Danica Davidson
May 13, 2025 
Takako Shimura, the creator behind Sweet Blue Flowers and Wandering Son, is getting a 2026 anime adaptation of her manga Awajima Hyakkei. It’s being made at famed studio Madhouse, and a teaser trailer has dropped for it.
Awajima Hyakkei Trailer
We have some information on the crew. Morio Asaka of NANA is in the director’s seat. The person handling series scripts is Yasuhiro Nakanishi, known for working on My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999 and Chained Soldier. The music is being composed by Takahiro Obata, whose credits include The Promised Neverland and SHOSHIMIN: How to become Ordinary. Credit for art direction goes to Hideki Nakamura of INU-OH and Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway.
So far the Awajima Hyakkei manga has not been licensed in English, though that may change with the anime announcement. It’s an omnibus story taking place in an opera music school, where separate girls are highlighted in different chapters.
Besides her work in manga, Shimura is credited for doing the character design for the anime Overtake!, Aldnoah.Zero, and Battery the Animation.
VIZ Media publishes Sweet Blue Flowers and gave this description for the first volume:
Fumi is glad Akira is back in her life. Even in kindergarten, Akira knew how to stand up for herself, and she was always willing to stand up for Fumi too. But Fumi’s first love recently got married, and Fumi is grappling with a broken heart and the fact that her sweetheart was another woman… Can Akira’s open heart help dispel the gloom Fumi has been caught up in?
Awajima Hyakkei got its start in 2011. After a couple hiatuses, it concluded in 2024. Other manga titles by the same creator are Even Though We’re Adults; Aoi Hana; Dōnika Naru Hibi; Koiiji; Musume no Iede; Okite Saisho ni Suru Koto wa; Sayonara, Otokonoko; and Wagamama Chie-chan.
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.
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