled to run at the IHI Stage Around Tokyo from November 3 to December 15.

The declaration noticed that chief Shūichirō Koike and the musical’s backers showed up at the choice after various conversations, and at long last, both chose to organize the wellbeing of the crowd, cast, and staff.

Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story, likewise referred to now and then as Samurai X in the TV appear, is a Japanese manga arrangement composed and showed by Nobuhiro Watsuki. The story starts during the eleventh year of the Meiji time frame in Japan (1878) and follows a previous professional killer from the Bakumatsu, known as Hitokiri Battosai. After his neutralize the bakufu, Hitokiri Battosai vanishes to become Himura Kenshin: a meandering swordsman who ensures the individuals of Japan with a pledge never to end another life. Watsuki composed the arrangement upon his craving to make a shōnen manga unique in relation to different ones that were distributed at that point, with Kenshin being a previous professional killer and the story accepting a progressively genuine tone as it proceeded. The manga rotates around topics of reparation, harmony, and sentiment.

Studio Gallop, Studio Deen and SPE Visual Works adjusted the manga into an anime arrangement which publicized in Japan from January 10, 1996 to September 8, 1998. Other than an animated element film, two arrangement of OVA’s were additionally delivered.

The Rurouni Kenshin manga has more than 72 million duplicates available for use starting at 2019, making it extraordinary compared to other selling manga arrangement, while its anime has positioned among the 100 most-watched arrangement in Japan on different occasions. The arrangement has gotten acclaim from different productions for manga, anime and other media, with both having gotten a decent reaction on the characters’ plans and chronicled setting.

“(C)  Nobuhiro Watsuki, Shueisha / “Rurouni Kenshin” Production Committee”