The upcoming Bless TV anime has gotten its first full trailer, offering a 91-second look at its characters and visual sensibilities and previewing the ending song “New Page” by HIKKA.
A key visual of main characters Aia Udagawa and Jun Sumisaki, who were drawn by character designer Honoka Yokoyama, was also released. The other staff who worked on the visual were design works artist Kaoru Miyazaki (from nim), background art director Risa Wakabayashi, colorist Mana Hokuto, and compositor Eito Eki (the latter three are also part of the show’s core production team).
Bless is an adaptation of the manga by Yukino Sonoyama Kodansha USA describes the manga’s synopsis as such:
They said Aia was destined to be a model, and Jun was bullied for her freckles. Together, they will take back the power to define themselves in an inspirational fashion manga that asks cutting questions about what it really means to be beautiful—and what it takes to overcome an arbitrary system that seems to respect talent over hard work.
Shotaro Kitamura (Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!) is directing the anime at A-1 Pictures. Tomohiro Ono and Chiyuki Miura are starring as Aia Udagawa and Jun Sumisaki, respectively.
The manga began serialization in Kodansha’s Shonen Magazine Edge in 2022 and is currently running in Monthly Shonen Sirius. There are nine volumes as of October 2026.
Crunchyroll will stream the anime.
Production credits (unlike typical main staff credits in anime, the animation production studio’s staff’s affiliations are noted here, thus distinguishing them from freelancers)
• Director: Shotaro Kitamura
• Assistant director: A-1 Pictures’ Takayuki Kikuchi (Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! opening storyboard artist and director)
• Series composer and scriptwriter: Fukuro Kamiza (Non Non Biyori Nonstop and Deaimon co-scriptwriter)
• Character designer: Honoka Yokoyama (OSHI NO KO Season 1 co-main animator, Season 2 co-sub-character designer and co-costume designer)
• Costume designer: A-1 Pictures’ Akane Takeda (Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! co-main animator)
• Main animator: Yuichiro Ida
• Main animator: Marina Kobayashi
• Main animator: A-1 Pictures’ Mirai Harashima
• Hair and makeup supervisor: tron’s Katsuyoshi Kojima
• Graphic illustration: Kashimaki
• Color designer: A-1 Pictures’ Mana Hokuto (HYPNOSISMIC –Division Rap Battle– Rhyme Anima)
• Background art director: A-1 Pictures’Risa Wakabayashi (Kaguya-sama: Love is War -Stairway to Adulthood-)
• Compositing director: EXPLOSION’s Eiki Eto (The Price of Smiles)
• Sound director: Kohei Yoshida (Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! co-main animator)
• Music composer: Ryo Yoshimata (After the Rain)
Cast
• Tomohiro Ono as Aia Udagawa
• Chiyuki Miura as Jun Sumisaki
• Tarusuke Shingaki as Hikaru Oya
• Nobuhiko Okamoto as Ginga Yoyogi
• Koki Uchiyama as Akiharu Nakano
• Yoshiki Nakajima as Joe Osaki
• Yoshino Aoyama as Oroka Sumeragi
• Momoka Terasawa as Shitataka Sumeragi
• Kentaro Kumagai as MM
Source: @bless_anime
