Blue Lock Season 2 revealed preview images for episode 1 on Friday. The upcoming season, also titled Blue Lock vs. U-20 Japan, is set to premiere on Saturday, October 5, 2024. Studio 8bit is returning to handle the animation production. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime with English subtitles. Fans can check out the preview images below:
Blue Lock Season 2 will air for 14 episodes this fall, covering the rest of the Third Selection arc and the anticipated U-20 arc. UNISON SQUARE GARDEN is performing the opening theme “Bojaku no Charisma” while Snow Man is performing the ending theme song titled “One”.
Blue Lock Season 2 Staff and Cast
Yuuji Haibara is working as the chief director and a CG director for Blue Lock Season 2. He drew the storyboard for episode 9 of Blue Lock season one and was a storyboard assistant for eight other episodes. Shintaro Inokawa will work as the director for Blue Lock Season 2 after working as an episode director and storyboard assistant last season. Taku Kishimoto is reprising his role, handling the series composition and script. The rest of the staff is as follows:
- Chief Animation Directors: Kenji Tanabe, Tomoko Mori, Sorato Shimizu
- Action Director: Tadami Okimura
- Character Design: Kenji Tanabe
- Prop and Costume Design: Tomoko Mori, Kaho Iida
- Art Director: Masakazu Miyake
- Director of Photography: Yasuhiro Asagi
- Color Design: Sakura Komatsu
- Art Setting: Mio Sakuma
- Chief 3D Layout Artist: Mio Sakuma
- 3DCG Director: Tomoki Yamashita, Yuji Haibara
- 3DCG Chief Animator: Norimitsu Hirosawa
- Music: Jun Murayama
- Sound Director: Fumiyuki Go
- Sound Production: Bit Groove Promotion
- Animation Special Effects: Akane
- Special Effects Processing: Kanako Yamada
- Special Compositor and Graphic Work: Yuji Haibara
- Editing: Mai Hasegawa
- Producers: Ryoya Arisawa, Naoya Sato, Yusuke Kawakatsu, Hiroshi Yanai
- Story supervisor: Muneyuki Kaneshiro
- Animation Producer: Hidenori Kosuge
The main cast from the first season of Blue Lock are reprising their roles this season. The following is the current cast list for Blue Lock Season 2:
- Kazuki Ura as Yoichi Isagi
- Hiroshi Kamiya as Jinpachi Ego
- Koki Uchiyama as Rin Itoshi
- Tasuku Kaito as Meguru Bachira
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Seishiro Nagi
- Soma Saito as Hyoma Chigiri
- Junichi Suwabe as Shoei Baro
- Yuichi Nakamura as Ryusei Shido
- Makoto Furukawa as Tabito Karasu
- Kengo Kawanishi as Eita Otoya
- Takuya Eguchi as Kenyu Yukimiya
- Eiji Mikami as Yo Hiori
- Kakeru Hatano as Nijiro Nanase
- Yuma Uchida as Reo Mikage
- Natsuki Hanae as Ikki Niko
- Ryota Suzuki as Junichi Wanima
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Jyubei Aryu
- Shugo Nakamura as Gin Gagamaru
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Jingo Raichi
- Aoi Ichikawa as Gurimu Igarashi
- Kazuyuki Okitsu as Zantetsu Tsurugi
- Shinnosuke Tachibana as Aoshi Tokimitsu
- Eri Yukimura as Anri Teieri
- Takahiro Sakurai as Sae Itoshi
- Satoshi Hino as Oliver Aiku
- Akihisa Wakayama as Shuto Sendo
Blue Lock Season 2 episode 1 will premiere on October 5, 2024.
Blue Lock Manga
Blue Lock is an anime adaptation of the original manga series written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yusuke Nomura which began publishing in 2018 under Weekly Shonen Magazine. The manga has over 40 million copies in circulation as of September 2024, making it one of the best-selling manga of all time.
The series currently has 30 volumes published, with 31 set to release on October 14, 2024. Kodansha USA is publishing the manga in English and currently has the first 27 volumes out.
Source: Official Website, Official X
©Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura, Kodansha/”Blue Lock” Production Committee