Crunchyroll announced that it will be streaming BLUE LOCK Season 2 starting on October 5 at 9 am PT. The highly-anticipated sequel premieres in Japan on the same day and to help fans refresh their memories of the first season, Crunchyroll prepared a recap video:
The second season of the BLUE LOCK anime, BLUE LOCK vs. U-20 JAPAN, is slated to run for 14 episodes. Studio 8bit is returning to animate, with Yuji Haibara as the chief director and Shintaro Inokawa as the director. Taku Kishimoto is doing the character designs with original author Mineyuki Kaneshiro on story composition. Kenji Tanabe is returning as the character designer (Kento Toya, who also worked as a character designer on the first season is not). Jun Murayama is composing the music. The cast returns and now includes:
- Kazuki Ura as Yoichi Isagi
- Tasuku Kaito as Bachira Megumi
- Hiroshi Kamiya as Ego Jinpachi
- Eri Yukimura as Anri Teieri
- Soma Saito as Hyoma Chigiri
- Junichi Suwabe as Shoei Barou
- Shuugo Nakamura as Gin Gagamaru
- Aoi Ichikawa as Gurimu Igarashi
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Seishiro Nagi
- Yuma Uchida as Reo Mikage
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Jingo Raichi
- Kazuyuki Okitsu as Zanetsu Tsurugi
- Ryota Suzuki as Junichi Wanima
- Natsuki Hanae as Ikki Niko
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Jyubei Aryu
- Shinnosuke Tachibana as Aoshi Tokimitsu
- Kouki Uchiyama as Rin Itoshi
- Takahiro Sakurai as Sae Itoshi
- Eiji Mikami as Yo Hiori
- Makoto Furukawa as Tabito Karasu
- Kakeru Hatano as Nijiro Nanase
- Kengo Kawanishi as Eita Otoya
- Yuichi Nakamura as Ryusei Shidou
- Takuya Eguchi as Kenyu Yukimiya
In addition to the recap, Crunchyroll also revealed the English0subtitled version of the second trailer:
Crunchyroll is streaming the first season of the Blue Lock anime and has already confirmed streaming of the second season this fall. The streaming platform describes the plot:
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?
The prequel Blue Lock: Episode Nagi movie premiered worldwide this summer.
Source: Press Release
©Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura, Kodansha/”Blue Lock” Production Committee
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