The voices of the top players of team Sajikawa
Kōji Miura's Blue Box (Ao no Hako) television anime production staff announced two additional cast members on Monday.
Yūki Ono plays Shōta Hyōdō, a third-year student at Sajikawa High School and an opponent whom Haryū has never defeated in official matches.
Image via X of Blue Box anime/Twitter
Kenshō Ono plays Shūji Yusa, a first-year student at Sajikawa High School and one of the best members of the badminton team.
Image via X/Twitter of the Blue Box anime
Anime stars:
The anime debuted on television in Japan on October 3 at 11:56 p.m. and is airing on TBS and 28 affiliated networks. The series is streaming on Netflix starting October 4 (Japan time). The series is also being streamed on more than 25 other streaming services in Japan after each episode airs on television. Netflix will stream the anime weekly starting October 3.
The film was broadcast in two consecutive installments (first quarter of the year).
Yūichirō Yano (Moyashimon, Lupine the Third: Part 5) will direct the anime and Yūko Kakihara (Buddy Daddies, Cells at Work!, Chihayafuru seasons 2-3) will supervise the film's script. Miho Tanino (Tower of God, Blue Thermal) designed the characters. Telecom Animation Film is producing the animation and TMS's UNLIMITED PRODUCE is responsible for planning and production.
Official HiGE DANdism will perform the opening theme song “Same Blue” and Eve will perform the ending theme song “Teenage Blue.”
Shueisha's MANGA Plus service publishes the manga in English digitally and describes the story:
Taiki Inomata is on the men's badminton team at Eimei Junior and Senior High sports schools. He falls in love with basketball player Chinatsu Kano, an older girl he practices with every morning in the gym. One spring day, their relationship takes a major turn… And thus begins a brand new series about love, sports and youth!
Miura first published the story as a one-volume manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2020. The magazine began publishing the manga in April 2021. Shueisha published the manga's 17th compiled book volume on April 4. 10 and will publish the 18th compiled book volume on December 4. Viz Media published the manga's 12th compiled book volume on October 1 and will publish the 12th compiled book volume. 13 on December 3. The manga has over 5 million copies in circulation.
Source: Natalie Comics
