BLUELOCK creator Muneyuki Kaneshiro and former MAPPA anime producer Makoto Kimura (Bucchigiri!?, Jujutsu Kaisen) announced that they’ve opened a new media production company named Chimera Club. Chimera Club aims to bring talented creators together to produce works that blur the lines between different forms of media.
The company will be helping produce manga first as the “starting point.” Kimura’s Blue Rights anime planning company, along with the Gold Gusk and Sevenrich Group companies, invested into the founding of Chimera Club.
The BLUELOCK -Episode Nagi-spinoff manga released in June 2022 and will finally be ending after three years, in August 2025. The BLUELOCK –Episode Nagi- spinoff anime film opened in April 2024, and the anime’s second adaptation, BLUE LOCK vs. U-20 JAPAN, premiered in October 2024. BLUELOCK -Episode Nagi- will receive a stage play adaptation in November 2025. The anime adaptation of both the original series and the spinoff are streaming on Crunchyroll.
Kodansha initially began serializing Kaneshiro and Yūsuke Nomura’s BLUELOCK in August 2018. Additionally, the manga is available to read on Kodansha’s website.
Lastly, here’s an overview of BLUELOCK via Crunchyroll:
Japan’s desire for World Cup glory leads the Japanese Football Association to launch a new rigorous training program to find the national team’s next striker. Three hundred high school players are pitted against each other for the position, but only one will come out on top. Who among them will be the striker to usher in a new era of Japanese soccer?
