Blue Lock

Blue Lock premiered earlier and the creditless version of the opening is now available. “Chaos ga Kiwamaru” by Unison Square Garden was chosen as the.

Jun Maruyama is composing the music, while Taku Kishimoto is signing off on the script. The anime is set to have a total of 24 episodes and will air in two consecutive cours. Studio 8bit is animating the series.

Isagi in the trailer for Blue Lock. (Image credit: Crunchyroll). So, I'm going to be honest – sports anime have ...

This is just something I have to put praise towards, but I love the cast of characters in this show. Big nerd and lover of Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire. [with his overarching goal](https://www.cinemablend.com/news/1624820/avengers-infinity-wars-co-writer-reveals-thanos-main-goal-in-the-marvel-movie) of balance in the universe. [2022 TV premiere schedule](https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2022-tv-premiere-dates) and honestly, if you’ve never given a sports anime a try, check out this one. [sports world is very grim](https://twinfinite.net/2022/10/bluelock-episode-1-preview/), saying that there are so many players out there who don’t care for their team and would rather care about them doing well in a game rather than winning, and that’s true. But from the first episode, the man that runs the whole entire BLUELOCK program, Jinpachi Ego, is creepy and unsettling in the best way. I haven’t read the manga and I don’t like spoilers so I’m not sure. The animators behind Ego’s design really outdid themselves because from the moment he stepped onto the screen, I felt disgusted because he felt like everything that could go wrong with sports. Something I loved about BLUELOCK is that you are thrown right into the conflict. What makes the conflict even better is that at first, everyone is against it. Isagi, the main protagonist of BLUELOCK is that perfect example of a protagonist that all of us would love. It might have changed the way I look at sports anime for the rest of my life.

With the release of Bluelock episode 1 a couple of hours ago, the search for the world's best striker has begun. Fans were introduced to Yoichi, ...

Yoichi’s dream to become the world’s best striker has just begun, and he has already allowed his ego to take over. Despite only being the introduction to the show, Bluelock episode 1 was filled with intense and exciting moments. His dream was to become a star striker like the blonde man, so he trained his whole life to become the best. As he ran, Gurimu fell and injured his leg, giving Yoichi the perfect chance to attack him. The last player to be tagged when the timer ran out would be eliminated from the competition. A man named Ego Jinpachi appeared on the stage in front of them explaining to all the players inside that he was hired by the Japanese government to make sure that their country’s team would win the upcoming Yoichi tried to deny the desire to be egotistical but was incapable. The black-haired boy was determined to lead his team to victory and prepared to score a goal. [Yoichi](https://www.sportskeeda.com/anime/my-hero-academia-chapter-367-can-yoichi-s-absence-be-linked-bakugo-s-fate) and his team left the field, Ryosuke gave an interview, to the delight of his fans. Fans were introduced to Yoichi, a simple high school boy with the dream of becoming the best player in the world.He was The striker for the other team, Ryosuke, obtained the ball and scored a goal. Continue reading to learn more about the highlights of the episode.

Blue Lock is finally here as fans of the series finally got to experience the Blue Lock Project's tense atmosphere in animation.

[opening](https://www.sportskeeda.com/anime/news-blue-lock-s-new-trailer-reveals-opening-theme-unison-square-garden), others were much more focused on how different the anime was from other sports series. The scene was unexpected for many anime-only fans since they expected Isagi and Kira to help each other out in the future episodes. This is bound to happen when characters like Hyomo Chigiri, Rensuke Kunigami, and Jinpachi Ego take the spotlight away from the main protagonist. Thus, the premiere was met with a variety of memes, all targeted at the anime finally making its debut after otakus had to wait for so long. They exclaimed how the anime differed from any other series of the same genre, creating tense moments that catered to otakus' preference in general. [Episode 1](https://www.sportskeeda.com/anime/blue-lock-episode-1-release-date-time-watch-expect) exceeded expectations since fans weren't able to contain their excitement and took Twitter by storm.

One is old-fashioned and pretty traditional, the other a trope-surfing “post-sports” sports manga. Seinen vs. shounen, gritty realism vs. abject absurdity.

For 299th-ranked Youichi that means ](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Blue-Lock-01-06.jpg) [turning on the kindly #1 boy and getting him eliminated](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Blue-Lock-01-40.jpg), thus starting the process of embracing his inner gaijin. ](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Blue-Lock-01-05.jpg) [Ego (ROFL) Jinpachi’s](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Blue-Lock-01-13.jpg) (that’s the Kamiya guy) idea is to lock these kids up together and have them battle each other in survival games until only one is left, and that one kid will be “the best striker in the world”. Blue Lock is just silly with full abandon (and ](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Blue-Lock-01-03.jpg) [those eyes!](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Blue-Lock-01-16.jpg)), and sports series that take that route always pose a challenger for me. [The protagonist here is a second-year high schooler named ](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Blue-Lock-01-04.jpg) [Isagi Youichi](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Blue-Lock-01-22.jpg). Who knows if I’ll actually get there, but it’s certainly worth a shot.](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Blue-Lock-01-07.jpg) As we meet him his team is about to be bounced out of regionals because he decides to pass to an open teammate (who [clanks a sitter off the post](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Blue-Lock-01-03.jpg)) rather than take the big shot himself. It may sound simple enough but believe me, it ain’t easy.](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Blue-Lock-01-02.jpg) [In effect, I think this series is kind of a sports version of Dandadan. [There is one element of Blue Lock that does have a tenuous connection to reality, and it’s the theory that strikers have to be selfish egoists in order to excel. As I said, you really have to divorce yourself from the notion that this is a soccer series to have any chance – or not care about soccer in the first place. Perhaps most importantly, one is clearly aimed at fans who love sports, and one at those that don’t.](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Blue-Lock-01-01.jpg) [Of course, I fall into the first group. I almost can’t believe this isn’t a Trigger series (it’s 8 bit), because I can hardly think of a show that seems to embody a studio’s aesthetic like this one and Trigger (if you know, you know). [They may both have “Blue” in the title and be about soccer (that applies to Be Blues too), but the similarities between 2022’s two big soccer adaptations end there.