{"id":92546,"date":"2024-07-23T20:55:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T03:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=92546"},"modified":"2024-07-25T22:31:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T05:31:18","slug":"blue-lock-season-2-unveils-opening-song-in-new-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/07\/23\/blue-lock-season-2-unveils-opening-song-in-new-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Lock Season 2 Unveils Opening Song in New Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Blue Lock<\/em> Season 2&#8217;s opening theme song has been announced and previewed via a new video. The song is &#8220;Boujaku Charisma&#8221; and is performed by <strong>UNISON SQUARE GARDEN<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Blue Lock<\/em> Season 2 is set to premiere in Japan on October 5 JST. Season 1 began airing&nbsp;during the Fall 2022 anime season and ran for 24 episodes.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300e\u30d6\u30eb\u30fc\u30ed\u30c3\u30af\u300f\u7b2c2\u671f OP\u4e3b\u984c\u6b4c\u767a\u8868\u6620\u50cf\uff5c10\u67085\u65e5(\u571f)\u3088\u308a\u653e\u9001\u30b9\u30bf\u30fc\u30c8\uff01\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Khg1fg2XH2o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The anime adapts the Kodansha-published <i>Blue Lock<\/i>&nbsp;manga series written by&nbsp;<b>Muneyuki Kaneshiro<\/b>&nbsp;and illustrated by&nbsp;<b>Yusuke Nomura<\/b>, which began serialization in Weekly Shonen Magazine in August 2018 and has 29 volumes as of May 2024. Kodansha USA describes the manga as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><i>After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan\u2019s team struggles to regroup. But what\u2019s 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\u2026and to do so, they\u2019ve gathered 300 of Japan\u2019s best and brightest youth players. Who will emerge to lead the team\u2026and will they be able to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in their way?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">There is a spin-off manga titled <i>Blue Lock<\/i>&nbsp;<i>-Episode Nagi-<\/i>&nbsp;written by Kaneshiro and drawn by&nbsp;<b>Kota Sannomiya<\/b>, which has been adapted into&nbsp;an anime movie.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Want to keep up with our anime and anime-adjacent news stories?&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>, where you can get updates on our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anitrendz.com\/polls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">user-voted anime chart<\/a>&nbsp;rankings as well.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;font-size: 12pt\">Staff<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Chief director. co-3DCG director, special compositor and graphic work designer: <strong>Yuji Haibara<\/strong> (<em>The Slime Diaries<\/em> director)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Director: <strong>Shintaro Inokawa<\/strong> (<em>Mobile Suit Gundam Seed<\/em> Episode 24 and 42 director; <em>Migi and Dali<\/em> Episode 4 and 11 storyboard artist, Episode 4 co-director)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Series composer and scriptwriter: <strong>Taku Kishimoto<\/strong> (returning)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Story supervision: Muneyuki Kaneshiro&nbsp;<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Character designer and co-chief animation director: <b><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/05\/27\/interview-blue-lock-chief-animation-directors-tomoko-mori-and-kenji-tanabe-discuss-their-work-and-production-challenges\/\">Kenji Tanabe<\/a>&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">(returning)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Animation production company: <strong>Eight Bit<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Cast<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<strong>Kazuki Ura<\/strong>&nbsp;as Yoichi Isagi<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022<strong>&nbsp;Tasuku Kaito<\/strong>&nbsp;as Meguru Bachira<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<strong>Soma Saito<\/strong>&nbsp;as Hyoma Chigiri<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<strong>Nobunaga Shimazaki<\/strong>&nbsp;as Seishiro Nagi<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022&nbsp;<strong>Yuma Uchida&nbsp;<\/strong>as Reo Mikage<br><b style=\"color: initial\">\u2022&nbsp;Satoshi Hino<\/b><span style=\"color: initial\"> as Oliver Aiku<br>\u2022<\/span><b style=\"color: initial\">&nbsp;Akihisa Wakayama&nbsp;<\/b><span style=\"color: initial\">as Shuto Sendo<br><\/span><b style=\"color: initial\">\u2022 Eiji Mikami&nbsp;<\/b><span style=\"color: initial\">as Yo Hiori <br>\u2022<\/span><b style=\"color: initial\">&nbsp;Kakeru Hatano<\/b><span style=\"color: initial\">&nbsp;as Nijiro Nanase<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> EMOTION Label Channel<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Lock Season 2&#8217;s opening theme song has been announced and previewed via a new video. The song is &#8220;Boujaku Charisma&#8221; 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&nbsp;during the Fall 2022 anime season and ran for 24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":92551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,1625,3174,9439,122],"class_list":["post-92546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-adaptation","tag-blue-lock","tag-blue-lock-season-2","tag-manga"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/bluelockseason2_opannouncementvideo.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-o4G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92546"}],"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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92546"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92774,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92546\/revisions\/92774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}