Grand Blue Dreaming

"In Japan, the color blue signifies youth, a time of excitement and infinite possibilities" Hello everyone , this is my review of funniest show of this season and one of the best gag comedy i had ever seen in anime .. so Lets begin Intro: Imagine what you expect when you going to college, we develop a lot of preconceptions about what it would be like i mean New places, new friends, maybe a new girlfriend. Go to some parties, maybe find somewhere I felt like I could really fit in and all that wonderful dreamy thought. Well our main protagonist Imagination is no different than an average studentwho just entering the college. After graduating high school, Iori moves to Izu, on the coast, to go to college for mechanical engineering. “I’ll put all my effort into having the best college life possible!” he vows. “I’m going to meet cute girls, fall in love, and enjoy the pinnacle of youth with good friends!” He moves in with his uncle and, more importantly, his two beautiful cousins: motherly, long-haired Nanaka and tomboyish, short-haired Chisa. All of them work at the uncle’s dive shop, the Grand Blue; unfortunately, so do Tokita and Kotobuki, macho dive bums who pressure Iori into joining the diving club even though he can’t swim. Alas, Iori soon finds himself roped into their social circle, partying with a bunch of goofy jocks who just want to get naked and play all-male drinking games. Will Iori get to enjoy a cool campus life? Will he find love? Will the diving club ever actually get in the water? Well thats for the introduction part which sounds like an average college based anime or IS IT!, so let examine in our further review. Story: (7/10) Most of the time we see gag anime fail to deliver a proper story line and mostly involved in delivering some random funny events and scenes. Well Grand Blue is kind of done a decent job in constructing a story line. Sure we can say that its not a story based anime .However, Grand Blue does deserve credit in the sense that it doesn't completely devolve into comedy, as most events take place in a ocean setting, staying true to the foundation that it lay down. The Episodes are also loosely tied together, meaning that there is some degree of continuation. But in all we can say that its main purpose is to make audience laugh. Art, Animation and sound:(9/10) Art is beautiful considering how they have utilize the beauty of locations including underwater and seasore and present it in a beautiful and artistic way. Animation is great, studio done a decent job in adapting manga considering manga artstyle is already top class we sure expect in the hands of a decent studio anime is pleasant to watch. There are some part i like to focus on which Grand Blue done a tremendous job that is adapting face expression with the scenes. Grand Blue Dreaming is a stunning treasure trove of reaction faces. With influences from hot-blooded fighting anime, horror movie framing, and direct references to other franchises, like this Great Teacher Onizuka and that Evil sarcastic Face which taken from Attack on Titans. OP and ending is pleasant and beautiful as well as some underwater scenes are eyecatching. It also done a great job in sound department including beautiful opening and ending sound. There are no characters who unnecessarily shouting everywhere and trying to make audience laugh .Voice actors done excellent job in providing tone which goes exceptionally well with the scene Characters:(9/10) Characters are unique and excellent and each have there own funnier side perfectly well fitted for such gags Anime. We can see from absolute scumbags to a hot and weird otaku , from a shy tomboyish waifu material girl who has its own sadist side to a lewd Onee san including Airheads and some trouble some senpais. Grand Blue has all to offer what is necessary for a gag anime, characters range from lovable bastards like club senpai Tokki and Bukki to absolute scumbags, with Iori somewhere in the middle. He has a veneer of respectability that gets shattered the moment he takes a sip of beer. Also our fellow dorks like good-looking but skeevy anime fan Kohei (“Why isn’t there a club full of beautiful high school girls to be my harem?”) The female character are more kind of average than you might expect from this particular strain of comedy, with the exception of Nanaka, who is pretty one note with the unpredictable and Lewd Azusa. Chisa and Aina for me is kind of okay serving as a balance in between all these crazy characters. So Whats Lacking: Well if you see the Manga, its clearly one of the best comedy manga ever made. For anime i feel it kind of fail to adapt the proper pacing of the Anime and how to give Focus on some particular scene. We can see same kind of thing with some famous anime like Food Wars (after 1st season) and Tokyo Ghoul. On some scenes and some part of the story it feel bit rushed which makes viewers who already familiar with manga kind of disappointed. Other than that i dont find anything which are lacklustre in the Anime. The Bad: The other element that might not work for everyone is all the nudity and fanservice. The most explicit nudity actually comes from the boys in the club, who tend to strip when they get drunk. The women, however, in their skintight wetsuits, bikinis, or the occasional glimpse of underwear, are clearly supposed to be titillating. Well i can say that its not for everyone who dont feel comfortable in such thing like nudity and drinkin Conclusion: Grand Blue is fundamentally a frat house farce in the vein of something like American Pie or The Hangover in anime version. Its comedy definitely has lot of consistency when it comes to make people laugh. If you want a show who you can watch with your friends with enjoyment and laugh this show deliver all the things you needed. Funny events timing is impeccable, making great use of situations, and even manages to make repeating the same punchline funnier the second time. Overall its pretty good and satisfying show and definitely one of the best gag anime ever made also the funniest one but again you’ll have to really love booze jokes, funny faces, and gags about guys being caught naked with little censorship marks obscuring their junk.

