'Blue Lock' TV Anime Reveals Supporting Cast, First Promo, Fall 2022 Premiere

by DatRandomDude
May 13, 2022 7:38 AM | 25 Comments

The official website of the television anime adaptation of Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yuusuke Nomura's Blue Lock manga revealed on Friday ten supporting cast members, a key visual (pictured), and the first promotional video. The anime is scheduled to premiere in October 2022 on TV Asahi and its 24 affiliated station's NUMAnimation programming block.

Cast
Wataru Kuon: Masatomo Nakazawa (Given)
Jingo Raichi: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Days (TV))
Yuudai Imamura: Shouya Chiba (All Out!!)
Gin Gagamaru: Shuugo Nakamura (Chuubyou Gekihatsu Boy)
Asahi Naruhaya: Daishi Kajita (SD Gundam World Heroes)
Iemon Okuhito: Ryuunosuke Watanuki (Mob Psycho 100)
Gurimi Igarashi: Aoi Ichikawa (Tsurune: Kazemai Koukou Kyuudoubu)
Ryousuke Kira: Kenichi Suzumura (Captain Tsubasa (2018))
Jinpachi Ego: Hiroshi Kamiya (Haikyuu!!)
Anri Teieri: Eri Yukimura (Leadale no Daichi nite)

Tetsuaki Watanabe (Mahoujin Guruguru (2017) assistant director) is helming the anime at animation studio 8bit. Taku Kishimoto (Haikyuu!!) is handling the series composition and penning the script. Yuu Shindou (Macross Δ), Kenji Tanabe (Binbougami ga!), and Kento Toya (Nanatsu no Taizai: Imashime no Fukkatsu) are designing the characters. Jun Murayama (Re-Main ending theme arrangement) is composing the music.

Kaneshiro and Nomura began serializing the soccer manga in Weekly Shounen Magazine in August 2018. Kodansha published the 18th volume on March 17, with the 19th volume scheduled to ship on May 17. Blue Lock has a cumulative 8.3 million copies of its volumes in circulation.

Kodansha US licensed the manga in English for digital release in January and published the 12th volume on March 15. The 13th volume will ship on May 17.

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Source: PR Times

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custardloaf said:
i dont trust the studio at all. also a lot of amateur seiyuus playing the main role.

my expectation is low

I think the adaptation is good

Oct 24, 2022 2:52 AM by firstawa

Icebreaker93 said:
Almost zero animation, not exited about this.

I think the animation is good

Oct 24, 2022 2:52 AM by firstawa

I absolutely love the manga, so I hope all goes well. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Jun 24, 2022 8:51 PM by removed-user

i dont trust the studio at all. also a lot of amateur seiyuus playing the main role.

my expectation is low

May 30, 2022 7:24 PM by custardloaf

Yeah I might be watching 20 show again this fall..

May 24, 2022 9:59 PM by ichuckasaurus

how do you tell football anime gonna flop? when they screw up big time with their captain tsubasa game with terrible fps and bad core gameplay.

May 21, 2022 3:00 PM by hazecloud

Actually, excited for this one there haven't been a lot of sports animes I've enjoyed besides Free and a few others so I'm defiantly checking this out can't wait for the manga as well.

May 21, 2022 11:58 AM by FabGinger13

CQLLIST said:
I'm lowkey worried and uncertain about the soccer animation because they seem to put more detail onto the facial expressions but only time can tell to see the uncertainty for the better or worse.

Pretty much this.

Kento Toya is a Chief Animation Director though, so I'm still fairly excited.

May 16, 2022 11:15 PM by Inorichi

Was this not already airing? Or is that some other football garbage?

Christ, this genre is repetitive. Worse than Isekai at this rate.

May 16, 2022 1:20 AM by O_T_T

Ah lelek lek lek - let's get it!

May 14, 2022 3:41 AM by -YUMMY-

ZXEAN said:
Production IG is the only studio I trust for any kind of sports anime. I don't have high hopes for this one.

OMG BASED BRO only trust IG animate sports anime

May 14, 2022 3:34 AM by lehuy0210

Hiroshi Kamiya as Ego. Not what I expected.

:)

May 13, 2022 9:50 PM by i0o0i

I hope it lives up to the manga since the manga is so good

Absolutely cant wait for this want it already lol

Also fall is super stacked has so many good shows coming out then

May 13, 2022 2:21 PM by WeFeed

Saw a tweet some time ago claiming this was gonna be co-produced by Crunchyroll, let's see if it its true...

May 13, 2022 1:13 PM by MadanielFL

NiaAlexandria said:
Isagi x Bachira bromance is coming, LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO

Great news indeed!!

May 13, 2022 12:23 PM by Memore

Isagi x Bachira bromance is coming, LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO

May 13, 2022 11:05 AM by NiaAlexandria

Is there anything left which isn't coming this fall?

May 13, 2022 10:35 AM by Softhenic03

Production IG is the only studio I trust for any kind of sports anime. I don't have high hopes for this one.

May 13, 2022 9:57 AM by ZXEAN