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BLUELOCK Season 2 Anime Reveals Title, New Visuals
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The staff for the second television BLUE LOCK vs. U-20 JAPAN. The staff also revealed a new visual.
The new season will have 14 episodes, and "will focus on the match between BLUE LOCK and the U-20 National Japan team, in which the survival of the BLUE LOCK project is at stake."
The staff also revealed four visuals featuring the BLUE LOCK U-20 uniforms.
The anime will debut on October 5, and will air on a new programming block on stream the anime in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS.
New cast include Akihisa Wakayama as Shūto Sendō.
Unison Square Garden will perform the opening theme song "Bо̄jaku no Charisma."
The anime's 24-episode first season premiered in Japan in October 2022 on TV Asahi and its s in the NUMAnimation programming block. Crunchyroll 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.
Source: Press release
