{"id":57013,"date":"2023-03-08T22:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T06:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=57013"},"modified":"2023-04-12T05:41:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T12:41:41","slug":"blue-giant-releases-jazz-performance-clip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/03\/08\/blue-giant-releases-jazz-performance-clip\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Giant Releases Jazz Performance Clip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">TOHO has released a clip from the <em>Blue Giant<\/em> anime movie, which offers a look at one of the film&#8217;s jazz performance scenes. The film is currently screening in Japan, after premiering on February 17.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Blue<\/em><i>\u00a0Giant<\/i> is based on the manga written and drawn by<strong>\u00a0Shinichi Ishizuka<\/strong>, which ran from 2013 to 2016. The manga was later followed up by <i>Blue Giant Supreme<\/i>\u00a0in 2016 and\u00a0<i>Blue Giant Explorer<\/i> in 2020, with the latter still ongoing with eight tankoubon volumes as of February 2023. All three titles are published by Shogakukan and were\/are serialized in Big Comic.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u6620\u753b\u300eBLUE  GIANT\u300f\u2502\u300cN.E.W.\u300d\u30e9\u30a4\u30d6\u30b7\u30fc\u30f3\u7279\u5225\u6620\u50cf\u3010\u5927\u30d2\u30c3\u30c8\u4e0a\u6620\u4e2d\uff01\u3011\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KaB7tTJ2T5o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Seven Seas Entertainment describes the manga as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em><strong>The award-winning manga of one young man\u2019s journey to become the greatest saxophone player in the world.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Dai lived a normal high school life in Sendai: a city of hot summer days and rainy nights. Between basketball, part time jobs, and an uncertain future, something was missing. And that thing was music. With his days in senior year running out, Dai swears a heartfelt vow: \u201cI\u2019m gonna be the best jazz player in the world.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>But what do you need to be the best? Talent? Effort? A lucky break? Or maybe just a deep, pure love for music, and too much stubbornness to know when to quit.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Winner of The Shogakukan Manga Award and the Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize for Manga!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The&nbsp;<i>Blue Giant<\/i> movie is directed by <strong>Yuzuru<\/strong><b>&nbsp;Tachikawa<\/b>&nbsp;(<i>Mob Psycho 100 III<\/i>&nbsp;chief director,&nbsp;<i>Mob Pyscho 100&nbsp;<\/i>and&nbsp;<i>Mob Pyscho 100 II<\/i> director) at<strong>&nbsp;NUT<\/strong>&nbsp;with a script by&nbsp;<b>NUMBER 8&nbsp;<\/b>and music composed by pianist&nbsp;<strong>Hiromi Uehara<\/strong>. The other staff include:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__title\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 <strong>Yuuichi Takahashi<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Vivy&nbsp;-Fluorite Eye\u2019s Song-<\/em>) as character designer and chief animation director<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__title\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>\u2022&nbsp;Toshiyuki Komaru<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Parasyte<\/em> sub-character designer) as main animator<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__title\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<strong>Takao Maki<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Kageki Shoujo<\/em> co-sub character designer) as main animator<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__title\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 <strong>Satoru Hirayanagi<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Immoral Guild<\/em>) as art director<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__title\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 <strong>Yoshinori Horikawa<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Back Arrow<\/em>) as color designer<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__title\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 <strong>Kasumi Tougou<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Burn the Witch<\/em>) as photography director<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__title\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 <strong>Masato Takahashi<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Pompo the Cinephile<\/em>) as 3DCGI director<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__title\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 <strong>Shuu Hiromatsu<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Chainsaw Man<\/em> Ending 5 director et al) as live performance director<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__title\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>\u2022 Satoshi Kimura<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Deca-Dence<\/em> opening director) as live performance director<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__title\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>\u2022 Kiyoshi Hirose<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Inu-Oh<\/em> editor) as live performance director<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__title\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>\u2022 Yuzuru Tachikawa<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Deca-Dence&nbsp;<\/em>director) as live performance director<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Meanwhile, the cast includes <strong>Yuuki Yamada<\/strong>&nbsp;as Dai Miyamoto,&nbsp;<strong>Shoutarou Mamiya<\/strong>&nbsp;as Yukinori Sawabe, and<strong>&nbsp;Amane Okayama<\/strong>&nbsp;as Junji Tamada.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> TOHO animation channel<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOHO has released a clip from the Blue Giant anime movie, which offers a look at one of the film&#8217;s jazz performance scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":57014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,97,3644,122,4792],"class_list":["post-57013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-movie","tag-blue-giant","tag-manga","tag-nut"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bluegiant_n.e.w.livescenescreenshot.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-ePz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59683,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57013\/revisions\/59683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}