is a Japanese

manga Manga ( Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is use ...

series by Kana Ozawa. It was serialized in

Shinchosha is a publisher founded in 1896 in Japan and headquartered in Yaraichō, Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinchosha is one of the sponsors of the Japan Fantasy Novel Award. Books * Haruki Murakami: '' Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'' (19 ...

's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Monthly Comic @ Bunch'' between April 2015 and November 2017 and was collected in five ''

tankōbon is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or m ...

'' volumes. A

prequel A prequel is a literary, dramatic or cinematic work whose story precedes that of a previous work, by focusing on events that occur before the original narrative. A prequel is a work that forms part of a backstory to the preceding work. The term ...

manga by Ozawa titled has been serialized online via

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's '' Line Manga'' website between November 2021 and January 2022 and was collected in a single ''tankōbon'' volume by Shinchosha. An

anime is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of ...

film adaptation by

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opened in Japan in March 2022.

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Media

Manga

Volume list

''Blue Thermal: First Flight''

Film

film adaptation by

opened in Japan on March 4, 2022. Masaki Tachibana is directing the film, as well as writing the film's scripts alongside

Natsuko Takahashi is a Japanese anime screenwriter. After learning about the profession of screenwriting in middle school, in university she entered a contest. Although her entry did not fit the theme of the contest, the examiners liked it so much that they gave ...

. The character designs were provided by Miho Tanino, while the music was composed by Shōgo Kaida. Four-member piano rock band SHE'S performed the film's titular theme song "Blue Thermal" and the insert song "Beautiful Bird". During their Anime NYC panel, Eleven Arts licensed the film for North America release.

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* * * Aviation comics Japanese webcomics Seinen manga Shinchosha manga TMS Entertainment Webcomics in print {{anime-stub