Rina Ikoma Plays Original Character Saki in KochiKame Stage Play

The 2016 No.28 issue of Shūeisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine announced that Nogizaka46
member and former AKB48 member Rina Ikoma (live-action Corpse Party, Corpse Party: Book of Shadows) will play an original character named Saki in the stage play adaptation of Osamu Akimoto's KochiKame police comedy manga.

Rina Ikoma as Saki

In addition, the staff also revealed three new character visuals:

Yoshika Kobayashi as Ai Asato aka Maria

Meiken Itō as Detective Kaipan

Tōta Tawaragi as chief Daijirō Ōhara

The rest of the main cast includes: 

• LaSalle Ishii as Kankichi Ryōtsu  
• Yūji as Kei'ichi Nakagawa
• Mikie Hara as Reiko Katherine Akimoto
• Tetsuhiro Ikeda as Sanshirō Mukōjima
• Ruito Aoyagi as Ryo
• Ryōsuke Mikata as Wake
• Shōhei as Makoto

The rest of the cast includes:

• Yoshika Kobayashi as Ai Asato aka Maria
• Tōta Tawaragi as Daijirō Ōhara
• Meiken Itō as Detective Kaipan
• Nao Ayaki as Big Mama
• Etsuko Niira as Pinch
• Mayu Musha as Punch
• Akihiro Kawamoto as God, fish dealer, others
• Saori Kōzuki as policewoman, others
• Sumiko Tani as policewoman, others
• Keiko Nakamura as policewoman, others
• Akira Sakamoto as Old Man Okuyama

The play will run from September 9 to 19, 2016 at Tokyo's AiiA 2.5 Theater Tokyo, and from September 23 to 25, 2016 at Osaka's Sankei Hall Breeze.

source: Comic Natalie, Anime News Network