Following the premiere of the anime adaptation of Kouji Miura's romantic comedy sports manga series Blue Box today, the official YouTube channel of TMS Entertainment has released the creditless opening and closing videos. Studio Telecom Animation Film is producing the anime series, which is confirmed to run for 25 episodes in 2 consecutive cours. Official HIGE DANdism is performing the opening theme song, Same Blue; and Eve is performing the closing theme song, Teenage Blue.
Blue Box Creditless Opening Video
Blue Box Creditless Closing Video
Blue Box anime is directed by Yuichiro Yano, with a series composition by Yuko Kakihara. Miho Tanino is in charge of the character designs. TMS Entertainment produced the anime, which is exclusively streaming on Netflix worldwide.
The Japanese voice cast of Blue Box anime includes:
Shoya Chiba as Taiki Inomata
Reina Ueda as Chinatsu Kano
Chiaki Kobayashi as Kyo Kasahara
Akari Kito as Hina Chono
Yuma Uchida as Kengo Hanyu
You can check out the visual featuring the anime's main characters below:
Credit: © Kouji Miura / Netflix/ SHUEISHA / Blue Box Film Partners
What is Blue Box about?
Blue Box anime is based on the romantic comedy sports manga series by Koji Miura, which began serialization in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in April 2021. As of August 2024, the series has its chapters compiled in 16 tankoubon volumes. The manga series was originally a 2020 one-shot.
Viz Media, which is publishing the manga in English, shared a plot description for Blue Box:
You can watch the trailer for Blue Box anime here:
Blue Box Episode 1 is now streaming, only on Netflix.