Fans of artistic anime have something to look forward to later this year as The Blue Period manga is in the midst of being adapted into an anime series. Revealed for a 2021 debut back in January and updating throughout the year, the latest update has rolled in from the official site that sets a kind of mixed release pattern. The show has been picked up by Netflix with a Japanese premiere on September 25th, 2021. It’s also getting Japanese broadcast distribution on MBS and others with an October 1st, 2021 debut. And it’s going to stream on Netflix outside of Japan with an October 9th, 2021 premiere where it’ll be done weekly.
The anime adaptation has Koji Masunari serving as the chief director with Katsuya Asano directing. Reiko Yoshida is supervising the scripts and writing them while Tomoyuki Shitaya is handling the character designs. Seven Arcs is handling the animation production.
The Japanese 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
- 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
The series comes from Tsubasa Yamaguchi which began in 2017 and has nine volumes released so far as serialized in Afternoon magazine. Kodansha Comics USA has been bringing it out in English with two volumes published so far.
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Plot Concept: 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!
