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Blue Box (TV)

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Alternative title:
Ao no Hako (Japanese)
La caja azul (Spanish)
Niebieskie pudełko (Polish)
Голубая шкатулка (Russian)
アオのハコ (Japanese)
Genres: comedy, drama, romance
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: 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. (from manga)
User Ratings: 62 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 2 votes (raw:1, sub:1)
 Excellent: 9 votes (sub:8, dub:1)
 Very good: 21 votes (sub:20, dub:1)
 Good: 15 votes (sub:10, dub:1, others:4
1 Spanish subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Decent: 7 votes (sub:6, dub:1)
 So-so: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Not really good: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Weak: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (raw:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 209 users, rank: #3824 (of 9998)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.113 (Good), std. dev.: 1.9185, rank: #3381 (of 10155)
Weighted mean: 7.180 (Good+), rank: #2931 (of 10155) (seen all: 7.22 / seen some: 7.71 / won't finish: 5.34)
Bayesian estimate: 7.231 (Good+), rank: #2486 (of 7635)
Running time: 23 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 25
Episode titles: We have 25
Vintage: 2024-10-03
Opening Theme:
"Same Blue" by Official HIGE DANdism
#2: "Goodbye" by Macaroni Enpitsu
Ending Theme:
"Teenage Blue" by Eve
#2: "Contrast" by TOMOO
Reviews: Show:
Blue Box ‒ Episode 25 (Mar 29, 2025)
Blue Box ‒ Episode 24 (Mar 22, 2025)
Blue Box ‒ Episode 21 (Feb 28, 2025)
Blue Box ‒ Episode 20 (Feb 21, 2025)
Blue Box ‒ Episode 19 (Feb 17, 2025)
Blue Box ‒ Episode 18 (Feb 8, 2025)
Blue Box ‒ Episode 17 (Feb 1, 2025)
Blue Box ‒ Episode 16 (Jan 25, 2025)
Blue Box ‒ Episode 15 (Jan 18, 2025)
Blue Box ‒ Episode 14 (Jan 11, 2025)
Blue Box ‒ Episode 13 (Jan 3, 2025)
Blue Box ‒ Episode 12 (Dec 21, 2024)
Blue Box ‒ Episode 11 (Dec 14, 2024)
Blue Box ‒ Episode 10 (Dec 7, 2024)
Blue Box ‒ Episode 9 (Nov 29, 2024)
Blue Box ‒ Episode 8 (Nov 23, 2024)
Blue Box ‒ Episode 7 (Nov 17, 2024)
Blue Box ‒ Episode 6 (Nov 9, 2024)
Blue Box ‒ Episode 5 (Nov 2, 2024)
Blue Box ‒ Episode 4 (Oct 26, 2024)
Blue Box ‒ Episodes 1-3 (Oct 19, 2024)
Blue Box (Oct 15, 2024)
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Yūichirō Yano
Series Composition: Yūko Kakihara
Script:
Yūko Kakihara (eps 1-25)
Storyboard:
Hitomi Ezoe (ep 7)
Issei Iba (ep 6)
Kuniyasu Nishina (OP2)
Masaaki Tanaka (ED2)
Masayoshi Nishida (6 episodes
eps 4, 8, 10-11, 13, 16
)

Risa Suzuki (ep 22)
Shingo Mogi (ED1)
Takahiro Ōkawa (ep 15)
Tetsuro Araki (OP1)
Yoshiko Okuda (eps 17, 24)
Yūichirō Yano (9 episodes
eps 1-3, 5, 12, 14, 18, 21, 25
)

Yuka Yamato (7 episodes
eps 9, 12-14, 19, 21, 25
)

Yūko Horikawa (ep 23)
Yūma Suzuki (ep 20)
Episode Director:
Daisuke Tsukushi (ep 18)
Harume Kosaka (ep 3)
Hitomi Ezoe (ep 23)
Jirō Arimoto (ep 16)
Keiko Oyamada (5 episodes
eps 1, 5, 12, 19, 25
)

