Blue Lock Season 2 premiered on Saturday and featured an opening video. UNISON SQUARE GARDEN returns this season to perform the opening theme “Bojaku no Charisma”. New episodes of Blue Lock Season 2 will be released every Saturday. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime with English subtitles. Check out the opening episode below:
Blue Lock Season 2 opening video
The opening for Blue Lock Season 2 will mark UNISON SQUARE GARDEN's third performance in the series. The group also performed the first opening theme song of Season 1, along with the second ending.
Blue Lock Season 1 opening video
Studio 8bit handled the animation for Blue Lock Part 2, also titled Blue Lock vs. U-20 Japan, scheduled to release 14 episodes in Fall 2024.
Blue Lock Season 2 staff and cast
Yuuji Haibara is working director and one CG director for Blue Lock Season 2. He storyboarded episode 9 of Blue Lock season one and was a storyboard assistant for eight other episodes. Taku Kishimoto will take on his role, handling series layout and script. The remaining personnel are as follows:
Animation director: Kenji Tanabe, Tomoko Mori, Sorato ShimizuAction Director: Tadami OkimuraCharacter design: Kenji TanabeDesign costumes and props: Tomoko Mori, Kaho IidaArt director: Masakazu MiyakeImage director: Yasuhiro AsagiColor design: Sakura KomatsuArtistic setting: Mio SakumaChief 3D layout artist: Mio SakumaDirector of 3DCG: Tomoki Yamashita, Yuji Haibara3DCG animation director: Norimitsu Hirosawa Music: Jun MurayamaAudio director: Fumiyuki GoAudio production: Bit Groove Promotion Special effects for animation: AkaneSpecial effects processing: Kanako YamadaSpecial composer and graphic work: Yuji HaibaraEditor: Mai HasegawaManufacturer: Ryoya Arisawa, Naoya Sato, Yusuke Kawakatsu, Hiroshi YanaiStory monitoring: Muneyuki KaneshiroAnimation producer: Hidenori KosugeBlue Lock Part 2 trailer
The main cast of the first season of Blue Lock will reprise their roles this season. The following is the current cast list of Blue Lock Season 2:
Kazuki Ura as Yoichi IsagiHiroshi Kamiya as Jinpachi EgoKoki Uchiyama as Rin ItoshiTasuku Kaito as Meguru BachiraNobunaga Shimazaki as Seishiro NagiSoma Saito as Hyoma ChigiriJunichi Suwabe as Shoei BaroYuichi Nakamura as Ryusei ShidoMakoto Furukawa as Tabito KarasuKengo Kawanishi as Eita OtoyaTakuya Eguchi as Kenyu YukimiyaEiji Mikami as Yo HioriKakeru Hatano as Nijiro NanaseYuma Uchida as Reo MikageNatsuki Hanae as Ikki NikoRyota Suzuki as Junichi WanimaKatsuyuki Konishi as Jyubei AryuShugo Nakamura as Gin GagamaruYoshitsugu Matsuoka as Jingo RaichiAoi Ichikawa as Gurimu IgarashiKazuyuki Okitsu as Zantetsu TsurugiShinnosuke Tachibana as Aoshi TokimitsuEri Yukimura as Anri TeieriTakahiro Sakurai as Sae ItoshiSatoshi Hino as Oliver AikuAkihisa Wakayama as Shuto Sendo
Blue Lock Manga
Blue Lock is an anime adaptation of the manga series The original manga series, written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yusuke Nomura, began publication in 2018 in Weekly Shonen Magazine. This manga series has over 40 million copies in circulation as of September 2024, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time.
The series currently has 30 volumes published, of which 31 volumes will be released on October 14, 2024. Kodansha USA is publishing the manga in English and has currently published 27 volumes.
Source: Official website, official X
©Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura, Kodansha/”Blue Lock” production committee