'Ao no Orchestra' Unveils Main Cast, Additional Staff, Second Promo

by Hyperion_PS
Feb 24, 2023 10:00 AM | 11 Comments

The official website of the television anime adaptation of Makoto Akui's Ao no Orchestra (Blue Orchestra) manga unveiled the main cast, additional staff, the second promotional video, and a key visual (pictured) on Friday. The anime is set to broadcast on April 9 at 5:00 p.m. on NHK E TV.

Cast
Hajime Aono: Shouya Chiba (The iDOLM@STER SideM)
Ritsuko Akine: Ai Kakuma (Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu)
Nao Saeki: Shinba Tsuchiya (Ballroom e Youkoso)
Haru Kozakura: Minako Satou (Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun)
Ichiro Yamada: Makoto Furukawa (Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen)
Shizuka Tachibana: Lynn (Fuuka)
You Hatori: Shintarou Asanuma (Given)
Sou Harada: Junya Enoki (Kono Oto Tomare!)
Tatsuhito Aono: Ryoutarou Okiayu (Paripi Koumei)

Ryouta Higashi, Yurie Yamada, Takuto Owari, Kyouko Ogawa, Haruma Satou, Karen Kido, Tomotaka Seki, María Dueñas, and Hilary Hahn are performing the instruments of the above characters, respectively.

Staff
Sound Director: Satoki Iida (Paripi Koumei)
Music: Akira Kosemura (Summer Ghost)
Orchestra Performance: Senzoku Gakuen Philharmonic Kangengakudan
Conductor: Gyouchi Yoshida

Seiji Kishi (Ansatsu Kyoushitsu) is directing the television anime at Nippon Animation. Yuuko Kakihara (Tsuki ga Kirei) is in charge of the series composition and script. Kazuaki Morita (Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e) is the character designer.

Akui began drawing the music manga on the MangaONE application in April 2017 and in Ura Sunday magazine the following month. Shogakukan published the tenth volume on April 2022.

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Source: Comic Natalie

11 Comments Recent Comments

Can’t wait to watch this Animation !!! It didn’t take me just one day to read through the Manga(vol. 1 - vol.10). All the main characters got hurt by family issues, school bullies stuff like that in the past, but they are start looking future encouraged by friendship and the music make them get together. To my surprise, even in Manga, Description of music performance is so thrilling without any actual sounds. So, animation must be more and more exciting with fantastic performance by professional musicians! I really would like animation fan all over the world pay attention and enjoy this animation !!! In Japan, this one start broadcasting on NHK E television in April. Are there any tool or media which enable oversea animation fans to watch this animation ?

Mar 3, 2023 7:13 PM by ChibaCityLovesan

For a second I thought this was Blue Giant.

Feb 27, 2023 9:42 PM by malvarez1

Ayy I'll definitely watch this when it is available because the manga's great so far

Feb 27, 2023 11:12 AM by RaviDavi

DatRandomDude said:

thehornedrat said:
At first, I was excited....hey, the same orchestra as Sound Euphonium.

Then I realised its by the same team that brought us Hoshi no Samidare, low budget, powerpoint slide sh!tshow. So I'm not expecting KyoAni type animation, some snippets in the preview look decent, but likely wont see much of that, maybe just the finale. The rest are going to be stills. But we see this already in alot of music anime. The budget cant carry the performance animation all the way. Only in Sanzigen (Bang Dream, D4DJ) and to a lesser extent, Sunrise (Love Live) where you see animated musical performances in every episode.

Synopsis also reads like some high school lame plot repeated many times before....it sounds familiar, the overcoming some trauma trope.

I'll give it a watch, but you usually need a cheerful genki carefree, no trauma/baggage type main character to carry music animes. You need feel good vibes for music animes. Otherwise medium to longer term, when you think about it, it usually not give you good feelings.

Not the same team as Hoshi no Samidare at all. The studios were NAZ/Jumondo.
Also, not the same director, scriptwriter, animators, etc.
Nothing is similar to Hoshi no Samidare besides Nippon Animation credited for helping the dumpster fire of a production a little bit.

Thanks! I appreciate the correction!! Goes to show how a dud of a show impacts on the reputation.

Even better, as you indicated, and I do recall now, after you mentioned it, that there was talk that the quality if Hoshi did improve in the later episodes of the season.

Especially as time goes on, details like these be forgotten and people will just look at the labels on who did what....."oh, the company made this dud?" Like what I was thinking as I looked up Blue Orchestra, and made me wonder if I should spend time watching or not.

Feel more optimistic about the show now.

Feb 26, 2023 6:53 AM by thehornedrat

Feb 25, 2023 2:44 PM by DatRandomDude

At first, I was excited....hey, the same orchestra as Sound Euphonium.

Then I realised its by the same team that brought us Hoshi no Samidare, low budget, powerpoint slide sh!tshow. So I'm not expecting KyoAni type animation, some snippets in the preview look decent, but likely wont see much of that, maybe just the finale. The rest are going to be stills. But we see this already in alot of music anime. The budget cant carry the performance animation all the way. Only in Sanzigen (Bang Dream, D4DJ) and to a lesser extent, Sunrise (Love Live) where you see animated musical performances in every episode.

Synopsis also reads like some high school lame plot repeated many times before....it sounds familiar, the overcoming some trauma trope.

I'll give it a watch, but you usually need a cheerful genki carefree, no trauma/baggage type main character to carry music animes. You need feel good vibes for music animes. Otherwise medium to longer term, when you think about it, it usually not give you good feelings.

Feb 25, 2023 2:23 PM by thehornedrat

StarryFruitty said:
Glad they didn't get Akira Ishida for the voice of P3 MC 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲. He might waste his stupendously great talent there and I swear the Persona fandom would riot.

Not watching this cheap melodrama anyway and I will not comprehend its existence. (since I read the manga where the MC does 𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 out of the ordinary and the sad backstories had less impact but rather they are just plot devices)

Besides, there is only a month left until April 2 for my (3)𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲-𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 from watching seasonal anime and possibly for the rest of almost everything related to anime.

Yes, but, who the fuck asked ?

Feb 25, 2023 3:14 AM by Swagernator

i see timpani, i like. looking forward to this!!

Feb 24, 2023 9:33 PM by Boazanian

Glad they didn't get Akira Ishida for the voice of P3 MC 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲. He might waste his stupendously great talent there and I swear the Persona fandom would riot.

Not watching this cheap melodrama anyway and I will not comprehend its existence. (since I read the manga where the MC does 𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 out of the ordinary and the sad backstories had less impact but rather they are just plot devices)

Besides, there is only a month left until April 2 for my (3)𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲-𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 from watching seasonal anime and possibly for the rest of almost everything related to anime.

Feb 24, 2023 4:13 PM by StarryFruitty

I feel like this is going to be really good

Feb 24, 2023 10:11 AM by Tokoya

Marching band the animation, actually gonna watch this too.

Feb 24, 2023 10:02 AM by Swagernator