The official website and Twitter account for the TV anime adaptation of Tsubasa Yamaguchi's Blue Period manga has announced additional cast and staff, as well as released a new key visual.
The new key visual is a collaboration between animation studio Seven Arcs and Japanese painter Meguru Yamaguchi.
Mayu Aoyagi as Maru Mori / Fumi Hirano as Masako Saeki
Koji Masunari is the chief director, while Katsuya Asano is directing the anime at Seven Arcs. Reiko Yoshida is writing and overseeing the anime's scripts. Tomoyuki Shitaya is designing the characters.
Blue Period is set to premiere in October 2021.
NEW KEY VISUAL:
NEWLY ANNOUNCED CAST:
Mayu Aoyagi as Maru Mori / Fumi Hirano as Masako Saeki
Masaya Fukunishi as Sumida / Shin'ichirō Kamio as Koigakubo / Tatsumaru Tachibana as Utashima
Mika Hiratsuka as Umino / Ikumi Hasegawa as Shirai / Yuna Nemoto as Shirota / Aoi Koga as Yamamoto
FIRST PV:
MAIN CAST:
The main cast includes:
Hiromu Mineta as Yatora Yaguchi
Yumiri Hanamori as Ryuji Ayukawa
Daiki Yamashita as Yotasuke Takahashi
Kengo Kawanishi as Haruka Hashida
Yume Miyamoto as Maki Kuwana
Yumiri Hanamori as Ryuji Ayukawa
Daiki Yamashita as Yotasuke Takahashi
Kengo Kawanishi as Haruka Hashida
Yume Miyamoto as Maki Kuwana
Additional staff includes:
Art Directors: Ken Nakamura, Yūji Kaneko
Art Design: Mamio Ogawa, Mika Nakajima
Compositing Director of Photography: Yasushi Hattori
Color Key Artist: Ritsuko Utagawa
3D CG Director: Arimasa Omi
Editing: Kazuhiko Seki
Special Effects: Naomasa Fukuda
Music: Ippei Inoue
Sound Effects: Kenji Koyama
Music Producer: Kōhei Sakai
Music Production: DMM Music
Sound Director: Hiromi Kikuta
Blue Period has been nominated for and won several awards. It was nominated for the 12th Manga Taisho awards in 2019, before winning the 13th Manga Taisho awards in 2020. It was also nominated for the 24th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2020. Blue Period also won the Best General Manga Award in the 44th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2020.
Kodansha describes the first volume as such:
Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It’s an effortless performance, and, ultimately…a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dives in headfirst — and he’s about to learn how savage and unforgiving art can be!
Art Design: Mamio Ogawa, Mika Nakajima
Compositing Director of Photography: Yasushi Hattori
Color Key Artist: Ritsuko Utagawa
3D CG Director: Arimasa Omi
Editing: Kazuhiko Seki
Special Effects: Naomasa Fukuda
Music: Ippei Inoue
Sound Effects: Kenji Koyama
Music Producer: Kōhei Sakai
Music Production: DMM Music
Sound Director: Hiromi Kikuta
Blue Period has been nominated for and won several awards. It was nominated for the 12th Manga Taisho awards in 2019, before winning the 13th Manga Taisho awards in 2020. It was also nominated for the 24th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2020. Blue Period also won the Best General Manga Award in the 44th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2020.
FIRST KEY VISUAL:
Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It’s an effortless performance, and, ultimately…a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dives in headfirst — and he’s about to learn how savage and unforgiving art can be!