{"id":99134,"date":"2024-10-03T09:22:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T16:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=99134"},"modified":"2024-10-12T20:30:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T03:30:29","slug":"blue-boxs-opening-released-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/10\/03\/blue-boxs-opening-released-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Box&#8217;s Opening Released on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The opening animation sequence of romance anime <em>Blue Box<\/em> have been released on the TMS Anime YouTube channel.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Blue Box<\/em>&#8216;s opening is the latest to be storyboarded and unit directed by <strong>Tetsuro Araki<\/strong> (director of <em>Attack on Titan <\/em>Season 1,&nbsp;<em>Kabeneri of the Iron Fortress<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Death Note<\/em>, <em>High School of the Dead<\/em>), who previously worked on the opening for<a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/01\/06\/the-dangers-in-my-heart-season-2-gets-opening-animation-from-attack-on-titan-director\/\"><em> The Dangers in My Heart<\/em> Season 2<\/a>. In addition to having unsurprisingly heavy compositing, the <strong>WIT STUDIO<\/strong>-produced opening delivers, among other things, a badminton match captured by a rotating camera and several photo-like still shots of main heroine Chinatsu with a strong nostalgic flavor.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u300e\u30a2\u30aa\u306e\u30cf\u30b3\u300f\u30ce\u30f3\u30af\u30ec\u30b8\u30c3\u30c8\u30aa\u30fc\u30d7\u30cb\u30f3\u30b0\u2502Official\u9aed\u7537dism\u300cSame Blue\u300d\u2502 Blue Box Opening\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d0jg9hNHqn8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><i>Blue Box&nbsp;<\/i>began airing on October 3. It is based on the romance manga by&nbsp;<b>Koji Miura<\/b>, which began serialization in 2021 in Shueisha\u2019s Weekly Shonen Jump and has 16 tankoubon volumes as of August 2024. The manga was originally a 2020 one-shot.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Viz Media describes the plot as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><i>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\u2019s fleeting high school romance finally begin?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>To keep up with our anime and anime-adjacent news stories,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>, where you can get updates on our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anitrendz.com\/polls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">user-voted anime chart<\/a>&nbsp;rankings as well.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;font-size: 12pt\">Staff<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Director:&nbsp;<strong>Yuichiro Yano<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Lupin the 3rd Part 5<\/em>)&nbsp;<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Series composer:&nbsp;<strong>Yuko Kakihara<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>The Apothecary Diaries<\/em>)&nbsp;<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Character designer:&nbsp;<strong>Miho Tanino<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Blue Thermal<\/em>)&nbsp;<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Animation production:&nbsp;<b>Telecom Animation Film<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;font-size: 12pt\">Cast<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<strong>Shoya&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Chiba&nbsp;<\/strong>as Taiki<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<strong>Reina<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Ueda&nbsp;<\/strong>as Chinatsu&nbsp;<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<strong>Akari Kitou<\/strong>&nbsp;as Hina<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<strong>Chiaki Kobayashi<\/strong>&nbsp;as Kyo Kasahara&nbsp;<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<strong>Yuma Uchida<\/strong>&nbsp;as Kengo Haryu<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> TMS Anime Official Channel<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening animation sequence of romance anime Blue Box have been released on the TMS Anime YouTube channel. Blue Box&#8216;s opening is the latest to be storyboarded and unit directed by Tetsuro Araki (director of Attack on Titan Season 1,&nbsp;Kabeneri of the Iron Fortress,&nbsp;Death Note, High School of the Dead), who previously worked on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":99147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3412,14,7977,122,2063,3914],"class_list":["post-99134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-adaptation","tag-anime","tag-blue-box","tag-manga","tag-opening","tag-telecom-animation-film"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Blue-Box-Opening-screenshot.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-pMW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99134"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99933,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99134\/revisions\/99933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}