Our favorite soccer players are back, and they’re hungry for more competition! Popular sports anime BLUE LOCK’s season two was confirmed on Sunday and will begin airing in October 2024. Season two will cover the U-20 Arc, where the BLUE LOCK Project’s 11 selected players will go cleat-to-cleat against the Japan Football Association’s Under 20 team. Who will come out on top, and what kind of skills will our favorite strikers have to face?
BLUE LOCK Season 2
In celebration of season two’s release date, BLUE LOCK’s manga artist Yusuke Nomura released a new illustration:
BLUE LOCK fans have a lot to look forward to this year. Last month, BLUE LOCK announced it’s getting its own movie, titled BLUE LOCK THE MOVIE – EPISODE NAGI –, which will release in the United States on June 28 in Japanese with English subtitles, and dubbed in English. Based on the spinoff manga, the film centers around fan-favorite player Nagi Seishiro, revealing more background about Nagi’s life and his introduction into soccer from his high school friend Reo Mikage (also a fellow BLUE LOCK Project striker). The movie will be from Nagi’s perspective and experience of the BLUE LOCK Project.
About the Series
BLUE LOCK follows the story of Japan’s hunt to find the next big and best striker, with a burning desire to be the next World Cup winner. As a result of placing 16th place in the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the Japanese Football Association launched the BLUE LOCK Project. This training program and competition, pitched and run by Ego Jinpachi, recruited 300 high school strikers with the intent to improve their skills and build a strong ego, yet whittle them down to find out who the best player will be. Who will come out on top and become Japan’s next striker?
The first season of BLUE LOCK is available to watch on Crunchyroll.
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