Funny / Grand Blue

What kind of adventures await me in this brand new enviroment? ^note OUT! SAFE! YEAH, YEAH, YEAH!!!

Grand Blue features alcohol, idiots, and alcohol-fueled idiocy. Naturally it is the perfect environment for wacky hijinks and bad people being bad to each other, starting from the page image and only getting crazier from there.

General

• People being naked, especially when they really shouldn't be.
• Iori and Kouhei being mean to each other.
  • The over-the-top hijinks that ensue whenever the mechanical engineering guys try to sabotage each other. With Friends Like These...
• The "oolong tea"
  • Whenever anybody tries (and succeeds) to set "oolong tea" or "water" on fire
• Every male characters' overreaction faces (usually when drinking) that resemble the eponymous entities from Attack on Titan, which gained the Fan Nickname "Titan Faces" from the fans.
• Any time any characters express shock at the diving club ''actually doing things related diving''.
• Chisa and Iori having to play as lovers. And Chisa showing disgust towards anyone asking her about it.
• The official site greets you with an image of the male cast joyfully jumping off a ship's deck. Click on the tagline (labelled with "Don't Click!"), and it swaps to an alternate version with the male cast naked with Titan Faces, and the female cast reacting accordingly.
  • At least Aina and Chisa do anyway. Azusa is just laughing and Nanaka has the exact same pose.
• The ending theme, which is Iori and Kouhei singing Konpeki no al Fine at Karaoke night with Ryuujirou and Tokita watching. By the end they strip naked and pose.

Chapters 1 & 2/Episode 1

• Ready to begin college, Iori Kitahara throws open the doors to the "Grand Blue" diving shop, and is greeted by naked men playing drinking games.
• Iori tries to escape, but is manhandled by Tokita and Kotobuki back to the shop .
• When pressured to engage with the drunken antics of the divers, Iori vehemently declines. One Gilligan Cut later, and Iori is also stripped down to his boxers and filled with booze, just in time to meet his cousin Chisa.
• Iori tries to avoid the afterparty to make it to his university orientation on time, but Tokita and Kotobuki both assure him that he'll be on time with their help. He does make it, waking up outside the lecture hall in his boxers surrounded by onlookers.
• Iori realises he doesn't know the way home, and tries to get Chisa to lend him her clothes, earning him a trip with the nice men in blue. Later he tries to get Kouhei to do the same, ending in the same way.
• For the sake of earning clothes from Kotobuki, Iori lures/traps Kouhei into joining the diving club by sweet talking him that in the university might exist a club full of high school girl that will fall head over heels on Kouhei and became his harem. (which is obviously did not exist.)
• Kouhei reaching for Iori’s hand cuts Tokita and Kotobuki "Welcoming" (read: Bear hugging) Kouhei into the Diving club.

  Kouhei: YOU TRICKED ME, YOU BASTARD!!

• The first appareance of "Oolong Tea" (90% Vodka + 10% Whiskey) in which will became the running gag of the series onward.
  • Iori complaining that the "Oolong Tea" is different from the one he knows of, His Seniors then replying that the drink have a same color and can be lit on fire. In which retorted by Iori that the fact it can be ignited means it is mostly alcohol.
  • Proceeded by Tokita and Kotobuki offering Iori a "water", Iori does not fall for it anyway as he trying to put a fire on the "water" and it lights up.
• Iori and Kouhei competing/sabotaging each other in order to be the one that doesn’t join the Diving club, ended up in a drinking contest.
  • In the contest, Kouhei wins the 1st round by telling Iori that While he's not looking like one, he's actually an otaku.
  • While he failed to make Iori laugh, Kouhei's attempt on making funny faces is actually hilarious.
  • The contest goes on until both Iori and Kouhei wasted from drinking too much. Kotobuki then offered both of them (what is seemingly) water as a refreshment, only for them to realized what Kotobuki just offered is Spirytus with 96% alcohol when they already chug the "water" down. Cue the hilarious reaction from both Iori and Kouhei while shouting "THIS ISN'T WATER!!"

