Aoi Honō (2014)

Directed by

Fukuda Yuichi

Cast

Yagira Yuya, Yasuda Ken, Nakamura Tomoya, Muro Tsuyoshi, Sato Jiro, Kawakubo Takuji, Uechi Haruna, Endo Kaname

Genre

school anime and manga

Country

Japan

Length

11 episodes

How it feels

A college student struggles with his creative ambitions while attending art school. His daily life is filled with energetic classmates and chaotic misadventures.

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What happens

Aoi Honō (アオイホノオ; lit. 'Blue Blazes') is a Japanese coming-of-age manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiko Shimamoto. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday from March 2007 to July 2008, when the magazine ceased its publication; a chapter was published in YS Special in October 2008, before being transferred to Shogakukan's then-brand-new shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Sunday in May 2009. Aoi Honō is a fictionalized account of Shimamoto's time as a student at the Osaka University of Arts, which he attended alongside Hideaki Anno, Hiroyuki Yamaga, and Takami Akai. It was adapted into a television drama series, titled Blue Fire in English, that aired from July to October 2014. The drama was streamed on Viki with English subtitles. The real Takami Akai and Hiroyuki Yamaga make cameos in the television series: Akai plays a bathhouse manager in episode 10, while Yamaga plays the bartender at a restaurant where his counterpart passes out (which, according to Yamaga, is based on an actual incident) in episode 7. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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