At their industry panel at Anime Expo 2024, Crunchyroll confirmed that BLUE LOCK Season 2 will be streaming on the platform from October 2024. The anime revealed the main trailer and an October 5 premiere date for Japan earlier at the event. Studio 8bit is animating. Crunchyroll uploaded the introduction video with English subtitles, which you can check out below.
Crunchyroll will stream the anime in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East and CIS. The anime previously revealed the main visual and new cast additions.
Studio 8bit animated the first BLUE LOCK season, which in October last year and ran for 2 cours. The main cast of Blue Lock anime includes Soma Saito (Hyoma Chigiri), Kazuki Ura (Yoichi Isagi), Yuki Ono (Rensuke Kunigami), and Tasuku Kaito (Meguru Bachira). The BLUE LOCK – EPISODE Nagi movie premiered in Japan on April 19, adapting the spin-off manga by Kota Sannomiya. Crunchyroll brought it to North America starting on June 28.
The anime is based on a manga written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yusuke Nomura. Kodansha is publishing the manga in English, and they describe the story:
After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan’s team struggles to regroup. But what’s missing? An absolute Ace Striker, who can guide them to the win! The Football Association is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, and who can be the decisive instrument in turning around a losing match … To do so, they’ve gathered 300 of Japan’s best and brightest youth players. Who will emerge to lead the team … and will they be able to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in their way?
Source: Official X
©Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura, Kodansha/”Blue Lock” Production Committee
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