Kageki Shojo!!
Kageki Shojo!! is a Japanese manga series by Kumiko Saiki. It was serialized as Kageki Shojo! in Shueisha's manga magazine Jump X from 2012 to 2014 and was collected in two volumes. It was later re-released as Kageki Shojo!! Season Zero in a single volume by Hakusensha in March 2019. A sequel manga by Saiki has been serialized in Hakusensha's manga magazine Melody since 2015. It has been collected in sixteen volumes. The re-release and the sequel are licensed in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment. An anime television series adaptation produced by Pine Jam aired from July to September 2021.
Plot
Founded in the Taisho era, the Kouka Revue Company attracts people's hearts across generations on a beautiful and gorgeous stage created only by unmarried women. The 100th generation students who have passed through a high magnification and entered the Kouka School of Musical and Theatrical Arts to develop their music and dancing skills. Sarasa Watanabe is a 1.78m tall student who dreams of acting as a Otokoyaku and someday playing the role of Oscar in the Kouka Revue's production of The Rose of Versailles. She forms an unlikely friendship with her new roommate, Ai Narata, who is a disgraced J-pop idol and former idol group member who hopes to join the Kouka Revue to escape from her troubled past.Characters
;Sarasa Watanabe;Ai Narata
;Sawa Sugimoto
;Kaoru Hoshino
;Ayako Yamada
;Chika Sawada
;Chiaki Sawada
;Sei Satomi
;Hijiri Nojima
;Risa Nakayama
;Akemi Takei
;Mamoru Ando
;Taichi Narata
;Akiya Shirakawa
;Kōsaburō Shirakawa
;Shirakawa Kaou XV
;Captain Anai
Media
Manga
Kageki Shojo! is written and illustrated by Kumiko Saiki. It was serialized in Shueisha's Jump X magazine from May 10, 2012, until the magazine ceased its publication on October 10, 2014. Shueisha collected its chapters in two volumes, released on May 10, 2013, and October 17, 2014. Hakusensha later re-released the series as an omnibus volume, with the title Kageki Shojo!! Season Zero, on March 5, 2019. The re-release has been licensed in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment, who released it under the title Kageki Shojo!! The Curtain Rises.A sequel series, titled 'Kageki Shojo!!, began serialization in Hakusensha's Melody magazine on February 28, 2015. The series has been collected in sixteen volumes. In September 2025, Saiki announced, via Twitter, that the series had entered its final arc and would end with the seventeenth volume. The sequel series has also been licensed by Seven Seas Entertainment in North America.