Blue Lock Announces TV Anime Sequel and Live-Action Movie Adaptation
The Blue Lock TV anime is getting a sequel, announced today during the Blue Lock Egoist Festa 2025, held at Keio Arena Tokyo in Tokyo on September 28. The original manga is also getting a live-action movie adaptation that will be released in the summer of 2026 (to align with the World Cup). Toho will be distributing the movie, and the cast will be announced at a later date. Filming began in mid-September.
Blue Lock is a manga written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yusuke Nomura and serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine. Kodansha is publishing the manga in English and describes the plot as:
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 Football Association 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 … 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?
A TV anime adaptation by studio 8bit premiered in 2022. It aired for 24 episodes. The next installment of the anime series was the Blue Lock: Episode Nagi movie, which premiered in April 2024. This movie adapts the spin-off manga of the same title. The second season of the TV anime premiered in the Fall 2025 and was titled Blue Lock vs. U-20 Japan. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime.
The series also has a stage play adaptation with Episode Nagi premiering in November.
Source: Official Website
©Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura, Kodansha/”Blue Lock” Production Committee
