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BLUE LOCK Season 2 revealed the creditless version of its ending video, featuring the theme song “One” by Snow Man. The sequel anime is titled BLUE LOCK vs. U-20 JAPANand it premiered on October 5. The anime previously revealed the opening video, while you can check out the ending below.

Studio 8bit also animated the first BLUE LOCK season, which premiered in October last year and ran for 2 cours. The cast for the BLUE LOCK anime includes:

• Kazuki Ura as Yoichi Isagi
• Koki Uchiyama as Rin Itoshi
• Tasuku Kaito as Meguru Bachira
• Nobunaga Shimazaki as Seishiro Nagi
• Yuichi Nakamura as Ryusei Shido
• Makoto Furukawa as Tabito Karasu
• Kengo Kawanishi as Eita Otoya
• Takuya Eguchi as Kenyu Yukimiya
• Eiji Mikami as Yo Hiori
• Kakeru Hatano as Nijiro Nanase
• Soma Saito as Hyoma Chigiri
• Yuma Uchida as Reo Mikage
• Junichi Suwabe and Shoei Baro
• Natsuki Hanae as Ikki Niko
• Ryota Suzuki as Junichi Wanima
• Katsuyuki Konishi as Jyubei Aryu
• Shugo Nakamura as Gin Gagamaru
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Jingo Raichi
• Aoi Ichikawa as Gurimu Igarashi
• Kazuyuki Okitsu as Zantetsu Tsurugi
• Shinnosuke Tachibana as Aoshi Tokimitsu
• Eri Yukimura as Anri Teieri
• Hiroshi Kamiya as Jinpachi Ego
• Takahiro Sakurai as Sae Itoshi
• Satoshi Hino as Oliver Aiku
• Akihisa Wakayama as Shuto Sendo

The full staff for BLUE LOCK Season 2 consists of:

• General Director: Yuji Haibara
• Director: Shintaro Inokawa
• Series Composition/Screenplay: Taku Kishimoto
• Story supervisor: Muneyuki Kaneshiro
• Character Design / Chief Animation Director: Kenji Tanabe
• Chief Animation Director: Tomoko Mori, Sorato Shimizu
• Action Director: Tadami Okimura
• Chief 3D Layout Artist: Mio Sakuma
• Prop and costume design: Tomoko Mori, Kaho Iida
• Animation Special Effects: Akane
• Color Design: Sakura Komatsu
• Art Setting: Mio Sakuma
• Art Director: Masakazu Miyake
• Background: Creative Freaks
• Director of Photography: Yasuhiro Asagi
• Photography: Chiptune
• 3DCG Director: Tomoki Yamashita, Yuji Haibara
• 3DCG Chief Animator: Norimitsu Hirosawa
• 3DCG: Aura Studio
• Special Compositor and Graphic Work: Yuji Haibara
• Special Effects Processing: Kanako Yamada
• Edit: Mai Hasegawa
• Sound Director: Fumiyuki Go
• Sound Production: Bit Groove Promotion
• Music: Jun Murayama
• Producers: Ryoya Arisawa, Naoya Sato, Yusuke Kawakatsu, Hiroshi Yanai
• Animation Producer: Hidenori Kosuge
• Animation Production: 8Bit

The anime is based on a manga written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yusuke Nomura. Kodansha is publishing the manga in English, while Crunchyroll streams the anime. The story follows the “BLUE LOCK” project, which aims to revolutionize Japan’s soccer team through nurturing the ultimate striker. The protagonist is Isagi Yoichi, who joins the project and quickly learns that he will have to fully embrace his ego if he hopes to succeed as a striker.

We also got the chance to interview Kazuki Ura (Isagi’s Japanese voice actor), Ryoya Arisawa (anime producer), and Megumu Tsuchiya (manga editor) at this year’s Anime Expo. We talked with them about working on the manga and anime series, the challenges they faced in creating the work loved by fans worldwide, as well as what to expect from the ongoing Season 2.

Source: Press Release, Official Website
©Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura, KODANSHA/BLUE LOCK Production Committee.