No one medium can contain Eripiyo's love for her oshi . So in 2026, Auri Hirao's manga If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die — which has already received both an anime and a TV drama adaptation — will be making the leap to the stage! Details, including cast and crew, are sparse at the moment. All we know for now is that the show will premiere in February 2026, and that it will be performed in Tokyo and Aichi. It's also been announced that all members of ChamJam, including Eripiyo's beloved Maina Ishii, will be played by active idols. More details will be released on October 12. In the meantime, the upcoming production has released these two teaser visuals, showing protagonists Eripiyo and Maina from behind: If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die Stage Play Teaser Visuals Eripiyo Maina RELATED: Dancing☆Star Precure Stage Play Drops Third Show New Song Music Video The original manga has been running in Tokuma Shoten's Monthly Comic Ryu since 2015, with Tokyopop releasing the series in English. The series received an anime adaptation in 2020, followed by a 10-episode television drama in 2022. Crunchyroll streams all 12 episodes of the If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die anime, describing the series thus: Passionate music-lover Eripiyo only wants to see her favorite underground pop group, ChamJam, make it to the big stage at Budokan. Because they’ve enriched her life by their very existence, Eri is willing to dedicate everything she has to see this dream fulfilled – even her health. At their last performance she got a crazy nosebleed. Hey, no one said being a super-fan was easy! Source: Comic Natalie
