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“Tamaki accidentally destroys glider, forced to join Aviation Club to repay debt, becoming reluctant member with hidden agenda.”
Blue Thermal
ブルーサーマル
6.77
5,934 rank · 15,257 viewers · 33 favorites
Drama
Seinen
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Synopsis
Tamaki accidentally destroys glider, forced to join Aviation Club to repay debt, becoming reluctant member with hidden agenda.
Tamaki Tsuru joins Aonagi University in hopes of making friends, getting a boyfriend, and living a typical university student life. She decides to try out for the tennis club in order to make friends and avoid anything too athletic. But when she is distracted by a model glider during tryouts, Tamaki ends up hitting a tennis ball right at it, smashing it into pieces. Daisuke Sorachi, a member of the Aviation Club, demands that she pay for the damages. Following the incident, Aviation Club captain Jun Kuramochi tries to goad Tamaki into joining their club, but Tamaki refuses. Not wanting to lose a chance at recruiting a club member, Jun orchestrates a way for Tamaki to earn the money to repay her debts and gives her a boyfriend in the process. While she joins the club reluctantly, Jun seems to have other plans for their newest member.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 8 sampled reviews
6.6
/10
What 8 viewers settled on.
67%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6.5
mode 6
σ 1.11
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.11 · some divergence
The polarity gap
2.0 pts
Recommenders 7.5 · others 5.5
Yes
No
Score over time
↓ 0.38
Running avg · Jul 2022 → Apr 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “Why not 10? - some of the characters lacked depth, and the ending was nice but felt hollow to me - as a character, Captain just seemed like a nice guy, but the fact he just went missing two times...”
- 7 “Often when a community appears to be overly negative about a given anime/anime movie, I am intrigued & compelled to check out what all the fuss is about. Given the rather “grim prognosis” of Blue...”
- 7 “So I came in expecting to get some sport competitive movie , but no this movie leans toward Slice of life genre imo. Which is not bad at all but over time and toward the end of movie it start to...”
Verbosity
Short · 25%
Medium · 63%
Long · 13%
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- Format 1 × 103′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 43m all episodes
- Aired Mar 2022 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-21035 catalog
Produced by
- Toei Animation Producer
- Toei Video Producer
- Sammy Producer
- Universal Music Japan Producer
- Marui Group Producer
- Lawson Entertainment Producer
- Team Joy Producer
Licensed by
- Eleven Arts Licensor