Heads up, BL fans! We finally have a new trailer for the upcoming movie for popular boys-love series given! The trailer was released last Friday. The video also previews the movie’s theme song, Bokura dake no Shudaika (Only Our Theme Song) sung by rock band centimillimental. The band also provided the music for the TV series.
Check out the trailer here!
The movie is set for an August 22 release, after getting delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was originally slated for a May 16 release.
While the Given TV series focused on high schoolers Ritsuka and Mafuyu, the movie will be focusing on the older members of the band Haruki and Akihiko, along with the latter’s mysterious violin prodigy roommate Ugetsu.
Hikaru Yamaguchi (Escha Chron) will return to direct the film, as well as script writer Yuniko Ayana (both seasons of BanG! Dream) and character designer Mina Osawa.
Given’s movie adaptation is produced by Fuji TV’s newly-launched boys-love anime label Blue Lynx. The label also produced the yakuza boys-love film Twittering Birds Never Fly, the label’s first movie project which premiered in Japan last April. Another boys-love movie, Umibe no Étranger, will also be released under the Blue Lynx label.
The boys-love series is also set to receive a stage play adaptation. The stage play is set to be performed in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka from August to September of this year. The stage play will be directed by Fumiya Matsuzaki (Children of the Whales stage play). Script will be written by Yuniko Ayana, who also provided the scripts for the TV anime series.
Given started as a manga series written Natsuki Kizu. Studio Lerche adapted the manga into an anime series and aired it on July 11 on Fuji TV’s Noitamina block. Given was the first-ever BL anime to air in the said block.
The series’ story centers on Ritsuka, a once-avid guitarist who has lost interest in the instrument. He then meets Mafuyu, who is holding on to a broken guitar. Perplexed by this, Ritsuka offers to fix his guitar and teaches him to play it as well. When he hears Mafuyu singing, however, Ritsuka starts to feel something different.
Source: Anime News Network