It has been announced that the second season of the TV anime "Blue Lock," based on the soccer manga currently being serialized in "Weekly Shonen Magazine" (Kodansha), will begin airing in October.
The announcement was made at a stage greeting for the animated feature film "Blue Lock: Episode Nagi" (directed by Shunsuke Ishikawa) held in Tokyo on May 6th. The film was released on April 19th and has been a huge hit, grossing over 1.2 billion yen in its third week of release. The stage greeting was attended by Nobunaga Shimazaki, who plays Seishiro Nagi, Yuma Uchida, who plays Reo Mikage, and Kazuki Ura, who plays Yoichi Isagi.
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`` Blue Lock'' is a manga written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yusuke Nomura, and has been serialized in ``Weekly Shonen Magazine'' (Kodansha) since 2018. A national project called `` Blue Lock (Blue Prison)'' has begun to create an ``absolute ace striker'' who will lead Japan to victory in the World Cup, and 300 high school students will compete against each other. .
The work setting of a battle royale in which 300 strikers fight for survival and the unique characters have gained popularity. The comics have sold over 30 million copies in total. The first season of the TV anime aired from October 2022 to March 2023.
The movie is based on the spin-off "Blue Lock: Episode Nagi," starring the popular character Seishiro Nagi. Seishiro Nagi, who has an extraordinary sense of soccer, meets Reo Mikage, the heir of the large corporation Mikage Corporation, and they start playing soccer together with the goal of winning the World Cup.