Masato Kitagawa (ep 4)
Mizuki Iwata (ep 11)
Risa Suzuki (ep 22)
Ryōsuke Azuma (eps 10, 13)
Shunji Yoshida (ep 8)
Yasuro Tsuchiya (eps 6, 25)
Yoshiko Okuda (ep 24)
Yuka Yamato (ep 21)
Yūma Suzuki (ep 20)
Unit Director:
Issei Iba (ED1)
Kuniyasu Nishina (OP2)
Masaaki Tanaka (ED2)
Shingo Mogi (ED1)
Tetsuro Araki (OP1)
Original creator: Kōji Miura
Character Design: Miho Tanino
Art Director:
Ōnoo Fujii (CoMix Wave Film)
Chief Animation Director:
Aya Miyajima (17 episodes
eps 4, 7-9, 12-21, 23-25
)

Manabu Nii (18 episodes
eps 3-4, 6-8, 12-21, 23-25
)

Miho Tanino (OP1, ED2; 20 episodes
eps 1, 5-9, 12-25
)

Shinobu Ikakko (18 episodes
eps 2, 4, 6-7, 10-11, 13-21, 23-25
)

Animation Director:
Akira Kano (ep 3)
Aya Miyajima (OP2; ep 2)
Chiemi Hironaka (ep 7)
Chihiro Saitou (OP1)
Hirofumi Takahashi (ARVO ANIMATION; ep 4)
Hisashi Abe (ep 3)
Joo-hak Lee (ARVO ANIMATION; ep 4)
Kumiko Kawahara (4 episodes
eps 7, 16, 18, 21
)

Kyohei Maruyama (8 episodes
eps 8, 14-15, 17, 19, 21, 24-25
)

Maho Aoki (ep 3)
Maho Fujita (Telecom Animation Film; ep 8)
Mai Ogawa (12 episodes
eps 1, 5-6, 10-18 even, 19, 21, 24-25
)

Manabu Nii (OP2)
Mariko Inagaki (ARVO ANIMATION; ep 4)
Masaaki Tanaka (ED2)
Megumi Iino (Telecom Animation Film; eps 4, 8, 13-14)
Miho Tanino (OP2; ED1)
Minoko Takasu (Telecom Animation Film; ep 4)
Muhammad Ali Mukhtar (ep 18)
Noboru Kawamori (ep 7)
Shin Woo Kim (5 episodes
eps 6, 10, 13, 17, 24
)

Shino Kuzuhara (OP1)
Shinobu Ikakko (OP2)
Shiori Sakaguchi (ARVO ANIMATION; ep 4)
Shun Shibata (OP1)
Su Bok Park (5 episodes
eps 6, 10, 13, 17, 24
)

Tatsuya Ikeda (ep 7)
tofu (14 episodes
eps 1-2, 6, 10, 12-15, 17-20, 24-25
)

Toshihiro Uranaka (7 episodes
eps 5, 12-13, 15, 18, 20, 25
)

Yi Nan Ding (ep 2)
Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
Director of Photography:
Yūki Kawashita (MADBOX)
2nd Key Animation: Megumi Iino (eps 1, 14, 16)
Action Animation Director: Hiroaki Noguchi
Animation producer: Hitoshi Kikuchi
Assistant Animation Director:
Akira Kano (ep 7)
Chiemi Hironaka (ep 3)
Assistant Director: Nobuo Tomizawa (MK Direction Check; ep 20)
Assistant Episode Director:
Masahiko Ishigami (ep 20)
Min Sun Kim (ep 19)
Character Special Effects: Ryōko Mita (WIT STUDIO)
Color design:
Narumi Konno (WIT STUDIO)
Creative Advisor:
Shingo Mogi (Tatsunoko Production)
Key Animation:
Masaaki Tanaka (ED2)
Megumi Iino (ED1; 6 episodes
eps 1-2, 5-6, 12, 15
)

