Staff for the Bless (ブレス ) TV anime have revealed a teaser visual and the main cast, and confirmed that the anime will premiere in January 2027 on Fuji TV’s Noitamina programming block.
Kitamura Shoutarou is directing the anime at A-1 Pictures, and it was revealed that the anime will star Ouno Tomohiro as Aia Udagawa and Miura Chiyuki as Jun Sumisaki. Videos have been revealed for both characters.
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The anime is based on the Bless (ブレス ) manga by Sonoyama Yukino, which began in January 2022 on Kodansha’s Shonen Magazine Edge. Kodansha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in August 2022 and the eighth volume in March 2026. The manga’s ninth volume will be released on October 8th, 2026.
Kodansha USA Publishing has released the manga’s first seven volumes in English under the name Bless, and it describes the manga’s story below:
“They said Aia was destined to be a model, and Jun was bullied for her freckles. Together, they will take back the power to define themselves in an inspirational fashion manga that asks cutting questions about what it really means to be beautiful—and what it takes to overcome an arbitrary system that seems to respect talent over hard work.”
Kodansha is also releasing the manga digitally on its K MANGA service.
