Kodoani.com – Official website for the anime adaptation of the manga Blue Giant Shinichi Ishizuka’s revealed on Wednesday that the film will open in Japan on February 17, 2023. The film was originally slated to open this year. The website also revealed a new visual and cast of the film.
Yuzuru Tachikawa (Death Parade, Mob Psycho 100 all three seasons, Deca-Dence) is directing the series at studio NUT. #8, the manga’s editor and manga director is writing the script. Studio TOHO will distribute the film.
Miyamoto Dai, a basketball-loving student, changed his life the first time he saw a live jazz performance. The incredible music aroused a deep chord in him, and he immediately decided to devote himself to the saxophone. No skills, no formal training, and no idea what to fight, but his obsession kept him playing that instrument day in and day out. Is passion enough to make dreams come true? This award-winning manga by Shinichi Ishizuka, compiled into five omnibus volumes for its English debut, is a perfect tale of the power of music.
Ishizuka (Gaku – Minna no Yama) launched the manga in Big Comic in May 2013, and ended it in August 2016. The manga was nominated for the Eighth Manga Taisho Awards in 2015, as well as the award. ninth in 2016. Manga won the Grand Prize in the Manga Division of the 20th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards 2017.
Ishizuka then launched the Blue Giant Supreme sequel manga in Big Comic in September 2016, and ended it in April 2020. The manga has 10 volumes.
Ishizuka launched a new manga sequel titled Blue Giant Explorer in Big Comic in May 2020.
Via: Kodoani.com