Aniplex and A-1 Pictures announced that an anime adaptation of Yukino Sonoyama’s Bless manga will premiere in 2027.
Shōtarō Kitamura, known for his work on, Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! is directing the anime at A-1 Pictures. Takayuki Kikuchi is the assistant director, while Fukurou Kamiza is writing and overseeing the series scripts. Honoka Yokoyama will serve as both the character designer and chief animation director, and Tetsuya Kawakami and Reina Iwasaki are also chief animation directors. Ryō Yoshimata is composing the music.
Additional staff members include:
- Costume Design: Akane Takeda (A-1 Pictures)
- Prop Design: Takayuki Kidou
- Main Animators: Yuichiro Iida, Marina Kobayashi, Mirai Harashima (A-1 Pictures)
- Hair and Makeup Supervisor: Katsuyoshi Kojima (tron)
- Graphic Illustration: Kashimaki
- Color Design: Mana Hokuto (A-1 Pictures)
- Art Director: Risa Wakabayashi (A-1 Pictures)
- Background Art: Kiya Hirayoshi (A-1 Pictures)
- CG Director: Yuki Kuribayashi
- Director of Photography: Hideki Eto (EXPLOSION)
- Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose
- Sound Director: Kōhei Yoshida
- Sound Effects: Takuya Hasegawa
Yukino Sonomaya first released the Bless manga in Kodansha’s Shonen Magazine Edge in 2022. Kodansha will publish the eighth volume on March 9. The manga has made waves around the world with more than 1.25 million copies in circulation.
Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga in English and it describes the story as follows:
They said Aia was destined to be a model, and Jun was bullied for her freckles. Together, they will take back the power to define themselves in an inspirational fashion manga that asks cutting questions about what it really means to be beautiful—and what it takes to overcome an arbitrary system that seems to respect talent over hard work.
