Blue Lock debuted it's first episode last sunday and during the credits of the episode was revealed the official opening. With the theme Chaos ga Kiwamaru by UNISON SQUARE GARDEN, the video shows all the faces that protagonist Isagi Yoichi will see in his stay at the Blue Lock. On the YouTube was released the creditless version of the opening, which you can see below.
Tetsuaki Watanabi (Haikyuu!!, Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us) directs the anime at 8bit, the same studio from That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime. Taku Kishimoto (Fruits Basket, Gintana) is penning the scripts with Sawako Takagi (Death Note, Bleach, Dragon Ball Z) as the character designer. Jun Murayama (Skate-Leading☆Stars) composes the music.
With text by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrations by Yuusuke Nomura, the Blue Lock manga debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump in August 2018. The anime was announced in August of last year. See the story description:
After reflecting on the current state of Japanese soccer, the Japanese Football Association decides to hire the enigmatic and eccentric coach Jinpachi Ego to achieve their dream of winning the World Cup. Believing that Japan has lacked an egoistic striker hungry for goals, Jinpachi initiates the Blue Lock—a prison-like facility where three hundred talented strikers from high schools all over Japan are isolated and pitted against each other. The sole survivor of Blue Lock will earn the right to become the national team's striker, and those who are defeated shall be banned from joining the team forever.Selected to join this risky project is Yoichi Isagi, a striker who failed to bring his high school soccer team to the national tournament. After choosing to pass to a teammate who missed instead of scoring on his own, he could not help but wonder if the results would have been different had he been more selfish. Using this golden opportunity given by the Blue Lock Project, Yoichi aims to clear his doubts and chase his ultimate desire—to become the greatest striker in the world and lead Japan to World Cup glory.
