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Blue Lock Season 2 premiered on Saturday showcasing its opening video. UNISON SQUARE GARDEN returned this season to perform the opening theme “Bojaku no Charisma.” New episodes of Blue Lock Season 2 will be released every Saturday. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime with English subtitles. Check out the opening below:

The opening for Blue Lock Season 2 will mark UNISON SQUARE GARDEN’s third performance for the series. The group also performed Season 1’s first opening theme song, along with the second ending.

Studio 8bit handles the animation for Blue Lock Season 2also titled Blue Lock vs. U-20 Japanwhich is set to release 14 episodes during the Fall 2024 season.

Blue Lock Season 2 Staff and Cast

Yuuji Haibara is working as the director and a CG director for Blue Lock Season 2. He drew the storyboard for episode 9 of Blue Lock season one and was a storyboard assistant for eight other episodes. Taku Kishimoto is reprising his role, handling the series composition and script. The rest of the staff is as follows:

• Chief Animation Directors: Kenji Tanabe, Tomoko Mori, Sorato Shimizu
• Action Director: Tadami Okimura
• Character Design: Kenji Tanabe
• Prop and Costume Design: Tomoko Mori, Kaho Iida
• Art Director: Masakazu Miyake
• Director of Photography: Yasuhiro Asagi
• Color Design: Sakura Komatsu
• Art Setting: Mio Sakuma
• Chief 3D Layout Artist: Mio Sakuma
• 3DCG Director: Tomoki Yamashita, Yuji Haibara
• 3DCG Chief Animator: Norimitsu Hirosawa
• Music: Jun Murayama
• Sound Director: Fumiyuki Go
• Sound Production: Bit Groove Promotion
• Animation Special Effects: Akane
• Special Effects Processing: To me Yamada
• Special Compositor and Graphic Work: Yuji Haibara
• Editing: Mai Hasegawa
• Producers: Ryoya Arisawa, Naoya Sato, Yusuke Kawakatsu, Hiroshi Yanai
• Story supervisor: Muneyuki Kaneshiro
• Animation Producer: Hidenori Kosuge

The main cast from the first season of Blue Lock are reprising their roles this season. The following is the current cast list for Blue Lock Season 2:

• Kazuki Ura as Yoichi Isagi
• Hiroshi Kamiya as Jinpachi Ego
• Koki Uchiyama as Rin Itoshi
• Tasuku Kaito as Meguru Bachira
• Nobunaga Shimazaki as Seishiro Nagi
• Soma Saito as Hyoma Chigiri
• Junichi Suwabe as Shoei Baro
• Yuichi Nakamura as Ryusei Shido
• Makoto Furukawa as Tabito Karasu
• Kengo Kawanishi as Name Otoya
• Takuya Eguchi as Kenyu Yukimiya
• Eiji Mikami as Yo Hiori
• Kakeru Hatano as Nijiro Nanase
• Yuma Uchida as Reo Mikage
• 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
• Takahiro Sakurai as Sae Itoshi
• Satoshi Hino as Oliver Aiku
• Akihisa Wakayama as Shuto Sendo

Blue Lock Manga

Blue Lock is an anime adaptation of the original manga series written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yusuke Nomura which began publishing in 2018 under Weekly Shonen Magazine. The manga has over 40 million copies in circulation as of September 2024, making it one of the best-selling manga of all time.

The series currently has 30 volumes published, with 31 set to release on October 14, 2024. Kodansha USA is publishing the manga in English and currently has the 27 volumes out.

Source: Official Website, Official X
©Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura, Kodansha/”Blue Lock” Production Committee