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The Blue Period. Anime Unveils Cast for Instructor, More Classmates
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The official website for the television The Blue Period. manga revealed new cast on Friday. The newly announced cast are, from left to right in the image below:
- Yuki Kazu as Mayu Oba, an instructor at Yatora's prep school
- Emiri Suyama as Sae Okada, a classmate who wants to get into a women's art college
- Taishi Murata as Takuro Ishii, a classmate who is hoping to apply to various art colleges
- Tokyo University of the Arts
licensed the manga, and it describes the story:
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!
Previously announced cast include (pictured below from left to right):
- 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
Utashima (right)
(From left to right in image below) Mika Hiratsuka as Umino, Aoi Koga as Yamamoto
If My Favorite Pop Idol Made it to the Budokan, I Would Die) is deg the characters.
The other staff include:
- Art Directors: Yūji Kaneko
- Art Design: 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
The anime will premiere in October.
Yamaguchi Afternoon magazine in June 2017. Kodansha published the manga's ninth compiled book volume on January 21. Kodansha Comics published the second volume in English on January 5.
The manga won the Best General Manga award in the 44th annual Kodansha Manga Awards in 2020.
Sources: The Blue Period. anime's website, Comic Natalie
