'Blue Period' Reveals Main Cast, First Promo, Fall 2021 Debut

by Vindstot
Apr 27, 2021 8:45 AM | 45 Comments

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.

Cast
Yatora 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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the anime fandom is consistently fucking up and misunderstanding androgynous characters. hoping its different this time around

Jun 26, 2021 2:31 PM by hik1komori

impromptoo said:

RobertBobert said:

Then why is their identity non-binary and not feminine?

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.

Going into spoiler-ish territory. The whole story is about life, the common hardships that almost everyone faces and evolving as a person through those hardships. Yatora is the MC and we see all these problems from his perspective, but it isn't just about Yatora.

It's also about the people he meets on his journey to become an artist and how they also have these hardships that any human could experience. Now, Yuka/Ryuuji is one of those people. They're just trying to find out their own identity and you can see that through (of course the development of the character) one of the later chapters where Ryuuji uses the Japanese "female" I (Atashi) instead of using the "male" I (Ore) which They had been using since the start of the manga up until that point. This entire story is about human growth.

Jun 26, 2021 1:43 PM by Kerhs

RobertBobert said:

impromptoo said:

This still doesn't answer my question.

It wasn't meant to. You ask too much, read on your own.

Jun 17, 2021 7:08 PM by impromptoo

impromptoo said:

RobertBobert said:

Then why is their identity non-binary and not feminine?

This still doesn't answer my question.

Jun 16, 2021 5:19 AM by RobertBobert

RobertBobert said:

impromptoo said:

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?

Jun 15, 2021 5:57 PM by impromptoo

Yumiri + Deku + Kengo are from KNY casts who played supporting character

Jun 7, 2021 6:45 AM by reny1966nanin

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.

Jun 2, 2021 10:43 PM by RobertBobert

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?

Then why is their identity non-binary and not feminine?

Jun 2, 2021 10:42 PM by RobertBobert

RobertBobert said:

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

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:

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?

Jun 2, 2021 8:52 PM by impromptoo

Ok Im not interested in this kind of war but lets go straight to the point, is this a heter anime or not?

May 19, 2021 5:41 AM by Bordalas

This looks really good. I really like the character design, looks really clean. I will give this a shot in the coming fall.

Apr 30, 2021 9:16 PM by Jenkinsaustin

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.

Stop. Bisexuality aside, is their behavior fully feminine?

Apr 28, 2021 2:25 PM by RobertBobert

Apr 28, 2021 1:06 PM by erikkamirs

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.

Apr 28, 2021 6:27 AM by OeKusoBaba

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.

Apr 28, 2021 4:23 AM by Gailo

lizzziziz said:

RobertBobert said:
Even straight one? But it put boy meet girl as the big point in the video.

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 b

Well, I hope this does without ship wars, as is often the case with shows without a noticeable romantic subplot.

Apr 28, 2021 1:59 AM by RobertBobert

RobertBobert said:
Even straight one? But it put boy meet girl as the big point in the video.

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 b

Apr 27, 2021 9:07 PM by lizzziziz

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!

Apr 27, 2021 7:18 PM by Shirayukin

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.

Apr 27, 2021 7:00 PM by AngeloMC21

Yesssssssssss I'm here for the art, all of it.

Apr 27, 2021 6:56 PM by Myst

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