Joseph Luster
July 24, 2024 
This October marks the hotly-anticipated premiere of BLUE LOCK Season 2, continuing the adaptation of the award-winning manga written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yusuke Nomura. To hype everyone up for more intense matches, a new trailer debuted along with the reveal of the new opening song.
As you’ll learn below, UNISON SQUARE GARDEN is back on the opening theme song, this time performing “Bojaku no Charisma”. The band previously performed the BLUE LOCK season 1 opening song and the BLUE LOCK THE MOVIE -EPISODE NAGI- anime film theme.
BLUE LOCK Season 2 Trailer
As previously reported, the new season begins on October 5, 2024.
Following up on his work as episode director on some of the first season, Shintaro Inokawa is now the director for BLUE LOCK season 2. Yuji Haibara is now chief director, Taku Kishimoto is back on series composition, Kenji Tanabe returns for character designs and Jun Murayama is back on music for the eightbit production.
Kodansha USA Publishing comes out with the original manga by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yūsuke Nomura, and it gave this description for the plot:
BLUE LOCK Plot
After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan’s team struggles to regroup. But what’s missing? An absolute Ace Striker, who can guide them to the win. The Japan Football Union is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, and who can be the decisive instrument in turning around a losing match…and to do so, they’ve gathered 300 of Japan’s best and brightest youth players. Who will emerge to lead the team…and will they be able to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in their way?
The original manga started in the pages of Weekly Shonen Magazine in 2018. At 2021’s 45th annual Manga Awards from Kodansha, it took home the prize for Best Shonen Manga award.
Source: Crunchyroll News
