A second season and an anime film adaptation have been announced.īy April 2023, the manga had over 25.5 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series. It has been serialized in Kodansha‘s Weekly Shōnen Magazine since August 2018, with its chapters collected in 24 tankōbon volumes as of May 2023.Īn anime television series adaptation produced by Eight Bit aired from October 2022 to March 2023. Using this golden opportunity given by the Blue Lock Project, Yoichi aims to clear his doubts and chase his ultimate desire-to become the greatest striker in the world and lead Japan to World Cup glory.īlue Lock ( Japanese: ブルーロック, Hepburn: Burū Rokku) (stylized as BLUELOCK) is a Japanese manga series written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yusuke Nomura. After choosing to pass to a teammate who missed instead of scoring on his own, he could not help but wonder if the results would have been different had he been more selfish. Selected to join this risky project is Yoichi Isagi, a striker who failed to bring his high school soccer team to the national tournament. The sole survivor of Blue Lock will earn the right to become the national team’s striker, and those who are defeated shall be banned from joining the team forever. Believing that Japan has lacked an egoistic striker hungry for goals, Jinpachi initiates the Blue Lock-a prison-like facility where three hundred talented strikers from high schools all over Japan are isolated and pitted against each other. After reflecting on the current state of Japanese soccer, the Japanese Football Association decides to hire the enigmatic and eccentric coach Jinpachi Ego to achieve their dream of winning the World Cup.
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