Noboru Kawamori (eps 3, 7)
Ryōsuke Ochiai (CygamesPictures, OP2)
Shun Miyakawa (OP1)
Yousuke Kabashima (Studio KAI, OP2)
Main Animator: Yoshihiro Takeda
Planning Cooperation:
Kōhei Ōnishi (Weekly Shonen Jump Editorial Dept.)
Shū Murakoshi (Weekly Shonen Jump Editorial Dept.)
Sukeyuki Honda (Weekly Shonen Jump Editorial Dept.)
Takuma Naito (Weekly Shonen Jump Editorial Dept.)
Yū Saitō (Weekly Shonen Jump Editorial Dept.)
Production Desk: Issei Iba
Setting Production: Issei Iba
Theme Song Arrangement:
Macaroni Enpitsu (OP2)
Numa (ED1)
Official HiGE DANdism (OP1)
Zingai (ED1)
Theme Song Composition:
Eve (ED1)
Hattori (OP2)
Satoshi Fujihara (OP1)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Eve (ED1)
Hattori (OP2)
Satoshi Fujihara (OP1)
Theme Song Performance:
Eve (ED1)
Macaroni Enpitsu (OP2)
Official HiGE DANdism (OP1)
TOMOO (ED2)
Reina Ueda as Chinatsu Kano
Shōya Chiba as Taiki Inomata

Akari Kitō as Hina Chōno
Anna Nagase as Nagisa Funami
Asaki Yuikawa as Niina Shimazaki
Chiaki Kobayashi as Kyō Kasahara
Haruka Shiraishi as Karen Moriya
Kana Ichinose as Ayame Moriya
Kenshō Ono as Shuji Yusa
Shōgo Sakata as Ryōsuke Nishida
Yūki Kaji as Kazuma Matsuoka
Yūki Ono as Shōta Hyōdō
Yūma Uchida as Kengo Haryū

Anan Furuya as Club member (eps 7, 17-18)
Chihiro Ueda as Club member (ep 9)
Daiki Abe as Club member (ep 23)
Daisuke Motohashi as Club member (eps 6, 13, 22)
Eri Akiyama as Club member (ep 22)
Gen Sato as Yakushiji (ep 18)
Gentoku Kumazawa as Club member (eps 1, 4, 9)
Hana Shimano as Club member (eps 7, 16)
Haruki Asada as Club member (ep 18)
Haruno Inoue as Club member (ep 25)
Hiroki Maeda as
Taiki's father
Teacher (ep 16)
Yamamoto (ep 7)
Hiromu Mineta as Light music club member (ep 19)
Hiyori Miyazaki as Student (ep 16)
Ivan Shibata as Club member (eps 9, 12, 18)
Junya Nakamura as Club member (ep 23)
Kaori Nakamura as Gymnastics Club Advisor (eps 2, 5-6, 17)
Kaori Nazuka as Chinatsu's mother (eps 1, 16)
Katsunori Okai as Club member (10 episodes
eps 2-3, 7, 9, 13-14, 16-18, 25
)
Kengo Kawanishi as Shoichiro Kishi (eps 4-5, 19-20)
Kenjirō Abekawa as Club member (eps 9, 15, 17)
Kenta Sasa as Coach Yuasa
Kō Bonkobara as
Club member (ep 9)
Teacher (ep 16)
Kōki Ohsuzu as Club member (eps 9, 23)
Kokoa Amano as Club member (ep 17)
Kōsuke Tanabe as Club member (eps 9, 22)
Kouki Arai as Club member (5 episodes
eps 3, 7, 9, 17, 22
)
Kousuke Kiminarita as
Club member (eps 1, 4, 9)
Student (ep 16)
Kyōhei Natsume as Club member (eps 9, 18, 25)
Mari Kawano as
Club member (ep 2)
Kikuchi (eps 7, 12, 14)
Masato Sugiyama as Club member (eps 18, 23)
Masaya Miyazaki as Club member (eps 18, 23)
Masaya Wada as Club member (ep 22)
Minori Fujidera as Student (ep 16)
Mizuki Ishii as Club member (ep 23)
Nanako Oomoto as Club member (ep 17)
Nao Ojika as Club member (eps 6, 15)
Natsumi Hioka as Yume (ep 12)
Reiō Tsuchida as Club member (eps 9, 17)
Rena Aoshima as Club member (ep 15)
Reo Osanai as Club member (7 episodes
eps 2-4, 7, 15, 22-23
)
Rika Abe as Club member (eps 2, 7)
Rin Kusumi as Club member (ep 22)
Ryōka Yuzuki as Taiki's mother
Saki Takahashi as Club member (ep 16)
Sakura Kawaguchi as Club member (ep 4)
Satoshi Inomata as Club member (eps 3, 9)
Satoshi Miyazaki as
Basketball team coach (eps 14-15, 22)
Taiki's grandfather (4 episodes
eps 2, 7, 10, 21
)
Saya Fukuzumi as Club member (ep 22)
Seria Fukagawa as Club member (ep 25)
Serina Machiyama as Yamaguchi (ep 10)
Shō Fujisawa as Club member (6 episodes
eps 1, 7, 14, 17, 20, 22
)
Shūichi Uchida as
Club member (ep 4)
Ito (eps 10-12)
Sōhei Horikane as
Club member (ep 3)
Student (ep 16)
Souru Saito as Club member (eps 9, 17)
Taichi Kusano as Club member (eps 9, 17, 22)
Takushi Fujikawa as Club member (ep 23)
Toshiki Iwasawa as Club member (ep 15)
Yōhei Matsuoka as Club member (eps 6, 13)
Yū Akiba as Club member (eps 9, 13, 23)
Yūdai Mino as Club member (6 episodes
eps 2, 9, 12-13, 16-17
)
Yuga Sato as Tateyama (ep 8)
Yuka Iwahashi as Club member (ep 6)
Yūki Hirose as Club member (ep 22)
Yūki Ishikari as Club member (ep 22)
Yurina Amami as Club member (ep 6)

