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Blue Lock

Alternative Titles

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
Authors: Kaneshiro, Muneyuki (Story), Nomura, Yuusuke (Art)

Statistics

Score: 8.471 (scored by 9211292,112 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #1702
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #44
Members: 200,419
Favorites: 14,756

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Synopsis

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 won the 45th Kodansha Manga Awards in the Shounen category in 2021.

The series 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 also been released in French by Pika Édition since June 2, 2021; in Italian by Panini Comics since July 29, 2021; and in Polish by Waneko since August 5, 2022.

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Reviews

May 10, 2025
Preliminary (169/? eps)
If you were to compile Ego's words into a book, slap a penguin black classics cover onto it with a picture of a jacked Greek statue and titled it 'On Ego' by Jinpacheus, it would be studied and had theses written on it for millennia. Egotism would no longer be a negative attribute, but rather a revered philosophical school of thought.

Its a shame that this manga will never get the recognition it deserves for its revolutionary ideas because its trapped in the genre of 'shonen'. Blue Lock isn't about a new attitude towards football, nor is it a new attitude towards sport, it is an ...
Apr 17, 2025
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (299/? eps)
The reason why I'm making this review is because I love this manga and I don't want people to go through what I did, so read this attentively.

First, I would like to say that this manga is not for "anime-manga nerds" only. I know plenty of people who like football and/or play football (and I don't mean with their friends, I mean fr), who like this manga, as much as people who don't. I think the issue is that many people took what Ego said too literally and weren't bothered to see how what the manga would progress, so they missed out on what the ...
Dec 20, 2024
Preliminary (34/? eps)
Edgy, but with no substance.
Blue Lock makes me feel like I'm watching a middle school play full of band kids who all think they're Light Yagami.

Everything from the eyes, the expressions and the corny lines spewed from these walking stereotypes are the agglomeration of aspects and elements someone who has read 2 Shonen manga think manga as a whole is.

Characters are stupid, the art style is alright, the story is predictable and the dialog is eye-rolling bad.

This is barely a sports manga, it's slop material for bad phonk TikTok edits aimed at 13 year olds with a main character complex.

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