Country Japan
Original language Japanese
Genres Sport, Anime
Runtime 24 minutes
Total runtime 15 hours 36 minutes
Status Ended
Network TV Asahi
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Blue Lock

2022 14K members 2 seasons39 episodes

Adapted from the 2018 manga by Kaneshiro Muneyuki.

2018 is the World Cup of soccer, but Japan is eliminated in the round of 16. The national team is struggling to recover from this elimination.

The Japan Football Union then creates the Blue Lock, a revolutionary training center to find the rare pearl, the star striker among 300 high school footballers of the country.

The coach of this center, Jinpachi Ego, has only one objective: to find and train the future striker who will dominate world soccer. The young Yoichi Isagi, from the training center, has only one desire: to become this exceptional player. He has just lost the match that could have qualified his team for the final in Saitama. Just when he thought all was lost, Yoichi receives an invitation to join the Blue Lock program.

He will have to face Meguru Bachira, Ryōsuke Kira or Rensuke Kunigami, his main competitors.

BetaSeries' opinion

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Aoashi Season 2 premieres in 11 days, on October 4, 2026, and that date should be circled by every sports anime fan looking for their next weekly obsession. After a 24-episode first season that turned a raw, impulsive striker from rural Japan into one of anime’s most compelling young prospects, the series is finally ready to continue Ashito Aoi’s journey. If you have not added Aoashi to your BetaSeries account yet, now is the ideal moment: you still have just enough time to catch up, refresh the key story beats, and be ready when Season 2 kicks off.

For lapsed viewers, here is what you really need to remember before the premiere. Ashito Aoi is not introduced as a polished prodigy. He is loud, instinctive, ambitious, and sometimes his own worst enemy. After an incident during a crucial match costs his team dearly, his future in soccer looks uncertain — until he is noticed by a key figure from Tokyo. That encounter sends Ashito toward the elite youth soccer world, where talent alone is not enough. Season 1’s central tension was not simply whether Ashito could score goals, but whether he could understand the game at a higher level, adapt to team structures, and survive in an environment filled with players who are technically, tactically, and mentally ahead of him.

That is why Aoashi stands apart from many sports anime. If Blue Lock is built around ego, individualism, and survival-style competition, Aoashi is more grounded in development, vision, coaching, and the demanding reality of modern soccer systems. The drama comes from how much Ashito has to unlearn. His great weapon is his field awareness — an ability to see patterns and space in a way that hints at something extraordinary — but the series never treats that as a magic shortcut. Season 2 is expected to lean even harder into that tactical identity, following Ashito as he continues to evolve from a passionate but rough player into someone who can read, shape, and influence a match.

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