Air Gear (musical)

Infobox Musical
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Air Gear Musical, also known as Musical Air Gear or Airmyu, is a series of live-action stage musicals based on the anime and manga series, Air Gear. The first musical opened on January 7, 2007 and ended on January 21, 2007, but due to the success and popularity of the musical's first run, the musical had a re-run in May 2007 titled, nihongo|"Musical Air Gear vs. Bacchus Super Range Remix"|ミュージカル「エア・ギア」vs.バッカス Super Range Remix| with the original cast reprising their roles.

The cast features Kenta Kamakari, KENN, and Kenjiro Tsuda reprising their roles from the Air Gear anime as Ikki, Kazu, and Spitfire, respectively; with Masaki Kaji, RUN&GUN, etc. as their co-stars. Of the castmembers, Kenta Kamakari, KENN and Masaki Kaji had previously worked together in the Prince of Tennis musicals.

The musical is not related to the story of the series, but is in fact, loosely adapted from the manga and is similar to the Prince of Tennis musicals in that all female roles (ex. Simca, Ringo, etc.) are eliminated from the plot.

Performances

The series has two kinds of performances: plot or story musicals (that loosely follow the Air Gear story) and special re-runs. The shows are, in chronological order:

Musical Soundtrack Listing

Soundtracks will be released for the musical in Japan. There will also be special "Character & Team VOCAL" albums that will also be released. Each soundtrack that has been released for each musical is a live recording of the performances.

Musical Air Gear Character & Team VOCAL Series
# "Character & Team VOCAL (1) - Team Kogarasumaru VS Team BACCHUS" Release date: April 25, 2007

Cast

Musical Air Gear

*Kenta Kamakari as Itsuki Minami
*KENN as Kazuma Mikura
*Masaki Kaji as Onigiri
*KATSUYA as Isaa 'Buccha' Mihotoke
*Shugo Nagashima as Akito Wanijima
*Kenjiro Tsuda as Spitfire
*Ryuji Kamiyama as Romeo
*Akira Nagata as Macbeth
*Yuya Miyashita as Puck
*Kousuke Yonehara as Hamlet
*Hiroya Matsumoto as Juliet
*匠拓人
*花川仁教
*牧本竜
*三好徹哉
*Chiaki Ito
*Shintaro Nakayama

Musical Air Gear vs. Bacchus Super Range Remix

On April 21, 2007 it was announced that Kenta Kamakari is hospitalized and pulls out of the musical. Ryuji Kamiyama replaces Kenta as Ikki, Kousuke Yonehara takes over the role of Romeo, and Takahiko Yanagisawa, who played Muromachi Toji in the Prince of Tennis musicals, is cast in the musical to take over the role of Hamlet.

*Ryuji Kamiyama as Itsuki Minami
*KENN as Kazuma Mikura
*Masaki Kaji as Onigiri
*KATSUYA as Isaa 'Buccha' Mihotoke
*Shugo Nagashima as Akito Wanijima
*Kenjiro Tsuda as Spitfire
*Kousuke Yonehara as Romeo
*Akira Nagata as Macbeth
*Yuya Miyashita as Puck
*Takahiko Yanagisawa as Hamlet
*Hiroya Matsumoto as Juliet
*Kouichirou Yuzawa as Kaito Wanijima

Trivia

* Just like Bleach, much of the cast are former and current tokusatsu alumni, notably Hiroya Matsuoto, formerly Ozu Tsubasa, or MagiYellow of Mahou Sentai MagiRanger.

External links

* [http://www.mmv.co.jp/special/airgear_musical/ Official Musical Air Gear website]