Grand Blue Season 3 Is Official — Here’s Everything You Need to Know
If you laughed your way through the first two seasons of Grand Blue Dreaming the booze-fueled diving-club romps, the accidental nudity, and the oddly wholesome bromance. Get ready, the anime has officially been renewed for Season 3. The announcement dropped right after Season 2’s finale, and it came with a key visual and one big hook: the gang is heading overseas for the first time. Let’s unpack what we know, what to expect, and how to be ready for the next wave.
On paper, “they go somewhere tropical” sounds like a vacation episode. But Grand Blue makes location a character. The Palau arc in the manga is one of the series’ best mixes of gorgeous underwater spectacle and the franchise’s signature, chaotic comedy. Palau’s reefs and diving culture give the animators real visual currency. Expect bright seascapes, coral-heavy dive sequences, and the sort of “wow” shots that contrast beautifully with the show’s slapstick party scenes. That combination is why fans went berserk when the official visual and announcement confirmed Palau as the next destination. Reports and the early reporting consensus say Season 3 will begin by adapting the Palau arc from the manga, that arc begins near volume 13 and contains a self-contained chunk of diving action, culture-clash jokes, and a few quieter moments that nudge the Iori–Chisa dynamic forward. If you’re a manga reader and want to get ahead without spoiling everything, flipping to volume 13 is a safe bet to preview the atmosphere the anime will lean into.
Season 2 saw Zero-G return and Liber join the production, with Shinji Takamatsu back in a directing/writing role for the revival. The team’s return for Season 2 is a big reason the show kept its comedic timing and visual style after a long gap since Season 1. For Season 3 the production was announced but full staff and broadcast details haven’t been posted at the time of the announcement — expect official pages and the anime’s X/Twitter to post staff confirmations in the coming weeks. Grand Blue’s fanbase loves two things, when the show gives them more diving porn (the scenic kind), and when the comedy leans hard into absurdity. The Palau announcement triggered excited memes, speculation about which gag sequences will make the cut, and a lot of people thanking the gods of anime scheduling for not leaving them waiting another seven years. Expect spoilers and reaction threads within minutes of any new teaser.
Yes. Grand Blue thrives when it balances big, beautiful dive visuals with small, stupid human moments and taking the gang to Palau gives the series both in spades. The official announcement is the best kind of reassurance of the show’s creative pipeline is active, the manga still has material to adapt, and the production committee clearly trusts the series enough to keep investing.
Image Credit Zero-G, Liber
