The official website and accounts of BLUE LOCK vs. U-20 JAPAN, Season 2 of the TV anime adaptation of Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yūsuke Nomura's BLUELOCK soccer manga series, have announced that Mamoru Miyano is voicing the new character Michael Kaiser. The casting update was revealed after the broadcast of the Season 2 finale in Japan in which Miyano's character briefly appeared. Miyano is best known for voicing Light in Death Note, Okabe in Steins;Gate, and Daizai in Bungo Stray Dogs.
Although the season finale teased the Neo Egoist League, a sequel or continuation is yet to be officially announced. Here's the official announcement from BLUE LOCK's official X account:
BLUE LOCK Season 2 debuted on October 5, 2024, and it consisted of 14 episodes. The second season "focuses on the match between BLUE LOCK and the U-20 National Japan team, in which the survival of the BLUE LOCK project is at stake." Both seasons of BLUE LOCK are currently streaming on Crunchyroll in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS. The official English dub of the anime is also available to stream on Crunchyroll.
The Japanese voice cast of BLUE LOCK Season 2 includes:
Kazuki Ura as Yoichi Isagi
Koki Uchiyama as Rin Itoshi
Tasuku Kaito as Meguru Bachira
Nobunaga Shimazaki as Seishiro Nagi
Kengo Kawanishi as Eita Otoya
Takuya Eguchi as Kenyu Yukimiya
Yuichi Nakamura as Ryusei Shido
Makoto Furukawa as Tabito Karasu
Eiji Mikami as Yo Hiori
Kakeru Hatano as Nijiro Nanase
Soma Saito as Hyoma Chigiri
Yuma Uchida as Reo Mikage
Junichi Suwabe as Shoei Baro
Natsuki Hanae as Ikki Niko
Ryota Suzuki as Junichi Wanima
Katsuyuki Konishi as Jyubei Aryu
Shugo Nakamura as Gin Gagamaru
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Jingo Raichi
Aoi Ichikawa as Gurimu Igarashi
Kazuyuki Okitsu as Zantetsu Tsurugi
Shinnosuke Tachibana as Aoshi Tokimitsu
Eri Yukimura as Anri Teieri
Hiroshi Kamiya as Jinpachi Ego
Takahiro Sakurai as Sae Itoshi
Satoshi Hino as Oliver Aiku
Akihisa Wakayama as Shuto Sendo
Yuji Haibara (The Slime Diaries) is directing BLUE LOCK Season 2 at studio Eight Bit (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime). Taku Kishimoto is the series composer, Kenji Tanabe is the character designer, Muneyuki Kaneshiro is the story supervisor, and Jun Murayama is the music composer.
What is Blue Lock about?
The anime is based on the award-winning Blue Lock (ブルーロック, Burū Rokku) manga series written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yusuke Nomura. The sports/thriller series began publishing in 2018 under Weekly Shonen Magazine, and it won the 45th Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category. Crunchyroll, which is streaming the first season of the anime, shared a plot description for Blue Lock:
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?
As of December 2024, Blue Lock manga has 32 volumes published. The series is being published in English by Kodansha USA, and there are currently 27 volumes released. For the latest information about Blue Lock Season 2, check out the official website of the sports anime.
