Danica Davidson
February 24, 2023 
The Blue Orchestra anime (a.k.a. Ao no Orchestra in Japanese) will debut on April 9. Ahead of this more information was released on the anime, including the cast. A trailer has been released and you can check it out below.
The cast was listed, including the people who are acting as the musical performers for the characters. Here’s what we know: Shōya Chiba and Ryota Higashi are playing Hajime Aono, Ai Kakuma and Yurie Yamada are Ritsuko Akine, Shimba Tsuchiya and Takuto Owari are Nao Saeki, Minako Satō and Kyoko Ogawa are Haru Kozakura, Makoto Furukawa and Harumi Sato are Ichirō Yamada, Lynn and Karen Kido are Shizuka Tachibana, Shintarō Asanuma and Tomotaka Seki are Yō Hatori, Junya Enoki and María Dueñas are Sō Harada, and Ryotaro Okiayu and Hilary Hahn are Ryūjin Aono.
The anime is being made at Nippon Animation, with Seiji Kishi of Assassination Classroom helming the project as the director. Some of the production credit goes to Jun Sakata of To Your Eternity. The task of writing and overseeing the scripts went to Yuuko Kakihara of Chihayafuru.
This is a description for the original manga by Makoto Akui:
“In the fall of his third and final year of middle school, Hajime Aono, a violin prodigy, stopped playing violin for his own personal reasons. But it was also that year when he got to know a girl who told him about a high school with a prestigious school orchestra. Suddenly, the gears in the clock of Aono’s life began to turn again. This is the story of a youth drama that brings forth the harmony between music and the heart!”
Source: ANN
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
