Blue Box Season 2

Chinatsu waiting on his platform instead of going to play with the university guys is the whole show in one shot. She chose him. Quietly. No big speech needed

That slap actually made me flinch. Taiki was just trying to help and got hit for it. Yumeka lashing out like that tells you way more about her than anything she said at the clinic

That slap landed hard for a show about people politely jogging in the morning. Yumeka's whole cynical routine finally cracked open when she accused Taiki of only seeing things from the outside. She wasn't wrong either

Chinatsu trolling Taiki with the sticker prank is the most chaotic thing she's ever done and I need more of this gremlin energy from her

Taiki getting slapped for the crime of caring too much is brutal but he did kind of earn it. You can't lecture someone about their own pain when you just heard about it secondhand from a weight room. Yumeka's eyes welling up said more than the slap

Matsuoka is the most annoying character I have encountered in a long time. Guessing a guy will order protein and yelling at him to go home in English. The audacity

Okay so the whole episode builds to Taiki finally about to say the thing. He is standing there on the observation deck with the city lights below him and his heart going and you can feel every second of that silence because he has been waiting for months to get this out. And then a girl with long black hair strolls up and it is Yumeka the one teammate Chinatsu never talks about and she does not even look at Taiki she just calls Chinatsu by her nickname and asks if she gave up on basketball. That line lands like a slap after everything warm that came before it. Ending the premiere on a question instead of a confession is mean but it tells you exactly where this season is going to hurt

I get why people are calling Yumeka toxic but come on the girl is carrying her parents divorce and her lost dream at the same time. The dental clinic reveal wrecked me

Matsuoka asking Taiki to sprint for the ticket and then getting left behind was the moment of the episode for me. That guy treats love like a scoreboard and Taiki just kept running on a bad leg. My favorite moment was honestly the towel thing though, Chinatsu draping it over his shoulders without a word said more than any confession could

Taiki answering the morning practice question with the future self hating himself thing is somehow the most relatable line this season. Small scene but it told me everything about him

This episode was really good, no scenes was cut, just adapting with a bit of extra new scenes. Also from season 2 ep 1 I will say is, the visuals, the way they show all the city, its soo beautiful. Even though they change the studio but this new studio also doing great job, keep doing it. I am really lucky to witness season 2 of blue box

kinda siding with the people who think Taiki overstepped. he barely knows Yumeka and he's lecturing her about hard work being fun like she hasn't lived it her whole life. the slap was a lot but the kid earned a talking to

Not gonna lie Yumeka quitting because she started hating Chinatsu threw me. I expected jealousy sure but saying it out loud like that to a stranger was cold

I never expected tiny Chinatsu to be the one fumbling drills while Yumeka just floated around the court like gravity didn't apply to her. Those childhood episodes reframed everything about why she practices so hard now

the studio switch scared me going in and then that sunset shot on the observation deck happened. new team clearly knows what theyre doing with the lighting here

I couldn't stop smiling when Taiki's big romantic fantasy amounted to Chinatsu in different sportswear. two athletes dating means the date is a shopping trip for a track jacket and that is the most Blue Box thing possible

kazuma calling taiki protein-kun like he isnt the one crashing someones date is wild. perfectly punchable villain except he kinda has a point about the badminton thing and that bothers me more than the insults

The cactus in Chinatsu's room not blooming yet says more about them than any confession scene could. Slow burn stays slow burn and I am here for all of it

That moment where Sosuke calls out her bangs thing before she even says anything is the kind of small thing that makes a character feel real. Yumeka's backstory got me thinking about how much of what we call talent is just a kid who used to like something before life got in the way

The flashbacks flip her whole character. Spent weeks annoyed at this girl and now I'm sitting here thinking about the junior high practice scenes and her exhausted face. Funny how that works