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The music production for the game included artists such as Masayoshi Onishi, Yuki Kimura, Hige Driver, R.O.N, Elements Garden member Asuka Oda, Ryōta Suemasu, Takeyuki Tonegawa, Round Table member Katsutoshi Kitagawa, Yuyoyuppe, and Tweedees member Reiji Okii. [8] The music is published by Pony Canyon.

Stage plays

A series of stage plays titled Mankai Stage A3! has been running since 2018. [14] The first stage play, Mankai Stage A3! Spring & Summer 2018, ran from June 28 to July 8, 2018, in Tokyo and July 13 to July 16, 2018, in Kyoto, before returning to Tokyo for another run from October 26 to November 4, 2018. The Spring and Summer shows were alternated on a rotational schedule. [15] The second stage play, Mankai Stage A3! Autumn & Winter 2019, ran from January 31 to February 11, 2019, in Tokyo, February 23–24, 2019 in Yamaguchi, and February 27 to March 3, 2019, in Osaka, before returning to Tokyo from March 15 to March 24, 2019, for a final run. [16]

After the first two-stage plays, the production company produced new shows with full runs for each troupe. Mankai Stage A3! Spring 2019 ran from April to June 2019, while the fourth stage play, Mankai Stage A3! Summer 2019, ran from August to September 2019. [17] Mankai Stage A3! Autumn 2020 ran from January to March 2020, while Mankai Stage A3! Winter 2020 is scheduled to run from April to June 2020. [18]

In addition to the stage plays, the cast of Mankai Stage A3! hosted their own radio program, Mankai Stage A3! Radio, which began broadcast on October 6, 2018, on Nippon Broadcasting System. [19] The cast has also participated in Avex's Stage Fes concerts with other 2.5D musical acts. [20] Their first solo concert, Four Seasons Live 2020, took place in September 2020. [21]

Mankai Stage A3! has endorsed brands such as Utena [22] and Orangina. [23]

Anime

A television anime adaptation was announced in February 2019, with Keisuke Shinohara directing, and Masayuki Sakoi acting as series director, featuring Naoki Hayashi writing the scripts. Masaru Yokoyama and Kana Hashiguchi are composing the music. The series is animated by P.A. Works and Studio 3Hz. [24] The anime adaptation is split into two parts, with A3! Season Spring & Summer planned to air from January to March 2020 and A3! Season Autumn & Winter from July to September 2020. [2] [25] Funimation acquired distribution rights to the series outside of Asia, and streamed the show as it aired in Japan. [26] Muse Communication also acquired the distribution rights for the series in Southeast Asia and South Asia, and is streaming it on their Muse Asia YouTube channel and iQIYI. [27]

A3! Season Spring & Summer began on January 14, 2020, and the theme song for the series is "Act! Addict! Actors!" [2] Episode 4 was initially announced to have been delayed "due to production issues" [28] and then subsequently for another two weeks, [29] before the official anime production announced that the entire series would be rebroadcast from the beginning on April 6, 2020, and aired until June 22, 2020. [30] A3! Season Autumn & Winter was delayed to air from October 13 to December 29, 2020, due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. [31] Masayuki Sakoi took over full directing responsibilities for A3! Season Autumn & Winter, and Nozomi Nagatomo took over character designing from Mariko Komatsu. Kōhei Honda also replaced Hiroko Tanabe as art director. [32]

Live-action films

Two movie adaptations of the stage plays were announced in March 2021, with most of the play's original cast to reprise their roles. [33] The first film, Mankai Movie A3! Spring & Summer, was released on December 3, 2021, while the second film, Mankai Movie A3! Autumn & Winter is slated for a March 4, 2022 release. [34]

Reception

A3! was downloaded by 800,000 users within the first three days of the original Japanese release, with 300,000 of the registrations taking place on the day of release. [1] By February 21, 2017, the game had a cumulative total of 2 million downloads. [8] A3! was nominated for the Google Play Best of 2017. [35] [4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Credited as Series Director (シリーズディレクター, Shirīzu Direkutā) for episodes 1–12, and as Director (監督, Kantoku) for episodes 13–24.

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