Eleven Arts & Shout! Factory To Release High-Flying Anime Adventure ‘Blue Thermal’ On Blu-Ray This March

Shout Factory & Eleven Arts will release the new anime adventure Blue Thermal on Blu-Ray + DVD Combo Pack on March 14, 2023. From the renowned animation powerhouse Telecom Animation Film (Lupin III movies, Orange) and director Masaki Tachibana (Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, Princess Principal, Barakamon) comes a captivating new anime adventure from a screenplay written by Tachibana and Natsuko Takahashi (Farewell, My Dear Cramer). The film is the long-awaited feature film adaptation of author and creator Kana Ozawa’s popular manga series which ran in Shinchosha’s Monthly Comic @Bunch Magazine for many years before being published in five book volumes.

This artful and beautiful coming-of-age movie captures the tension and excitement of a young college student who joins the school’s aviation club flying for the first time, as well as the beauty and exhilaration of the aerial scenery as seen from the pilot’s seat. The film’s theme song “Blue Thermal” and the song “Beautiful Bird” are performed by the popular Japanese piano rock band SHE’S. The Blu-ray contains an exciting movie presentation and special bonus content, including an interview with director Tachibana and character profiles. Get the details below! 

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Synopsis: “I want to experience a love that sparkles!”

Arriving from Nagasaki with this wishful mantra is Tamaki Tsuru, who in high school could think only about volleyball. Things don’t begin well, however, when she looks for an extracurricular club to join, proceeds to immediately damage a glider at aviation club tryouts, and ends up having to work it off. She is initially disillusioned with campus life. Then Kuramochi, the club leader and glider pilot, takes Tamaki under his wing … and from the moment he takes her up for a flight in a glider, she becomes a captive of the vast beauty of the skies.

BLUE THERMAL boasts a stellar Japanese voice cast of Mayu Hotta (Kaguya-sama: Love Is War 2019), Nobunaga Shimazaki (Summer Ghost), Junya Enoki (My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission), Mikako Komatsu (Jujutsu Kaisen 0), Daisuke Ono (Batman Ninja), Haruka Shiraishi (When Marnie Was There), Yo Taichi (Her Blue Sky), Ayumu Murase (Drifting Home), Makoto Furukawa (Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative), Rie Takahashi (Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal: The Movie), Taku Yashiro (The Island of Giant Insects), Kengo Kawanishi (Batman Ninja), and Minoru Terada (Castle in the Sky).

Bonus Features

• Special Interview With Director Masaki Tachibana
• Character Highlights

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