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GKIDS Offers Blue Giant Anime Film on Blu-ray, Digitally on April 30
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The film earned over 1 billion yen as of April 2023. The film had a sneak preview screening at the 2023 Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June 2023.
GKIDS screened the film in theaters in North America in October 2023.
TOHO animation is distributing the film.
World-renowned pianist Uehara Millennium Parade band, played drums for Shunji Tamada.
publishing Ishizuka's 10-volume Blue Giant manga series as five omnibus volumes, and it describes the story:
Miyamoto Dai, a student with a taste for basketball, changes his life the first time he sees a live jazz performance. The incredible music strikes a chord deep inside him, and he immediately decides to dedicate himself to the saxophone. He has no skills, no formal training, and no idea what he's up against, but his obsession drives him to play that instrument day after day. Will ion be enough to become the player of his dreams? This award-winning manga from Shinichi Ishizuka, compiled into five omnibus volumes for its English debut, is a pitch-perfect drama about the power of music.
Ishizuka (Media Arts Festival Awards in 2017.
Ishizuka then launched Blue Giant Supreme sequel manga in Big Comic in September 2016, and ended it in April 2020. The manga had 10 volumes.
Ishizuka launched a new Blue Giant Explorer in Big Comic in May 2020.
The Blue Giant manga series has a cumulative total of 10 million copies in circulation.
Source: Press release
