Warner Bros reveals the first details of the film written by Reiko Yoshida, who had already edited the animated series
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The famous work of Tsubasa Yamaguchiin Italy for J-Pop Mangawill also soon enjoy a live-action film adaptation: as revealed by the producer Warner Brosthe live action film by Blue Period will make its debut on Japanese big screens on August 9, 2024.
Together with the announcement, a trailer and a first visual have already been released which preview the cast of the characters: we will see like this Gordon Maeda (Tokyo Revengers) in the role of the protagonist Yatora Yaguchi, and alongside him there will be Fumiya Takahashi (I will be your Bloom, Fermat’s Cuisine) about Ryuji Ayukawa, Rihito Itagaki (Silent, Mars) about Yotasuke Takahashi and Hiyori Sakurada (Silent) about Maru Mori.
Kentaro Hagiwaraformer director of the film by Tokyo Ghoulwill direct the work written by Reiko Yoshidawhich had taken care of the same task for the animated version of Blue Period; Yūki “Yaffle” Kojima he will work on the soundtrack instead.
Blue Period: TV promo
Yatora Yaguchi is what you might call the perfect high school student: he is surrounded by friends, loves studying and manages to get good grades without struggling. It’s an everyday life that gets boring to him, and when one day he ventures by chance into the art club room, a solitary painting captures his attention and awakens in him a vocation for art that he never knew he had. The boy throws himself into it headlong, enrolling in a university with an artistic focus: he will thus learn how wild and unforgivable art can prove to be.
Let’s remember that the seinen manga of Yamaguchi made its debut within the magazine Afternoon Of Kodansha in June 2017, which has so far published fifteen volumes; the work went on hiatus last November, but the resumption of serialization is scheduled for this spring.
Nominated for the prestigious Manga Taisho in 2019, Blue Period it won this recognition the following year, together with the Award for Best General Manga at the 44th edition of Kodansha Manga Awards always in 2020; he was then also appointed to 24th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Award and placed 14th on the list of recommended reading titles for a male audience in the ranking Kono Manga ga Sugoi!.
The work has already inspired an animated series in 2021 which will then be distributed on Netflix and subsequently also dubbed into Italian; a theatrical version was also made in March 2022.
Sources consulted:
Anime News Network
Comic Natalie
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Official website at Warner Bros
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