Blue Box Season 2

Last updated: 1 November 2026

About Blue Box Season 2

Taiki Inomata is a badminton player at Eimei, a school famous for sports, and he has a hopeless crush on Chinatsu Kano, the girls' basketball ace a year above him. When Chinatsu's parents move abroad for work, she comes to live at the Inomata family home, and suddenly the girl Taiki admires from afar is at his breakfast table every morning. Season 2 premiered on 4 October 2026 on TBS, with Netflix streaming worldwide. It picks up exactly where Season 1 ended: Taiki on the edge of confessing his feelings, only for the moment to be cut short by the return of Yumeka Kido, Chinatsu's estranged former teammate. Behind the scenes there are changes too. Daisuke Sako takes over as director and Electric Circus replaces Telecom Animation Film as the animation studio, with planning still by UNLIMITED PRODUCE by TMS. The season is planned at 12 episodes. The romance stays gentle and the sports stay serious: every confession is earned through training montages, tournaments and the small daily courage of living under the same roof.

Blue Box Season 2 is a TV anime from 2026, first released in Fall 2026. It belongs to the Romance and Sports genres and is listed as currently airing. The summary above is written by the AnimeYug team in our own words.

Official Trailer

▶Blue Box Season 2 | Main Trailer · TMS Entertainment

Story & Plot

Blue Box is a story about two kinds of wanting. Taiki wants Chinatsu, and wants just as badly to stand beside her as an athlete, which means reaching the national badminton tournament she already expects to reach in basketball. Chinatsu, quiet and self-contained, is carrying her own pressures: a team that leans on her, a past she does not talk about, and now a housemate whose earnestness keeps getting past her guard.

Season 1 built their slow closeness out of morning practices, shared commutes and one almost-confession after another, with Hina Chono, Taiki's gymnast friend, realising her own feelings too late to keep things simple. Season 2 raises the emotional stakes: Yumeka Kido, who once played beside Chinatsu, returns with unfinished business, and Chinatsu has to decide what her past, her team and Taiki each mean to her.

Nothing here is rushed, and that is the point. Blue Box treats first love the way it treats sport, as something you improve at daily, in small increments, mostly by showing up.

Story Arcs & Episode Guide

The Blue Box Season 2 anime is split into story sagas. Here is every saga in order, with its episodes and years.

Why Watch Blue Box Season 2

• A romance built from breakfasts, morning practice and almost-confessions, patience as a storytelling style.
• The sports are real: badminton and basketball get proper tactics, training and tournament stakes.
• Season 2's new thread, Chinatsu's past with Yumeka Kido, gives the heroine her deepest arc yet.
• aiko's opening "Anata no Hana no Iro" is a perfect match for the show's soft, bright tone.
• The manga finished in 2026, so the anime is adapting a complete, beloved story.

Who Is It For?

A gentle, family-friendly romance with no fan service or graphic content, just sport, school life and first love. It suits romantics of any age, and sports fans who like their competition grounded and earnest.

Taiki Inomata

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Chinatsu Kano

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Hina Chono

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Kyo Kasahara

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Kengo Haryu

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Ayame Moriya

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Ryosuke Nishida

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Nagisa Funami

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Niina Shimazaki

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Kazuma Matsuoka

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Yumeka Kido

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Voice Actors

The Japanese voices behind the main characters of Blue Box Season 2.

• Taiki InomataMain character: a hardworking badminton player in love with his housemate
  Japanese voiceShoya Chiba
• Chinatsu KanoMain character: the girls' basketball ace who comes to live at Taiki's house
  Japanese voiceReina Ueda
• Hina ChonoA rhythmic gymnast and Taiki's close friend, whose own feelings complicate everything
  Japanese voiceAkari Kito
• Kyo KasaharaTaiki's dry-witted badminton teammate and closest friend
  Japanese voiceChiaki Kobayashi
• Kengo HaryuTaiki's doubles partner and senior on the badminton team
  Japanese voiceYuma Uchida
• Ayame MoriyaHina's friend, a cheerful matchmaker who loves stirring the pot
  Japanese voiceKana Ichinose
• Ryosuke NishidaA senior on the badminton team
  Japanese voiceShogo Sakata
• Nagisa FunamiA member of the girls' basketball team
  Japanese voiceAnna Nagase
• Niina ShimazakiA rhythmic gymnast alongside Hina
  Japanese voiceAsaki Yuikawa
• Kazuma MatsuokaA rival badminton player from another school
  Japanese voiceYuki Kaji
• Yumeka KidoChinatsu's estranged former basketball teammate, newly returned in Season 2
  Japanese voiceYoshino Aoyama

Staff & Production

Original Creator

Kouji Miura

Animation Studio

Electric Circus (Season 2; Telecom Animation Film on Season 1), planned and produced by UNLIMITED PRODUCE by TMS

Director

Daisuke Sako (Season 2); Yuichiro Yano (Season 1)

Series Composition

Yuko Kakihara

Character Design

Miho Tanino

Music

Takashi Omama

Manga & Source Material

Blue Box (Ao no Hako) is Kouji Miura's sports romance manga from Weekly Shonen Jump, a rare mix of shonen sports energy and a slow, sincere love story.

• Written and illustrated by Kouji Miura
• Serialised in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump from 12 April 2021 to 13 July 2026, it began as a 2020 one-shot
• 250 chapters in total; 27 volumes released as of October 2026, with the 28th and final volume due on 4 December 2026
• The manga is complete, and passed 10 million copies in circulation in 2026
• Season 1 of the anime won over romance fans worldwide via Netflix; Season 2 continues the adaptation

Music

Blue Box changes its theme pair every cour. Season 1 opened with Official HIGE DANdism and Macaroni Empitsu; Season 2 hands the opening to aiko, one of Japan's most loved singer-songwriters, and the ending to the duo elsewhere kikou.

Opening Themes

• “Same Blue”by Official HIGE DANdismSeason 1, first cour opening (2024)
• “Saraba”by Macaroni EmpitsuSeason 1, second cour opening (2025)
• “Anata no Hana no Iro”by aikoCurrentSeason 2 opening (2026): this season

Ending Themes

• “Teenage Blue”by EveSeason 1, first cour ending (2024)
• “Contrast”by TomooSeason 1, second cour ending (2025)
• “blue in”by elsewhere kikouCurrentSeason 2 ending (2026): this season

Series Timeline

1. 2020

   Kouji Miura publishes the Blue Box one-shot in Weekly Shonen Jump.

2. 2021

   The full manga series begins on 12 April and quickly becomes one of Jump's signature romances.

3. 2024

   The anime's first season premieres on 3 October on TBS and Netflix.

4. 2025

   Season 1 ends in March after 25 episodes; Season 2 is announced right after the finale.

5. 2026

   The manga ends in July after 250 chapters; Season 2 premieres on 4 October.

Release Schedule

Japanese broadcast

Sundays at 4:30 p.m. on TBS and 27 affiliated channels

Premiere

Sunday 4 October 2026

Latest episode

Episode 4, aired Sunday 25 October 2026

Next episode

Episode 5 is due Sunday 8 November 2026. The series took a one-week break, with no episode on 1 November

Streaming

Netflix streams the season worldwide, with new episodes weekly

Episode count

12 episodes planned

Schedule information as of 2 November 2026. Dates can change, check the official announcements for the latest news.

Quick Answers

News

2 November 2026

Blue Box Season 2 Episode 5 Arrives Sunday 8 November on Netflix

Blue Box is back after a one-week break. Season 2 Episode 5 arrives on Netflix on Sunday, 8 November 2026. Here are the release times.