Air Gear (musical)

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Air Gear Musical
Productions 2007 Tokyo, Japan

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 7th, 2007 and ended on January 21st, 2007, but due to the success and popularity of the musical's first run, the musical had a re-run in May 2007 titled, 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.

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[edit] 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:

Year Title Info
2007 Musical Air Gear Loose adaptation of the manga with original material as it only follows the battle between Kogarasumaru, the main team of Air Gear and Bacchus, an original team for the musical.
  • Ran from January 7th to January 15th, 2007 in Tokyo at the Space Zero Theater and from January 19th to January 22nd, 2007 in Osaka at Theater BRAVA.
2007 Musical Air Gear vs. Bacchus Super Range Remix Rerun of the first musical. Debut of Kouichirou Yuzawa as Kaito Wanijima. On April 21st, 2007 it's announced that Kenta Kamakari is hospitalized due to sudden illness 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.

[edit] Musical Soundtrack Listing

Further information: Musical Air Gear Music List

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.

Year Title Info
2007 Musical Air Gear Live-recorded from January 7th to January 14th, 2007 in Tokyo at the Space Zero Theater and from January 19th to January 21st, 2007 in Osaka at Theater BRAVA.
  • Release date: April 25th, 2007.
2007 Musical Air Gear vs. Bacchus Super Range Remix Ran from May 3rd to May 8th, 2007 at the Nihon Seinenkan Dai Hall in Tokyo.

Musical Air Gear Character & Team VOCAL Series

  1. Character & Team VOCAL (1) - Team Kogarasumaru VS Team BACCHUS

Release date: April 25th, 2007

[edit] Cast

[edit] Musical Air Gear

[edit] Musical Air Gear vs. Bacchus Super Range Remix

On April 21st, 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] External links

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