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Blue Lock

Japan keeps loosing the World Cup, over and over. After Isagi Yoichi, a forward for a high school team, gets eliminated in the last game in the qualifier for nationals, gets invited to a program called "Blue Lock" Their coach will be Ego Jinpachi, who intends to "destroy Japanese loser football" by introducing a radical new training regimen: isolate 300 young forwards in a prison-like institution called "Blue Lock" and put them through rigorous training aimed at creating "the world's greatest egotist striker." Use this page to compare tone, genre fit (Animation, Sport, Thriller), first airing in 2022, and whether this series is worth starting now.

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Story of Blue Lock

Japan keeps loosing the World Cup, over and over. After Isagi Yoichi, a forward for a high school team, gets eliminated in the last game in the qualifier for nationals, gets invited to a program called "Blue Lock" Their coach will be Ego Jinpachi, who intends to "destroy Japanese loser football" by introducing a radical new training regimen: isolate 300 young forwards in a prison-like institution called "Blue Lock" and put them through rigorous training aimed at creating "the world's greatest egotist striker."

Use this page to compare tone, genre fit (Animation, Sport, Thriller), first airing in 2022, and whether this series is worth starting now.

Title facts

  • Type Series
  • Release year 2022
  • Released 08 Oct 2022
  • Runtime 1 minutes
  • Content rating TV-14
  • IMDb rating IMDb 8.2/10 from 27,972 votes
  • Genres Animation, Sport, Thriller, Anime
  • Languages Japanese, English
  • Countries Japan
  • Seasons 2 seasons

Cast

Ricco Fajardo, Drew Breedlove, Nobunaga Shimazaki

Awards and recognition

2 wins & 5 nominations total

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