Voice actresses Yoshino Aoyama and Momoka Terasawa are joining the voice cast of the upcoming Bless TV anime series as the Sumeragi twins. The anime will begin airing in Japan in January 2027.
Aoyama is slated to voice Oroka Sumeragi (left) while Terasawa will voice Shitataka Sumeragi (right). Both characters are showcased in a newly released character trailer. Aoyama recently voiced Sakura Himedaka in Agents of the Four Seasons and Terasawa voiced Kaoru Misogiya in Dara-san of Reiwa.
They join a previously announced voice cast that will star Tomohiro Ono as Aia Udagawa, Chiyuki Miura as Jun Sumisaki, and Nobuhiko Okamoto as Ginga Yoyogi.
Shotaro Kitamura (Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!) is directing the anime series, with A-1 Pictures‘ Takayuki Kikuchi (Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! opening storyboard artist and director) as assistant director and Honoka Yokoyama (OSHI NO KO Season 1 co-main animator, Season 2 co-sub-character designer and co-costume designer) as character designer. A-1 Pictures is in charge of the animation production.
Other staff include A-1 Pictures’ Akane Takeda (Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! co-main animator) as costume designer, tron’s Katsuyoshi Kojima as hair and makeup supervisor, Kashimaki as graphic illustrator, A-1 Pictures’ Mana Hokuto (HYPNOSISMIC –Division Rap Battle– Rhyme Anima) as color designer, A-1 Pictures’ Risa Wakabayashi (Kaguya-sama: Love is War -Stairway to Adulthood-) as background art director, EXPLOSION’s Eki Eto (The Price of Smiles) as composting director, Ryo Yoshimata (After the Rain) as music composer. Yuichiro Ida, Marina Kobayashi, and A-1 Pictures’ Mirai Harashima are also credited as main animators.
The fashion-themed manga series by Yukino Sonoyama debuted in Kodansha’s Shonen Magazine Edge on January 17, 2022 and was later transferred to Monthly Shonen Sirius in December 2023. Eight tankobon volumes have been released as of March 2026, with a ninth volume set to be published in Japan on October 8, 2026.
In addition to the anime adaptation, the manga is also inspiring a live-action Japanese drama series that will be released on Prime Video in 2027.
Kodansha USA licensed the Bless manga series for English release, describing the synopsis as:
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.
Sources: Bless Official X/Twitter (2) (3), Anime News Network
