Blue Lock Season 2, one of the most highly-anticipated anime sequels this year, is almost here. Today, Crunchyroll has announced that it will be streaming the second season starting on October 5 at 9 a.m. PT. The sports thriller anime will return on the same day in Japan, and to help fans refresh their memories of Season 1, Crunchyroll shared a recap video, which you can watch below:
The second season of the anime, dubbed BLUE LOCK vs. U-20 JAPAN, is confirmed to consist of 14 episodes. Shintaro Inokawa will direct the sequel at Studio Eight Bit, with original manga author Mineyuki Kaneshiro on story composition. Taku Kishimoto is in charge of the character designs; and Jun Murayama composed the music.
In addition to the recap video, Crunchyroll also released an English subtitled version of the second trailer for Blue Lock Season 2:
Blue Lock Season 2 was originally announced after the finale of the first season back in March 2023. The first season originally premiered in October 2022 and ran for a total of 24 episodes until March 2023, and Studio Eight Bit produced the animation. Japan's impressive performance at the FIFA World Cup contributed well to the popularity of the series and helped boost sales of the Blue Lock manga. Season 1 was a huge hit, and as of November 2023, the manga has sold over 30 million copies, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time, so it's not surprising that it didn't take long for Blue Lock to get renewed for Season 2.
Here's the main key visual for Blue Lock Season 2:
The 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
The staff of Blue Lock Season 2 are listed below:
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
Chief 3D Layout Artist: Mio Sakuma
Prop and costume design: Tomoko Mori, Kaho Iida
Animation Special Effects: Akane
Color Design: Sakura Komatsu
Art Setting: Mio Sakuma
Art Director: Masakazu Miyake
Background: Creative Freaks
Director of Photography: Yasuhiro Asagi
Photography: Chiptune
Special Compositor and Graphic Work: Yuji Haibara
Special Effects Processing: Kanako Yamada
3DCG Director: Tomoki Yamashita, Yuji Haibara
3DCG Chief Animator: Norimitsu Hirosawa
3DCG: Aura Studio
Edit: Mai Hasegawa
Sound Director: Fumiyuki Go
Sound Production: Bit Groove Promotion
Music: Jun Murayama
Producers: Ryoya Arisawa, Naoya Sato, Yusuke Kawakatsu, Hiroshi Yanai
Animation Producer: Hidenori Kosuge
Animation Production: 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?
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