Muneyuki Kaneshiro

  Blue Lock is a manga by writer Muneyuki Kaneshiro with art by Yusuke Nomura which started in 2018. The story is part sports manga, part Squid game-like battle royal. After consistently losing the world cup, Japan’s national Soccer team hires a new coach. This coach gathers the 300 best strikers in Japan, traps them

At a recent ComicsPro presentation, Kristen McLean of Circana (which owns BookScan) discussed trends in the manga category.  She declared that the fastest growing series in 2023 is BLUE LOCK from Kodansha!  This one-part sports drama, one-part elimination-game survival series has strongly connected with readers, and became turbocharged after a popular anime launch too. Now

Tons of fan-favorite manga titles have been getting their own on-screen anime adaptations. Before you tune in, make sure you catch up on the books first! Some titles relating to our favorite recent and upcoming manga to anime adaptations are listed below!

The first volume of the extremely popular soccer elimination game manga Blue Lock is receiving a Direct & Anime Market Exclusive edition. This new edition with exclusive cover art will be available in comic and anime shops November 14th of this year! This new cover announcement comes on the heels of the recently released trailer