Akari Bando (eps 12, 20-21)
Anan Furuya (ep 25)
Aoi Goda (ep 21)
Chihiro Ueda (ep 13)
Daishi Kajita (ep 21)
Daisuke Nezu (ep 8)
Eri Akiyama (ep 12)
Gentoku Kumazawa (eps 11, 19)
Hana Satō (ep 5)
Kaori Nakamura (ep 23)
Keina Yamada (ep 19)
Kenta Niikura (eps 8-9)
Kōki Ohsuzu (ep 21)
Kouki Arai (ep 19)
Kousuke Kiminarita (eps 5, 11, 19)
Makoto Sahara (ep 3)
Mari Kawano (ep 20)
Masato Sugiyama (ep 21)
Maya Enoyoshi (eps 5-6)
Mayuko Kazama (eps 9, 20)
Minami Hinata (eps 9, 13)
Minami Kurisaka (ep 11)
Mirai Ayase (ep 21)
Miria Takagishi (ep 24)
Mizuki Ishii (ep 24)
Motoki Sakuma (ep 23)
Nana Harumura (eps 13, 19)
Naoko Komatsu (ep 1)
Naoya Nakagome (ep 24)
Niina Hanamiya (eps 19-20)
Reo Osanai (eps 13, 20)
Rie Hikisaka (ep 13)
Rika Abe (ep 11)
Rin Kusumi (eps 12, 21)
Rina Kawaguchi (ep 11)
Satomi Amano (ep 19)
Satsuki Kokubu (ep 13)
Shō Fujisawa (eps 10, 19)
Sōhei Horikane (eps 8, 11, 19)
Souru Saito (ep 7)
Takuya Tsuda (ep 20)
Tasuku Kaito (ep 8)
Tetsu Kimishima (ep 20)
Wataru Katō (ep 20)
Yōsuke Ōmomo (ep 20)
Youta Sasaki (ep 20)
Yūdai Mino (eps 19-20)
Yūki Ishikari (eps 1, 17, 23)
Yūki Itō (eps 8, 20)
Yūki Nakajima (ep 20)
Yūko Iida (ep 7)
Yurina Amami (ep 24)
Japanese companies
2nd Key Animation:
4tune (ep 3)
CygamesPictures (ep 14)
DRACONIC (eps 1-2)
EN.Studio (ep 7)
Fincrossed Studio (ep 11)
Gallop (eps 12-13)
Hanjin Animation (ep 3)
HEIYA (eps 1-2)
J&K Corporation (eps 13-14)
J.C. Staff (eps 2, 5)
M.S.J Musashino Production (ep 7)
Mico Animation (eps 1-2)
PINE JAM (ep 11)
Studio Massket (ep 7)
Telecom Animation Film (ep 2)
ZEXCS (ep 13)
Animation Direction:
Arvo Animation (ep 4)
Fincrossed Studio (ep 1)
Studio Massket (ep 7)
Animation Production:
Telecom Animation Film
Wit Studio (OP)
In-Between Animation:
4tune (ep 3)
Arvo Animation (ep 4)
C-Station (ep 13)
CompTown (ED1; ED2)
DRACONIC (ep 1)
EN.Studio (ep 7)
Fincrossed Studio (ep 11)
Hanjin Animation (ep 4)
Hikari no Sono Animation (ED1)
M.S.J Musashino Production (eps 13-14)
Mico Animation (ep 14)
OLM (ep 13)
OLM Asia (ED1; eps 1-2)
PINE JAM (ep 11)
RadPlus (ep 11)
Reboot (ep 4)
Seven Arcs (ep 11)
Telecom Animation Film (ep 1)
Triple A (ep 3)
Wit Studio (OP1-2)
ZEXCS (ep 14)
Key Animation:
Arvo Animation (ep 4)
CygamesPictures (OP2)
Fincrossed Studio (ep 11)
Studio KAI (OP2)
Studio Massket (ep 7)
Wit Studio (OP1)
Online Editing: Good Job Tokyo
Planning Production: UNLIMITED PRODUCE by TMS
Production Cooperation:
PINE JAM (ep 11)
STUDIO POLON (ep 3)
Wit Studio (ep 22)
English cast
English staff
Dubbing Director: Haley Veres

