The upcoming Kill Blue TV anime series will be released on several streaming services in North America, including Netflix, Crunchyroll, Prime Video, and more. The anime is scheduled to premiere in Japan on April 11, 2026.
The list of streaming services Kill Blue will be simulcast include:
- • Netflix
- • Crunchyroll
- • Prime Video
- • Rakuten Viki
- • Tubi
- • Plex
- • Direct TV
- • Xumo
- • It’s Anime (YouTube, Samsung TV Plus, Vizo, Sling TV)
Hiro Kaburagi (director of Great Pretender, Kimi ni Todoke Season 1 and 2), who was previously credited as the anime’s director, is now the animation supervisor and series composer. Yasunori Ide (Please Teacher! and Please Twins! director) is serving as the animation director (written in katakana) and Miho Daidoji is the character designer. CUE is in charge of the animation production.
© Tadatoshi Fujimaki / Shueisha, KILL BLUE Production Committee
Meanwhile, the anime’s previously announced voice cast includes:
- • Yuko Sanpei as Juzo Ogami (young)
- • Shunsuke Takeuchi as Juzo Ogami (adult)
- • Fuka Izumi as Noren Mitsuoka
- • Shuichiro Umeda as Kotatsu Nekota
- • Takeo Otsuka as Tenma Tendo
- • Atsumi Tanezaki as Chisato Shiraishi
- • Yumi Uchiyama as Eri Wanibuchi
- • Daisuke Sakuma as Shin Kohazame
- • Shoya Chiba as Kazuma Rindou
- • Yoshiki Nakajima as Eiji Rindou
The action comedy manga series by Tadatoshi Fujimaki was serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump from April 17, 2023 to September 1, 2025. A total of 13 tankobon volumes were released in Japan. VIZ Media licensed the manga for English release. It is also available digitally on Manga Plus.
© Tadatoshi Fujimaki / Shueisha, KILL BLUE Production Committee
The main synopsis of the Kill Blue anime is described as:
A legendary assassin at 39. Starting over… as a middle schooler.
Juzo Ogami is a legendary hitman who has never failed an assignment, no matter how impossible. One day, after wiping out a powerful organization, he is stung by a mysterious wasp and collapses. When he wakes up, the fearsome 39-year-old assassin has been transformed into a 13-year-old boy! Before he can even process what happened, his boss delivers a new order: “In that body, infiltrate a middle school.” What awaits him is an unexpected school life filled with colorful classmates, youthful chaos, and looming danger. Can Juzo ever return to his original form? Or will the assassins closing in on him end his second life before it even begins!?
Sources: Kill Blue Official English Twitter, Crunchyroll News
