Bless Anime Sets January 8 Premiere, Reveals Ending Song in New Trailer
HIKKA performs "New Page," while Crunchyroll will stream the fashion series worldwide outside Japan and China.
Bless premieres January 8, 2027, on Fuji TV's Noitamina block. Its first full trailer previews HIKKA's ending theme "New Page," with Crunchyroll streaming outside Japan and China.
The television anime of Yukino Sonoyama's Bless manga will debut January 8, 2027, in Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block. Episodes will air at 11:30 p.m. in Japan (9:30 a.m. EST).
The official website unveiled the first full promotional video and a key visual on Saturday. The trailer announces the premiere date and previews HIKKA's ending theme song, "New Page."
The anime's official X account also shared the key visual. Crunchyroll will stream the series worldwide, excluding Japan and China, when it debuts in January.
Kodansha USA Publishing releases the manga in English. Its story follows Aia, whom others considered destined to become a model, and Jun, who faced bullying over her freckles.
Together, they reclaim the power to define themselves. The inspirational fashion manga questions beauty standards and what it takes to overcome an arbitrary system that seemingly values talent over hard work.
The anime's 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
Sonoyama launched Bless in Kodansha's Shonen Magazine Edge magazine in 2022. The series now runs in Monthly Shonen Sirius and has more than 1.25 million copies in circulation.
Kodansha published the ninth volume on October 8. Kodansha USA Publishing released the seventh English volume on February 10, and Kodansha also distributes the manga digitally through K MANGA.
The manga is also inspiring a live-action series. Amazon Prime Video will stream it exclusively worldwide in spring 2027.
A-1 Pictures is producing the anime, with the following creative staff:
- Director: Shōtarō Kitamura (Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!)
- Assistant director: Takayuki Kikuchi (episode director for Solo Leveling, Kaguya-sama: Love is War)
- Series script writer 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 include:
- 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
Sources: Bless anime's website via ANN
