Danica Davidson
September 9, 2024 
The anime Blue Box (a.k.a. Ao no Hako in Japanese) dropped a trailer that not only announces the theme songs, but lets us listen to clips. The opening theme song is titled “Same Blue” and performed by Official HiGE DANdism, while the ending theme song is called “Teenage Blue” and performed by Eve. It was additionally announced that Blue Box will premiere on October 3.
When Blue Box comes out, Netflix is set to stream it.
Looking toward the cast, Shoya Chiba plays Taiki Inomata, Reina Ueda plays Chinatsu Kano, Akari Kito plays Hina Chono, Chiaki Kobayashi plays Kyo Kasahara, and Yuma Uchida plays Kengo Haryu.
Yūichiro Yano of Lupin the Third: Part 5 is helming the project as director. The person taking care of series scripts for Blue Box is Yuko Kakihara, whose credits include Buddy Daddies and Cells at Work! Credit for character design goes to Miho Tanino of Tower of God.
The original manga by Koji Miura is available on MANGA Plus in the digital format, and in print through VIZ Media. MANGA Plus gave this description for the plot:
Blue Box Synopsis
Taiki Inomata is on the boys’ badminton team at sports powerhouse Eimei Junior and Senior High. He’s in love with basketball player Chinatsu Kano, the older girl he trains alongside every morning in the gym. One Spring day, their relationship takes a sharp turn … And thus begins this brand-new series of love, sports and youth!
Blue Box got its start four years ago in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump. While it was initially published as a one-shot, it turned into a series, with VIZ Media having released eleven volumes so far. The twelfth volume comes out on October 1 in America, just days before the anime begins. Meanwhile, sixteen volumes of the manga have been released in Japan.
Source: ANN
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