Chapters 3 & 4/Episode 2

• Iori goes home and greeted by his senpais and uncle in naked aprons. Kotobuki and Tokita aren't even wearing speedos.
• Nanaka reveals that Iori has not been home for 3 days straight, and doesn't even know where his room is!
  • in manga, this statement is been used as a reason by Iori to decline Tokita and Kotobuki's invitation by saying that he haven't got a proper night's sleep, Kotobuki commented that he can get a proper sleep if he going to class properly and sleep throughout the lessons, in which retorted by Iori by telling Kotobuki to apologize to his parents that paying his tuition.
• To help Iori convince Nanaka that he is responsible enough to go to a mixer, Tokita and Kotobuki help Iori decorate his room in a fashion befitting an "independent adult". Naturally, they don't get it right the first time.
  • Iteration 1: Adult videos, books and posters
    • When Iori (unaware of the decorations) shows his room to Nanaka, awkwardness ensues.
    • Tokita and Kotobuki offer an enraged Iori an AV as a welcoming gift. They view it together when Chisa arrives with a used shelf (a gift). Chisa drives the shelf into Iori's head when he invites her to join them in the viewing.
    • Iori is convinced to let his sempais continue helping after being offered another AV, requesting a freshman's room
  • Iteration 2: Anime merchandise (by Kouhei)
    • Iori beholds the decorations, and immediately destroys one of the wall posters, earning Kouhei's curses upon his descendants for ruining his "Otaku living-alone starter set"
    • Kouhei was baited into helping with a (nonexistent) AV of middle-school girls!
    • Iori (enraged again) declares that he wants the "opposite" of the current "otaku" room, which is rapidly misintepreted by Kouhei, leading to.....
  • Iteration 3: BL/yaoi books, posters and videos (again by Kouhei)
    • Kouhei gave Iori the opposite of his otaku merchandise (which displayed female characters), turning his room into a yaoi paradise.
    • Nanaka arrives to help with the decoration and Iori tries to convince her to leave. Audio from a yaoi AV (heard through the door) confuses Nanaka about Iori's orientation, prompting another awkward misunderstanding
    • Iori goes "super saiyan" with determination to appeal to Nanaka's siscon tendencies, resulting in.....
  • Iteration 4: Chisa's face plastered over everything
    • Even Kouhei and the two sempais are creeped out about this iteration's stalker-ish nature.
    • Tokita reveals that the mixer was cancelled, rendering all of Iori's efforts naught.
    • Chisa enters the room and beholds the Stalker Shrine, resulting in Iori's relocation to a dingy and unused room somewhere else in the house. ^* Chapter 22 reveals that Nanaka's room is essentially identical to Iori's 4th iteration!

Chapters 5 & 6/Episode 3

• Iori and Kouhei are being forced to enter the male beauty pageant^* pronounced as the boy-con unless they can get Chisa to enter the female beauty pageant. So commences their quest to persuade her, with only one problem in their way: Azusa.
  • Iori's reaction when realized the "Friend" that Nanaka consulted about his orientation in previous episode is actually Azusa. Moreover, Iori can't straighten out the misunderstanding to her as Azusa confessed to him that she's interested in both sexes, making Iori feel awkward to explain to her as Azusa just told Iori her secret.
  • Eventually Azusa does persuade Chisa to participate, but she does so on one condition: both Iori and Kouhei participate too!

Chapters 7 & 8/Episode 4

• Azusa stained her shirt and traveled over to the Beauty Pageant stand with only her bra on. Chisa puts a replacement jacket on her, but struggles at first with Azusa's bust in the way.
  • The small size of the jacket gives Azusa a Navel-Deep Neckline, which Chisa stares at with her hands against her own chest.
• Azusa, still thinking that Iori's bisexual, asks what type of guys he likes. Unable to tell the truth, he apparently answered Kouhei, which lead to her switching shifts with him at the food stand so he could have fun with Iori.

  Iori: I feel bad for doing this to you.
  Kouhei: You bastard... what did you get me into!?

• When two lowlives try hitting on Chisa and Azusa, Iori and Kouhei (who are in their undies) show up from behind ready to beat the shit out of them. The two boys calmly take the hint and proceed to leave.

  Iori: SPREAD THE SALT KOUHEI! SPREAD IT!
  Kouhei: BEGONE, NORMIES!

