Blue Lock Nagi movie’s key visual and trailer revealed- Here’s everything you need to know
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Blue Lock- Episode Nagi film’s first visual and promotional video has been released. The anime movie is going to premiere in Spring 2024 in Japan. Studio 8bit is animating the film. The trailer showcases the journeys of Nagi Seishiro and Mikage Reo as they find their core purpose through the Blue Lock facility.
Blue Rock is a Japanese manga series written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and published by Kodansha in their Weekly Shonen Magazine. It was released on the 1st of August 2018 and has 28 volumes so far.
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The manga was later adapted for a television serialization, which is produced by Studio 8bit. It is directed by Tetsuaki Watanabe and Shunsuke Ishikawa. The anime was released on the 9th of October 2022 and has 24 episodes.
Blue Lock: Episode Nagi is an anime film adapted from the manga series by the same author. The movie will be directed by Shunsuke Ishikawa, who also acted as the co-director for season 1. Taku Kishimoto is handling the series composition while Jun Murayama is the music composer.
The returning cast members to the anime movie include-
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Seishiro
- Yuuma Uchida as Reo Mikage
- Kazuyuki Okitsu as Zantetsu Tsurugi
- Kazuki Ura as Yoichi Isagi
- Tasuku Kaito as Meguru Bachira
- Yuuki Ono as Rensuke Kunigami
- Souma Saitou as Hyoma Chigir
Kodansha USA has licensed the manga and describes its plot as-
After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan’s team struggles to regroup. But what’s missing? An absolute Ace Striker, who can guide them to the win. The Football Association is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, and who can be the decisive instrument in turning around a losing match…and to do so, they’ve gathered 300 of Japan’s best and brightest youth players. Who will emerge to lead the team…and will they be able to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in their way?