Tsubasa Yamaguchi’s Blue Period Gets A Live-Action Film, Premiering August 9

In a surprise announcement from Warner Bros Japan, it has been confirmed that Tsubasa Yamaguchi’s beloved seinen manga Blue Period will be adapted into a live-action film.

According to Comic Natalie, a new teaser trailer and visual were released for the upcoming film, setting it up for an August 9 release. It isn’t the first time Blue Period has gotten a live-action project, in March 2022, it received a stage play.

For the staff list for this upcoming film, Kentarō Hagiwara (Tokyo Ghoul (Live-Action), Dragons of Wonderhatch, Iribito – Ihôjin -) will be directing the film, Reiko Yoshida (Blue Period (Anime), Violet Evergarden: The Movie, K-ON) will be writing the script, and Yūki “Yaffle” Kojima will be composing the music.

Cast (Left to Right):

• Yatora Yaguchi– Gordon Maeda (Tokyo Revengers (Live Action), The Romance Manga Artist, Golden Kamuy -Live-Action-)
• Ryuji Ayukawa– Fumiya Takahashi (Kamen Rider: Zero-One, Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King, Fermat’s Cuisine)
• Yotasuke Takahashi– Rihito Itagaki (Kamen Rider Zi-O, The Promised Neverland (Live-Action), Fermat’s Cuisine)
• Maru Mori– Hiyori Sakurada (Rent-A-Girlfriend (TV Series), Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (Live-Action),  Tokyo Ghoul -Live Action-)

Blue Period launched in Monthly Afternoon Magazine in June 2017 and has been collected into fifteen tankobon volumes as of November 2023, where it would later win the 13th Manga Taisho Award and the 44th Kodansha Manga Award for Best General Manga. In November 2019, Kodansha Comics announced that it would be licensed and printed for English audiences. A TV adaptation aired in the fall 2021 season with Netflix releasing episodes in Japan ahead of the TV broadcast and then internationally a few weeks after.

Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It’s an effortless performance, and, ultimately…a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dives in headfirst — and he’s about to learn how savage and unforgiving art can be!

Source: Official Website, Comic Natalie

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