Imamaki wrote on Twitter, “I will be playing the role of Ryoma Echizen in the musical ‘The New Prince of Tennis: the First Stage’!
16-year-old Hikaru Imamaki (Momosuke Oikawa in i☆Chu The Stage) is confirmed to star as the protagonist Ryoma Echizen in “Musical The Prince of Tennis II: The First Stage,” the forthcoming first musical adaptation of Takeshi Konomi’s The New Prince of Tennis sports manga.
As a sequel to the original series The Prince of Tennis, The New Prince of Tennis has been running in the same publisher’s Jump Square monthly magazine since 2009 and has released 30 volumes.