Blue Lock

Blue Lock
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Yoichi Isagi
ブルーロック
(Burū Rokku)
Genre
Manga
Written byMuneyuki Kaneshiro
Illustrated byYusuke Nomura
Published byKodansha
English publisher
ImprintShōnen Magazine Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Magazine
DemographicShōnen
Original runAugust 1, 2018 – present
Volumes34
Manga
Blue Lock: Episode Nagi
Written byMuneyuki Kaneshiro
Illustrated byKōta Sannomiya
Published byKodansha
English publisher
  • NA: Kodansha USA
MagazineBessatsu Shōnen Magazine
DemographicShōnen
Original runJune 9, 2022 – present
Volumes7
Anime television series
Directed by
  • Tetsuaki Watanabe (S1)
  • Shunsuke Ishikawa (S1)
  • Yūji Haibara (S2)
Written byTaku Kishimoto
Music byJun Murayama
StudioEight Bit
Licensed by
Original networkANN (TV Asahi)
English network
Original run October 9, 2022 December 28, 2024
Episodes38
Anime film
Blue Lock: Episode Nagi
Directed byShunsuke Ishikawa
Written byTaku Kishimoto
Music byJun Murayama
StudioEight Bit
Licensed byCrunchyroll
ReleasedApril 19, 2024 (2024-04-19)
Runtime91 minutes

Blue Lock (Japanese: ブルーロック, Hepburn: Burū Rokku) (stylized as BLUELOCK) is a Japanese 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 34 tankōbon volumes as of June 2025.

An anime television series adaptation produced by Eight Bit aired from October 2022 to March 2023. An anime film adaptation based on the Episode Nagi spin-off manga premiered in April 2024. A second season, subtitled vs. U-20 Japan, aired from October to December 2024.

By March 2025, the manga had over 45 million copies in circulation worldwide, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. In 2021, Blue Lock won the 45th Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category.