On the official site for the anime adaptation
of Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yuusuke Nomura's manga
, “ Blue Lock ”,
a special video for the second season of the project was revealed. The video
introduces two new characters, including Eiji Mikami as Yo
Hiori and Kakeru Hatano as Nijiro Nanase.
It should be remembered that this second
season has its premiere scheduled for Fall-2024 (October-December) in Japan ,
while the spin-off film “Blue Lock: Episode Nagi” had a good reception in
theaters during its screenings in Japan.
On the other hand, Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yuusuke
Nomura have published the manga in Kodansha 's Weekly
Shonen Magazine since August 2018. The first season of twenty-four
episodes premiered during the Fall-2022 season (October-December) ,
followed by the movie “ Blue Lock: Episode Nagi “, released in
April of this year.
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.”
Source: Comic Natalie
(c) Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura, Kodansha /
"Blue Lock" Production Committee
