Hinowa Kouzuki’s light novel “Elegant Yokai Apartment Life” will be getting a stage adaptation slated to run at the Kinokuniya Southern Theatre TAKASHIMAYA from 11th to 27th January 2019. The stage adaptation will star Takahisa Maeyama, Junya Komatsu, and Ryo Saeki.

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“Elegant Yokai Apartment Life” follows the daily misadventures of Yuushi Inaba, a teen-age loner who is forced to look for new place to live after his high school’s dormitory burnt down. He eventually finds a cheap apartment at an old bulding called Kotobuki-sō, only to find out that the place has human and supernatural creatures such as ghosts, youkai, and mononoke living together.