The Yowamushi Pedal: Spare Bike spin-off manga will have a play

The official Twitter account for the plays based on the Wataru Watanabe manga, Yowamushi Pedal announced that the Yowamushi Pedal: Spare Bike spin-off manga will be adapted for a play.

The play will be presented in Tokyo from July 7 to 12, and in Osaka from July 18 to 19. For its part, the Yowamushi Pedal: Spare Bike spin-off manga tells the story of the protagonists before the start of the main story events. The play inspired an animated film released in September 2016.

Additionally, the fourteenth stage play based on the series, which is titled Yowamushi Pedal Shin Interhigh-hen Final: Power of Bike, was presented in Tokyo from February 21 to 23, and in Osaka from February 27 to 29 .

For his part, Wataru Watanabe began publishing the original manga in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shonen Champion magazine in 2008. The work inspired an anime adaptation released in 2013, followed by a second season in 2014.

Subsequently, a third season titled Yowamushi Pedal: New Generation premiered in January 2017, and a fourth season titled Yowamushi Pedal: Glory Line premiered in January 2018.

Synopsis
The original manga story centers on Sakamichi Onoda, an otaku student at Souhoku High School in Chiba Prefecture. His love of anime and games is so much that he is able to bike to Tokyo's Akihabara district, back and forth in one day, which is a 90-kilometer journey.

His life changes when his school's cycling team sets eyes on him and eventually ends up enrolling in it.

Source: Yowamushi Pedal stage plays' Twitter account (link 2)

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