The official X/Twitter account of the Bless TV anime series has announced the addition of Tarusuke Shingaki to its voice cast. The anime is scheduled to begin airing in Japan in January 2027.
Shingaki will voice the character Hikaru Oya, who is spotlighted in a newly released trailer below. He previously voiced Kariya Matou in Fate/Zero.
He joins a previously announced voice cast that will include:
- • Tomohiro Ono as Aia Udagawa
- • Chiyuki Miura as Jun Sumisaki
- • Nobuhiko Okamoto as Ginga Yoyogi
- • Yoshino Aoyama as Oroka Sumeragi
- • Momoka Terasawa as Shitataka Sumeragi
- • Kentaro Kumagai as MM
- • Yoshiki Nakajima as Joe Osaki
- • Koki Uchiyama as Akiharu Nakano
Crunchyroll also announced that it would stream the Bless TV anime adaptation worldwide, excluding Japan and China, when it premieres in January 2027.
Shotaro Kitamura (Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!) is directing the anime series at A-1 Pictures, 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.
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 moved to Monthly Shonen Sirius in December 2023. Nine tankobon volumes have been released as of October 2026.
In addition to the anime adaptation, the manga is also inspiring a live-action Japanese drama series that will premiere 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), Crunchyroll News (2)
