Live-Action Bless Series Reveals New Video, Visuals

Amazon Prime Video posted a new video for the live-action series of Yukino Sonoyama 's Bless manga on Thursday. Amazon Prime Video also unveiled two visuals for the series.

Amazon Prime Video will stream the series worldwide exclusively in spring 2027.

Naniwa Danshi idol group member Ryūsei Ōnishi is starring in the project as Aia, and Ōnishi prepared before production started by visting Shiseido 's real-life makeup academy SABFA.

Izuru Kumasaka (2018's Tramps Like Us ) and Maki Tomita are directing the project, and Satoko Okazaki (live-action My Dress-Up Darling , episodes of Laughing Under the Clouds , Tiger & Bunny , live-action Waiting for Spring ) and Ichirō Kusuno ( Sushi Police , live-action Tokyo Ghoul ) are writing the scripts. Shiseido Beauty Creation Center is overseeing the makeup in the production. Amazon MGM Studios is presenting the project, and C & I Entertainment is producing.

Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga in English and it describes the story:

They said Aia was destined to be a model, and Jun was bullied for her freckles. Together, they will take back the power to define themselves in an inspirational fashion manga that asks cutting questions about what it really means to be beautiful—and what it takes to overcome an arbitrary system that seems to respect talent over hard work.

Sonomaya debuted the manga in Kodansha 's Shonen Magazine Edge magazine in 2022, and the series now runs in Monthly Shonen Sirius . Kodansha will publish the ninth volume on October 8. The manga has more than 1.25 million copies in circulation.

Kodansha USA Publishing released the manga's seventh volume on February 10. Kodansha is also releasing the manga digitally on its K MANGA service.

A-1 Pictures announced in March that it is producing a 2027 television anime adaptation of the manga.

Sources: Amazon Prime Video Japan's X/Twitter account , Comic Natalie