• Chisa's turn in the Beauty Pageant's up, and Peek-A-Boo recognizes that her demeanor isn't going to help her odds of winning. So they smile at her in hopes of getting one from her in return. Instead, she gives them a hellish Death Glare so intense that veins are popping through her face.
  • Kouhei switches to plan B; make her bashful. They strip down and start posing while holding up a "We love Chisa" banner. Doesn't work either.
    Kouhei: She looks like she's looking at trash.
  • Just to note, Kouhei is getting these ideas from Dating Sims.
• Plan C; lifting up her skirt, which Iori was already onto the moment Kouhei mentioned Chisa's outfit first.
  • They achieve this by throwing bouncy balls at her feet, which ricochet off the ground and lift her skirt up. They already acknowledge that Chisa would kill them for it (specifically Iori), so Kouhei suggests they all throw balls so she won't know who did it... Except not really. Iori's the only one actually throwing the balls at Chisa while the rest of the club sits back and encourages him. Iori's too caught up in the moment to notice until it's too late.
  • While Iori is throwing balls at Chisa, Nanaka is taking snaps shot of her at a rapid rate.
  • By the time Iori realizes the club betrayed him, Chisa already spotted him. This cuts to Iori and Kouhei hiding in the bushes while an immensely pissed off Chisa is hunting them with a metal bat.
    Kouhei: ...Hurry up and let her execute you.
    Iori: You bastard! You act like you're innocent!
• Chisa finds Iori while the club is partying in his room. And surprisingly, she recognizes what they were really trying to do and forgives him. Then Iori ruins it by promising to buy her sexy underwear, at which point she forces him to drink a 2 liter bottle of Shōchū.
• After winning the beauty pageant, Chisa faux-happily announces that Iori, who's passed out drunk on a box and naked on the stage, is her boyfriend. For the purpose of warding off unwanted suitors, who are outraged and chanting for Iori's death.

Episode 5

• For whatever reason, Iori and Kouhei are in their undies in class. Though they're mostly focused on guessing why every guy in the room is giving Iori the Death Glare.
  • And straight up disturbed by Chisa smiling and acting cheerful. And pretending to have nothing to do with what's going on.
  • The duo only figure out why Iori is suddenly Hated by All when one of the jealous students throws a knife pass Iori's head into the wall, with a message that says "Break up with Chisa Kotegawa or we'll kill you".
• Kouhei attempting to ditch Iori when he realizes the crowd is only mad at him for "dating" Chisa. Iori immediately ropes him back in by announcing that he confessed to "Azusa" (Iori).
• The mixer is a colossal trainwreck of sabotage, starting from Aina and her friends all showing up in "Cakey"-style heavy makeup, and ending with all of the boys being too busy backstabbing each other to accomplish anything.

Episode 6

• The boys all make plans to cheat on their German test, and each one starts to go awry.
  • Their German teacher takes pity on them and hands out a few "freebie questions"... that involve translating very complex or nonsensical phrases.
• Aina introduces herself to the Peek-a-Boo members, but each time it cuts back to the male members they get increasingly naked. She then gets increasingly flustered as she gets exposed to the eccentricities of the female members of the club, before weeping over the fact that there's nobody else in the club that's normal.
  • Her reactions to the club's naked Rock-Paper-Scissors is a near-perfect recreation of Iori's own first reactions.
• Iori and Kouhei have an argument over whether mushroom snacks or bamboo snacks are better, and as usual, are forced to settle it with a game. The game of choice is... a Pocky game, naturally suggested by Azusa. However, without any Pocky, they settle with the next best thing — a log of hard candy. Cue the suggestive silhouette.
  Ryuujirou: This looks worse than I imagined.
  Azusa: We can't let Chii-chan and Aina see this.
• Ryuujirou and Shinji test Iori's and Kouhei's knowledge of hand signals used in diving. As expected, they terribly misinterpret it.

