Bless Anime Adds Nobuhiko Okamoto as Ginga Yoyogi
A-1 Pictures is producing the adaptation, which premieres in January 2027 on Fuji TV's Noitamina block.
Nobuhiko Okamoto will voice Ginga Yoyogi in the television anime of Yukino Sonoyama's Bless manga. Tomohiro Ōno and Chiyuki Miura lead the cast as Aia Udagawa and Jun Sumisaki.
The official website for the television anime adapting Yukino Sonoyama's Bless manga announced Thursday that Nobuhiko Okamoto will voice Ginga Yoyogi.
The series premieres in January 2027 on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block.
The announced cast includes:
- Tomohiro Ōno as Aia Udagawa
- Chiyuki Miura as Jun Sumisaki
- Nobuhiko Okamoto as Ginga Yoyogi
A-1 Pictures is producing the anime. Its main creative staff includes:
- Director: Shōtarō Kitamura (Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!)
- Assistant director: Takayuki Kikuchi (episode director on Solo Leveling and Kaguya-sama: Love is War)
- Series scriptwriter and supervisor: Fukurou Kamiza (Non Non Biyori Nonstop)
- Character designer and chief animation director: Honoka Yokoyama (Oshi no Ko TV 2, Saint Cecilia and Pastor Lawrence)
- Chief animation director: Tetsuya Kawakami (A Certain Magical Index, Sword Art Online)
- Chief animation director: Reina Iwasaki (VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream)
- Music composer: Ryō Yoshimata (Somali and the Forest Spirit, After the Rain)
Additional staff members are:
- Costume design: Akane Takeda (A-1 Pictures)
- Prop design: Takayuki Kidou
- Main animators: Yūichirō 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
The manga is also getting a live-action series. Amazon Prime Video will stream it exclusively worldwide in spring 2027.
Kodansha USA Publishing releases the manga in English. Its synopsis introduces Aia, whom others expected to become a model, and Jun, who faced bullying over her freckles. Together, they reclaim the right to define themselves.
The publisher describes an inspirational fashion story that questions beauty and the effort needed to overcome an arbitrary system that appears to value talent above hard work.
Sonoyama launched Bless in Kodansha's Shonen Magazine Edge in 2022. It now runs in Monthly Shonen Sirius and has more than 1.25 million copies in circulation. Kodansha will release volume nine on October 8.
Kodansha USA Publishing released the seventh English volume on February 10. Kodansha also distributes the manga digitally through its K MANGA service.
Sources: Bless anime's website via ANN
