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BLUELOCK Season 2's 1st Promo Video Teases Satoshi Hino as Oliver Aiku

posted on by Egan Loo
New season premieres on October 5

The second television Satoshi Hino's voice as Oliver Aiku for the first time.

The season's new cast includes Satoshi Hino as Oliver Aiku (left below) and Akihisa Wakayama as Shūto Sendō (right).

The anime will debut on October 5, and will air on a new programming block on IM Animation.

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Image via BLUELOCK anime's X/Twitter
Other new cast include Kakeru Hatano as Nijiro Nanase.

The anime's 24-episode first season premiered in Japan in October 2022 on TV Asahi and its s in the NUMAnimation programming block. streaming an English dub.

The anime announced in October it will start releasing the spinoff manga in print in fall 2024.

Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing it in print. The company describes the story:

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 Japan Football Union 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?

Kaneshiro and Nomura Kodansha's 45th annual Manga Awards in 2021.

Sources: BLUELOCK anime's website, Comic Natalie


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