Fall 2022 Preview: Blue Lock

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Blue Lock is a new action/sport anime coming in the fall season.It will premiere on October 8th, and with 24 planned episodes it brings with it a lot of opportunity for greatness and failure alike. The premise is that after a demoralizing season in 2018, Japan is seeking to create the perfect soccer striker to bring them back to the spotlight of international soccer. In order to do so, 300 of the best strikers in Japan have been selected to compete in a Squid Games-esque challenge.

While it is ostensibly about soccer, the manga heavily implies that it does not espouse the values that most sports tout. Despite this bold deviation from expectation, this manga was incredibly popular and this is a highly anticipated new anime. While 8bit Studios are a fairly well-established and proven group, the same cannot be said for the cast and crew of this series. This dichotomy guarantees that the series will be interesting, and could also be the show that in a few years the next wave of stars point to as their big break.

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Tetsuaki Watanabe is the lead director and, while he has gained some credibility from his work as an episode director on Haikyu!!, this will be his first outing directing an entire show. Additionally, this is his first work with 8bit studios. The assistant director, Shunsuke Ishikawa, has worked with 8bit before on That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, but has also only ever directed episodes of various tv shows. The music composer, Jun Murayama, has only four credits, although their career only began in 2020. The shining star of the crew comes from Muneyoki Kaneshiro, the author of the manga itself, who is involved in the anime as the primary story composer.

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