The official X (formerly Twitter) account for the stage play adaptation of Shigeru Mizuki’s GeGeGe no Kitarō manga has announced that a new stage play is set to run in August.
The production will be performed at the Meiji-za theater in Tokyo from August 2-16, followed by a run at the Shin Kabuki-za theater in Osaka from August 18-25.
Yasuyuki Tsutsumi has been named as the director and scriptwriter for the new stage play.
The cast includes:
- Yoshihiko Aramaki as GeGeGe no Kitarō (reprised role)
- Sumire Uesaka as Neko Musume (reprised role)
- Akio Ohtsuka as Nezumi Otoko (new role)
- Ryota Hirono
- Keisuke Ueda
- Rurika Miya
- Yūko Asano (previously played Sunakake Baba)
A prior stage play was staged in Tokyo from July to August 2022.
Additionally, the franchise has announced that a special selection of episodes from the first through sixth seasons will begin airing on April 6 at 9:00 a.m. on Fuji TV.
Shigeru Mizuki’s GeGeGe no Kitaro
Fuji TV has also released a visual featuring Mizuki and the various designs of Kitarō across the six seasons.
The most recent GeGeGe no Kitarō anime series—the franchise’s sixth television adaptation—premiered in April 2018, taking over the timeslot previously occupied by Dragon Ball Super. The series concluded in March 2020 after airing 97 episodes.
The anime film Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no Nazo (The Birth of Kitarō: The Mystery of GeGeGe) debuted in Japan in November 2023. During its opening weekend, the film sold 111,500 tickets and earned 160,106,620 yen (approximately US$1.07 million) within its first three days.
A recut version of the film, titled Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no Nazo Shinsei-ban (True Birth Version), premiered in Japanese theaters on October 4. The original version of the film carried a PG12 rating, while the revised edition was given an R15+ rating.
Mizuki’s manga, which originally debuted in 1959 under the title Hakaba Kitarō, has inspired seven television anime adaptations (including one based on Hakaba Kitarō), multiple animated feature films, and two live-action movies. The story follows an inhuman boy who exists between the human and supernatural realms, navigating both worlds.
