Football anime 'Blue Lock' releases 2nd main PV for October 2022 broadcast

Blue Lock begins airing on October 8, 2022 with an extensive cast of veteran voice actors.

By: Nicole S. Castro on August 12, 2022 at 13:56 PHT

The second main promotional video for upcoming football anime Blue Lock has been released.

The show is slated to air on Oct. 8, 2022 on TV Asahi's NUMAnimation programming block. The anime is produced by Studio Eight Bit.

©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.

The second PV features the opening theme Chaos ga Kiwamaru by UNISON SQUARE GARDEN, while the ending theme is Winner by Shugo Nakamura, who also voices character Gin Gagamaru.

In addition to the previously announced cast, the following new characters and their voice actors have been introduced:

From left to right of the Tweet below:

• Ikki Niko (CV: Natsuki Hanae)

• Junichi Wanima (CV:Ryōta Suzuki)

• Keisuke Wanima (CV: Ryōta Suzuki)

• Sae Itoshi (CV:Takahiro Sakurai)

Previously Announced Cast

• Yoichi Isagi (CV: Kazuki Ura)

• Meguru Bachira (CV: Tasuku Kaito)

• Rensuke Kunigami (CV: Yūki Ono)

• Hyōma Chigiri (CV: Soma Saito)

• 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)

• Shouei Barou (CV: Junichi Suwabe)

• Zantetsu Tsurugi (CV: Kazuyuki Okitsu)

• Nagi Seishiro (CV: Nobunaga Shimazaki)

• Mikage Reo (CV: Yuma Uchida)

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

Source: Blue Lock official Twitter, official website

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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.