A stage presentation for the tv anime of Kōji Miura‘s Blue Box (Ao no Hako) manga on the Kyoto Worldwide Manga Anime Truthful (KyoMAF) occasion on Saturday revealed three extra solid members.
The brand new solid consists of (from left to proper in above picture):
- Shōgo Sakata as Ryōsuke Nishida
- Anna Nagase as Nagisa Funami
- Asaki Yuikawa as Niina Shimazaki
The anime will debut on tv in Japan on October 3 at 11:56 p.m., and can air on TBS and 28 affiliated networks. The sequence will stream on Netflix beginning on October 4 (Japan time). Whereas the Netflix debut will probably be after the tv debut, the Netflix debut will stream the primary two episodes. The sequence may also stream on greater than 25 different streaming providers in Japan after every episode’s tv airing. Netflix will stream the anime weekly beginning on October 3, though it added launch dates might differ by nation.
The anime stars:
- Shōya Chiba as Taiki Inomata
- Reina Ueda as Chinatsu Kano
- Akari Kitō as Hina Chono
- Chiaki Kobayashi as Kyo Kasahara
- Yūma Uchida as Kengo Haryū
Yūichirō Yano (Moyashimon, Lupin the Third: Part 5) is directing the anime, and Yūko Kakihara (Buddy Daddies, Cells at Work!, Chihayafuru seasons 2-3) is overseeing the sequence scripts. Miho Tanino (Tower of God, Blue Thermal) is designing the characters. Telecom Animation Film is producing the animation, and UNLIMITED PRODUCE by TMS is in control of planning and manufacturing.
Official HiGE DANdism is performing the opening theme music “Similar Blue,” and Eve is performing the ending theme music “Teenage Blue.”
Shueisha‘s MANGA Plus service publishes the manga in English digitally, and describes the story:
Taiki Inomata is on the boys’ badminton staff at sports activities powerhouse Eimei Junior and Senior Excessive. He is in love with basketball participant Chinatsu Kano, the older lady he trains alongside each morning within the fitness center. One Spring day, their relationship takes a pointy flip … And thus begins this brand-new sequence of affection, sports activities and youth!
Miura first revealed the story as a one-shot manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2020. The journal began the manga’s serialization in April 2021. Shueisha revealed the manga’s sixteenth compiled guide quantity on August 2, and can publish the seventeenth quantity on October 4. Viz Media revealed the manga’s eleventh quantity bodily on July 2, and can publish the twelfth quantity on October 1. The manga has greater than 5 million copies in circulation.
Supply: Stage presentation livestream at KyoMAF
