Grand Blue


The upcoming stage adaptation of Massive Bluethe favored manga by Kenji Inoue and Kimitake Yoshioka, has launched a brand new key visible and a personality video.

The play, which is a part of the manga’s tenth anniversary celebrations, might be carried out at Theater Mixa (Mixalive TOKYO 6F) from November 13 to 17, 2024.

The newly revealed key pictures present the primary characters of Massive Blue scene reaching for drinks on the seashore. This builds on the earlier key visible which confirmed Kitahara and Imamura reaching for drinks.

Grand Blue play key visual

Moreover, an introductory video has been launched introducing the characters, giving followers a sneak peek of the actors of their roles/outfits and setting the tone for the piece.

The principle roles within the play are performed by:

  • Gaku Takamoto as Iori Kitahara
  • Ryo Saeki as Kohei Imamura
  • Shion Tachibana as Chisa Kotegawa
  • Sumire Yokono as Nanaka Kotegawa
  • Yuki Iino as Shinji Tokita
  • Yuuki Kimisawa as Ryujiro Kotobuki
  • Kei Kawamoto as Aina Yoshiwara
  • Arihiro Matsunaga as Hajime Nojima
  • Yoshinari Oribe as Yuu Mitarai

The play is directed and written by Yuu Murai.

The manufacturing has additionally partnered with Marea, Japan’s largest diving faculty, to deliver the diving scenes to life with realism.

The actors do swimming coaching in preparation for the diving scenes. Skilled diving tools and fits are supplied for the efficiency, which boosts the authenticity of the important thing scenes.

The character introduction video additionally serves as a CM, as it’s sponsored by Kleiner Feigling, an alcohol model from Germany, and in addition by Marea.

Massive Blue follows the story of Iori Kitahara, a university scholar who strikes to a coastal city and will get concerned in a wild diving membership. What he expects to be a peaceable faculty expertise rapidly turns right into a sequence of comedic adventures full of alcohol and camaraderie.

First printed in serial kind in 2014, Massive Blue has since gained immense reputation with each an anime adaptation in 2018 and a live-action movie in 2020.

Whereas the manga is on maintain on the time of writing, rumors are circulating {that a} second season of the anime is in manufacturing.

Supply: Oricon