The Blue Period. The voice actors of the anime series from the manga

The history of Blue Period

The protagonist of the series is Yatora Yaguchi, a student in his penultimate year of high school. He is quite popular and excels at school, but often experiences a feeling of inner emptiness and frustration as he has not yet been able to find a vocation, which is the dream of his life. But one day things change when he sees a beautiful painting: the young man is deeply fascinated by it, to the point that he decides to try his hand at art which will soon become his vocation. So, without any experience in the field, he decides to commit himself to enroll in a university with an artistic address; a decision that, however, will lead him to know a world very different from what he expected.

The original voice actors of Blue Period

The newly announced cast members are, from left to right in the image below:

• Yuki Kazu like Mayu Oba, an instructor from Yatora's prep school
• Emir Suyama in the role of Sae Okada, a classmate who wants to enter a girls' art school
• Taishi murata in the role of Takuro Ishii, a classmate who hopes to enroll in various art schools
• Saori nishi in the role of Hanako Sakuraba, a classmate pointing to Tokyo University of the Arts

The Kodansha publishing house licensed the manga and describes the story:

Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. She is a brilliant student with no effort and ultimately… very boring. But one day she wanders into the art room and a lonely painting captures her attention, awakening her to a kind of beauty she has never known. Forced and consumed, she dives headlong and is about to learn how savage and merciless art can be!

Previously announced cast members include (pictured below from left to right):

Mayu aoyagi like Maru Mori (left in the image below), and Fumi hirano like Masako Saeki (To the right)

Koji Masunari is the main director, while Katsuya asano is directing the anime on Seven arches. Reiko Yoshida is writing and supervising the scripts for the anime. Tomoyuki Shitaya is drawing the characters.

Other staff members include:

Artistic directors: Ken Nakamura, Yūji Kaneko
Art Designs: Mamio Ogawa, Mika Nakajima
Director of photography: Yasushi Hattori
Key Color Artist: Ritsuko Utagawa
3D CG direction: 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

The anime will premiere in October.

The Blue Period manga

The manga won the 13th Manga Taisho award in 2020 and was nominated for awards the previous year. The series was also nominated for the 24th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Award in February 2020 and also ranked 14th on the chart. Kono Manga ga Sugoi! on the male reader list in December 2019 and ranked 15th on the same list in December 2020. The manga also won the Best General Manga award in the 44th annual edition Kodansha Manga Awards in 2020.

Blue Period is a manga written and drawn by Tsubasa Yamaguchi. It is published in the magazine Afternoon from 24 June 2017 and is still ongoing.

In Italy it is published by Edizioni BD under the J-Pop label from 16 September 2020

Anime

An anime adaptation was announced on January 19, 2021. The series is in production at Seven Arcs studio under the direction of Koji Masunari and Katsuya Asanos as directors, Reiko Yoshida as screenwriter Tomoyuki Shitaya as character designer. It will be released in October 2021

Sources: The blue period. anime website, Comic Natalie