{"id":405556,"date":"2022-02-14T16:40:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T13:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/wotakoi-love-is-hard-for-otaku-gets-stage-play-adaptation-in-may\/"},"modified":"2022-02-14T16:40:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T13:40:19","slug":"wotakoi-love-is-hard-for-otaku-gets-stage-play-adaptation-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wotakoi-love-is-hard-for-otaku-gets-stage-play-adaptation-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"#Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku Gets Stage Play Adaptation in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku Gets Stage Play Adaptation in May<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Well-dressed in matching white T-shirts, Narumi Momose and Hirotaka Nifuji peek through a doorway in a scene from the 2018 Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku TV anime.\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.ak.crunchyroll.com\/i\/spire4\/0971b6239a62877dee706ab9ee1582bf1644844847_main.jpg\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 360px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku<\/em><\/strong>, a romantic comedy <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/anime-manga\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"6\" title=\"Anime || Manga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">manga<\/a> by Fujita about the sometimes rocky relationships of people obsessed with pop culture, is being adapted into a stage-play that will run in Japan in May of 2022. The main staff for the play includes:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Original work: <em>Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku<\/em> by Fujita (serialized by Ichijinsha)<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Director: Mizuki Sano<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Script<\/a>: Masafumi Hata<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Production: KONTORA, Alice<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The main cast of the play includes:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Kazumi Doi as <strong>Hirotaka Nifuji<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Marina Horiuchi as <strong>Narumi Momose<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Ken Ogasawara as <strong>Taro Kabakura<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Rio Tsubaki as <strong>Hanako Koyanagi<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Masaki as <strong>Naoya Nifuji<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>And Soui Odagawa as <strong>Ko Sakuragi<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The cover of the Kodansha Comics release of Volume 01 of the Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku manga by Fujita, featuring artwork of the main characters Narumi Momose and Hirotaka Nifuji in their office clothes.\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.ak.crunchyroll.com\/i\/spire2\/94e39ffe3078f141fa058d64e1d5945d1644844974_main.jpg\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 923px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku<\/em><\/strong> has also been adapted into a TV anime in 2018 and a live-action film in 2020. An English language version of the <strong><em>Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku<\/em><\/strong> manga is published by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/kodansha.us\/series\/wotakoi-love-is-hard-for-otaku\/\"><span style=\"color:#f39c12;\">Kodansha Comics<\/span><\/a>, who describe the story as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Narumi Momose has had it rough: every boyfriend she\u2019s had dumped her once they found out she was an otaku, so she\u2019s gone to great lengths to hide it. When a chance meeting at her new job with childhood friend, fellow otaku, and now coworker Hirotaka Nifuji almost gets her secret outed at work, she comes up with a plan to make sure he never speaks up. But he comes up with a counter-proposal: why doesn\u2019t she just date him instead? In love, there are no save points.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><em>Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku<\/em><\/strong> stage play will run from May 11 &#8211; 15, 2022 at the Theater Sun Mall venue in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/natalie.mu\/comic\/news\/465667\"><span style=\"color:#f39c12;\">Comic Natalie<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright notice:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 Fujita \/ Ichijinsha<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 Stage &#8220;Wotakoi&#8221; Production Committee<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/got.cr\/PremiumTrial-NewsBanner2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Crunchyroll-Hime poses for a Crunchyroll ad banner.\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.ak.crunchyroll.com\/i\/spire3\/e7e4fadbd1eac7c66e8fb40408687ed51644844708_main.png\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 43px;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Paul Chapman is the host of\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/gmepodcast.com\/\">The Greatest Movie EVER! 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