Warner Bros Japan is creating a new piece of artwork with the live-action adaption of Tsubasa Yamaguchi’s Blue Period Manga, which could be a masterpiece.
In a new announcement, a brand-new visual, trailer, and cast list additions were released for the upcoming film. The new theme song for the film, NOISE will be performed by WurtS.
Joining the cast will be Hiroko Yakushimaru (Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story, Dearest, Amachan) as Masako Saeki, Noriko Eguchi (Massan, Dr. Storks, Sorokatsu joshi no susume) as Mayu Ōba, Hikari Ishida (Hana no Asuka gumi, Chizuko’s Younger Sister, My Soul Is Slashed (1991)) as Marie Yaguchi. On the second row (from left to right): Sena Nakajima (Dragons of Wonderhatch) as Maki Kuwana, Ikuho Akiya (How to Eliminate My Teacher, Kaidanshita no Gohho) as Haruka Hashida, Katsumi Hyōdō (Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger, Code: Negai no Daisho) as Koigakubo, Masaki Miura (Tokyo Vice, RoOT – Route of OddTaxi -, Kei×Yaku: Dangerous Partners) as Mr. Gotō, and Yasuhide Aiki (Zun Comedy Duo) as Yukinobu Yaguchi.
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.
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. The film will premiere in theaters on August 9, and you can read Blue Period on KManga.
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: Press Release
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