Following the broadcast of the twenty-fourth and final episode, the production of a second season for the anime adaptation of the manga written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yuusuke Nomura , Blue Lock , was announced . Additionally, Kouta Sannomiya 's spinoff manga Blue Lock: Episode Nagi will be adapted into an anime in the form of a movie. However, no release date was announced for either of these two new projects.
On the other hand, Kaneshiro and Nomura have published the manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine since August 2018. The work already exceeds 5 million copies in accumulated circulation and won the " Best Shonen Manga Award " in the fortieth fifth edition of the Kodansha Manga Awards .
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 out on a chance to participate in the Nationals, due to passing the ball to his less skilled teammate, who obviously he missed the shot, denoting Isagi's cowardice in not daring to finish the play himself.
Their coach will be Ego Jinpachi, who intends to do away with the idea of "weak Japan in football" by applying a radical new training regimen: 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 forward in the world."
Fuente: Comic Natalie
(c)︎Muneyuki Kinjo, Yusuke Nomura, Kodansha/Blue Rock Production Committee