Entertaining Comedy?✓ Men who can't help but get drunk and strip?✓ Awkward Virgin friends?✓ Misunderstandings?✓ Grand Blue is one of the funniest anime I have seen in a while. In a full on comedy anime, a plot is probably one of the least important aspects. To me, a comedy anime is all about the enjoyable characters and overall entertainment. And Grand Blue has all of those. Like most comedy anime, it operates with a very basic story- a college freshman being all excited to have a great college life. However, it doesn't go as planned when he's forced to join a "diving club", in which the members drinkand strip more than dive (there still is diving I assure you). Yes, it's pretty ridiculous already, but it gets even better as the show progresses and more characters get introduced. The characters are the life of any comedy anime. Without fun, fitting characters, a comedy anime just won't be the same. It doesn't matter to me if they seem slightly generic, as long as they show some personality and entertain. Grand Blue has a good variety of different personalities which compliment each other perfectly to create hilarious exchanges. Whether it is a dumb, over the top MC, or an otaku "ikemen", or awkward virgin friends, or men (and women) who couldn't care less about getting drunk and stripping in public, Grand Blue has a good variety to keep the entertainment going. The voice acting is also top notch, and paired with some incredible facial expressions, all the characters are funny in their own right. Honestly, the facial expressions are some of the most hilarious ones I've seen since Prison School. There are many comedy anime out there which can have some funny episodes while the rest are a hit-and-miss. Grand Blue, however is very consistent in that regard. Honestly, comedy will always be a subjective genre. Grand Blue might not be for some, but those who enjoy a rather over-the-top comedy anime should definitely give this a shot.

I went into this show with a lot of expectations, thanks to all the hype. People kept saying, "Oh, it's one of the funniest anime out there," and honestly, I feel like I missed the joke. Don’t get me wrong, I can appreciate over-the-top humor and ridiculous situations, but this? It just felt like it was trying too hard most of the time. Like that one friend at a party who keeps telling the same joke, hoping someone will laugh, but you’re just sitting there sipping your drink, waiting for it to end. Let’s talk about Iori, the main guy. The dude has zero backbone. Iget it, he’s supposed to be this everyman thrown into absurd situations, but come on, bro, stand up for yourself! Watching him constantly get dragged into drinking contests or stripped down to his underwear while he just awkwardly smiles or panics… it wasn’t funny after the third time. It was like watching a train wreck in slow motion, except you don’t even care about the train. And then there’s the comedy. Look, I’m not some stoic guy who doesn’t laugh—I wanted to laugh. I really did. But half the jokes were just loud yelling, dudes getting naked (again), and overused gags that felt stale after two episodes. Like, I get that naked guys are funny in certain contexts, but when it’s 80% of your humor? Eh, it gets old fast. My face was so blank most of the time, I could’ve been mistaken for a statue. The diving part? Oh yeah, remember how this anime is supposedly about diving? Because the show sure doesn’t. Every now and then, they throw in these beautiful underwater scenes that made me think, “Okay, maybe now it’s going to get serious and meaningful,” but nah. It’s like the anime itself forgot it had a plot and decided to double down on its frat-boy antics instead. And can we please talk about the lack of romance? I’m not saying every anime needs to have some grand love story, but they teased something between Iori and Chisa just enough to keep you hoping for something—a confession, a real connection, maybe even just a moment where they’re not awkwardly arguing. But nope. Nothing. It was like ordering a pizza and getting an empty box. A little disappointing, you know? All that said, I won’t lie—there were a few moments where I cracked a smile. Like when Kohei gets into his otaku rants or when the older guys act like total lunatics. But those were rare, and they weren’t enough to carry the whole show. So yeah, I’d give Grand Blue a solid 5/10. It’s not the worst thing I’ve ever watched, but it’s definitely not something I’d recommend unless you’re really into slapstick humor and drunken chaos. Maybe the manga is better? I dunno. Either way, it’s one of those shows I’ll probably forget about in a few months.

I was in a phase where i was watching a lot of trash 12 eps anime. I had lost almost all my enjoyment, but i couldn't stop from watching more trash anime. Then, one day, somebody told me to watch Grand Blue. I tought it was one more trash anime, but it was like an illumination... I actually laughed. I actually enjoyed my time. It actually changed my life. I gave Grand Blue such a high note because it was one of the most funny things i ever watched. Even if they repeated the joke, it was still very funny.