The official X (formerly Twitter) account for the live-action BLUELOCK film has announced the film’s August 7 opening. A new trailer and key visual for the upcoming film were also revealed.
The cast includes:
- Fumiya Takahashi as Yoichi Isagi
- Kaito Sakurai as Meguru Bachira
- Kyōhei Takahashi as Hyoma Chigiri
- Kōta Nomura as Rensuke Kunigami
- Yuzu Aoki as Gurimu Igarashi
- Shō Nishigaki as Asahi Naruhaya
- Yūki Tachibana as Gin Gagamaru
- Raizō Ishikawa as Jingo Raichi
- Joey Iwanaga as Okuhito Iemon
- Shunya Asano as Wataru Kuon
- Yuki Sakurai as Yudai Imamura
- Yūki Kura as Ryosuke Kira
- Masataka Kubota as Jinpachi Ego
The live-action BLUELOCK film adaptation is being produced by CREDEUS for a release in summer 2026 in Japan. TOHO is distributing the film. Further, BLUELOCK Season 3 is currently in the works as the anime adaptation of the manga’s “Neo Egoist League” arc.
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. The anime adaptation of both the original series and the spinoff are streaming on Crunchyroll.
Kodansha began serializing Kaneshiro and Yūsuke Nomura’s BLUELOCK in August 2018. 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?
