Blue Thermal: Aonagi Daigaku Taiiku-kai Kōkū-bu (ブルーサーマル -青凪大学体育会航空部-, Burū Sāmaru: Aonagi Daigaku Taiiku-kai Kōkū-bu, "Blue Thermal: Aonagi College Sports Festival Aviation Club") is a Japanese manga series by Kana Ozawa. It was serialized in Shinchosha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Comic @ Bunch between April 2015 and November 2017 and was collected in five tankōbon volumes. A prequel manga by Ozawa titled Blue Thermal: First Flight (ブルーサーマル FIRST FLIGHT, Burū Sāmaru: First Flight) has been serialized online via Line Corporation's Line Manga website between November 2021 and January 2022 and was collected in a single tankōbon volume by Shinchosha.[1] An anime film adaptation by Telecom Animation Film was released in March 2022.
An anime film adaptation by Telecom Animation Film premiered in Japan on March 4, 2022.[3] Masaki Tachibana directed the film, and wrote the film's script with Natsuko Takahashi. The character designs were provided by Miho Tanino, while the music was composed by Shōgo Kaida.[2] Four-member piano rock band SHE'S performed the film's titular theme song "Blue Thermal" and the insert song "Beautiful Bird".[10] During their Anime NYC panel, Eleven Arts licensed the film for North America release.[11]
