Blue Lock is a sports and thriller manga about Yoichi Isagi, an ordinary high school soccer player. Along with 299 other strikers, Yoichi enters the Blue Lock Program after losing in his championship game. The soccer enigma, Ego Jinpachi, reveals in the Blue Lock Program that Japan is looking for the World’s Greatest Egoist Striker to lead the country to World Cup victory. Yoichi must stay in the program or else his soccer career will be over. RELATED: The Best Sports Anime to Watch of All Time
Is the Blue Lock Manga Available to Read Online?
There is currently no place online where sports manga fans can legally read Blue Lock for free. However, those who are interested to read the Blue Lock manga may purchase its physical or digital editions online or from manga retailers. The first chapter of the Blue Lock manga is available for free on the official website of Kodansha USA. The Blue Lock manga, which was first published in August 2018, is still ongoing. It has so far published 21 individual tankobon manga volumes, totaling 185 chapters. The Blue Lock manga has been serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine since its inception. Muneyuki Kaneshiro, the brilliant mind behind the hit manga series, As the Gods Will and Jagaaan, created Blue Lock. On the other hand, Blue Lock is illustrated by Yusuke Nomura, Hajime Isayama’s assistant in Attack on Titan, who debuted his one-shot manga, Emperor of the Sands, in Weekly Shonen Magazine. Blue Lock also received a spin-off manga entitled Blue Lock: Episode Nagi, which was written and illustrated by Kota Sannomiya in Kodansha’s Bessatsu Shonen Magazine. YOU MIGHT LIKE: Who Are Blue Lock’s Voice Actors? Sub & Dub Cast and Characters
Is Blue Lock on Shonen Jump?
The Blue Lock manga is not available on VIZ or the Shonen Jump app. The reason behind this is that the manga is not published by Shueisha, which publicizes Shonen Jump and co-owns VIZ Media. Blue Lock is instead published by Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine. The manga’s first volume was released in November 2018, and the 21st volume was released in October 2022. Furthermore, Kodansha USA holds the North American license for its official English digital release and print. ALSO READ: What Happens to Kira Ryosuke in Blue Lock?
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