Blue Lock
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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. It has been serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine since August 2018, with its chapters collected in 28 tankōbon volumes as of March 2024.
Blue Lock | |
ブルーロック (Burū Rokku) | |
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Manga | |
Written by | Muneyuki Kaneshiro |
Illustrated by | Yusuke Nomura |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher | |
Imprint | Shōnen Magazine Comics |
Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Magazine |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | August 1, 2018 – present |
Volumes | 28 (List of volumes) |
Manga | |
Blue Lock: Episode Nagi | |
Written by | Muneyuki Kaneshiro |
Illustrated by | Kōta Sannomiya |
Published by | Kodansha |
English publisher |
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Magazine | Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | June 9, 2022 – present |
Volumes | 4 (List of volumes) |
Anime television series | |
Directed by |
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Written by | Taku Kishimoto |
Music by | Jun Murayama |
Studio | Eight Bit |
Licensed by | Crunchyroll |
Original network | ANN (TV Asahi) |
English network | |
Original run | October 9, 2022 – present |
Episodes | 24 (List of episodes) |
Anime film | |
Blue Lock: Episode Nagi | |
Directed by | Shunsuke Ishikawa |
Written by | Taku Kishimoto |
Music by | Jun Murayama |
Studio | Eight Bit |
Licensed by | Crunchyroll |
Released | April 19, 2024 (2024-04-19) |
Runtime | 91 minutes |
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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 is set to premiere in October 2024.
By November 2023, the manga had over 30 million copies in circulation, 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 manga|shōnen]] category.