Winter 2027 Anime

Bless is a TV anime from A-1 Pictures, directed by Shotaro Kitamura, the director of Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines, with Honoka Yokoyama on character design and Ryo Yoshimata composing the music. It premieres on 8 January 2027 on Fuji TV's Noitamina block, and Crunchyroll streams it worldwide except Japan and China. It adapts the manga by Yukino Sonoyama, published by Kodansha. The manga began in Shonen Magazine Edge in January 2022, later moved to Monthly Shonen Sirius, and had nine volumes out as of October 2026, with more than 1.25 million copies in circulation. Kodansha USA publishes it in English, and its own description of the series is the one this page follows: Aia was told he was destined to be a model, Jun was bullied for her freckles, and together they take back the power to define themselves. Tomohiro Ono voices Aia Udagawa and Chiyuki Miura voices Jun Sumisaki. Koki Uchiyama joined the cast as Akiharu Nakano in October, and Tarusuke Shingaki plays Hikaru Oya, the famous model and makeup artist Aia looks up to. A live action drama version is also on the way, premiering on Prime Video in spring 2027.

Hiroto Ikuta is 29, works part time, has no girlfriend and, strangely, no anxiety about any of it. He befriended Hanae Wada, a blunt grandmother from his Asagaya neighbourhood who shared dinner with him twice a week, and when she passed her single-story house on to him, he simply moved in and carried on at his own pace. Then his 18 year old cousin Natsumi arrives from Yamagata to attend art school in Tokyo, serious, shy and quietly dreaming of drawing manga. Her worries rub against his calm, and the little house fills with neighbours, old friends and small, warm problems. Hirayasumi is a slow, kind slice of life about doing your best at an unhurried pace, set between Asagaya and Koenji in Tokyo. Production +h. animates, Kei Suezawa directs and writes, Naoyuki Asano designs the characters and Kaori Sawada composes the music. VIZ Media co-produces, and the series premieres on Netflix worldwide and NHK General in January 2027.