Blue Lock Season 2’s opening theme song has been announced and previewed via a new video. The song is “Boujaku Charisma” and is performed by UNISON SQUARE GARDEN.
Blue Lock Season 2 is set to premiere in Japan on October 5 JST. Season 1 began airing during the Fall 2022 anime season and ran for 24 episodes.
The anime adapts the Kodansha-published Blue Lock manga series written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yusuke Nomura, which began serialization in Weekly Shonen Magazine in August 2018 and has 29 volumes as of May 2024. Kodansha USA describes the manga as:
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…and 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?
There is a spin-off manga titled Blue Lock -Episode Nagi- written by Kaneshiro and drawn by Kota Sannomiya, which has been adapted into an anime movie.
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Staff
• Chief director. co-3DCG director, special compositor and graphic work designer: Yuji Haibara (The Slime Diaries director)
• Director: Shintaro Inokawa (Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Episode 24 and 42 director; Migi and Dali Episode 4 and 11 storyboard artist, Episode 4 co-director)
• Series composer and scriptwriter: Taku Kishimoto (returning)
• Story supervision: Muneyuki Kaneshiro
• Character designer and co-chief animation director: Kenji Tanabe (returning)
• Animation production company: Eight Bit
Cast
• Kazuki Ura as Yoichi Isagi
• Tasuku Kaito as Meguru Bachira
• Soma Saito as Hyoma Chigiri
• Nobunaga Shimazaki as Seishiro Nagi
• Yuma Uchida as Reo Mikage
• Satoshi Hino as Oliver Aiku
• Akihisa Wakayama as Shuto Sendo
• Eiji Mikami as Yo Hiori
• Kakeru Hatano as Nijiro Nanase
Source: EMOTION Label Channel
