 The official website of the Blue Period television anime revealed the main cast (pictured above), first key visual (pictured right), and promotional video on Wednesday. The anime series adapting Tsubasa Yamaguchi's school drama manga will begin airing in October 2021.  CastYatora Yaguchi: Hiromu Mineta (Cestvs: The Roman Fighter) Ryuji Ayukawa: Yumiri Hanamori (Radiant) Yotasuke Takahashi: Daiki Yamashita (Fukumenkei Noise) Haruka Hashida: Kengo Kawanishi (Kabuki-bu!) Maki Kuwana: Yume Miyamoto (Yesterday wo Utatte) Katsuya Asano (Yu☆Gi☆Oh! Vrains) is directing the anime at animation studio Seven Arcs, with chief director Koji Masunari (Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic). Reiko Yoshida (Bakuman.) is handling the series composition and script, and Tomoyuki Shitaya (Shokugeki no Souma) is designing the characters. Yamaguchi began drawing the manga in Monthly Afternoon in June 2017. Kodansha shipped the ninth volume on January 21, with the tenth volume scheduled for release on May 21. Blue Period has a cumulative 3 million copies of its volumes in circulation. Kodansha Comics licensed the manga in English in November 2019 and published the second volume on January 5. The third volume will go on sale on May 18. PV Source: Comic Natalie |
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| AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!! LEZ FKING GO! New pv's also pretty nice. Can't wait for october. |
| Anime about art with good looking visuals? Count me in! I haven't seen any anime by this studio, but from the trailer, it looks like the animation will be nice. |
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| Speaking of this non-binary character, I hope the author is not trying to use their androgyny for a crossdresser fanservice? To be honest, "trans equal gay" is one of my most hated tropes about sexuality. |
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| Haven't read this in a minute lol. Need to get back to this. But good update so far. Stayed too low for a long time. |
Dragevard said: No , it doesn't have any kind of romanceIs this going the yaoi route? |
| WAAAAA IM SO EXCITED FOR THIS !!! pv looks rly good ! was kinda nervous with yaguchi's va since he doesn't have a lot of acting roles so far but looks like he'll do well !! animation looks great, i seriously cant wait for this. hope they'll do the manga justice |
| The PV looks freaking amazing. |
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lizzziziz said: Dragevard said: nope !! i think it actually doesnt have any romance so far lol.Is this going the yaoi route? Zean_9435 said: Dragevard said: No , it doesn't have any kind of romanceIs this going the yaoi route? Even straight one? But it put boy meet girl as the big point in the video. |
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| “Blue Period” I’m not gonna act like I’m not a dumbass for imagining something else 🙃 Art anime seems interesting! |
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RobertBobert said: There is no romance it's more like normal friendship among friendslizzziziz said: nope !! i think it actually doesnt have any romance so far lol. Zean_9435 said: No , it doesn't have any kind of romance Even straight one? But it put boy meet girl as the big point in the video. |
Zean_9435 said: There is no romance it's more like normal friendship among friends Well thank goodness on the no het part. |
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| trailer looks pretty good, hope the art keeps up throughout the anime and that they don't rush the pacing |
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| I was planning to read the manga but maybe I'll wait for the anime I'm not at all confident in the studio though, Seven Arcs only produced 2 hits, Arte was average and ToniKawa was nice but not really good looking |
| the promotional video looks good. seems promising. |
Chouninatte said: Zean_9435 said: There is no romance it's more like normal friendship among friends Well thank goodness on the no het part. Thanks for reminding me of the heterophobia of slash shippers. I'm looking forward to when the romantic subplot really starts in the manga and this, as with MHA and AoT, will make everyone salty. Zean_9435 said: There is no romance it's more like normal friendship among friends I bet shippers have traditionally taken this as an excuse for slash-femslash shipping. Red916 said: RobertBobert said: idk if I missed something but was there a non binary character in the trailer?Speaking of this non-binary character, I hope the author is not trying to use their androgyny for a crossdresser fanservice? To be honest, "trans equal gay" is one of my most hated tropes about sexuality. Character in a yellow shirt. |
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| oooh this looks interesting |
Character in a yellow shirt. @RobertBobert are you talking about the one in the middle of the visual for the main cast? yotasuke isn't androgynous lmao he's a het male |
DepressedSaltApr 27, 2021 12:54 PM
| No anime is non-canon. Non-canon is canon, but on a different world line. |
DepressedSalt said: Character in a yellow shirt. @RobertBobert are you talking about the one in the middle of the new key visual? yotasuke isn't androgynous lmao he's a het male Are you saying that the non-binary character in this manga is an otokonoko in black female form? |
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| The first promo is here!! Yayyy!!! I am looking forward to see Yotasuke. Whenever Yaguchi is with him, things get so much more intense, interesting and absolutely adorable! I hope Yuka's voice isn't too high, and that she's treated with the same amount of respect that the manga treats her with. The characters look just like they do in the manga, and that's getting me so oddly excited!! |
| I thought that they'll use male voice actor for Ryuji, 'cause he is not your average trap character with sole reason to pandering the fujoshi audience. Guess he'll have shota-like voice, like Armin from SnK, but will see. And Kawanishi Kengo probably would sound like Gen from Dr. Stone as Hashida. |
