On the official site for the anime adaptation of the manga Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yuusuke Nomura“Blue Lock“, it was announced that The second season of the project will premiere during Fall-2024 (October-December) in Japan. This statement comes after the broadcast of the spin-off film “Blue Lock: Episode Nagi” in theaters.
Besides, Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yuusuke Nomura They publish the manga in the magazine Weekly Shonen Magazine from the publisher Kodansha since August 2018. The first season of twenty-four episodes premiered during the season of Fall-2022 (October-December)followed by the movie “Blue Lock: Episode Nagi“, released in April of this year.
Production team
- Tetsuaki Watanabe (Powerful Pro Yakyū Powerful Kōkō-hen) is in charge of directing the anime at the studios 8-Bit (Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken), with the assistance of Shunsuke Ishikawa.
- Taku Kishimoto (Haikyuu!!, Silver Spoon, Fruits Basket (2019)) is in charge of writing and supervising the scripts.
- Yutaka Uemura (Youjo Senki) is in charge of conceptual designs while Masaru Shindou (Fruits Basket, Macross Delta, Oregairu) is in charge of character designs and animation direction, with the assistance of Kenji Tanabe and Kento Toya.
Blue Lock Synopsis
The story begins with the elimination of the Japan National Team from the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which prompts the Japan Football Union to start a training program to prepare a team of high school students who will participate in the 2022 World Cup. Isagi Yoichi, a forward, receives an invitation to join this program shortly after his team misses a chance to participate in the Nationals, due to passing the ball to his less skilled teammate, who obviously He missed the shot, which showed Isagi’s cowardice in not daring to finish the play himself.
Their coach will be Ego Jinpachi, who intends to put an end to the idea of “weak Japan in football” by applying a radical new training regime: isolating 300 young forwards in a prison-like institution called “Blue Lock”, and subjecting them to to rigorous training that will create “the greatest, most talented and selfish striker in the world.”
Fountain: Comic Natalie
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