{"rewrite":{"id":"r_146043e50d2c469ee0cc6aa1","clusterId":"c_a4999edc336405fa69c92b4b","slug":"minami-s-lover-manga-gets-musical-stage-play-in-december","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"Minami's Lover Manga Gets Musical Stage Play in December","summary":"Shungiku Uchida's Minami's Lover manga is getting a musical stage play adaptation that runs December 6-16 at the Nippon Seinenkan Hall in Tokyo. The musical recasts the lead couple Minami and Chiyoko as a male couple, with two actors double-cast in each role. A website opened August 31 to announce the production.","whyItMatters":"The musical marks another adaptation of the long-running manga, but is notable for changing the lead high school couple Minami and Chiyoko into a male couple, a reinterpretation of the source material that has been adapted multiple times since the 1980s.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe musical version of Shungiku Uchida\u0026#39;s Minami\u0026#39;s Lover will place the lead high school couple Minami and Chiyoko as a male couple, a change from the original manga. Idol group OCTPATH member Shunsei Ota and Who-ya of Who-ya Extended are double-cast as Sosuke Minami, while ICEx member Sena Takeno and actor Ryo Sekoguchi share the role of Chiyoko Horikiri.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYuka Arai writes the script, Tsuneyasu Motoyoshi directs and handles lyric composition, Oreno Graffiti composes the music, and Genta Yamaguchi handles choreography. The stage run takes place December 6-16 at Nippon Seinenkan Hall in Tokyo.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original manga, which Uchida serialized in Monthly Manga Garo magazine from 1986 to 1987, follows a high school student whose girlfriend shrinks to six inches tall and moves in with him. The story has seen multiple live-action television adaptations since 1990.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Minami's Lover's musical recasts Minami and Chiyoko as a male couple, with two actors double-cast in each role. The gender swap turns the original heterosexual dynamic into a new story about a same-sex pair.","twitterPost":"Minami's Lover's musical turns Minami and Chiyoko into a male couple, with two actors double-cast per role. The recasting changes the story's core dynamic.","threadsPost":"Minami's Lover's musical recasts Minami and Chiyoko as a male couple, with two actors double-cast in each role. That is a deliberate shift from the source manga's premise, and it reframes the romance for the stage.","newsletterBlurb":"Shungiku Uchida's Minami's Lover manga is heading to the stage as a musical this December in Tokyo. The production recasts the central couple as a male pairing, with two actors sharing each lead role.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-09-03/shungiku-uchida-minami-lover-manga-gets-musical-stage-play-in-december/.241296\",\"title\":\"Shungiku Uchida's Minami's Lover Manga Gets Musical Stage Play in December\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4800,"outputTokens":673,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":null,"createdAt":"2026-09-03T11:57:07.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-03T12:00:03.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-03T12:00:03.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_a4999edc336405fa69c92b4b","canonicalTitle":"News\nShungiku Uchida's Minami's Lover Manga Gets Musical Stage Play in December","representativeArticleId":"a_21eb88810cb6ed88d6058ed0","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[\"Minami's Lover\"],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Shungiku Uchida\"],\"type\":\"announcement\",\"domain\":\"manga\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-03T10:56:47.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-03T10:56:47.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-03T12:00:04.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Anime News Network","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-09-03/shungiku-uchida-minami-lover-manga-gets-musical-stage-play-in-december/.241296","title":"News\nShungiku Uchida's Minami's Lover Manga Gets Musical Stage Play in December"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":["Minami's Lover"],"work_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":["Shungiku Uchida"],"type":"announcement","domain":"manga","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}