Magical Girl Raising Project Heads to Tokyo Stage in January
Saki Nagata will write and direct the adaptation, running January 8–13 at Owlspot Theatre.
Asari Endō's Magical Girl Raising Project novels are getting a stage adaptation in Tokyo. The cast includes Rino Mochizuki as Snow White and Risa Tsumugi as Ripple.
Asari Endō's Magical Girl Raising Project (Mahō Shōjo Ikusei Keikaku) light novels will become a stage play at Tokyo's Owlspot Theatre from January 8–13. Saki Nagata will write and direct the production.
The cast features:
- Rino Mochizuki as Snow White
- Risa Tsumugi as Ripple
- Aya Emori as Top Speed
- Fumi Taniguchi as La Pucelle
- Hazuki Tanda as Hardgore Alice
- Teru Ikuta as Mori no Ongakuka Cranberry
- Haruka Komiyama as Ruler
- Ui Sakura as Swim Swim
- Haru Shinonome as Tama
- Mio as Minaeru
- Yae as Yunaeru
- Reo Kurachi as Sister Nana
- Marina Kumamoto as Weiss Winterprison
- Yui Tenshō as Calamity Mary
- Kiina Haruno as Nemurin
- Kurumi Mamiya as the voice of Fav
The Magical Girl Raising Project Restart television anime will debut on October 5. Its broadcast schedule is:
- TV Tokyo: October 5 at 2:00 a.m. late that night, effectively October 6
- AT-X: October 7
- BS Fuji: October 7
The new anime's staff includes:
- Hiroyuki Hashimoto, returning from the first anime as director
- Takao Yoshioka, returning as scriptwriter
- Masako Itou, the Magical Girl Raising Project SD character designer, designing characters from Maruino's original designs
- Satoki Iida, returning as sound director
- Synergy SP, taking over animation from the previous anime's studio, Lerche
Minori Chihara sings the opening theme, "No tears here." Daisy×Daisy performs the ending theme, "ReMind."
The novels follow a world where the social game The Magical Girl Raising Project lets one in tens of thousands of people become a magical girl. Those chosen gain exceptional physical abilities and looks, plus special magical powers that distinguish them from other humans.
In one district with 16 magical girls, administrators announce that they must cut their numbers in half to address a magical energy problem. The girls initially compete to gather more "magical candy" than their rivals. As the rules grow distorted, the contest becomes a deadly struggle to survive.
The first Magical Girl Raising Project anime ran for 12 episodes and debuted in Japan on AT-X in October 2016. Crunchyroll streamed it during its Japanese broadcast.
Endō began the novels under Takarajimasha's Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! Bunko imprint in June 2012. Takarajimasha released volume 18 in November 2023.
Volumes two and three, released in November and December 2012, respectively, tell the "Restart" arc. Yen Press started releasing the novels in English in June 2017.
Nori-Senbei began a manga adaptation of "Restart" in Kadokawa's Monthly Comp Ace magazine in 2016. Kadokawa released one collected volume in September 2016.
Sources: Odd Entertainment via ANN
