Fans of artistic anime had something to enjoy previously as The Blue Period manga was adapted into an anime series. Revealed for a 2021 debut back in January 2020 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 it was streamed on Netflix outside of Japan with an October 9th, 2021 premiere where it was done weekly.
With the series having wrapped up for some time now, the latest update has come in regarding the domestic manga release. Kodansha Comics had previously set up the first box set release for this which has the first six volumes for a May 21st, 2024 release. The set, which comes with an exclusive coloring book, is priced at $77.94 and has now gotten a delay to June 11th, 2024. Which isn’t too bad as it’s just a few weeks but it should have fans aware that there may be further delays and billing for it could happen later.
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!
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