The staff for the upcoming season 2 of BLUELOCK have confirmed that it will be titled “BLUE LOCK vs. U-20 JAPAN.” The season will premiere on October 5.
Kodansha initially began serializing BLUELOCK in 2018. Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yūsuke Nomura’s series focuses on the Japanese Football (Soccer) Team trying to become the best in the world after finishing sixteenth in the 2018 World Cup. The anime adaptation is available on Crunchyroll, and the manga is available on Kodansha’s website. Further, a movie based on the series recently premiered in theaters, with the movie releasing in the West last month.
BLUELOCK Confirms Title for Season 2
The staff for the upcoming BLUELOCK anime have confirmed that season 2 will be titled “BLUE LOCK vs. U-20 JAPAN.” The season will air on October 5. According to Anime News Network, “The new season will have 14 episodes, and ‘will focus on the match between BLUE LOCK and the U-20 National Japan team, in which the survival of the BLUE LOCK project is at stake.'” Unison Square Garden will perform the season’s opening theme, “Bо̄jaku no Charisma.”
Kodansha describes the original series as follows:
After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan’s team struggles to regroup. But what’s missing? An absolute Ace Striker, who can guide them to the win. The Japan Football Union is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, and who can be the decisive instrument in turning around a losing match…and to do so, they’ve gathered 300 of Japan’s best and brightest youth players. Who will emerge to lead the team…and will they be able to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in their way?
BLUELOCK season 2 will air on October 5.
