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Kill Blue TV Anime Casts Shunsuke Takeuchi as Protagonist Juzo Ogami
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The official website for the television anime of Tadatoshi Fujimaki's Kill Blue manga opened on Thursday and revealed that Shunsuke Takeuchi will voice the protagonist (adult) Juzo Ogami.
Hiro Kaburagi (Great Pretender, Hozuki's Coolheadedness, My Little Monster) is directing the anime at CUE, and Miho Daidōji (animation director for Kuroko's Basketball TV anime's 3 seasons and Last Game film) is designing the characters.
This will be the first television series for which CUE is serving as the main animation production studio. Internet service and game developer DMM established CUE in 2023 with Production I.G's former executive officer and production manager Rui Kuroki as president and CEO.
Fujimaki launched the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in April 2023, and the series ended on September 1. The manga's 12th volume will ship on November 4. The manga is getting a novel adaptation titled Kill Ao Secret Report (Kill Blue Secret Report) by Kiyoko Hoshi, which will ship on December 4, the same day the manga's 13th and final compiled book volume ships.
Viz Media is publishing the manga digitally and in print, and it describes the first volume:
Juzo Ogami's a legend. Even among hit men, his name sends shivers down spines. There's never been a job he couldn't handle—that is, until the day he wakes up as a teenager! But how has his body transformed? To find out, he'll have to infiltrate the one place he thought he'd never find himself in again…school!
Viz Media released the third volume in print on October 14. MANGA Plus is also releasing the manga digitally.
Fujimaki serialized his Kuroko's Basketball manga in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2008-2014. The manga inspired three television anime series, two compilation anime films, a new anime film, a sequel manga, a light novel, a spinoff manga, and a series of stage plays. Viz Media also published the manga in English.
Fujimaki published a one-shot in Weekly Shonen Jump in January 2020, and then published an "academy comedy action" one-shot manga titled "Kiruaoharu" in December 2021.
Sources: Kill Blue anime's website, Comic Natalie
