BLUE LOCK Season 2 Coming This Fall

The official social media accounts of the hit soccer anime, BLUE LOCK, announced on Monday that the second season is coming this Fall, with an official premiere date set for October 2024.

The series is enjoying its time in the spotlight as a feature-length BLUE LOCK movie hit Japanese theatres on April 19, and is planned for a North American run starting on June 28, and it even saw a collaboration with Italian soccer supergiant, Inter Milan during the 2023/24 pre-season.

BLUE LOCK follows an initiative created by the Japanese Football Alliance (JFA) to find a striker who will be able to lead the national team to World Cup glory. Three hundred high school soccer players are pitted against each other in a rigorous training regiment that will take the best and only the best, leaving the remainders' pro-soccer dreams in tatters. It's an all-or-nothing program that seeks tobring out the very best of Japan's talent pool in order to usher in a new era in Japanese soccer.

The BLUE LOCK manga, written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yūsuke Nomura has so far been collected into 28 volumes, with the series being serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine from August 2018 with the spin-off, BLUE LOCK: Episode Nagi being serialized in the publisher's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine from June 2022, with four volumes out so far.

The first season of the BLUE LOCK 2023 anime ran for 24 episodes from October 2022 to March 2023 and was directed by Tetsuaki Watanabe Ishikawa (episode director, Haikyuu!) at animation studio 8bit, known for productions like That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime,a number of iterations of The Irregular At Magic High School, and of course, the upcoming BLUE LOCK: Episode Nagi movie.

Other staff involved in the production of BLUE LOCK include series composer Taku Kishimoto (scripts, Ranking of Kings); character designers and animation directors Kento Toya (key animation, My Hero Academia the Movie -Heroes: Rising-) and Kenji Tanabe (The Wrong Way to