The official website and Twitter account for the TV anime adaptation of Tsubasa Yamaguchi's Blue Period manga has revealed the anime's theme songs and artists, and announced the premiere date.
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.
Omoinotake will be performing the opening theme song titled, "EVERBLUE."
Mol-74 will be performing the ending theme song titled, "Replica."
Netflix has acquired the license for the anime. It will premiere in advance in Japan on Netflix September 25, then premiere outside Japan on October 9.
The anime will also be broadcast in Japan on MBS, TBS, and 26 affiliates on October 1 in the Super Animeism programming block, on BS Asahi on October 3, and on AT-X on October 7.
ENGLISH VERSION KEY VISUAL:
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 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
Yuki Kazu as Mayu Oba / Emiri Suyama as Sae Okada / Taishi Murata as Takuro Ishii / Saori Ōnishi as Hanako Sakuraba
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.
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!