The P3 musical, The Weird Masquerade, will be running in classic theaters January 2014. Producing company CLIE has launched their official website, though the whole website at the moment is just the image you see right above here. They have posted the two actors that will portray the two P3 protagonist. Male Protagonist, possibly named Makoto Yuki, will be played by Shouta Aoi, and Female Protagonist, possibly named Hamuko, will be played by Kana Asumi. The two have acting experience, they were likely chosen because they’re singers and on the strength of their singing voices with this being a musical.
Here’s Aoi’s.
Aoi is decidedly feminine in vocals and appearance after stage make-up, though he dresses in pretty casual clothing for a concert. I’m not used to the idea of casual bishonen. I’m more used to glittery Takuto style bishonen with the absurdly fancy clothes. His svelte appearance and hair style will suit the P3 male protagonist role well, and I can see him singing for some of the more dour moments that a script based on that game would produce.
Here’s Asumi’s.
We didn’t play the PSP version of the game, so I don’t know how FProtagonist’s personality compares to MProtagonist. I wouldn’t have thought she’d go all bubbly idol, but that’s absolutely what I get out of Kana and her stage performances. Not to say she has a bad voice, far from it. I was just expecting more low key, I guess. She was in Devil Survivor, DS 2 and Persona -trinity soul-, so she’s in familiar territory. I’m sure she can handle it.