Jun Saito

Shiori is a typical high school student who dreams of online stardom, but struggles to capture attention. After an embarrassing video of her goes viral, she gets trapped in her smartphone and replaced by a charismatic alter ego. As the doppelganger charms the internet and devises a nefarious plot to replace mankind with brainrot, Shiori must partner with other online outcasts to stop her digital counterpart and reclaim her life in the real world.

Director Yoshiyuki Kishi and screenwriter Takehito Minato—the team behind acclaimed boxing epic Wilderness—reunite to adapt Ryo Asai's prize-winning novel. A sensitive drama about the aberrant in a society without regard for diversity, the story unites characters trying to hide abnormalities: a prosecutor who is worried that his pubescent son is a shut-in, an introverted saleswoman with a peculiar habit, and a student tortured by feelings she can’t express. In a world fill with abnormalities, what if it’s actually normal to be abnormal?

Takagi, now grown up, revisits her middle school as a trainer. She encounters Nishikata, her former classmate she used to tease, now a PE teacher there. Their playful dynamic resumes, leading to more interactions between the two.

Satomi Oka is worried about his final choir competition but is accosted by a shadowy gangster, Kyouji Narita, who demands karaoke sessions with him.

Being sick since childhood, Moe has spent most of her life at home, without school or friends. After being given just six months to live, she decides to spend her final days differently—by attending high school. On the very first day, she boldly confesses her feelings to her classmate Hinata. The two start dating and experience their first love. Then, on Moe’s birthday, they plan to watch the “Strawberry Moon” together – a full moon said to bind lovers forever. But after that night, she disappears without a word…

In 2003, Okinawan high schooler Miu gets interested in Minato-senpai, who has just lost his both parents. She cheers him up by exchaning MiniDisk mix tapes with him. They start a long-distance relationship when Minato graduates and moves to Tokyo, and Miu eventually follows him to Tokyo for college. Some years later, while Miu is struggling with her job hunting, Minato suddenly breaks up with her, and she returns to Okinawa. 15 years later in 2024, Miu is married to her childhood friend Ryusei, and is now terminally ill. Her daughter Himari is sent to Tokyo to deliver a message on a MiniDisk to the man her mother loved.

Hunter × Hunter: The Stage is a new upcoming play coming to Japan in May of 2023 and will be playing from the 12th - the 28th.

Enchanted by the magic of the word “unknown,” those who pursue its power are known as Hunters. As a child, Gon learned from Kite—a Hunter who visited Whale Island—that his father, Ging, long believed dead, is not only alive but a legendary Hunter. Now twelve years old, Gon leaves home to take the perilous Hunter Exam, determined to follow in his father's footsteps and meet him at last. Alongside the companions he meets on his journey—the assassin's son Killua, the vengeance-driven Kurapika, and the aspiring doctor Leorio—Gon confronts extraordinary trials that test his strength, wit, and spirit. This dynamic stage play adaptation brings the iconic "Hunter Exam" and "Zoldyck Family" arcs to life, capturing the adventure, friendship, and high stakes of the beloved series. The question hangs in the balance: Will Gon succeed in becoming a Hunter?