“In gun-filled academy city Kivotos, teacher Sensei helps five indebted Abydos High students after the student-council president vanishes.”
Blue Archive the Animation
ブルーアーカイブ The Animation
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Synopsis
In gun-filled academy city Kivotos, teacher Sensei helps five indebted Abydos High students after the student-council president vanishes.
Kivotos is a federal megalopolis comprising thousands of schools and is led by the General Student Council (GSC), which acts as its governing body. Ironically, despite being an academy city, Kivotos is rife with gun violence, and all students wield firearms as part of their everyday lives. As if the crisis in Kivotos was not enough, the GSC president is nowhere to be found. Fortunately, before her sudden disappearance, the GSC president enlisted the help of Sensei—a teacher who is most likely the only one in Kivotos—to support students in their time of need. Sensei's first course of action is to assist Abydos High School, a once prestigious academy now with merely five students in attendance. These remaining students are doing everything they can to pay their academy's crippling debt of almost one billion yen.
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Derived from 39 sampled reviews
What 39 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.48 · split reception
4.5 pts
Recommenders 8.8 · others 4.2
↓ 3.56
Running avg · Apr 2024 → Jan 2026
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- Format 12 × 23′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 36m all episodes
- Aired Apr 2024 – Jun 2024 Spring 2024
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-23545 catalog
Produced by
- Shochiku Producer
- Nexon Producer
- Studio Mausu Producer
- Bushiroad Producer
- JR East Marketing & Communications Producer
- RAY Producer
- INCS toenter Producer
- Yostar Producer