Striking while the football iron is hot, the official website and accounts for BLUE LOCK today announced that the much-anticipated second season of the hit anime series will kick off on Japanese television from Saturday, October 5 at 23:30 JST and will air for 14 episodes.
Two more cast members were also announced, who will debut alongside Chiaki Kobayashi, Eiji Mikami and Kakeru Hatano in the upcoming sequel:
Oliver Aiku voiced by Satoshi Hino
Shuto Sendo voiced by Akihisa Wakayama
Oliver Aiku
Shuto Sendo
Based on the award-winning manga by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yusuke Nomura, Tetsuaki Watanabe (Haikyu!! episode director) directed BLUE LOCK with assistant direction by Shunsuke Ishikawa (Sword Art Online Alicization episode director) at studio eightbit (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime). Ishikawa served as director for the -EPISODE NAGI- movie.
If you’re a fan of blood-pumping sports anime, check out the first season in a range of subs and dubs, right here on Crunchyroll!
Japan’s desire for World Cup glory leads the Japanese Football Association to launch a new rigorous training program to find the national team’s next striker. Three hundred high school players are pitted against each other for the position, but only one will come out on top. Who among them will be the striker to usher in a new era of Japanese soccer?
Source: Comic Natalie
