Fans of artistic anime las year saw the debut of a very fun anime series with an adaptation of The Blue Period manga. Revealed for a 2021 debut back in January and updating throughout the year, the show was picked up by Netflix with a Japanese premiere on September 25th, 2021. It also saw Japanese broadcast distribution on MBS and others with an October 1st, 2021 debut. And was streamed on Netflix outside of Japan with an October 9th, 2021 premiere where it was done weekly.
Now, it looks like the property is moving on to the live-action realm as a feature film has been set for an August 9th, 2024 premiere with the debut of a trailer earlier today. The film has Kentaro Hagiwara directing it from the screenplay by Reiko Yoshida.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Gordon Maeda as Yatora Yaguchi
- Fumiya Takahashi as Ryuji Ayukawa
- Rihito Itagaki as Yotasuke Takahashi
- Hiyori Sakurada as Maru Mori
The series comes from Tsubasa Yamaguchi which began in 2017 and has fifteen volumes released so far as serialized in Afternoon magazine. Kodansha Comics USA has been bringing it out in English.
Check out the official site and Twitter.
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!
[Cast Source: ANN]
