Rhythmic gymnastics fanboy and badminton fanboy

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• Summer training intensifies for Taiki. This leads to unexpected encounters and valuable insights from competitors.
• Hina takes the lead in setting up a romantic scene at the fireworks festival. which opens up new opportunities
• Taiki and Hina's enthusiasm grows closer. This could complicate their friendship in future episodes.

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Blue Box Episode 11 “Uncool!”, now available on Netflix.

blue box Episode 11 “Uncool” jumps into the summer break in full swing after starting from the previous episode. If you are a school anime fan You probably already have expectations for what might happen in this episode. Taiki, Chinatsu, Hina, and their friends will use this, and possibly the next few episodes, to attend summer training. hot festival homework doing homework and many other popular awards in the summer anime genre

A large bomb fell at the end of blue box Episode 10 “It's Not a Good Thing” where Chinatsu, basically Taiki, who zones out friends is a key part of the episode. Taiki was still shocked. But Chinatsu acts like nothing happened and acts like she's been with Taiki all along.

Taiki summer training

The grind never stops.

As set out in the previous episode Taiki will continue to go to school to practice in the badminton club. Haryu invites Taiki to study at the college where his senior is training. What surprised Taiki was that The person who defeated him and Haryu in the prefectural qualifiers, Hyodo, was also at that training session. Surprisingly, Hyodo turns out to be a pretty nice guy. He also gives Taiki advice so that he will have a better chance against Yusa next year. In his internal monologue, Hyodo also mentions that he likes watching the underdog win. It's nice to see a character who doesn't want to win for his team all the time and helps players from rival teams. Although, to be honest But Hyodo is about to graduate. Therefore, he didn't have to face Taiki next year at all.

Leading up to the fireworks festival

Hina makes her move.

As some viewers have already guessed, that's right, this episode of blue box The fireworks festival is visited in summer. Not only are there festivals. But the festival is what the entire episode is about. It begins with Taiki and Hina overhearing some students talking about going to see the fireworks. This leads to a cute flashback showing how Taiki and Hina's friendship began. Their middle school class plans to go watch the fireworks together. But in the end, Hina came back very late because of rhythmic gymnastics practice. The main thing she looks forward to at this festival are the sweet apples they sell. But when it comes The stalls were all gone. Luckily for her, Taiki overheard her saying that she wanted a sweet apple back at school. and kept only one child for her since then They became close friends. And now they're doing something more.

After thinking about their first festival Hina gathers herself and invites Taiki to the upcoming event. Unfortunately, Taiki assumed that they would be going as a group with all the other friends when confronting her about who was going. Hina rushes to invite her friends, but everyone already has plans. Taiki can invite Kyo. But Kyo quickly realizes that Hina probably wants the festival to be alone with Taiki. There's a funny scene where Kyo acts as Hina's wingman, pretending to be sick and saying he can't go to the festival. To make sure it's just the two of us.

Hina almost sabotages herself. (Even though it still leads to that)

Surprisingly, Hina seems to treat romance the same way normal sports anime protagonists treat their sports. she wants to win But she wants her opponent to be the strongest. By helping them Even if it means she's just making things harder for herself, throughout the episode she keeps inquiring about Taiki and Chinatsu's situation. and asks him if he plans to invite her to the festival. Hina also encourages Taiki not to give up on Chinatsu. Because the Taiki she loves is a person who doesn't give up easily. Even though he didn't do anything about it right now. But her encouragement might bite her in the back in the future. blue box section

“This isn't your type! You don't want to disturb your crush or mess up your relationship. I understand that those things are scary and make it difficult to perform. But even though you're afraid I want you to value yourself as much as you do others.” Being able to think positively is… What Makes You Cool” – Hina to Taiki about his hesitation with Shinatsu.

The beginning of Hina and Taiki's first date.

Although only one person knew that this was even a date.

After training with Haryu Hyodo and people he knew at university. Taiki then heads straight to the fireworks festival to meet Hina. He arrived first and just like in middle school. He bought her sweet apples in advance. The episode ends with Hina finally showing up in a yukata to start their date.

Taiki shows off a few questionable hints in this episode that make it seem like he's falling in love with Hina. He gets annoyed when Kyo says he can't come and it's just him and Hina. He seemed to realize that it felt like he was on a date. Even if they're just friends. This happened again when he was shocked to see Hina in a yukata. It was as if this was the first time he had known how beautiful she looked. and avoid making eye contact with her

Look, even Hina's fans get it: in the long run, Taiki will likely still like Chinatsu, since that's just how it's portrayed. But for a short time That makes you think that Hina's chances are so good that you can't help but think so. If. It looks like future episodes will continue to reveal more about their relationship. But everything may have come to a halt because Chinatsu and the girls' basketball team previously… I had planned to go to the festival as well. A confrontation may be inevitable, so how will Chinatsu react to seeing Hina and Taiki together in next week's episode? blue box–

Blue Box is now available to stream on Netflix. The release date for Blue Box Episode 12 will be December 19, 2024 at 8:30 AM PT.