The official website for the television anime adaptation of Jyanome's Twilight Out of Focus (Tasogare Outfocus) BL manga began streaming a teaser promotional video on Friday. The video begins with the first meeting of the second-year film club students (“No third years allowed!!”) and the announcement of the topic of their latest film project: BL.

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Image via Twitter account for the anime Twilight Out of Focus

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Kodansha USA describes the manga's story:

Movie buff Mao Tsuchiya and his lone wolf roommate Hisashi Otomo make three promises:

① That Mao would never tell anyone that Hisashi was gay and had a boyfriend,
② That Hisashi would never approach Mao “that way” and
③ That they will respect each other's “private time”.

The second years' ground rules will ensure a peaceful life together in their dorm, but reality is never as simple as the movies and some things aren't as easy as promised…

Image via Image via Chill Chill's Twitter account

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The cast includes (from left to right in the image above):

Toshinori Watanabe (Tokyo Ghoul:re, Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest) is directing the Studio DEEN anime. Yōko Kikuchi (Kuroko's Basketball, Junjō Romantica) designed the characters while Yoshimi Narita (Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie, Wonderful Precure!) is in charge of the series' scripts.

The anime will premiere in July.

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The manga debuted in Kodansha's digital magazine Honey Milk BL in 2019, and the compilation booklet was released in June of the same year. Publisher Kodansha USA released the manga digitally in March 2022 and in print on May 9, 2023.

The second work in the series, a side story titled Twilight Out of Focus 2: Afterimages in Slow Motion (Zanzō Slow Motion), was published in Japan in July 2020. Kodansha USA published the manga on July 11.

The original story continues in the series' third manga Twilight Out of Focus 3: Overlap (Overlap Tasogare Outfocus), released in Japan in August 2020. Kodansha USA published the manga on September 19.

The fourth manga series, Twilight Out of Focus 4: The Evening Monologues (Yoiyoi Monologue) tells a different story, published in Japan in June 2021. Kodansha USA published the manga in English on December 19.

The fifth and latest manga in the series, titled Twilight Out of Focus long take (Tasogare Outfocus long take), was released in Japan on July 12.

Source: Twilight Out of Focus anime website, Natalie Comics