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Writer's pictureNicole S. Castro

Football anime 'Blue Lock' releases 1st main PV for October 2022 broadcast

Updated: Oct 14, 2022

Competitive football takes on even higher stakes with the Blue Lock Project.


By: Nicole S. Castro on May 13, 2022 at 17:56 PHT

Official channels have released the first main promotional video for upcoming football anime Blue Lock, which airs in October 2022 on TV Asahi's NUMAnimation programming block. The anime is produced by Studio Eight Bit.

©︎Blue Lock PROJECT

The PV is led by character/coach Jinpachi Ego (CV: Hiroshi Kamiya) who introduces the aspiring football athletes into the cutthroat world of the Blue Lock Project.


The Blue Lock Project is a plan to groom young athletes into professional stardom by making them undergo a regimen designed to create the world's greatest egotist striker. The catch is that those who fail the project will never again be permitted to represent Japan.

Additional Cast (Team Z)

  • Jinpachi Ego (CV: Hiroshi Kamiya)

  • Wataru Kuon (CV: Masatomo Nakazawa)

  • Jingo Raichi (CV: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka)

  • Yudai Imamura (CV: Shōya Chiba)

  • Gin Gagamaru (CV: Shugo Nakamura)

  • Asahi Naruhaya (CV: Daishi Kajita)

  • Okuhito Iemon (CV: Ryūnosuke Watanuki)

  • Gurimu Igarashi (CV: Aoi Ichikawa)

  • Ryosuke Kira (CV: Kenichi Suzumura)

  • Anri Teieri (CV: Eri Yukimura)


Previously Announced Cast

  • Yoichi Isagi (CV: Kazuki Ura)

  • Meguru Bachira (CV: Tasuku Kaito)

  • Rensuke Kunigami (CV: Yūki Ono)

  • Hyōma Chigiri (CV: Soma Saito)

Staff

  • Original work: Muneyuki Kaneshiro, manga illustrations by Yusuke Nomura

  • Director: Tetsuaki Watanabe

  • Deputy Director: Shunsuke Ishikawa

  • Series composition, Screenplay: Taku Kishimoto

  • Story supervision: Muneyuki Kaneshiro

  • Concept advisor: Yutaka Uemura

  • Main character design: Yu Shindo

  • Character design and animation directors: Kenji Tanabe, Kento Toya

  • Chief action director: Hisashi Tojima

  • Action director: Hiromi Sakamoto

  • Props design: Kaori Okitsu, Hisashi Tojima

  • Costume design: Yuri Nakajima

  • Drawing special effects: Akane

  • Color design: Sakura Komatsu

  • Special effects: Kanako Yamada

  • Art setting: Shinji Sugiyama

  • Art director: Sawako Takagi

  • Background: Studio Wyeth

  • Cinematographer: Yasuhiro Asagi

  • Photography: Chiptune

  • 3DCG Director: Norimitsu Hirosawa

  • 3DCG: Aura Studio

  • Visual concept: Toshiyuki Yamashita (Hyperbole)

  • Special effects processing: Toshiyuki Yamashita, Rina Mitsuzumi

  • 2DCG monitor graphics: Keiichi Asano (emitai)

  • Editor: Mai Hasegawa (Editz)

  • Sound director: Fumiyuki Gou

  • Sound production: Bit Groove Promotion

  • Music: Jun Murayama

  • Animation producer: Tsuyoshi Hirano

  • Animation production: Eight Bit



Synopsis

In 2018, the Japanese national team finished 16th in the FIFA World Cup. As a result, the Japanese Football Union hires the soccer enigma Ego Jinpachi. His master plan to lead Japan to stardom is Blue Lock, a training regimen designed to create the world's greatest egotist striker. Those who fail Blue Lock will never again be permitted to represent Japan. Yoichi Isagi, an unknown high school student, decides to join the program in order to become the best player in the world. (from Wikipedia)



Source: Blue Lock official Twitter, official website, Comic Natalie

 

NICOLE S. CASTRO

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Nicole is based in the Philippines and works as a freelance Japanese Translator/Interpreter and copywriter (English). She is a JLPT N2 passer who watches anime to "study" for N1. She has a long career history on LinkedIn (with primary focus on media and translation), but her anime watchlist is much, much longer.



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