Haikyu has revealed a visual, trailer, and full cast for the new stage play adaptation GEKIDAN “HAIKYU!!” ENCOUNTER. It is the second show of the new stage play series, and will feature the clash between Karasuno High School and Nekoma High School, also known as a dumpster battle. It will be performed from May 30 to June 1, 2025. You can see the visual for the play below.
Kenta Suga, who played Shoyo Hinata in the first stage play series, is directing. He previously also directed GEKIDAN “HAIKYU!!”, the first show of the series which was performed in Tokyo in August 2023. Masami Ito is handling the script, with Shunsuke Wada on the music and HIDALI in charge of the choreography and staging.
The GEKIDAN “HAIKYU!!” ENCOUNTER cast includes:
- Kenshiro Kato as Shoyo Hinata
- Seiya Wakabayashi as Tobio Kageyama
- Soushi Haitsuka as Kei Tsukishima
- Toshiya Yoshino as Tadashi Yamaguchi
- Manabu Kumazawa as Ryunosuke Tanaka
- Tomoya Nakanishi as Yu Nishinoya
- Kazuhisa Masukawa as Chikara Ennoshita
- Kazuma Kimura as Hisashi Kinoshita
- Shuto as Kazuhito Narita
- Toru Isono as Daichi Sawamura
- Daiki Nojima as Takashi Sugawara
- Ryota Kono as Asahi Azumane
- Takeru Minato as Kenma Kozume
- Seiya Omura as Tetsuro Kuroo
- Toshiyuki Okumura as Nobuyuki Kai
- Yuri Takahashi as Morisuke Yaku
- Tsuyoshi Yokoyama as Taketora Yamamoto
- Shinta Takaiwa as Shohei Fukunaga
- Yoh as So Inuoka
- Daimu Sakata as Makoto Shimada
- Kohei Ueyama as Yusuke Takinoue
- Mizuki Ohno as Ittetsu Takeda
- Masato Saki as Keishin Ukai
- Yasushi Kimura as Ikkei Ukai
- Hiroo Otaka as Ikushi Nekomata
Following Hyper Projection Engeki Haikyu!!, the first stage play project for the franchise which ran from November 2015 to May 2021, the Gekidan Haikyu!! theater company was formed.
Haruichi Furudate wrote and drew the original Haikyu!! manga, which was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2012 to 2020. The manga ended with 405 chapters, compiled into 45 volumes. Viz Media licensed the manga in English.
Production I.G was in charge of animating both the movie and the TV anime. The first season aired in 2014, followed by the second one which started in Fall 2015 and finished in Winter 2016. Season 3 ran for 10 episodes in Fall 2016, covering Karasuno vs Shiratorizawa match. Season 4 was titled Haikyuu!! To the Top, and it ran for 25 episodes over two cours – Winter 2020 and Fall 2020. In addition to the TV anime and recent movie, the franchise also has multiple recap movies, OVAs, side stories, stage plays and games.
HAIKYU: The Dumpster Battle began streaming on Crunchyroll and Netflix from October 31.
Source: Official Website
©Haruichi Furudate / Shueisha, “HAIKYU!!” Project, MBS
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