
Anime · BS11
Grand Blue Dreaming
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Grand Blue Dreaming actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Grand Blue Dreaming reads strongest on Humour, Character Depth and Bingeability.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The story
What it's about
A college student joins the local diving club after meeting some rowdy upperclassmen. New adventures in booze and the ocean await.
The run
Seasons
3 seasons · 36 episodes.

Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
201812 episodes
7.4IMDbBest episode · S01E04 The Male Beauty Pageant

Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
202512 episodes
8.2IMDbUniversity is back in session for Iori, and so are the booze-fueled parties! Between diving club shenanigans, a surprise from his sister, and wild tests of courage, normal college life is anything but. Dive back into the madness with Iori and his beloved crew of lively splash artists.
Best episode · S02E06 Back to the All-Girls College

Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
202612 episodes
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

S01E04
The Male Beauty Pageant
The Izu Spring Festival has begun! The members of Peek-a-Boo run an okonomiyaki stall with Iori, Kohei, Chisa, and Azusa helping out. Iori finds himself in a complicated situation when a misunderstanding with Azusa occurs and a rivalry with the tennis club Tinkerbell begins. When Chisa gets nervous and freezes up during the women's beauty pageant, Iori and Kohei think of a plan to cheer her on.
- Directed by Ryuta Kawahara
- Written by Shinji Takamatsu

S01E01
Deep Blue
When Iori Kitahara heads off to college, he decides to live at his uncle's dive shop in Izu. Iori is looking forward to experiencing college life, but ends up running into a group of tough guys playing strip rock-paper-scissors. Iori gets dragged into the diving club's crazy shenanigans and ends up spending his first day in college wearing nothing but a pair of underwear.
- Directed by Shinji Takamatsu
- Written by Shinji Takamatsu

S01E02
Underwater
After a cutthroat battle with Kohei Imamura, a handsome otaku from school, Iori ends up joining the Peek-a-Boo diving club. Iori arrives home worn out from the day, but perks up when he hears about a party with a women's college. However, his cousin Nanaka won't allow him to stay out three nights in a row, so Iori tries to show her he's an independent man to get her to let him go.
- Directed by Atsuko Tonomizu
- Written by Shinji Takamatsu

S01E03
A New World
Iori and Kohei don wetsuits and head to the sea! Although Iori used to be afraid of the water, he starts becoming more interested. But diving equipment is expensive! Tokita and Kotobuki decide to hold a men's beauty pageant for the Izu Spring Festival in May. The guys want to avoid being paraded around on stage, so they try to get Chisa to participate in a women's beauty pageant.
- Directed by Keisuke Nishijima
- Written by Shinji Takamatsu

S02E01
Sister
Iori receives a letter from his little sister back home. Note: This is still a diving anime.
- Directed by Kentaro Mizuno
- Written by Shinji Takamatsu

S01E05
Too Late
Iori and Kohei attend class in their underwear like normal, but everyone glares at them with a bloodthirsty look in their eyes! It's because they heard that Iori and Chisa are dating! Sensing their lives are in danger, Iori and Kohei offer to setup a mixer. They ask Azusa to introduce her friends, but she brings Aina Yoshiwara, the "Cakey" girl from the Izu Spring Festival!
- Directed by Yoshihisa Matsumoto
- Written by Shinji Takamatsu
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Shin FurukawaExecutive Producer
- Hiroto SakamiProducer
- Hiroyuki KachiProducer
- Kei TakamotoProducer
- Kazuaki TakahashiProducer
- Yoichi KurashimaProducer
Writing
- Kenji InoueWriter
- Shinji TakamatsuWriter
Direction
- Masaki UtsunomiyaDirector
- Yoshihisa MatsumotoDirector
- Keita NakanoDirector
- Ryuta KawaharaDirector
- Takeshi TodaDirector
- Shinji SanoDirector
Cinematography
- Naoyuki KatoDirector of Photography
- Hideki ImaizumiDirector of Photography
Music
- Manual of Errors ArtistsOriginal Music Composer
- Yukari HashimotoOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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