{"id":58446,"date":"2023-03-25T15:57:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T22:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=58446"},"modified":"2024-04-09T15:46:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T22:46:24","slug":"bluelock-receives-second-season-film-reveals-more-cast-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/03\/25\/bluelock-receives-second-season-film-reveals-more-cast-members\/","title":{"rendered":"BLUE LOCK Receives Second Season &amp; Film, Reveals More Cast Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the broadcast of its 24th and final episode, the production team for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2022\/09\/23\/blue-lock-reveals-introduction-movie-2-cour-format-and-mobile-game\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BLUE LOCK<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has announced that a second season and anime film have been green-lit. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2022\/12\/24\/bluelock-reveals-second-selection-arc-key-visual-new-op-theme-song\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">24-episode first anime season<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ran from October 9, 2022 to March 26, 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The film will be titled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BLUE LOCK: Episode Nagi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which adapts the spinoff manga of the same name that is serialized in Kodansha&#8217;s Bessatsu Shounen Magazine since June 9, 2022. The manga focuses on Seishirou Nagi before his time at the Bluelock facility. Two tankoubon volumes of the series have been released as of March 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300e\u30d6\u30eb\u30fc\u30ed\u30c3\u30af\u300f \u7d9a\u7de8\u6c7a\u5b9aPV\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WhuXUkb-0YY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The official website also confirmed six new cast members that will join the show. They include <\/span><b>Yuuichi Nakamura<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Ryuusei Shidou, <\/span><b>Makoto Furukawa<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Tabito Karasu, <\/span><b>Kengo Kawanishi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Eita Otoya, <\/span><b>Takuya Eguchi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Kenyu Yukimiya, <\/span><b>Hiro Shimono<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Julian Loki, and <\/span><b>Shinichirou Kamio<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Leonardo Luna. They join a main voice cast that features <\/span><b>Kazuki Ura<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Yoichi Isagi, <\/span><b>Tasuku Kaito<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Meguru Bachira, <\/span><b>Yuuki Ono<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as Rensuke Kunigami, and <\/span><b>Souma Saitou <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as Hyoma Chigiri.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The production staff of BLUELOCK includes <\/span><b>Tetsuaki Watanabe<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mahoujin Guru Guru<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> assistant director) as director, <\/span><b>Shunsuke Ishikawa<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Season 2 episode director) as co-director,<\/span><b> Taku Kishimoto<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ranking of Kings<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as series screenwriter, <\/span><b>Kenji Tanabe<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 8th son? Are you kidding me?<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) and <\/span><b>Kento Toya<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as character designers, and <\/span><b>Masaru Shindou<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fruits Basket The Final<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> character designer) as main character designer. Tanabe, Toya, and Shindou are also chief animation directors.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_58449\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58449\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"58449\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/03\/25\/bluelock-receives-second-season-film-reveals-more-cast-members\/bluelock-season-2-announcement-visual-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bluelock-season-2-announcement-visual-1.jpg?fit=1080%2C771&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1080,771\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bluelock season 2 announcement visual\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;\u00a9 MK,\u200bYN,\u200bK\/\u200bBLP&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bluelock-season-2-announcement-visual-1.jpg?fit=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bluelock-season-2-announcement-visual-1.jpg?fit=696%2C497&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-58449\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bluelock-season-2-announcement-visual-1.jpg?resize=650%2C464&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"bluelock season 2 announcement visual\" width=\"650\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bluelock-season-2-announcement-visual-1.jpg?resize=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bluelock-season-2-announcement-visual-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C731&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bluelock-season-2-announcement-visual-1.jpg?resize=768%2C548&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bluelock-season-2-announcement-visual-1.jpg?resize=100%2C70&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bluelock-season-2-announcement-visual-1.jpg?resize=696%2C497&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bluelock-season-2-announcement-visual-1.jpg?resize=1068%2C762&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bluelock-season-2-announcement-visual-1.jpg?resize=588%2C420&amp;ssl=1 588w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bluelock-season-2-announcement-visual-1.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">\u00a9 MK,\u200bYN,\u200bK\/\u200bBLP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other staff members include <\/span><b>Hisashi Higashijima<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mahoujin Guru Guru<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> co-main animator) as chief action director, <\/span><b>Hiromi Sakamoto<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Caligula<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> co-main animator) as action director,<\/span><b> Sakura Komatsu<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Irregular at Magic High School: Reminiscence Arc<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as color designer,<\/span><b> Takagi Sawako<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Dropkick on My Devil!) as art director,<\/span><b> Asagi Yasuhiro <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kageki Shoujo!!<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as photography director, and <\/span><b>Jun Murayama<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as music composer. <\/span><b>Akane<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is credited with the animation special effects and <\/span><b>Eight Bit <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is the animation production company.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The anime series is based on the manga written by <\/span><b>Muneyuki Kaneshiro<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and illustrated by <\/span><b>Yuusuke Nomura<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. It was first serialized on August 1, 2018 in Kodansha\u2019s Weekly Shonen Magazine under the Kodansha Comics label. Twenty-three tankoubon volumes have been released as of March 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52629\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52629\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"52629\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2022\/12\/24\/bluelock-reveals-second-selection-arc-key-visual-new-op-theme-song\/bluelock-second-selection-anime-key-visual-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bluelock-second-selection-anime-key-visual-1.jpg?fit=857%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"857,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bluelock second selection anime key visual\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;\u00a9 MK,\u200bYN,\u200bK\/\u200bBLP&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bluelock-second-selection-anime-key-visual-1.jpg?fit=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bluelock-second-selection-anime-key-visual-1.jpg?fit=696%2C975&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-52629\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bluelock-second-selection-anime-key-visual-1.jpg?resize=350%2C490&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"bluelock second selection anime key visual\" width=\"350\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bluelock-second-selection-anime-key-visual-1.jpg?resize=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1 214w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bluelock-second-selection-anime-key-visual-1.jpg?resize=731%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 731w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bluelock-second-selection-anime-key-visual-1.jpg?resize=768%2C1075&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bluelock-second-selection-anime-key-visual-1.jpg?resize=696%2C975&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bluelock-second-selection-anime-key-visual-1.jpg?resize=300%2C420&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/bluelock-second-selection-anime-key-visual-1.jpg?w=857&amp;ssl=1 857w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">\u00a9 MK,\u200bYN,\u200bK\/\u200bBLP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/03\/21\/crunchyroll-partners-with-la-galaxy-saturdays-football-to-host-bluelock-soccer-tournament\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crunchyroll<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is streaming <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BLUE LOCK<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and describes the premise as:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Japan\u2019s desire for World Cup glory leads the Japanese Football Association to launch a new rigorous training program to find the national team\u2019s 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?<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLUELOCK_PR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BLUELOCK Official Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bluelock-pr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BLUELOCK Official Website<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the broadcast of its 24th and final episode, the production team for BLUELOCK has announced that a second season and anime film have been green-lit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":58448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053,10],"tags":[5492,78,2199,1191],"class_list":["post-58446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-feature","category-anime","tag-bluelock","tag-crunchyroll","tag-eight-bit","tag-kodansha"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bluelock-season-2-announcement-visual-e1679784776200.jpg?fit=1080%2C607&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-fcG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58446"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83806,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58446\/revisions\/83806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}