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Grand Blue Dreaming(2018)

Also known as Grand Blue • Guran Buru

Archived · TBS

7.9TV-MA12 eps
S03
ComedyAnimeAnimationAdventure
ON AIR: JUL 6Season 3Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

Grand Blue Dreaming is loud, physical college comedy built around competitive drinking and group humiliation, with each episode escalating its setup until someone ends up at maximum embarrassment before the slate wipes clean. The ensemble dynamic runs on affection expressed through mockery and peer pressure that spirals well past any reasonable stopping point, giving the whole thing an anarchic momentum that rarely lets up.

Diving exists in the show, and it occasionally pulls the energy down to something quieter and genuinely pretty, but those moments function more as breathing room than as a counterweight. The chaos always reasserts itself, usually louder than before, with the male friendships growing tighter precisely because everyone involved has witnessed something deeply undignified about everyone else.

Best for

anarchic college comedy, loud physical gags and Comedy

Story lane

Comedy and Anime

Commitment

Season 3 · 12 episodes

Where

TBS

Official Premise

A college student spends his year at the seaside town of Izu, having fun on the beach with his school friends.

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