Blue Box‘s new Hina-focused ending animation has been released on YouTube by TMS Entertainment.
The WIT STUDIO-produced ending animation has Masaaki Tanaka (director and animator of the MIKU EXPO 10th music video “Intergalactic Bound“) as its storyboard artist, unit director, animation director, editor, and one of the key animators. Some of its scenes provide a different but still visually pleasing interpretation of Hina’s character design, and the overall animation, which boasts a strong aesthetic and expressive character movement and stills, works hard to sell the appeal of the character.
The ending song is “Contrast” by TOMOO.
Blue Box first began airing on October 3, 2024. The anime is based on the teen romance manga by Koji Miura, which Viz Media describes 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?
The manga began serialization in 2021 in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump and has 18 tankoubon volumes as of December 2024. It was originally a 2020 one-shot.
Staff (series)
• Director: Yuichiro Yano (Lupin the 3rd Part 5)
• Series composer: Yuko Kakihara (The Apothecary Diaries)
• Character designer: Miho Tanino (Blue Thermal)
• Animation production: Telecom Animation Film
Cast
• Shoya Chiba as Taiki
• Reina Ueda as Chinatsu
• Akari Kitou as Hina
• Chiaki Kobayashi as Kyo Kasahara
• Yuma Uchida as Kengo Haryu
Source: TMS Anime Official Channel
