The Blue Orchestra anime adaptation, which ran from April to October, is set to continue with a second season.
Blue Orchestra is based on the Shogakukan-published manga series by Makoto Akui, which began serialization in 2017 and has 11 tankoubon volumes as of March 2023. The manga is serialized in Ura Sunday magazine and the Manga One app. Indonesian publishing company Elex Media describes the plot as:
In the fall of his third and final year of middle school, Hajime Aono, a violin prodigy, stopped playing violin for his own personal reasons. But it was also that year when he got to know a girl who told him about a high school with a prestigious school orchestra. Suddenly, the gears in the clock of Aono’s life began to turn again. This is the story of a youth drama that brings forth the harmony between music and the heart!
The first season of the Nippon Animation-produced anime was directed by Seiji Kishi (Angel Beats!, Tsuki ga Kirei) with Yuuko Kakihara (The Aquatope on White Sand) as series composer and scriptwriter, Kazuaki Morita (Classroom of the Elite) as character designer, and musician Akira Kosemura (Futaribun no Shoumei “Ahead of Us” theme song) as music composer. The Senzoku Gakuen College of Music Philharmonic Orchestra performed the music for the orchestral scenes.
The cast includes:
•Shouya Chiba as Hajime Aono
•Ai Kakuma as Ritsuko Akine
•Shinba Tsuchiya as Nao Saeki
•Minako Satou as Haru Kozakura
•Makoto Furukawa as Ichiro Yamada
•Lynn as Shizuka Tachibana
•Shintarou Asanuma as Yo Hatori
•Junya Enoki as So Harada
•Ryoutarou Okiayu as Ryuuji Aono
Source: @aooke_anime
