Blue Lock Season 2 is set to premiere in October 2024, according to the official website. A new illustration by manga artist Yusuke Nomura was revealed to commemorate the announcement which fans can view below:
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Blue Lock Season 2 was originally announced after the finale of Season 1 in March 2023. The series announced a movie titled Blue Lock: Episode Nagi, which is set to release in theaters across Japan on June 28, 2024, with studio 8bit handling the animation production.
The first season of Blue Lock ran for a total of 24 episodes starting in the Fall 2022 season. It went on to win Sports Anime of the Year at the 2022 Anime Corner Awards and placed third behind Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War Arc and Mob Psycho 100 Season 3 for Fall 2022 Anime of the Season. It was also the eighth-highest-rated anime (8.27) for Fall 2022 on MyAnimeList and ranked ninth for the season on Anilist with an 81% score.
Blue Lock is an anime adaptation of the original manga series written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yusuke Nomura which began publishing in 2018 under Weekly Shonen Magazine. The first season of Blue Lock was directed by Tetsuaki Watanabe and animated by studio 8bit. Taku Kishimoto was in charge of the series composition and script. Kenji Tanabe and Kento Toya were in charge of the character designs.
Crunchyroll is streaming the first season with English subtitles and describes the series as:
Japan’s desire for World Cup glory leads the Japanese Football Association to launch a new rigorous training program to find the national team’s next striker. Three hundred high school players are pitted against each other for the position, but only one will come out on top. Who among them will be the striker to usher in a new era of Japanese soccer?
Blue Lock Season 2 is set to release in October 2024.
Source: Official Website, Official X (formerly Twitter)
©Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura, Kodansha/”Blue Lock” Production Committee
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