Dubbing Casting Lead: Haley Veres
Production Supervision: Diego Diniz
Project Manager: Liam Coballes
Recordist: Caden Shaffer
Subtitle Translation:
Bakul Binjola (eps 1-2)
Zensho Yamamoto (eps 3-25)
Xanthe Huynh as Chinatsu Kano
Zach Aguilar as Taiki Inomata

Caden Shaffer as Kyo Kasahara
Christian La Monte as Shota Hyodo
Cristina Valenzuela as Karen Moriya
Daman Mills as Kengo Haryu
Emi Lo as Nagisa Funami
Griffin Burns as Shuji Yusa
Jacob Hopkins as Ryosuke Nishida
Kayli Mills as Hina Chono
Kira Buckland as Niina Shimazaki
Megan Harvey as Ayame Moriya
Ryan Colt Levy as Kazuma Matsuoka

Abby Espiritu as Kikuchi (eps 7, 12)
Ben Lepley as Taiki's Dad
Christian La Monte as Takada
Dorothy Fahn as Taiki's Mom
Emi Lo as Shibata
Frank Todaro as
Coach Yuasa
Taiki's Grandfather
Griffin Burns as Yokoyama
Howard Wang as Imamoto
Kieran Regan as
Ito (eps 10-12)
Nomura
Yakushiji
Kira Buckland as
Chinatsu's Mom
Hina's Mom
Megan Harvey as
Sana
Tagawa
Yamaguchi
Risa Mei as
Akari
Gomi
Une
Ryan Colt Levy as
Yamamoto (ep 7)
Yoshiki
Sean Chiplock as
Kishi
Oizumi
Tateyama (ep 8)

English companies
ADR Production: VSI Los Angeles
Internet Streaming: Netflix
French staff
French cast
ADR Director: Brigitte Lecordier

Adaptation: Virginie Laine
Spotting: Yohann Frick
Supervision: Taous Igueziri
Elia-Carmine Robbe as Chinastu Kano
Pablo Cherray as Taiki Inomata

Benjamin Lhommas as Kengo Haryū
Hervé Grull as Ryōsuke Nishida
Jehanne Thellier as Hina Chōno
Justine Berger as Nagisa Funami
Lauryanne Philippe as
Karen Moriya
Niina Shimazaki
Lila Lacombe as Ayame Moriya
Louis Lecordier as Kyō Kasahara

Rémi Gutton as Shoichiro Kishi

French companies
Dubbing: Audi'Art
Internet Streaming: Netflix
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
Subtitle Translation: Vanesa López (Netflix; Spain)
(none)
Spanish companies
Internet Streaming: Netflix
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Simone Veltroni

Dubbing Assistant: Simona Cameracanna
Dubbing Engineer: Marco Zara
Synchronization: Carmelo Occhipinti
Italian companies
Dubbing: VSI Rome
Internet Streaming: Netflix
Polish staff
Polish cast
Subtitle Translation: Lidia Bogucka-Teklińska
(none)
Polish companies
Internet Streaming: Netflix

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