Blue Box Ep. 19 “I’ve Got Plans” is the day of a cultural festival: a kind of open campus festival typical for Japanese schools, and is thus typical of school-focused slice of life anime in general. As it turns out, this anime is no different from them. However, it does have the advantage of that trope being done well. All thanks to Kouji Miura’s warmly hilarious writing at work here.

Blue Box Ep. 19 “I’ve Got Plans”: Details

Complete with all members of the love triangle getting big roles.

Blue Box Ep. 19 “I’ve Got Plans” is the seventh episode of the cours (you can read my reviews of Ep. 13, Ep. 14, Ep. 15, Ep. 16, Ep. 17, and Ep. 18 here) of this romantic comedy and sports anime, and is the 19th episode overall. You can read my reviews for Ep. 1, Ep. 2, Ep. 3, Ep. 4, Ep. 5, Ep. 6, Ep. 7, Ep. 8, Ep. 9, Ep. 10, Ep. 11, and Ep. 12 of the first cours here.

Said anime is the anime adaptation of the manga of the same name by Kouji Miura (I Love You, My Teacher). Telecom Animation Film (Tower of God, Shenmue: The Animation, Astro Note) and TMS Entertainment (Detective Conan, Lupin the Third, Anpanman) are both responsible for the anime, with them doing the animation, and production and planning, respectively. Netflix is the company licensing this anime for its global release.

Production Cast

Keiko Oyamada is the director behind Blue Box Ep. 19 “I’ve Got Plans”, with Yuka Yamato as the storyboarder. As for Blue Box as a whole: Yūichirō Yano is the director behind the anime. Yūko Kakihara is the writer, Miho Tanino as the character designer, and with Takashi Ohmama responsible for composing the music.

Speaking of music: the second cours now features as the opening theme song “Saraba” (然らば) by Macaroni Empitsu. Meanwhile, “Contrast” (コントラスト) by TOMOO is the new ending theme song.

Voice Cast

Blue Box Ep. 19 “I’ve Got Plans” features the voices of Shōya Chiba (Zach Aguilar in English dub) as Taiki Inomata, Reina Ueda (Xanthe Huynh in English dub) as Chinatsu Kano, Chiaki Kobayashi (Caden Shaffer in English dub) as Kyo Kasahara, and Akari Kitō (Kayli Mills in English dub) as Hina Chōno.

Other notable voice roles in this episode include Yuma Uchida (Daman Mills in English dub) as Kengo Haryū, Kengo Kawanishi (English dub voice actor unknown) as Shoichiro Kishi, Haruka Shiraishi (Cristina Vee in English dub) as Karen Moriya, Ana Nagase (Emi Lo in English dub) as Nagisa Funami, Shogo Sakata (Jacob Hopkins in English dub) as Ryōsuke Nishida, and Asaki Yuikawa (Kira Buckland in English dub) as Niina Shimazaki.

When and Where to Watch

Blue Box Ep. 19 “I’ve Got Plans” made its airing and streaming debut (aka. simulcast) on February 13, 2025. You can watch this episode of the anime only on Netflix. In fact, you can only watch this entire anime on Netflix due to it being an exclusive there.

Blue Box Ep. 19 “I’ve Got Plans”: Synopsis

Worry not, Hina fans! She gets a pretty big role in this episode, especially right at the end.

alas, Blue Box is still an ongoing anime series, In fact, Blue Box Ep. 19 “I’ve Got Plans” only made its debut five days ago as of this writing. Thus, I will present to you Netflix’s official synopsis for this episode instead of a spoiler-filled plot summary. You can read that synopsis below:

Just before the school festival starts, Taiki goes for his usual morning jog and finds Chinatsu practicing nearby. She extends a surprising invitation.

Blue Box Ep. 19 “I’ve Got Plans”: The Good

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There’s many reasons why Chinatsu is sparkling so hard here.

After watching Blue Box Ep. 19 “I’ve Got Plans”, there’s really no doubt that the story is the best part of the episode. It’s just all so sweetly adorable. It’s like the anime equivalent of eating cotton candy. Just watching Taiki run around and enjoy the festival, and even a bit before it via hanging out with Chinatsu, is a nice and relaxing experience. Even moreso due to everyone getting at least some screen time. And I really do mean everyone. Everyone in Taiki’s school gets at least some time in the spotlight, with Chinatsu getting a bit more of the spotlight in this episode. It’s a nice tide of cameos to satisfy those who enjoy large casts in a show.

All with Telecom Animation Film and TMS Entertainment providing their usual level of quality animation to this episode. Their animation team has delivered yet another great-looking episode, and again, especially in the lighting department. The lighting is once more just gorgeous to look at. It’s so detailed that even without any other context, you can tell exactly where a character is based on how the light hits them. It’s truly a sight to look at.

Blue Box Ep. 19 “I’ve Got Plans”: The Bad

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Alas, Taiki, you should’ve heard her the first time.

Alas, if you’re only here for the sports action, then Blue Box Ep. 19 “I’ve Got Plans” will disappoint you. There is a very brief moment of Taiki and Chinatsu playing around with basketball, but that’s it. There’s none of the usual high-intensity sports action since it is a cultural festival arc, after all.

So if you want action, then might I suggest watching Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Solo Leveling, Kaiju No. 8, DDDD, DAN DA DAN, and/or Zenshu? Those anime should have more than enough action to satisfy your inner action junkie. At least, until Blue Box returns to its usual sports action. Which, judging by what we see in the last bits of this episode, won’t be in the next episode.

Tune back in to THS to find out more about Blue Box and other anime when we do.

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