The award-winning manga series Blue Lock has finally announced its TV anime adaptation and scored a hit with a teaser trailer. The trailer revealed the main cast and their voice actors, the entire staff of the series, an image, and a release window for 2022.
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The series is produced by Studio 8-Bit (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime) under the direction of Tetsuaki Watanabe (Powerful Pro Yakyu Powerful Koko-hen) and Shunsuke Ishikawa. Taku Kishimoto (Haikyu!!, Silver Spoon, 2019 Fruits Basket) oversees and writes the scripts for the series. Mangaka Muneyuki Kaneshiro acts as the story supervisor, Masaru Shindo (Fruits Basket 2019) as the main character designer, and Kenji Tanabe (The Millionaire Detective – Balance: UNLIMITED) and Kento Toya (Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld) as the designers for the other characters, with the first three also serving as chief animation directors.
Kaneshiro and Yusuke Nomura began serializing Blue Lock in the pages of Weekly Shonen Magazine, published by Kodansha on August 1, 2018. The manga chapters have been compiled into 14 volumes so far; Volume 14 was released on May 17, and Volume 15 will be released on August 17. The manga is one of the winners of the 45th Kodansha Manga Award and has a total circulation of 4 million copies.
Publisher Kodansha describes the story as follows:
After a disastrous defeat in the 2018 World Cup, Japan's team struggles to regroup. But what's missing? An absolute striker ace who can lead them to victory. The Japan Football Association is determined to create a goal-hungry, victory-craving striker who can be the decisive instrument to turn a lost game around... and to do so, they've gathered 300 of Japan's best and brightest youth players. Who will lead the team... and will they be able to crush anyone who stands in their way with their muscles and ego?
This article was originally published in German. It was translated with technical support and editorially reviewed before publication.
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