Boys-Love Film “given” Set to be Released Internationally via Crunchyroll

Good news to international fans of boys-love (BL) musical franchise given: streaming platform Crunchyroll has announced that they will be streaming the anime film internationally! The film will be released with the title Given the Movie and will be streamed in 2021, with no definite release date yet.

Crunchyroll released an English-subtitled trailer for the movie, which you can watch here.

The film will be available for streaming in the following territories:

·        North America

·        Central America

·        South America

·        Europe

·        Africa

·        Oceania

·        Middle East

·        Commonwealth of Independent States

While the Given TV series focused on high schoolers Ritsuka and Mafuyu, the movie is focusing on the older members of the band Haruki and Akihiko, along with the latter’s mysterious violin prodigy roommate Ugetsu.

The sequel anime film for given was released last August 22, after its original May 16 release was cancelled because of COVID. Hikaru Yamaguchi (Escha Chron) returned to direct the film, as well as script writer Yuniko Ayana (both seasons of BanG! Dream) and character designer Mina Osawa. Music is still composed by rock band centimillimental.

Given’s movie adaptation is produced by Fuji TV’s newly-launched boys-love anime label Blue Lynx. The label also produced the now-released yakuza boys-love film Twittering Birds Never Fly, the label’s first movie project. Another boys-love movie, Umibe no Étranger, was also released under the Blue Lynx label. 

The series’ story centers on Ritsuka, a once-avid guitarist who has lost interest in the instrument. He then meets Mafuyu, who is holding on to a broken guitar. Perplexed by this, Ritsuka offers to fix his guitar and teaches him to play it as well. When he hears Mafuyu singing, however, Ritsuka starts to feel something different.

Given started as a manga series written Natsuki Kizu. Studio Lerche adapted the manga into an anime series and aired it on July 2019 on Fuji TV’s Noitamina block. Given was the first-ever BL anime to air in the said block.

Source: Anime News Network