Lychee Light Club

In January 2011, a stage adaptation was announced,[3] although the cast was only announced in August 2012.[21] Directed and written by Junko Emoto, the play ran from December 14 to 25, 2012 at Kinokuniya Hall in Tokyo.[21] A second adaptation was announced in September 2013[22] and kept the most of the cast, except for Rin Honoka who was replaced by Aimi Satsukawa as Kanon.[23] It was also directed and written by Emoto and ran at AiiA Theater Tokyo from December 16 to 24, 2013.[22] Another play, this time directed by Masahiko Kawahara and written by Maruichirō Maruo, ran at 2.5 AiiA Theater Tokyo between December 18 and 27, 2015.[24] The 2012–2013 run had Ryo Kimura as its protagonist, Zera, and Tomoya Nakamura took the role for the 2015 version.[21][24] TC Entertainment released the first play in DVD format on April 26, 2013,[25] while the 2015 play's DVD is set to be released on April 27, 2016.[26]

Rock band Penicillin's vocalist Hakuei, who composed the music for the anime,[17] created a musical act after the manga to express Lychee Light Club's world through music.[3][4] "Haikyo no Teiō" (廃墟の☆帝王, lit. "The Emperor of Ruins") was the first song released by the group as both a standard ringtone and a full-length ringtone as a standard ringtone and full-length ringtone on January 1, 2011.[3][27] This and five more songs were released in the mini album titled Elagabalus no Yume (エラガバルスの☆夢, Eragabarusu no☆Yume, lit. Elagabalus's Dream") on December 21, 2011.[28] Their first live performance was at Tokyo Kinema Club on December 30, 2011 and it was released in DVD format on June 26, 2012 under the title of Haikyo no Oto Gakkai (廃墟の音樂会).[27]

A split album containing six tracks performed along with the band Machine, Rendez-vous, was released on July 25, 2012.[29] On December 12, 2012, they released their first full album, the eleven-track Grand Guignol (グランギニョル, Guran Ginyoru) and the compilation album -2011~2012 Complete Best- "Reimei" (-2011～2012 COMPLETE BEST-『黎明』).[4] They performed again at Tokyo Kinema Club, this time along with Machine, on December 30, 2012 and its DVD, Haikyo no Kyōen: Aube (廃墟の狂宴 -aube-), was released on March 21, 2013.[27]

A mini album, Hikari no Tei Kuni (光ノ帝國), was released on December 11, 2013, and was followed by a tour from December 25, 2013 to January 26, 2014.[27] The first performance of this tour, at AiiA Theater Tokyo, was released into a live DVD on March 27, 2014.[30] The release of the mini album titled Kikikaikai (奇奇怪怪) on August 13, 2014 led them to have a tour from August 24 to 30.[27] On July 26, 2015, the band started a tour to promote the album Jesus Christ Hyperstar—released on July 29[30]—that lasted until August 8.[31]

In April 2013, Ohta Publishing announced a live-action version of the manga had been green-lit.[32] Only in July 2015, though, the main cast and staff, a trailer and a release date—Japan's winter—were revealed.[33] It was directed by Eisuke Naitō, co-written by Naitō and Keisuke Tominaga and starred Shūhei Nomura as Tamiya and Yuki Furukawa as Zera.[34] Produced by Marble Film and distributed by Nikkatsu,[35] it premiered worldwide at the 20th Busan International Film Festival on October 2, 2015.[34][36] Although its nationwide release was initially scheduled to be in January 2016,[37] in November 2015 it was postponed to February 13, 2016,[34] when the film was ultimately released.

Elizabeth Kerr of The Hollywood Reporter considered it to be "familiar territory of out-of-control, angry teens".[35] If most performances "are there in service of the spectacular splatter", "capping to off" is Lychee, "its heart". What can be highlighted, in her opinion, is the art direction and production design; the film setting has cityscapes "that Philip K. Dick would be proud of". The music was compared to Tetsuo: The Iron Man and was said to be "a sometimes discordant soundtrack that adds to the overall atmosphere".[35] The Japan Times critic Mark Schilling described it "as if the Marquis de Sade had penned Peter Pan" because of is horror elements. Indeed, "just when the film is becoming a mash-up of Beauty and the Beast and Pinocchio, with [Lychee] fulfilling his dream of love and manhood, twists multiply and the pace quickens. And we are abruptly reminded why the film's 'horror' label still applies." Schilling criticized the characters portrayal that seemed "more like manga archetypes than flesh-and-blood boys" and its good versus evil dichotomy calling it "as black-and-white as a folktale's (or a commercial manga's), making its surprises less than surprising — save perhaps for the last."[38]