The official website for "Real Fighting 'Hajime no Ippo' The Glorious Stage!!," the first stage play adaptation of George Morikawa's long-running boxing manga Hajime no Ippo, has posted a key visual and a 30-second CM to introduce its main cast, including 21-year-old Kyoji Goto as the protagonist Ippo Makunouchi. The actor has experience of shoot boxing, a combat sport created by former kickboxer Caesar Takeshi in 1985, which allows kicks, punches, knees, elbows, throws, and standing submissions.

As the manga's 30th anniversary project, the stage play is set to be performed at Shinagawa Prince Hotel Stellar Ball in Tokyo from January 31 to February 9, 2020. 44-year-old Kohei Kiyasu, who voiced the protagonist Ippo Makunouchi in the anime series from 2000 to 2014, is attached to write and direct. And 53-year-old Wataru Takagi, the voice of Masaru Aoki in the anime, plays Genji Kamokawa, the owner of the Kamogawa gym that Ippo belongs to.

General sales of the 8,000 yen tickets will begin on December 22, 2019.

Main cast:

• Ippo Makunouchi: Kyoji Goto 
• Ichiro Miyata: Ryo Takizawa 
• Takeshi Sendo: Ryo Matsuda 
• Mamoru Takamura: Koudai Takigawa 
• Eiji Date: Hiroya Matsumoto 
• Ryo Mashiba: Yuuki Okamoto 
• Masaru Aoki: Kohei Shiota 
• Tatsuya Kimura: Keito Takahashi 
• Ryuichi Hayami: Shinichi Hashimoto 
• Takuma Saeki: Daichi Yamaguchi 
• Alexander Volg Zangief: Koji Saikaea
• Masahiko Umesawa: Yushin Kamisaka 
• Kumi MAshiba: Miku 
• Hiroko Makunouchi: Megumi Hisashita 
• Genji Kamokawa: Wataru Takagi

Source: "Real Fighting 'Hajime no Ippo' The Glorious Stage!!" official website / Twitter

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