The first promotional video for Blue Orchestra announced that key creative personnel from Persona 4 will reunite to produce the music anime.

The Persona 4: Animation team have reunited to work on Blue Orchestra


As reported by Anime News Network, Blue Orchestra, or Ao no Orchestra, has a few familiar names from the 2011 anime series based on the PlayStation 2 game Persona 4. NHK, which will broadcast the anime, released a promotional video that opens with a sweet violin melody of Pachelbel's "Canon in D." In the video, Blue Orchestra announces the director, screenwriter and character designers. Seiji Kishi, the chief director of Persona 4, is directing the music anime. Yuuko Kakihara, who wrote the script and series composition of Persona 4, is writing and overseeing the scripts. Kazuaki Morita, who designed the characters in the supernatural anime, is coming onto the team as the character designer.

Jun Sakata  will serve as the chief producer and Ryota Higashi will perform the violin pieces for the protagonist Aono Hajime. Produced by Nippon Animation ,Blue Orchestra has released many other promotional videos.

Written and illustrated by Makoto Akui, Blue Orchestra follows a music prodigy named Aono Hajime, who stopped playing violin due to personal reasons in his final year of middle school. He meets a girl, a novice violinist, who brings his desire to play music to the forefront once more. As the two of them work together to enter a high school with a prestigious school orchestra, Aono faces his past and future of music.

Blue Orchestra premieres in April,2023.