Blue Lock “Awakening” Trailer: Episode Nagi

The official website for the anime film Blue Lock: Episode Nagi has released this new trailer dubbed “Awakening” online. Blue Lock: Episode Nagi will debut on Japan on April 19th and there are plans for its international debut.

As the name suggests, it is an adaptation of the spinoff manga released in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in June 2022 and the manga’s story unfolds around Seishirō Nagi before entering the facilities of Bluelock.

The staff will be the same so we have animation at the studio 8-Bitthe direction is Shunsuke Ishikawathe script is by Taku Kishimoto (Haikyu!!, Silver Spoon, 2019 Fruits Basket) and the character design is by Masaru Shindō (Fruits Basket, Macross Delta, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU).

Hisashi Tojima is chief action director and Hiromi Sakamoto He is an action director. Jun Murayama is composing the music.

In Blue Lock: Episode Nagi we have:

• Nobunaga Shimazaki as Seishirō Nagi.
• Yūma Uchida as Reo Mikage.
• Kazuyuki Okitsu as Zantetsu Tsurugi.
• Kazuki Ura as Yoichi Isagi.
• Tasuku Kaito as Meguru Bachira.
• Yūki Ono as Rensuke Kunigami.
• sōma SaitO as Hyōma Chigiri.
• Kouki Uchiyama as Rin Itoshi.
• Hiroshi Kamiya as Jinpachi Ego.
• Subaru Kimura as Ryō Nameoka.

Blue Lock began serialization in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine in August 2018.

Synopsis of Blue Lock

The story begins with the elimination of the Japanese team from the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which led the Japan Football Union to start a training program to prepare a team of students who will participate in the 2022 World Cup. Isagi Yoichi receives the invitation to join this program right after his team lost the opportunity to participate in the National championship, having passed the ball to his less skilled teammate, who obviously made a mistake and missed the goal, denoting Isagi’s cowardice for not daring to finish the play himself. .

Their coach is Ego Jinpachi, who aims to put an end to the idea of ​​“Japan weak in football” by applying a radical new training regime: isolating 300 young people in a prison-like institution called “Blue Lock” and subjecting them to rigorous training to create “the greatest, most talented and selfish goalscorer in the world”.