The official website of the Blue Giant anime movie revealed the main cast, additional staff, the first trailer, and a key visual (pictured right). The movie is set to open in theaters in Japan on February 17.
CastDai Miyamoto: Yuuki Yamada (One Piece Film: Red)
Yukinori Sawabe: Shoutarou Mamiya
Shunji Tamada: Amane Okayama
Staff
Music: Hiromi Uehara
Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Yuuichi Takahashi (Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song)
Main Animator: Toshiyuki Komaru (Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai), Takao Maki (Youjo Senki)
Live Direction: Hiromatsu Shuu (Deca-Dence assistant animation director), Satoshi Kimura (Hanebado! animation director), Kiyoshi Hirose (Urusei Yatsura (2022) editing), Yuzuru Tachikawa (Mob Psycho 100 director)
Prop Design: Takao Maki, Natsuki Yokoyama (Re-Main)
Art Director: Satoru Hirayanagi (Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia)
Color Design: Yoshinori Horikawa (Death Parade)
Director of Photography: Kasumi Tougou (Burn the Witch)
3DCGI Director: Masato Takahashi (Eiga Daisuki Pompo-san)
Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose (Inu-Ou)
Tomoaki Baba is playing the saxophone as Dai Miyamoto. millennium parade drummer Shun Ishiwaka will play the drum as Tamada and Hiromi Uehara plays the piano as Sawabe.
Yuzuru Tachikawa (Mob Psycho 100) helms the movie at animation studio Nut. NUMBER 8 is penning the screenplay.
The anime movie adapts Shinichi Ishizuka's jazz-themed seinen manga, which ran in Big Comic from May 2013 to August 2016 and was compiled into ten volumes. The Blue Giant Supreme sequel manga began in the same magazine the following month and ended with 11 volumes in April 2020.
Ishizuka launched the third manga in the series, Blue Giant Explorer, in May 2020. Shogakukan published the seventh volume on October 28.
Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the first manga in English in February 2020 and published it in 2-in-1 omnibus volumes. The fifth and final omnibus volume shipped on March 22.
Trailer
Source: Comic Natalie
