#Netflix Streams Blue Box TV Anime Adaptation in Fall 2024

Netflix has announced at Anime Expo 2024 that it will be streaming the upcoming romance TV anime series Blue Box this coming Fall 2024. The anime will premiere sometime in October 2024. 

Yuuichiro Yano (Lupin the 3rd Part 5) is directing the anime adaptation, with Yuko Kakihara (The Apothecary Diaries) as series screenwriter and Miho Tanino (Blue Thermal) as character designer. Telecom Animation Film is in charge of the animation production. 

The anime adaptation of “Blue Box”, currently serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump, will be coming to Netflix this year 💕 Swing by their official panel at Anime Expo on July 6!#bluebox #AX2024 pic.twitter.com/hWc9DW51fj

— Netflix Anime (@NetflixAnime) July 4, 2024

Meanwhile, the anime’s voice cast includes: 

• • Shoya Chiba as Taiki
• • Reina Ueda as Chinatsu 
• • Akari Kito as Hina
• • Chiaki Kobayashi as Kyo Kasahara
• • Yuuma Uchida as Kengo Haryu

Blue Box is based on the manga series by Kouji Miura, which began serialization in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump on April 12, 2021. Fifteen total tankobon volumes have been published as of June 2024, with a 16th volume set for release on August 2, 2024. The manga originally began as a 2020 one-shot title. 

Viz Media releases the manga in English, describing the synopsis as:

Taiki admires Chinatsu from afar, but he doubts that she sees him in the same way. Yet somehow, he musters up the courage to tell her to never give up on her dreams! After such a bold declaration, will Taiki’s fleeting high school romance finally begin?

Source: Netflix Anime Official Twitter 

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