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RobertBobert said: Red916 said: idk if I missed something but was there a non binary character in the trailer? Character in a yellow shirt. Yea that ain't the nonbinary character. They're the one with long, blonde hair. Also as for the shippers, nobody ships them and Yatora or really with anyone too much. They have their own thing with romance in the manga that's handled very respectfully. There's ships that are both hetero and not. Idk why you're trying to be so shitty to a community you're not even a part of. |
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beargolfer said: Yea that ain't the nonbinary character. They're the one with long, blonde hair. Also as for the shippers, nobody ships them and Yatora or really with anyone too much. They have their own thing with romance in the manga that's handled very respectfully. There's ships that are both hetero and not. Idk why you're trying to be so shitty to a community you're not even a part of. If I were a part of slash shippers my "shitty" attitude would make sense lol? If it's no joke, then the answer lies in the post on which I answered. If I regularly wrote "huh, I hope there are no gays here" or "I'm glad it's straight" as people like the author of this post like to do, then I would have been persecuted for a long time with accusations of hate speach. And I'm not even talking about the extremely annoying attempt to label characters and then try to turn it into dogma, as it used to be with Momo and Jiro, and now it starts with Nobara in JJK. |
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| Yesssssssssss I'm here for the art, all of it. |
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| At first i was kinda scared that Seven Arcs wouldn't be able to do this justice. But judging from the PV, guess i was dead wrong (and i'm glad i was!). Blue Period is one of my favorite manga and to see it animated is just... wild. |
| I couldn't imagine this series as an anime so I was a bit worried, but the PV looks great! Yatora's voice also suits him. I rarely watch anime which manga I read first, but I am excited to check this out! |
RobertBobert said: even straight ones lol. there's a relationship between 2 characters that you can say that character a is pinning over character b but i see it more as character a admires character bEven straight one? But it put boy meet girl as the big point in the video. |
lizzziziz said: RobertBobert said: even straight ones lol. there's a relationship between 2 characters that you can say that character a is pinning over character b but i see it more as character a admires character bEven straight one? But it put boy meet girl as the big point in the video. Well, I hope this does without ship wars, as is often the case with shows without a noticeable romantic subplot. |
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| Looks really good, definitely way better than I expected. @RobertBobert - No offense dude, but for someone who hates “ships wars,” you really like to bring up the topic anytime you can, even when there’s nothing related to it in the discussion. Also I'm looking forward to when the romantic subplot really starts in the manga and this, as with MHA and AoT, will make everyone salty. Yeah this is just sad. |
GailoApr 28, 2021 4:41 AM
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Chouninatte said: Zean_9435 said: There is no romance it's more like normal friendship among friends Well thank goodness on the no het part. These days no. of racist and discriminators of straight and hetero are increasing. Human society is going to be doomed with so much gay fetish people. |
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Gailo said: Looks really good, definitely way better than I expected. @RobertBobert - No offense dude, but for someone who hates “ships wars,” you really like to bring up the topic anytime you can, even when there’s nothing related to it in the discussion. Also I'm looking forward to when the romantic subplot really starts in the manga and this, as with MHA and AoT, will make everyone salty. Yeah this is just sad. So, the "Well thank goodness on the no het part" part from the "professional" fujoshi has nothing to do with ship wars? erikkamirs said: RobertBobert said: Speaking of this non-binary character, I hope the author is not trying to use their androgyny for a crossdresser fanservice? To be honest, "trans equal gay" is one of my most hated tropes about sexuality. They address this point in the manga, but Ryuji is canonically bisexual. Ryuji points out that because they take on a more feminine appearance that they feel expected to only like boys, but Ryuji did have a crush on a girl in high school. Stop. Bisexuality aside, is their behavior fully feminine? |
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impromptoo said: RobertBobert said: So, the "Well thank goodness on the no het part" part from the "professional" fujoshi has nothing to do with ship wars? Stop. Bisexuality aside, is their behavior fully feminine? Ryuji is in fact very feminine by deliberate choice, but I don't think you have an idea exactly how deep of a character they are. I don't want to spoil anyone, but Ryuji struggles very deeply with their gender identity and relationship with art, their gender issue is an actual issue rather than some side trope: It's very far from fanservice. Ultimately, Yatora and Ryuji relate to one another precisely because of their struggles with identity, though granted, not really in a romantic way. Then why is their identity non-binary and not feminine? |
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D4rKNiGhT said: Ok Im not interested in this kind of war but lets go straight to the point, is this a heter anime or not? Romance isn't a big focus here, but it's not a queer anime in this context. |
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impromptoo said: Spoil yourself on your own and draw your own conclusions. The only one with a clear answer on this is Yamaguchi-sensei, and, to soothe your fears, it wasn't a matter of fanservice in a manga about fine arts, of all things and topics. At this point you're just looking to fight. Jeez. This still doesn't answer my question. |
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| the anime fandom is consistently fucking up and misunderstanding androgynous characters. hoping its different this time around |
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