Blue Lock Season 2 Reveals Preview Images for Episode 1

Blue Lock Season 2 Reveals Preview Images for Episode 1

Blue Lock Season 2 revealed preview images for episode 1 on Friday. The upcoming season, also titled Blue Lock vs. U-20 Japanis set to premiere on Saturday, October 5, 2024. Studio 8bit is returning to handle the animation production. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime with English subtitles. Fans can check out the preview images below:

Blue Lock Season 2 will air for 14 episodes this fall, covering the rest of the Third Selection arc and the anticipated U-20 arc. UNISON SQUARE GARDEN is performing the opening theme “Bojaku no Charisma” while Snow Man is performing the ending theme song titled “One”.

Blue Lock Season 2 trailer

Blue Lock Season 2 Staff and Cast

Yuuji Haibara is working as the chief 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. Shintaro Inokawa will work as the director for Blue Lock Season 2 after working as an episode director and storyboard assistant last season. 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 Season 2 episode 1 will premiere on October 5, 2024.

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 first 27 volumes out.

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