Crunchyroll has announced that it will stream BLUE LOCK Season 2 starting at 9 a.m. PT on October 5. The highly anticipated sequel will premiere in Japan on the same day and to help fans review reminiscing about the first season, Crunchyroll has prepared a summary video:
The second season of the anime BLUE LOCK, BLUE LOCK vs. U-20 JAPAN, expected to be 14 episodes long. Studio 8bit will return to animation, with Yuji Haibara as main director and Shintaro Inokawa as director. Taku Kishimoto is designing the characters with original author Mineyuki Kaneshiro on the story layout. Kenji Tanabe will return as character designer (Kento Toya, who also served as character designer in the first season, will not). Jun Murayama is composing music. The returning and current cast includes:
Kazuki Ura as Yoichi IsagiTasuku Kaito as Bachira MegumiHiroshi Kamiya as Ego Jinpachi Eri Yukimura as Anri TeieriSoma Saito as Hyoma ChigiriJunichi Suwabe as Shoei BarouShuugo Nakamura as Gin GagamaruAoi Ichikawa as Gurimu IgarashiNobunaga Shimazaki as Seishiro NagiYuma Uchida as Reo MikageYoshitsugu Matsuoka as Jingo RaichiKazuyuki Okitsuanh> as Zanetsu TsurugiRyota Suzuki as Junichi WanimaNatsuki Hanae as Ikki NikoKatsuyuki Konishi as Jyubei AryuShinnosuke Tachibana as Aoshi TokimitsuKouki Uchiyama as Rin ItoshiTakahiro Sakurai as Sae ItoshiEiji Mikami as Yo HioriMakoto Furukawa as Tabito KarasuKakeru Hatano as Nijiro NanaseKengo Kawanishi as Eita OtoyaYuichi Nakamura as Ryusei ShidouTakuya Eguchi as Kenyu Yukimiya
In addition to the synopsis, Crunchyroll also revealed a second trailer with English subtitles:
Crunchyroll is streaming the first season of the Blue Lock anime and has confirmed a second season to stream this fall. The streaming platform describes the plot:
Japan's ambitions for World Cup glory have led the Japan Football Association to launch a rigorous new training program to find the national team's next striker. Three hundred high school players are pitted against each other for position, but only one comes out on top. Which of them will be the striker to open a new era of Japanese football?
The prequel film Blue Lock: Episode Nagi opens worldwide this summer.
Source: Press release
©Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura, Kodansha/”Blue Lock” Production Committee
