The brand new 14-episode season premieres on October 5

The workers for the second tv anime season primarily based on Muneyuki Kaneshiro And Yusuke Nomura‘S BLUELOCK soccer manga revealed the title for the brand new season on Sunday. The brand new season is titled BLUE LOCK vs. U-20 JAPANThe workers additionally unveiled a brand new visible.

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The brand new season could have 14 episodes and “concentrate on the match between BLUE LOCK and the Japanese nationwide U-20 group, with the survival of the BLUE LOCK undertaking at stake.”

The workers additionally unveiled 4 pictures of the BLUE LOCK U-20 uniforms.

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©︎ Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura, Kodansha / ‘BLUE LOCK’ Manufacturing Committee

The anime will debut on October 5 and can air in a brand new programming block on TV Asahi which will probably be broadcast on Saturday at 23:30. This system block is entitled IM animation. Crispy bread will stream the anime in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Center East, and the CIS nations.

New forged members embody: Eiji Mikami as Yo Hiori, Kakeru Hatano as Nijiro Nanase, Satoshi Hino as Oliver Aiku, and Akihisa Wakayama as Shūto Sendō.

Unison Sq. Backyard will sing the opening theme tune “Bо̄jaku no Charisma”.

The primary season of the anime, consisting of 24 episodes, premiered in Japan in October 2022. TV Asahi and its companions within the NUMAnimation programming block. Crispy bread streamed the sequence because it aired and can be streaming an English dub.

The anime movie of Kota Sannomiya‘S BLUELOCK -Episode Nagi- spinoff manga premiered in Japan on April 19. The movie offered 337,000 tickets and earned 463 million yen (roughly US$2.99 ​​million) in its first three days, and peaked at #2 on the Japanese field workplace in its opening weekend. The movie premiered in North America on June 28. The spinoff manga focuses on Seishirō Nagi earlier than he takes on the title function Blue lock facility. Kodansha USA Writer introduced in October that the spin-off manga will probably be launched in print in fall 2024.

Kodansha USA Writer publishes the unique BLUELOCK manga in English digitally, and can be releasing it in print. The corporate describes the story:

After a disastrous defeat on the 2018 World Cup, Japan are struggling to bounce again. However what’s lacking? An absolute high striker, who can make them glory. The Japan Soccer Affiliation is set to create a striker who’s hungry for targets and thirsty for victory, and who could be the decisive instrument to show a dropping sport round… and to take action, they’ve assembled 300 of Japan’s greatest and brightest youth gamers. Who will lead the group… and can they be capable to overpower anybody who stands of their approach with muscle and ego?

Kaneshiro and Nomura launched the manga in Weekly Shōnen Journal in August 2018. The manga received the Greatest Shōnen Manga Award in Kodansha‘s forty fifth Annual Manga Awards in 2021.

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