Blue Orchestra anime shows its first preview

Through the official Twitter account for the Japanese television station NHKthe first promotional video for the anime adaptation of the manga manga written and illustrated by Akui Makoto, Blue Orchestra (Ao no Orchestra). In this preview it is announced that the series will premiere during the month of April 2023.
Production team
- seiji kishi (Assassination Classroom, Classroom of the Elite) will direct the series at the studios Nippon Animation.
- The writing and supervision of the scripts will be in charge of Yuuko Kakihara (Chihayafuru, Urusei Yatsura 2022).
- Kazuaki Morita (Assassination Classroom, Classroom of the Elite) will be in charge of character design.
Akui began publishing the manga through the digital service Sleeve One from the publisher Shogakukan in April 2017. Previously, Akui was in charge of the manga adaptation of the feature film Kokoro ga Sakebitagatterunda (The Anthem of the Heart), published between July 2015 and July 2016 in Japan.

Synopsis for Ao no Orchestra
Aono Hajime was a prodigious violinist until he grew tired of playing the violin for personal reasons. Now in his third year of high school, he struggles to decide on his academic path. One day at school, he meets Akine Ritsuko, a hot-headed rookie violinist who wants to enroll in a high school with a distinguished orchestra club. As he grows closer to Ritsuko and is returned to the world of violinists, time begins to move for him again. This is the beginning of a youth drama where sounds and hearts resonate in harmony.
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