Blue Lock

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About

Blue Lock opens with Japanese soccer chasing a World Cup that keeps slipping out of reach, and a national football body willing to try something drastic to change that. Its bet is counterintuitive: stop hunting for a balanced squad and instead forge a single striker ruthless enough to decide games on his own. Three hundred of the country's most promising high-school forwards are sealed inside one brutal training facility and thrown into direct competition, each knowing that only a lone survivor will emerge as the striker who could finally carry Japan to the summit of world soccer. Our anchor is Yoichi Isagi, an ordinary forward who has to learn to treat his own ambition as his sharpest weapon. On the surface it's shounen sports; underneath, it runs on psychological-thriller wiring, where every match is really an elimination game won by the player who out-thinks everyone else.

Information

Japanese

ブルーロック

Premiered

October 9, 2022

Episodes

24

Duration

25 min per ep.

Status

Finished Airing

Studio

8 bit, 8-bit, 8bit corp, inc., eightbit, point pictures

Source

Manga

Themes

primarily teen cast, drama, japanese production, present, school, ensemble cast

Seasons & Watch Order

The watch order is refreshingly simple. Start right here, with the 24-episode first season — it's the entry point and lays out the entire selection tournament. From there, move on to the direct follow-up, Blue Lock vs. U-20 Japan, which carries the story forward from where this season ends. The side story Blue Lock: Episode Nagi is a companion piece centered on Seishirou Nagi; it isn't required to follow the main line, so you can slot it in after the first season whenever you want a different angle on events.

1. Blue Lock vs. U-20 Japansequel
2. Blue Lock: Episode Nagiside story

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