Blue Lock

Blue Lock
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Yoichi Isagi
ブルーロック
(Burū Rokku)
Genre
Manga
Written byMuneyuki Kaneshiro
Illustrated byYusuke Nomura [ja]
Published byKodansha
English publisher
ImprintShōnen Magazine Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Magazine
DemographicShōnen
Original runAugust 1, 2018 – present
Volumes31 (List of volumes)
Manga
Blue Lock: Episode Nagi
Written byMuneyuki Kaneshiro
Illustrated byKōta Sannomiya
Published byKodansha
English publisher
  • NA: Kodansha USA
MagazineBessatsu Shōnen Magazine
DemographicShōnen
Original runJune 9, 2022 – present
Volumes5 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by
  • Tetsuaki Watanabe (S1)
  • Shunsuke Ishikawa (S1)[a]
  • Yūji Haibara (S2)
Written byTaku Kishimoto
Music byJun Murayama
StudioEight Bit
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Original networkANN (TV Asahi)
English network
Original run October 9, 2022 – present
Episodes28 (List of episodes)
Anime film
Blue Lock: Episode Nagi
Directed byShunsuke Ishikawa
Written byTaku Kishimoto
Music byJun Murayama
StudioEight Bit
Licensed byCrunchyroll
ReleasedApril 19, 2024 (2024-04-19)
Runtime91 minutes
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Blue Lock (Japanese: ブルーロック, Hepburn: Burū Rokku) (stylized as BLUELOCK) is a Japanese manga series written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yusuke Nomura [ja]. It has been serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine since August 2018, with its chapters collected in 31 tankōbon volumes as of October 2024.

An anime television series adaptation produced by Eight Bit aired from October 2022 to March 2023. An anime film adaptation based on the Episode Nagi manga premiered in April 2024. A second season, entitled vs. U-20 Japan, premiered in October 2024.

By July 2024, the manga had over 40 million copies in circulation worldwide, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. In 2021, Blue Lock won the 45th Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category.

  1. ^ a b Blue Lock. Kodansha USA. Archived from the original on April 29, 2022. Retrieved May 16, 2022.


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