Blue Lock Manga Has Crossed 40 Million Copies In Circulation Worldwide!
In Nov 2023, Blue Lock created history by becoming the first manga published by Kodansha to rank #1 in Oricon’s yearly best-selling list.
Twitter’s manga expert, @MangaMoguraRE, posted on July 6, 2024, that Blue Lock manga is standing strong worldwide in terms of sales.
It has sold over 40 million copies for volumes 1 to 29, including digital copies.
In Nov 2023, Blue Lock created history by becoming the first manga published by Kodansha to rank #1 in Oricon’s yearly best-selling list, where it outsold Jujutsu Kaisen and One Piece. Blue Lock sold over 10.5 million copies in 2023, followed by Jujutsu Kaisen and One Piece at 8.5 million and 7.1 million, respectively.
Football Action Manga "Blue Lock" by Kaneshiro Muneyuki & Nomura Yuusuke has 40 million copies in circulation worldwide!
TV Anime Season 2 by Studio 8bit will start on Oct 5, 2024!
Eng Release @KodanshaManga
French Release @pikaedition pic.twitter.com/EJ3yXJgj4J
— Manga Mogura RE (Manga & Anime News) (@MangaMoguraRE) July 5, 2024
Blue Lock Season 2 will begin airing on Oct 5, 2024 and it will have a total of 14 episodes.
Blue Lock Season 2 will begin airing on Oct 5 in the following time zones and days:
- Saturday, 11:30 PM (JST)
- Saturday, 7:30 AM (PST)
- Saturday, 10:30 AM (EST)
- Saturday, 8:00 PM (IST)
About Blue Lock:
Blue Lock is a Football manga series written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yusuke Nomura. It has been serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine since August 2018, with its chapters collected in 28 tankōbon volumes as of March 2024.
In October 2022 to March 2023, an anime television series adaptation created by Eight Bit was broadcast. A forthcoming anime film adaptation, derived from the Episode Nagi manga, is scheduled to make its debut in April 2024. The confirmation of a second season has been made as well.
Crunchyroll describes the overall plot of Blue Lock as follows:
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: Twitter
