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Premieres October 4, 2026 · Fall season
The road to Blue Box Season 2
One season stands between you and October 4. Twenty-five episodes of early practice, and one boy who cannot say the thing he wants to say.
The ring is the wait since the announcement: – already behind us.
25 episodes ahead of you · … gets you there before the premiere.
Twenty-five episodes of early mornings, gym floors, and one unspoken thing.
Oct 2024 – Mar 2025 · 25 episodes ≈ 10 h
Season 1 · The morning gym
Taiki is up before dawn practicing badminton, mostly because Chinatsu practices basketball in the same gym at the same hour. Then a family arrangement puts her under his roof and the quiet crush becomes a daily logistics problem.
Ep 5★ 8.6
A day out
An aquarium trip, and Taiki spends most of it working out where to stand.
Ep 14★ 9.2
Nationals, at full volume
The tournament peaks while a game of forfeits circles a question nobody wanted asked out loud.
Oct 4, 2026 · the premiere
Season 2 · Past the hinting
The sequel opens on the far side of Season 1's biggest unspoken question, with real stakes on the table. New director, new animation studio built from the previous one's staff, same returning character designer and scriptwriter. Sunday afternoons in Japan from October 4.
What everyone's talking about
The premiere conversation, condensed. Paraphrased from public chatter.
“New studio, same team. The people who made it look like that came over, so the look should hold.”
“Nobody agrees on the length. One cour, two, a split, and every guess about how far it gets is somebody's guess.”
“I parked it after the renewal so I could watch the whole thing in one run when the sequel got close.”
Don't miss episode 1
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