{"rewrite":{"id":"r_b364db314102b3e5502b787b","clusterId":"c_ead75bfd853b3e66f43a771f","slug":"bless-adds-tarusuke-shingaki-as-crunchyroll-picks-up-january-anime","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Bless Adds Tarusuke Shingaki as Crunchyroll Picks Up January Anime","summary":"Tarusuke Shingaki will voice Hikaru Oya in the Bless television anime, revealed in a character promotional video on Thursday. Crunchyroll also announced on Thursday that it will stream the series worldwide excluding Japan and China when it debuts in January 2027 on Fuji TV's Noitamina block. Shōtarō Kitamura directs at A-1 Pictures, with Fukurou Kamiza on series scripts.","whyItMatters":"The casting and the Crunchyroll pickup arrive together, which puts the overseas rollout for the January 2027 Noitamina slot in place well before the premiere.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eShingaki joins a cast led by Tomohiro Ōno as Aia Udagawa and Chiyuki Miura as Jun Sumisaki, with Nobuhiko Okamoto, Yoshino Aoyama, Momoka Terasawa and Kentarō Kumagai also named. The series adapts Yukino Sonoyama\u0026#39;s manga, which Kodansha says has more than 1.25 million copies in circulation and whose ninth volume shipped on October 8.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA-1 Pictures handles animation, with Takayuki Kikuchi as assistant director and Honoka Yokoyama as character designer and chief animation director. The same manga is also getting a live-action series for Amazon Prime Video in spring 2027.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Crunchyroll's Bless pickup pairs a Noitamina slot with a worldwide stream outside Japan and China, so the January 2027 date sets the gap between the Fuji TV broadcast and everyone else.","twitterPost":"Crunchyroll's Bless stream skips Japan and China, so A-1 Pictures' Noitamina broadcast and the worldwide release run on separate clocks.","threadsPost":"Bless lands on Fuji TV's Noitamina block in January 2027, with Crunchyroll streaming worldwide minus Japan and China. Those carve-outs mean the A-1 Pictures series reaches most viewers on a different schedule than the one its home broadcast sets.","newsletterBlurb":"Tarusuke Shingaki joins the Bless anime as Hikaru Oya, announced in a character video. Crunchyroll will stream the series worldwide outside Japan and China when it debuts in January 2027 on Fuji TV's Noitamina block. A-1 Pictures animates the adaptation of Yukino Sonoyama's manga, with Shōtarō Kitamura directing.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-10-22/bless-tv-anime-casts-tarusuke-shingaki-crunchyroll-to-stream-series/.243105\",\"title\":\"Bless TV Anime Casts Tarusuke Shingaki; Crunchyroll to Stream Series\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4669,"outputTokens":654,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792676228,"createdAt":"2026-10-22T13:31:21.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-22T13:36:05.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-22T13:36:05.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_ead75bfd853b3e66f43a771f","canonicalTitle":"News\nBless TV Anime Casts Tarusuke Shingaki; Crunchyroll to Stream Series","representativeArticleId":"a_89e4bc811eb04eff2702affc","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[\"Bless\"],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Tarusuke Shingaki\"],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"anime\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-22T11:17:25.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-22T11:17:25.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-22T13:36:06.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Anime News Network","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-10-22/bless-tv-anime-casts-tarusuke-shingaki-crunchyroll-to-stream-series/.243105","title":"News\nBless TV Anime Casts Tarusuke Shingaki; Crunchyroll to Stream Series"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":["Bless"],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":["Tarusuke Shingaki"],"type":"news","domain":"anime","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}