Blue Miburo Anime Reveals Preview for Episode 1
The preview of the Blue Bureau season premiere (episode 1) was revealed on Wednesday. The anime is set to premiere on Saturday, October 19. Studio Maho Film is handling the animation production for Blue Bureau. Crunchyroll is streaming it with English subtitles. Check out the preview below:
Blue Bureau episode 1 synopsis:
Kyoto at the end of the Edo period. The destiny of a kind-hearted boy named Nio begins to unfold when he meets Hijikata and Okita of the Mibu Roushigumi, a.k.a. “Miburo,” which later became the Shinsengumi. The “Doseishun” Shinsengumi, a group of young men who risk their lives for the sake of their own, begins!
Blue Miburo Staff
Kumiko Habara (I’m Standing on 1,000,000 Lives) is the director of the Blue Bureau anime, who we recently interviewed, while Kenta Ihara (Saga of Tanya the Evil) is handling the series composition. Miyako Nishida and Yuuko Oba are in charge of the character designsboth of whom worked under Habara for I’m Standing on 1,000,000 LivesToshiki Kameyama (Kiznaiver) is the sound director.
Famous music composer Yuki Hayashi will be handling the music for the series. Other works of his include Haikyuu!, My Hero Academia, Death Parade, Kiznaiverand most recently, Wistoria: Wand and Sword alongside Luke Standridge and Asa Taylor. We recently interviewed Hayashi, talking about his music journey and his work on certain projects. (Staff and cast additions will be updated weekly.)
Blue Miburo Staff
Shuuichirou Umeda is voicing the main protagonist Nio Chirinu. The rest of the current cast list for Blue Bureau includes:
- Yuuko Natsuyoshi as Iroha Chirinu
- Chiaki Kobayashi as Hajime Saitou
- Kengo Compare as Keisuke Yamanami
- Kenjiro Tsuda as Shinpachi Nagakura
- Kensho Ono as Souji Okita
- Kikunosuke Toya as Heisuke Todo
- Noriaki Sugiyama as Genzaburo Inoue
- Ryouta Iwasaki as Sanosuke Harada
- Ryouta Takeuchi as Kamo Serizawa
- Sayuri Sadaoka as Granny
- Shun Horie as Tarou Tanaka
- Tomohiro Ono as Kenji Noguchi
- Tomokazu Sugita as Isami Kondou
- Youhei Azakami as Hijikata Toshizou
- Yuu Maeda as Jusuke Hirama
- Yuuichirou Umehara as Nishiki Niimi
Blue Bureau episode 1 is set to release on October 19, 2024.
The Blue Bureau anime series is based on the manga written and illustrated by Tsuyoshi Yasuda. Serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine since October 2021, the ongoing historical adventure manga currently has 14 volumes released. Kodansha USA has published the first three volumes of the manga in English with the next set to release on February 25, 2025.
Part 1 of the manga ended with Volume 13 earlier this year while part 2 began with Volume 14. Kodansha USA describes the story of Blue Bureau (also titled The Blue Wolves of Miburo / Ao no Miburo) as:
Nio is an orphan who can’t help dreaming of a better world. In this action-packed manga, he meets two men who show him how much a few swords can change history. This riveting samurai series from the acclaimed creator of DAYS shares its setting with Rurouni Kenshin and chronicles the founding of the Shinsengumi by handsome and volatile men fighting for justice…and for themselves!
Source: Official Website, Official X
© Tsuyoshi Yasuda, Kodansha / “Blue Miburo” Production Committee
