Blue Box Ep. 25 “Even So” marks the finale of the first season of this anime. As you might expect from the previous episode, this one deals with the wreck of the Hina ship that sunk then. Interestingly, it’s the way the story deals with that ship sinking in a way that blames neither party that marks this finale as one of the best episodes of the anime thus far.
Blue Box Ep. 25 “Even So”: Details
Blue Box Ep. 25 “Even So” is the 13th episode (you can read my reviews of Ep. 13, Ep. 14, Ep. 15, Ep. 16, Ep. 17, Ep. 18, Ep. 19, Ep. 20, Ep. 21, Ep. 22, Ep. 23, and Ep. 24 here) of the second cours of this romantic comedy and sports anime, is the 25th episode overall, and is the season finale to boot. You can read my reviews for 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 Crew
Keiko Oyamada and Yasuro Tsuchiya both co-directed Blue Box Ep. 25 “Even So”, with Yūichirō Yano and Yuka Yamato as the writers, and Miho Tanino, Manabu Nii, Aya Miyajima, and Shinobu Ikakko all being co-animation directors.
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 “Shikaraba” (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. 25 “Even So” 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, Akari Kitō (Kayli Mills in English dub) as Hina Chōno, and Kana Ichinose (English dub voice unknown) as Ayame Moriya.
Other notable voice roles in this episode include Yuma Uchida (Daman Mills in English dub) as Kengo Haryū, 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. 25 “Even So” made its airing and streaming debut (aka. simulcast) on March 27, 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. 25 “Even So”: Synopsis
Alas, even though Blue Box Ep. 25 “Even So” is the season finale episode, the anime as a whole only just recently ended. In fact, Blue Box Ep. 25 “Even So” only just made its debut four 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:
“Ayame faces the consequences of her meddling and tries all sorts of ways to console Hina. Meanwhile, Taiki strengthens his resolve and asks Chinatsu out.”
Blue Box Ep. 25 “Even So”: The Good
After watching this entire first season of the anime from start to finish, I can safely say that Blue Box Ep. 25 “Even So” has an amazing story. Starting by dealing with the fallout of the Hina ship sinking in a fiery blaze. Amazingly, Kouji Miura carefully wrote that story so that neither Taiki nor Hina are treated as the “villain” over the ship sinking. quite the contrary, both of them are treated with the utmost sympathy, both by the story and by the other characters. Neither of them are portrayed as having any fault over the breakup, especially since their proto-relationship kinda sorta never really began in the first place. It’s complicated, to be sure, but I do like how neither one are in the wrong.
I do also like how the sinking of the Hina ship is used to reinforce the Chinatsu ship. It does feel like the logical consequences of Taiki breaking up with Hina like this, since it steels his resolve to go out with Chinatsu. Alas, we don’t really see the results of this in this finale. However, it’s still a very important turning point that we’ll get to see in the second season.
Of course, all this story is complemented by the amazingly good animation from Telecom Animation Film and TMS Entertainment. As always, their animation team did an amazing job with this finale. If anything, I feel like the animation has actually improved for this finale. The lighting and overall quality has a noticeable jump even over previous episodes, and the brief bit of sports action we got features some very fluid animation. It feels like a great send-off before we get to see that second season.
Blue Box Ep. 25 “Even So”: The Bad
My biggest complaint about Blue Box Ep. 25 “Even So” is actually the way they left off on the story. The finale literally ends as Taiki and Chinatsu begin their first proper date together. Yes, I’m fully aware that cliffhangers are a thing, and that this most definitely counts as one. However, this is a particularly bad cliffhanger even by cliffhanger standards. We’re supposed to wait for the second season just to find out how their date goes, and we don’t even know when that second season will start? This is just agony.
Oh, and I do have a minor complaint about still images being used during Ayame and Hina’s day out. I am mollified by the fact that there likely wasn’t time to animate those sequences, so they just left them at still images. It’s such a minor issue that I’m only going to mention it, and that’s it.
Aside from that, action junkies might be left a bit unsatisfied by this finale. Yes, there is sports action, but it’s a brief practice session between Taiki and Haryu. If you want more action, then may I suggest watching Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Solo Leveling, Kaiju No. 8, DDDD, DAN DA DAN, and/or Zenshu? Those anime should have enough action to satisfy you until we get that eventual second season of Blue Box.
What do you think of Blue Box as a whole? Did you enjoy the interplay of sports action and romantic comedy-drama? Leave your opinions in the comments section below.
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