Based on the namesake Japanese manga series written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yusuke Nomura, Blue Lock (stylized as BLUELOCK) is a sports anime TV show about soccer. The plot revolves around Yoichi Isagi, a high school soccer player, as he competes against other equally ambitious young individuals to be the world’s greatest egotist striker. The program Isagi and the rest are part of has been set up by the Japan Football Association after the national team’s humiliating 16th-position finish in the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Season 1, comprising 24 episodes, originally aired between October 2022 and March 2023. If you are wondering when season 2 is coming out, we got you covered.
Here’s all the Blue Lock Season 2 release date information we know so far, and all the details on when it is coming out.
Is there a Blue Lock Season 2 release date?
Blue Lock Season 2 could arrive by the second half of 2024 at the earliest.
In March 2023, it was announced that Blue Lock had been greenlit for season 2. The announcement was made through a teaser that appeared right after season 1 finished airing. The same teaser also revealed that an anime film, titled BLUELOCK: Episode Nagi, based on the Episode Nagi spin-off manga, was in production. In November 2023, a trailer for the film was released, revealing April 19, 2024, as its release date.
Anime production is an arduous process and generally takes much longer than live-action projects. Eight Bit, the animation studio behind Blue Lock, has also developed multi-seasonal anime such as That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, which had an intermediate period of little over two years between the releases of seasons 1 and 2. As for Blue Lock, its inaugural season went into development in August 2021 and premiered in October 2022. Given these precedences, it can be speculated that Blue Lock Season 2 can come out in the second half of 2024 at the earliest.
The voice cast includes Kazuki Ura as Yoichi Isagi, Tasuku Kaito as Meguru Bachira, Yūki Ono as Rensuke Kunigami, Soma Saito as Hyōma Chigiri, Masatomo Nakazawa as Wataru Kuon, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Jingo Raichi, Shōya Chiba as Yūdai Imamura, Shugo Nakamura as Gin Gagamaru, Daishi Kajita as Asahi Naruhaya, and more.
Where is Blue Lock Season 2 coming out?
Blue Lock Season 2 is anticipated to come out in Japan on ANN (TV Asahi) and in the US on Crunchyroll (simulcast) in the second half of 2024 at the earliest.
This is because the first season originally aired on the above-mentioned Japanese network, and Crunchyroll acquired the streaming rights for season 1 beyond Japan and the rest of Asia-Pacific. ComingSoon will provide an update when the season 2 release date is officially announced.
The official synopsis for Blue Lock reads:
“Japan’s desire for World Cup glory leads the Japanese Football Association to launch a new rigorous training program to find the national team’s next striker. Three hundred high school players are pitted against each other for the position, but only one will come out on top. Who among them will be the striker to usher in a new era of Japanese soccer?”
