Crunchyroll announced on Tuesday that it will air the anime BLUELOCK-Episode Nagi-spinoff of Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yūsuke Nomura's soccer manga Blue Lock on Thursdays at 8 p.m. EDT. The series will be broadcast in select territories worldwide in Japanese with subtitles in English, Latin American Spanish, Castilian Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese European, French, German, Italian, Russian and Arabic. The film will also be dubbed in English, Latin American Spanish, Castilian Spanish, French, German and Italian.
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The film opens in North America on June 28. The spin-off manga focuses on Seishirō Nagi before he enters the titular Blue Lock facility. Publisher Kodansha USA is releasing a print edition of the spin-off manga.
The film opened in Japan on April 19. The film sold 337,000 tickets and earned 463 million yen (about US$2.99 million) in its first three days of release and ranked No. 2 at the Japanese box office on its opening weekend.
The film has the participation of the following stars:
The film features a returning cast and crew. Assistant television anime director Shunsuke Ishikawa directed the film at 8-Bit. Taku Kishimoto (Haikyu!!, Silver Spoon, Fruits Basket 2019) is supervising and writing the series, and manga's Kaneshiro is supervising the story. Nomura is credited as the character designer. Jun Murayama composed the music. Nissy and SKY-HI perform the theme song “Stormy.”
BLUE LOCK vs. U-20 JAPAN, the second television anime season, debuted on October 5 and is airing on a new programming channel titled IM Anime on TV Asahi will air on Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. The new season will have 14 episodes and”will focus on the match between BLUE LOCK and the Japanese National U-20 team, in which the survival of the BLUE LOCK project is at stake.”Crunchyroll is streaming the anime in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, Middle East and CIS.
The anime's 24-episode first season premiered in Japan in October 2022 on TV Asahi and its affiliates in the NUMAnimation programming block. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired and is also streaming the English dub.
Kodansha USA Publishing is publishing the original BLUELOCK manga in English digitally and is also releasing it in print. The company describes the story:
After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, the Japanese team struggled to regroup. But what's missing? An excellent Striker who can guide them to victory. The Japanese Football Federation desperately wants to create a striker who is hungry for goals and hungry for victory, and can be the decisive tool to overturn a losing situation…and to do that, they have gathered 300 of Japan's best players and the brightest young players. Who will emerge to lead the team…and can they overcome the muscle and ego of those who stand in their way?
Kaneshiro and Nomura launched the manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in August 2018. The manga won the Best Shōnen Manga award in the 45th Annual Kodansha Manga Awards in 2021.
Source: Press release