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Japanese: ブルーロック
English: Blue Lock
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Type: Manga
Volumes: Unknown
Chapters: Unknown
Status: Publishing
Published: Aug 1, 2018 to ?
Genres: Award Winning Award Winning, Sports Sports
Theme: Team Sports Team Sports
Demographic: Shounen Shounen
Serialization: Shounen Magazine (Weekly)
Authors: Kaneshiro, Muneyuki (Story), Nomura, Yuusuke (Art)

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Score: 8.521 (scored by 7600376,003 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #1372
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #55
Members: 169,197
Favorites: 12,907

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After reflecting on the current state of Japanese soccer, the Japanese Football Association decides to hire the enigmatic and eccentric coach Jinpachi Ego to achieve their dream of winning the World Cup. Believing that Japan has lacked an egoistic striker hungry for goals, Jinpachi initiates the Blue Lock—a prison-like facility where three hundred talented strikers from high schools all over Japan are isolated and pitted against each other. The sole survivor of Blue Lock will earn the right to become the national team's striker, and those who are defeated shall be banned from joining the team forever.

Selected to join this risky project is Yoichi Isagi, a striker who failed to bring his high school soccer team to the national tournament. After choosing to pass to a teammate who missed instead of scoring on his own, he could not help but wonder if the results would have been different had he been more selfish. Using this golden opportunity given by the Blue Lock Project, Yoichi aims to clear his doubts and chase his ultimate desire—to become the greatest striker in the world and lead Japan to World Cup glory.

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Background

Blue Lock has been published digitally in English by Kodansha Comics USA since March 16, 2021, and in print since June 21, 2022. The series has also been simulpub through K Manga. It has been published in French by Pika Édition since June 2, 2021.

In 2021, the series won the 45th Kodansha Manga Awards in the shounen category.

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Spin-off:Blue Lock: Episode Nagi, Shousetsu Blue Lock: Tatakai no Mae, Bokura wa.
Alternative version:Shousetsu Blue Lock
Adaptation:Blue Lock, Blue Lock 2nd Season

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Bachira, Meguru
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Isagi, Yoichi
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Chigiri, Hyouma
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Kunigami, Rensuke
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Nagi, Seishirou
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Barou, Shouei
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Itoshi, Rin
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58 Recommended
10 Mixed Feelings
9 Not Recommended
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Feb 27, 2024
redbubbles29
Recommended
Preliminary (218/? eps)
From the creator of Jagaan and As the God's Will, comes another death game story. The only difference is, that you are not betting on your life, but your football career. Now this might sound ridiculous, but I remember starting this series during the final year of university, having your dream career pretty much being killed when you are still young sounds scarier than death, lol.

But you don't have to be in the same shoes to empathize with them, as the manga will show you through its character writing how hell-bent and ambitious these boys are in this sport. You can't help but buy into ...
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Apr 10, 2024
Beersathought
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (241/? eps)
The anime was not bad at all, I really liked the story and concept, and then I read the manga lol, I've got to say really liked the world cup arc or something, don't remember what's it called, and then they met with some foreign players or some shit, I was like ok ok, author may be cooking, then idk what happened it just got boring, and there was like a system based players value and shit, might be your sauce, definitely not mine, and there was one game where it took 20-30 chapters or something ( didn't fact check this, check yourself) , and ...
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Sep 11, 2022
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Not Recommended
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Preliminary (180/? eps)
The best football manga for people who have never played football

Generic characters. Unnecessarily corny and edgy dialogue. The art saves the series. Feels like the research done for this series was done on the football wikipedia page. Storytelling and pacing is okay and can get you hooked but gets very repetitive as the series progresses. If you like a self insert power fantasy under the pretext of a football manga, then go ahead read Blue Lock. If you prefer something more grounded and showcases actual football then I would heavily recommend to stay away from Blue Lock.

TL;DR Ao Ashi clears

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