Episode 7

• The engineering boys visit Iori's room, and mistake the various items left strewn about by the other club members as his own, creating the misconception that he's into crossdressing.
• During the tennis match, Iori and Kouhei discover the rest of the Peek-a-Boo members were sabotaged as Tinkerbell gave them some very strong drinks, leaving them too drunk to play. They counter-sabotage Tinkerbell by switching their drinks.
• The whole diving club tries to cheer Chisa on... with "Nice buddy!" after she displays exceptional teamwork. All traces of subtlety vanish when she delivers a good bodyshot, which elicits cheers of "Nice body!"
• After Kouhei's displays of mediocrity, Iori salvages his match... by knocking Kouhei out with his serve, allowing them to swap out with team powerhouses Ryuujirou and Shinji.

Episode 8

• After finding out that Ryuujirou works at a bar, Iori and Kouhei respectively imagine him as a debt collector and a stripper. When find out that he's just a regular barkeep, Kouhei prostrates and apologizes while Iori reels in horror.
• When Ryuujirou unwittingly attracts a female customer he's giving relationship advice to, Iori and Kouhei ask the owner to stab him in the head.
• Kouhei and Iori, while trying out at Ryuujirou's bartending part-time job, watch him prepare a couple gin limes for Azusa and Chisa. They think that the drinks' names are indicative of their ingredients. Therefore, when Aina orders a screwdriver^note a drink made by mixing orange juice and vodka, Iori and Kouhei get very Literal-Minded about it. They apologize when Aina tells them off and serve her another screwdriver... a flathead screwdriver. She nearly stabs them with it in response.
  • Despite looking damn good in bartender outfits, they admit it feels weird to wear clothes near a bunch of beer. Azusa can relate.
• The two are given a menu to look over so they can get the ingredients right, but then Kouhei starts making Imagine Spot's from looking at the names of the drinks. For example, "Cherry Blossom" prompts a naked Shinichirou with a rose in his mouth asking whoever to take his vignity. Iori imagine this, and blames/attacks Kouhei for it.
• Aina requesting the two amateur bartenders to reenact the coolness of bars in movies. Which they mess up horribly.
  • Kouhei shakes a bottle without the cap, splashing against Iori's face. Iori just stares with no reaction.
  • Kouhei slides a drink over to Iori, and it splashes his face.
  • The two makes cheers, and Iori pours his drink over Kouhei's eyes, causing him immense pain.
    Iori: A toast for your beautiful eyes.
    Aina: You ruined the beautiful scene in my head!
• The bar owner misinterpreting Iori and Kouhei's sexual orientation, no thanks to Ryuujirou and Azusa, with his hair popping out the more he asks Iori about his partner.
  • Iori has no idea that Ryuujirou's boss is talking about Kouhei and just answers his questions with Chisa in mind. Nevertheless, every question Iori's asked describes both of them to a tee. ^note  Short hair, cold look but an airhead, has a lot of barriers between them.
• After the bar owner gets instantly intoxicated on Peek-a-Boo-style "oolong tea", Iori leans into his ear, whispering "If you fall asleep here, I don't know what's going to happen to you." The bar owner sobers up immediately.
• Iori calls Mitarai over the phone, but then hears the sounds of bedsheets and a girl. After hanging up, Iori tells his friends and:

  Iori: Let's go set him on fire.

• An unintentional one through translation: The mechanical engineering guys attempt to sabotage Yuu's night with his childhood friend Rie, first by posing as a postman delivering adult videos (abbreviated "AV" in Japanese) to his door. Yuu clumsily covers this up by explaining "AV" as short for "animal videos". The subs, however, translate "adult video" to "porn video" and omit the abbreviation, which makes Yuu's explanation sound a lot worse even in context.
  • The postman in question is Shinichirou and the videos belong to him. When asked about him sacrificing his vids for this;
    Shinichirou: I don't care. If my unhappiness can destroy his happiness.
• After that, they try screwing with him with a silhouette quiz through the window. Iori's posing The Burlesque of Venus, but thinks he's doing the Thinker instead.
• Next Iori changes his phone ID to "Ami" messages Mitarai. This time Rie gets wise, takes/looks through the phone and Neck Lift's him into the air.
• When Mitarai foils that plan, Kouhei almost leaves the crew to squalor. Then he hears Rie call Mitarai "Onii-Chan" and he shows his Forbidden Technique; he perfectly mimics the sound of three different girls calling Mitarai out.
  • The sound of Kouhei's girl voice makes Mitarai headbutt Rie in shock just as they were about to kiss.