Blue Box
Shueisha, “Ao no Hako” Production Committee
October, 2024
There's someone I want to see first thing every morning: Taiki Inomata, a first-year member of the boys' badminton club, enrolls at Eimei High School, a prestigious sports powerhouse with a combined junior and senior high program. Every morning at practice, Taiki falls for his one-year senior, Chinatsu Kano.
Chinatsu is the ace of the girls' basketball team, a popular, unattainable beauty both inside and outside the school. Taiki's busy high school life begins, filled with club activities, love, and studies. Then one day—
Kawagoe Higashi High School
Eimei Junior and Senior High School in the story
#1 SAITAMA :KAWAGOE-SHI 0Mejirodai 1-chome Playground
The park where Taiki and Chinatsu played badminton
#3 TOKYO :BUNKYO-KU 0Oyama Station South Exit Ticket Gate
The scene where Taiki, having overslept, rushes into the station
#5 TOKYO :ITABASHI-KU 0Nebukawa Station
Taiki and Chinatsu, caught in the rain, dash into the station. In the story, Shiomihama Station
#15 KANAGAWA :ODAWARA-SHI 0Tokorozawa Aviation Memorial Park
The basketball court where Chinatsu was doing morning practice
#19 SAITAMA :TOKOROZAWA-SHI 0Kanagawa Prefectural Road 75 T-junction
The place where Chinatsu showed up carrying the elderly person on her back.
#23 KANAGAWA :ASHIGARASHIMO-GUN 0Ikebukuro Station West Exit
The place where Taiki and Chinatsu agreed to meet for shopping
#25 TOKYO :TOSHIMA-KU 0
