Much of where Blue Box Ep. 12 "Girls..." takes place in is during a summer festival. However, there's not many chances for our main characters to enjoy the fesitivities, it seems. Between teenage angst about romance and a lost kid, this festival seems more like a festival of worries than anything
Blue Box Ep. 11 "Uncool!" is basically Hina's chance to shine after Chinatsu more or less rejected Taiki. However, the Hina complication works both ways. After all, she can't stand to see just how uncool Taiki is being after that rejection, even if it means sabotaging her own chances with him. Blue
The title of Blue Box Ep. 10 "It's Not a Good Thing" should probably give you an indicator of the episode's overall tone. To be fair, much of the episode is the romantic comedy sports fluff we've come to expect from the anime. It's just the last bits of the episode that leaves you with a bunch of
Blue Box Ep. 9 "I'll Be Rooting for You" is basically one big lesson on how to deal with failure. How so, you might ask? Well, mostly because it shows how to deal with failure in a healthy way...by first showing how someone deals with it in an unhealthy way. Blue Box Ep. 9 "I'll Be Rooting for
Blue Box Ep. 4 "If He Wins" definitely puts Taiki into the spotlight here. Yes, Chinatsu is still an integral part of the story. However, it feels like now the spotlight is swinging onto badmindton rather than basketball. Blue Box Ep. 4 "If He Wins": Details Apparently, Mr. Badminton is the star of
Blue Box Ep. 3 "Chii" gives us the rather traditional case of acute misunderstands typical of a romcom story. However, that's not getting our hero Taiki down. No, he's now using the frustration from those misunderstanding to get better at badminton. Blue Box Ep. 3 "Chii": Details Taiki puts that
Sasaki and Peeps gives us plots galore being brewed up, as you might expect from Ep. 15 "Concealment and Infiltration" with that title. Complete with both the faking of a death and an undercover operation to investigate the death game faction. It's all great ingredients for some serious political
Sasaki and Peeps brings us one big magical SNAFU in Ep. 14 "Death Games and Demons", complete with a bloody fight and civilian deaths. As you might imagine, this is as huge a problem as the title suggests. And yet, it still falls short of a true action-packed episode due to the lack of action
Who could've guessed that a film about a stinky fisherwoman and a wicker husband would end up being one of the most romantic movies of the year? For all its vulgarity and absurdity, Wicker weaves a surprisingly sincere, shockingly sweet fable of against-all-odds love and a dismantling critique of