'Blue Period' Reveals Additional Cast, Staff Members

by DatRandomDude
Aug 6, 2021 10:36 AM | 10 Comments

The official website for the television anime adaptation of Tsubasa Yamaguchi's Blue Period manga revealed on Friday additional cast, staff members, and a second key visual (pictured). The anime is scheduled to premiere in October 2021.

Cast
Maru Mori: Mayu Aoyagi
Masako Saeki: Fumi Hirano (Urusei Yatsura)
Sumida: Masaya Fukunishi (Nomad: Megalo Box 2)
Koigakubo: Shinichirou Kamio (Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle - Rhyme Anima)
Utashima: Tatsumaru Tachibana (The God of High School)
Umino: Miku Hiratsuka
Shirai: Ikumi Hasegawa (Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun)
Shirota: Yuuna Nemoto (Z/X: Code Reunion)
Yamamoto: Aoi Koga (Bokutachi no Remake)

Staff
Art Director: Ken Nakamura (Tenki no Ko background art), Yuuji Kaneko (Josee to Tora to Sakana-tachi)
Art Setting: Mamio Ogawa (Bakuten!!), Mika Nakajima (Dokyuu Hentai HxEros)
Director of Photography: Yasushi Hattori (Bermuda Triangle: Colorful Pastrale)
Color Design: Ritsuko Utagawa (Sore ga Seiyuu!)
3DCG Director: Yoshimi Arimasa (Tonikaku Kawaii)
Editing: Kazuhiko Seki (Arte)
Special Effects: Naoyuki Fukuda (Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu)
Music: Ippei Inoue
Music Producer: Kouhei Sakai (Mashiro no Oto)
Music Production: DMM Music
Sound Director: Hiromi Kikuta (Given)

Katsuya Asano (Yu☆Gi☆Oh! Vrains) helms the anime with chief director Koji Masunari (Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic) at Seven Arcs. Reiko Yoshida (Violet Evergarden) is handling the series composition and penning the script, and Tomoyuki Shitaya (Shokugeki no Souma) is designing the characters.

Yamaguchi began drawing the slice of life drama manga in Monthly Afternoon in June 2017. Kodansha shipped the tenth volume on May 21.

Kodansha USA licensed the manga in English in November 2019, and will publish the fourth volume on August 19.

Source: animate Times

More Info Fall 2021

10 Comments Recent Comments

the art really does look nice.

Aug 10, 2021 10:17 PM by Disapeared_Ghost

beargolfer said:

RobertBobert said:

If all adaptations that do not "cover everything" were considered bad, then only 5 or 10% could be called good. I understand that you hyped this series because of the non-binary character, but you shouldn't bury the show ahead of time because of high expectations.

I should be allowed to be concerned over the quality of an adaptation for a manga I like without you coming in to antagonize me about things unrelated to what I said. I did not hype it up because of the nonbinary character, I was informing people in previous threads about how it was handled because they were concerned themselves.The reason I like the manga because of the quality of story and the drama surrounding the emotions of its chracters, and I worry that the adaptation may not hit as hard emotionally.

Judging by the way you passively-aggressively hooked on exactly this and ignored the main essence of my comment, this is a really sore spot for you. I have not said anywhere that this is the only thing that interests you, but you have no doubt read it that way.

Aug 7, 2021 8:45 AM by RobertBobert

Aug 7, 2021 8:36 AM by beargolfer

No Yakumo??????? I hope he makes it into the anime :(

Also I hope Yatora remains as thiccc as he was in the manga lolollll

There’s so much to live up to, the manga is amazing & took my breath away. So many beautiful & relatable scenes. Really looking forward♡

Aug 7, 2021 6:50 AM by kur0ba

beargolfer said:

VanishingKira said:
Pray that it turns out good, very little faith in Seven Arcs as a studio.

If it turns out good by chance it'll be through the source itself being good and Reiko Yoshida writing the scripts for this adaptation.

Honestly, a lot of massive Blue Period fans (myself included) don't have a lot of faith in this turning out well. If it ends up being a 12-episode anime, which is most likely the case, I don't think it'll be able to pace itself properly and still cover everything in the first arc. Just been telling people to read the manga if they want to know the story, because it's a wonderful one

If all adaptations that do not "cover everything" were considered bad, then only 5 or 10% could be called good. I understand that you hyped this series because of the non-binary character, but you shouldn't bury the show ahead of time because of high expectations.

Aug 6, 2021 9:42 PM by RobertBobert

Aug 6, 2021 7:12 PM by beargolfer

I thought this would be about a highly noble / royalty princess and her struggles during that time of the month!

Aug 6, 2021 5:43 PM by Infatuate

Poster looks worse than previous.

Aug 6, 2021 12:12 PM by Hannatach

That's a dope looking visual.

Aug 6, 2021 11:51 AM by MegamiRem

Ahhhhhh I love all the designs we got for the characters!! The only one we’re waiting on now is Ooba. Gotta save the best for last I suppose hehe

Aug 6, 2021 10:43 AM by beargolfer