Cherry Magic The Musical: Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! (Musical)

Kiyoshi Adachi (Ryo Matsuda) reaches thirty without ever having been in a relationship and, in keeping with a piece of Japanese folklore the story treats as simple fact, wakes to find he can hear the thoughts of anyone who touches him. What sounds like a gift plays as an ordeal: a packed commuter train becomes a wall of noise, and the polite fictions of office life stop being polite. Then his hand brushes Yuichi Kurosawa (Yoshihiko Aramaki), the capable, effortlessly liked colleague the whole department admires, and the thought Adachi picks up is a full-hearted, years-long love he was never meant to overhear.

The musical turns that premise into a stage engine. Kurosawa's runaway inner monologue is carried by voice lines recorded in advance and played in over the performance, with the cast timing their acting to the playback, while screens around the stage show the pictures Kurosawa makes of Adachi in his head. Adachi's flustered non-answers become physical comedy, and the distance between what is thought and what can actually be said carries the evening. Adachi's obstacle is never doubt about Kurosawa's feelings, which he can hear with embarrassing clarity, but doubt about himself, and he keeps rewriting sincerity as politeness because he cannot picture being wanted. Around the pair the company fills in the office: Masato Tsuge (Shuji Kikuchi), Minato Wataya (Satsuki Nakayama), Yuta Rokkaku (Sho Sakai), Nozomi Fujisaki (Kaho Takada), Mari Kurosawa (Yui Hasegawa) and Asahina (Naoya Gomoto).

Written and directed by Keita Kawajiri, who works as a creator under the name SUGARBOY, the production ran at TOKYO DOME CITY HALL from April 11 to 20, 2025, then at Aiplaza Toyohashi in Aichi from April 25 to 27, with a live stream for audiences who could not travel to either house. Shuji Kikuchi joined the company late, taking over Tsuge after Daichi Saeki withdrew from the originally announced cast. The theme number, "Demo ne.", was produced by agehasprings Party. This is a comedy about adults being shy rather than a farce built on a supernatural gimmick. Adapted from Yuu Toyota's manga, it takes its place alongside the 2020 Japanese drama, the 2022 live-action film, the 2023 Thai remake and the 2024 anime.