'Blue Giant' Reveals Main Cast, Additional Staff, First Trailer

by Hyperion_PS
Dec 15, 2022 4:13 PM | 7 Comments

The official website of the Blue Giant anime movie revealed the main cast, additional staff, the first trailer, and a key visual (pictured right). The movie is set to open in theaters in Japan on February 17.

Cast
Dai Miyamoto: Yuuki Yamada (One Piece Film: Red)
Yukinori Sawabe: Shoutarou Mamiya
Shunji Tamada: Amane Okayama

Staff
Music: Hiromi Uehara
Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Yuuichi Takahashi (Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song)
Main Animator: Toshiyuki Komaru (Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai), Takao Maki (Youjo Senki)
Live Direction: Hiromatsu Shuu (Deca-Dence assistant animation director), Satoshi Kimura (Hanebado! animation director), Kiyoshi Hirose (Urusei Yatsura (2022) editing), Yuzuru Tachikawa (Mob Psycho 100 director)
Prop Design: Takao Maki, Natsuki Yokoyama (Re-Main)
Art Director: Satoru Hirayanagi (Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia)
Color Design: Yoshinori Horikawa (Death Parade)
Director of Photography: Kasumi Tougou (Burn the Witch)
3DCGI Director: Masato Takahashi (Eiga Daisuki Pompo-san)
Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose (Inu-Ou)

Tomoaki Baba is playing the saxophone as Dai Miyamoto. millennium parade drummer Shun Ishiwaka will play the drum as Tamada and Hiromi Uehara plays the piano as Sawabe.

Yuzuru Tachikawa (Mob Psycho 100) helms the movie at animation studio Nut. NUMBER 8 is penning the screenplay.

The anime movie adapts Shinichi Ishizuka's jazz-themed seinen manga, which ran in Big Comic from May 2013 to August 2016 and was compiled into ten volumes. The Blue Giant Supreme sequel manga began in the same magazine the following month and ended with 11 volumes in April 2020.

Ishizuka launched the third manga in the series, Blue Giant Explorer, in May 2020. Shogakukan published the seventh volume on October 28.

Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the first manga in English in February 2020 and published it in 2-in-1 omnibus volumes. The fifth and final omnibus volume shipped on March 22.

Trailer

Source: Comic Natalie

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The framerate of the 3d is a bit too high thats why it sticks out. But the texture on the instruments 😘

Dec 16, 2022 6:48 AM by VivavideoUser2x

The decision, usage and the quality of CG is really questionable, wished a different CG director worked on this but with Youjo Senki and Deca-Dence, this seems to be their go-to person. The use of the hatching lines is umm....

Hopefully, Hiramatsu Shuu's involvement makes up for all that and the rest seems good enough.

Dec 16, 2022 5:02 AM by Etherius_ZS

LunaLabradorite said:
I've been looking forward to this! Blue Giant is my favorite manga. Keeping up with the news and patiently waiting. The animation looks great but seems to break immersion when on stage. Which is the most important and central part for this type of anime. Maybe I'll hardly notice it when watching the entire movie, not just the trailer clips. I'm hopelessly pumped for the music though!

I agree! Also like music theme!!

Dec 15, 2022 11:25 PM by Memore

I've been looking forward to this! Blue Giant is my favorite manga. Keeping up with the news and patiently waiting. The animation looks great but seems to break immersion when on stage. Which is the most important and central part for this type of anime. Maybe I'll hardly notice it when watching the entire movie, not just the trailer clips. I'm hopelessly pumped for the music though!

Dec 15, 2022 8:45 PM by removed-user

Adampk said:
Pretty cool, but they should have gone with tv series instead of movie format

I agree, it looks amazing! They better make TV series, you are right. Let's hope that they mske TV series later of this or the sequel mznga. I get my favorite Sakamichi no Spollon vibes! It is so splendid and amazing! Waiting for the movie!

Dec 15, 2022 8:12 PM by Memore

The animation looks really good, nice CGI models as well. Probably going to check out the manga because there will be a while before this will come out. All revealed main characters are voiced by actors as expected.

Kind of off-topic, I remember seeing both Amane Okayama and Shoutaro Mamiya in the Lychee Hikari Club movie. Shoutaro Mamiya's Jaibo was pretty good but the movie was kind of mediocre. Coincidentally they both also appear in the Fly me to the Saitama movie which I have also seen, both appeared in really small roles though.

Dec 15, 2022 6:46 PM by Kumiveneella

Pretty cool, but they should have gone with tv series instead of movie format

Dec 15, 2022 4:31 PM by Adampk