Blue Box will continue in January with its second part

During the panel for the "Blue Box (Ao no Hako)" franchise at the Jump Festa 2025 event, a new promotional video for the project was revealed. The video confirms that there will be no broadcast on December 26, and that the second part of the series will begin on January 2, 2025 in Japan.

The press release listed that Kana Ichinose joins the voice cast playing Ayame Moriya.

The anime adaptation premiered during the Fall-2024 period (October-December) and is confirmed with a total of twenty-five episodes. For his part, Kouji Miura began publishing the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in April 2021. Kouji Miura is also the author of other manga such as "Sensei, Suki desu." and "Aozora Rubber", while "Ao no Hako" is based on a one-shot he published in 2020.

Production Equipment

• Yuuichirou Yano (Kami no Tou: Tower of God, Kimi ni Todoke, Lupin III: PART IV) is in charge of directing the anime at Telecom Animation Film studios, while UNLIMITED PRODUCE by TMS is in charge of planning and producing the project.
• Yuuko Kakihara (Orange, Hataraku Saibou, Tsuki ga Kirei) is in charge of writing and supervising the scripts.
• Miho Tanino (Kami no Tou: Tower of God, Tsukumogami Kashimasu, Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation) is in charge of character design and animation direction.

Synopsis of Blue Box

Taiki Inomata, a third-year high school student, attends Eimei Academy, an integrated school with a major sports program. Having joined the high school's badminton team, Taiki tries to attend open training as soon as possible. But no matter how early you go, the second one always arrives at the gym. The person who is one step ahead of him is Chinatsu Kano, a freshman at the institute who has a crush on Taiki. Chinatsu is the rising star of the basketball team, and the difference between her and Taiki couldn't be greater.

Although Taiki is a decent badminton player, his popularity is nowhere near Chinatsu's, making it even less likely that their feelings will be reciprocated. However, in a strange twist of fate, he ends up living in Taiki's house! Wishing to become a worthy rival for Chinatsu, Taiki pursues the same dream as his girlfriend: to participate in the Nationals. Taiki begins training harder than ever, all in order to establish a strong relationship with her new housemate.

Source: Comic Natalie

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