The Bless anime releases full trailer and visual, premieres on January 8

We finally have the first full trailer for Bless, the hit anime adapting Yukino Sonoyama's manga. The preview runs 91 seconds and shows its protagonists and the visual feel of the series, plus a taste of the ending theme "New Page," performed by HIKKA.

Along with the trailer, the team revealed a key visual of Aia Udagawa and Jun Sumisaki, drawn by character designer Honoka Yokoyama. Kaoru Miyazaki also worked on the visual as prop designer, Risa Wakabayashi as background art director, Mana Hokuto on color, and Eiki Eto on compositing.

Visual of Aia Udagawa and Jun Sumisaki, drawn by Honoka Yokoyama.google.com

Bless follows Aia, whom everyone sees as destined to be a model, and Jun, who is bullied for her freckles. Together they try to reclaim the power to define themselves in a fashion manga that questions what it really means to be beautiful and how to overcome a system that seems to respect talent more than effort.

Premieres on January 8 with A-1 Pictures

The anime premieres on January 8 and is directed by Shotaro Kitamura at A-1 Pictures. Kitamura previously worked on Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!, and he isn't the only one on the team from that project: Takayuki Kikuchi is the assistant director and Akane Takeda the costume designer.

Series composition and scripts are handled by Fukuro Kamiza, who worked as a co-writer on Non Non Biyori Nonstop and Deaimon. Music is composed by Ryo Yoshimata, known for After the Rain.

A curious detail in the credits is that the affiliation of A-1 Pictures staff is listed, which is unusual in staff announcements. That way it's clear who belongs to the studio and who works freelance.

Main cast

Tomohiro Ono plays Aia Udagawa and Chiyuki Miura plays Jun Sumisaki. The rest of the announced cast includes:

• Tarusuke Shingaki as Hikaru Oya
• Nobuhiko Okamoto as Ginga Yoyogi
• Koki Uchiyama as Akiharu Nakano
• Yoshiki Nakajima as Joe Osaki
• Yoshino Aoyama as Oroka Sumeragi
• Momoka Terasawa as Shitataka Sumeragi
• Kentaro Kumagai as MM

The manga began serialization in Kodansha's Shonen Magazine Edge in 2022 and now continues in Monthly Shonen Sirius. As of October 2026, it has nine collected volumes.