Grand Blue Dreaming Season 2

ぐらんぶる Season 2

8.50(85K votes)

Ranked #162Popularity #1426

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Type

Status

Finished Airing

Aired

Jul 8, 2025 to Sep 23, 2025

Studios:Zero-G, Liber

Comedy

Synopsis

Three months have passed since Iori Kitahara began living above Grand Blue, his uncle's scuba diving shop, and joined his university's Diving Club. Alongside the other members, he has spent his days drinking and recklessly having fun. However, when Iori's sister, Shiori, hears about his behavior, she decides to take matters into her own hands—and bring him back home to make him take over their family's inn. Despite her best efforts, Shiori temporarily gives up as she sees how Iori has grown attached to Grand Blue and his friends. As Iori and the rest of the Diving Club continue to party like there is no tomorrow, they end up in all kinds of bizarrely amusing situations, still somehow managing to hone their scuba diving skills! [Written by MAL Rewrite]

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8.6/10

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Stark700

Recommended

I've always had a soft spot for Grand Blue. It demonstrates the principle of having a fun group of characters enjoying their lives in a sitcom-like format of storytelling. After so many years, it's fitting this anime returns in the Summer season, a season so well suited for this show orchestrated by its colorful and over-eccentic cast. Iori Kitahara's return creates the same atmospheric energy of the previous season. We're not left out from one bit of this anime's crazy antics, courtsey of the Peek-a-Boo club. You remember them don't you? It's a collection of college guys and girls gathered together to enjoy life of drinkingand partying than diving. It's the foundation of this anime's loose plot, where every episode shows the life style of open minded college students. Forget school and academics, this anime ditches the classroom doors and goes straight into the adult world. There's a reason this anime revolves around college age characters than teenagers. It had to abide by the age limit so it artificially boosts the characters' ages. It works because drinking and partying tends to happen far more frequently during the early stages of adult life. Practically every character in this anime has a love for drinking in some way or form. Even when it's used to serve as a distraction, drinking is considered the common norm where it would feel unusual if a character didn't drink. This also extends the fan service because all the characters are well-built. The male characters have lean and muscular bodies while the female cast are well-endowed with athletic looks. Don't believe me? Just watch the OP song and see you for yourself. It's up there as a candidate for the most fan servicy OP song of this season. Still, this season does love itself for creating misunderstandings and giving characters chances to be themselves. Some of them are tested in games while others are paired up through certain circumstances. Chisa seems to be the main culprit whenever she gets involved with Iori. The whole season has them flirtnig with idea of them getting together, although it's not depicted as romance. It's more of a crowd pleaser and baiting to see who can really make the first move. Fans should know this anime loves having fun with itself than creating tearjerking or dramatic moments between character pairs. Some characters in fact have too much fun and power to themselves. An example is Sakurako Busujima, a new character who has developed a bizarre relationship with Iori. Throughout the series, he is her primary target for bullying, although it's mostly deconstructed with light humor. She serves somewhat as a somewhat rival compared to Chisa, the ever serious and level headed girl of the Peek-a-Boo club. Watching their character rivalry draws out Chisa's insecure side where she unintentionally says things she wasn't prepared for. Her presence is felt throughout this season and she can be designated as a breakout character. The rest of the cast aren't much different after all these years. Kouhei returns with his love for girls and anime. Aina is still the same shy person who holds feelings towards Iori. Others such as Nanaka and Azusa plays their roles to serve as more mature characters for the club. It's really the cast that reminds us what being an adult is about in this show, even if not all of them are responsible. Perhaps that's an understatement. Hardly any of them are responsible and often gets sucked into the ectasy of their own personal interests. I mean, ask yourself, how many times has Kohei tried to get a girlfriend? Or Iori trying to hit on girls? These young adults behave like how you'd expect them to in this social age, where life opens to unlimited opportunities. Grand Blue Season 2 takes those opportunities and have way too much fun with them.

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29 found helpfulSep 22, 2025

thestarsailor

Mixed Feelings

The most damning thing I can say is that the ED is funnier than the rest of the show. Or in other words the first season could pretty consistently make me laugh, while the second season couldn't. It seems silly to reduce humor to a formula, but comparing the two seasons, the first one had more of the ridiculous, almost Attack on Titan-like distorted faces for comedic effect and had more jokes based on the premise of this being a normal college where a bunch of ridiculous shit happens. This season doesn't have those faces and focuses more on the relationships between the characters whichweren't ever really strong or well-defined when they're really all drinking buddies. The first season had more fun with that than this season has with so many episodes being variations of Iori having to hide whether he's actually dating a girl or not. I guess this is more of a hang-out, but that sounds like apologetics for the lack of jokes.

34 found helpfulSep 23, 2025

RodrigoRdrgs

Mixed Feelings

A Youtuber i follow talked about this anime at the start of the season. Until then i didn't have watched the first season yet, so I watched the first season just before watching the second. That's why this is a "Mixed Feelings" review. This show is good, it's a lot of fun, but the first season was so increadibly over the top that this second season feels like a downgrade. We get the same cast of characters and a few more and each one is quite unique and interesting. I never thought i would like a character like Naomi Otoya, but the situations and confusionsinvolving him were so fun that I couldn't help but enjoy his screen time. The romance between Iori and Chisa is still going nowhere but that's fine, their bickering is still a source of good comedy. It's hard to tell exactly why this season was worse than the first, because it does has the same felling overall. Maybe it's the character desing that looks more generic, maybe the direction couldn't get the most out of the jokes, maybe it's both or neither of these things. But at the end of the day it's still a good anime. If you watched the first season long ago, don't worry, just watch it. If, like me, you just got out of first season, maybe give it a few months and lower your expectations a little.

4 found helpfulOct 18, 2025

xshiraori

Recommended

Grand Blue is my favorite series, I love both the manga and the anime. So I cannot say that I'm not biased in my review. The genius lies in how this series constructs an entire ecosystem of dysfunctional relationships that somehow feel more authentic than 90% of "serious" series out there. The characters are developing with a really good tempo; the romance, even if it's part of its sub-categories, feels very mature and natural. I can say that the author is blessed with some good writing skills on very different genres. I also like its portray of adulthood as well, the characters are open-minded, I wouldsay often logical in their way of approaching human relations. You can observe that communication is actually possible between them; no unnecessary blushing or running off in the middle of a conversation. Things happen as they should be, not because the plot has to progress. The comedy is absurd and decorated with references, misunderstandings are really creative and barely predictable, I love that none of those have changed in this season as well. Looking forward for season 3 and hopefully for more seasons ahead...

3 found helpfulOct 14, 2025

Anime-Lover-Weeb

Recommended

I had watchd konosuba and amny more of the comedy anime which i cant count but in my heart the funniest i had ever laughed are my favourite top two Grand blue and Konosuba. when there was no season 2 for the grand blue i thought to myself what enjoying with your friends is in the college as i am in. This make me think and relate to this anime very much goofing around, playing pranks, and the one thing which the kitahara said and i loved it "I LIKE AND RESPECT INDIVIDUALITY" that hits hard because whatever the friend does and loves it doesnt makea difference to us because we respect them. I had given this anime a solid 10/10 because in my heart watching these anime will make you question your life, where you had enjoyed like they did.

3 found helpfulSep 25, 2025