The official website for the upcoming Bless anime has announced that it will premiere on January 8 via a newly released promo. The promo has also showcased the anime’s ending theme.
HIKKA will perform the ending theme, titled “New Page.” It will premiere in Fuji TV’s Noitamina programming block on January 8 at 11:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. EST). It will also stream on Crunchyroll. Check out the new promo for Bless below:
The cast includes:
- Tomohiro Ōno as Aia Udagawa
- Chiyuki Miura as Jun Sumisaki
- Nobuhiko Okamoto as Ginga Yoyogi
- Yoshino Aoyama as Oroka Sumeragi
- Momoka Terasawa as Shitataka Sumeragi
- Kentarō Kumagai as MM
- Yoshiki Nakajima as Joe Osaki
- Kōki Uchiyama as Akiharu Nakano
- Tarusuke Shingaki as Hikaru Oya
Hōtarō 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.
