Blue Lock Season 2 Episode 4 Preview Teases Emotional Match Between Nagi and Reo

After the first match of the U-20 tryouts between Team A led by Shidou and Rin and Team B led by Eita and Tabito came to a surprising conclusion at the end of Blue Lock Season 2 Episode 3, fans are ready to see what's next in the anime's story arc that's being dubbed as BLUE LOCK vs. U-20 JAPAN. The stakes are now higher, since the winners of these matches will be qualified to play in the match against Japan's greatest players, but the losers will be forced to leave and lose their soccer careers forever.

The sports thriller anime, which is based on the original manga by author Muneyuki Kaneshiro and artist Yusuke Nomura, has another exciting match for BLUE LOCK vs. U-20 JAPAN, and today, the official website and accounts of the anime have revealed the preview stills for Blue Lock Season 2 Episode 4, which is set to release this Saturday.

Check out the preview stills for Blue Lock Season 2 Episode 4 in the image gallery below:

What will happen in Blue Lock Season 2 Episode 4?

The final scenes of last week's episode of Blue Lock Season 2 teased the next match between Team A and Team C, which will see the former best friends Nagi Seishiro and Reo Mikage competing against each other. Each of them will have to prove themselves worth of a spot on the U-20 team, or risk being sent home and kiss their soccer careers good-bye. We can expect this match to be an emotional one as both players are motivated to improve and prove themselves on the soccer field.

According to the English translation in Blue Lock's official website, the title of the fourth episode of the anime's second season is Chameleon. The official synopsis for Blue Lock Season 2 Episode 4 reads:

After the match against Team B, Kiyoshi, Hiori and Nanase congratulated each other on their good fight, while thinking about ways to improve the reproducibility of the new sensation of "thinking by reflex" that he had acquired in the match. At the same time, the second match of the aptitude test (tryout) began between Team A, which replaced all members except Rin and Shido, and Team C, led by Yukimiya Kenyuu and Nagi Seishiro. Before fighting together with Nagi for the first time in a long time, Reo was motivated to prove his own growth. At the beginning of the match, Yukimiya displayed overwhelming dribbling skills worthy of a TOP6 player. It seemed like he would score a goal on his own, but his teammate Nagi was at the end of the shot...

Where to Watch Blue Lock Season 2 Episode 4

New episodes of Blue Lock Season 2 will be released weekly every Saturday, and fans in North America and other select regions can stream them on Crunchyroll. The upcoming fourth episode of Season 2 is set to premiere on Saturday, October 16, 2024 on the platform. You can expect the next episode uploaded on Crunchyroll on 7:30 AM Pacific Time (PT).

Blue Lock Season 2 is confirmed to have a total of 14 episodes, so we can expect 10 more new episodes to arrive this Fall 2024 anime season.

Blue Lock Season 2 Cast & Staff

The Japanese voice cast of Blue Lock anime 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

Blue Lock Season 2 staff includes:

• General Director: Yuji Haibara

• Director: Shintaro Inokawa

• Series Composition/Screenplay: Taku Kishimoto

• Story supervisor: Muneyuki Kaneshiro

• Character Design / Chief Animation Director: Kenji Tanabe

• Chief Animation Director: Tomoko Mori, Sorato Shimizu

• Action Director: Tadami Okimura

• Animation Studio: Eight Bit

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?

Watch the official trailer for Blue Lock Season 2 below:

As of today, Blue Lock manga has 30 volumes published, with Vol. 31 recently released on October 14, 2024. The series is being published in English by Kodansha USA, and there are currently 27 volumes released.

For more information about Blue Lock Season 2, check out the official website of the sports anime.