news culture What is Blue Lock, the manga everyone is talking about after Japan’s World Cup win?
The start of a World Cup is often an opportunity to get FIFA out of the closet or rewatch the complete Olive and Tom anime… But if you’re tired of following the same adventures over and over again, today you know that the Die Olive and Tom series has a big competitor: Blue Lock!
Blue Lock, the anime that’s gaining momentum
As you probably already know, the 2022 World Cup is happening right now. And if the first few days of broadcasting the championship were already very successful – the opening game still brought together 5 million viewers to watch TF1 -, another audience climbs at breakneck speed. You probably guessed it, it’s Blue Lock’s and with good reason, the manga, recently adapted into anime, makes soccer its main subject.
Written by Kaneshiro Muneyuki and drawn by Nomura Yusuke, the manga Blue Lock has already proven itself with a total of 195 chapters, but only recently has its claim to an anime series. Airing on Crunchyroll since October 8th, the anime tells the story of Yoichi Isagi, a particularly gifted attacker who receives an invitation to join the Blue Lock program. A surprising program to say the least that contains many of the codes of the battle royale. Yes, if football is above all a collective sport, Blue Lock is about becoming the best striker in the world, that’s exactly what it is. So he has to face 300 other candidates who can’t be ignored.
That’s what draws audiences to watch Blue Lock in particular, as the series takes the spirit of soccer against the grain to look more like a Fortnite or a Squid game sans the dead.
A passion shared by its creators
This whole new enthusiasm for the series is not only shared by the viewers, but also by the creators. The latter used Japan’s victory over Germany at the 2022 World Cup to congratulate the Japanese team, but also to revisit the series.
On his side, The author of Blue Lock also made an illustration to celebrate Japan’s victory. In the image that you can see below we see the main character of the saga sweating and screaming victory.
