BLUE LOCK (ブルーロック)

We win this, we go to nationals!

You got this, Isagi!

We won't get another shot, so better bring it home now!

Nationals. Nationals. Nationals. Nationals!

Missed me, loser!

I'm gonna score.

And then...

...on to Nationals!

Isagi! Over here! I'm free!

Tada?

If I pass, we'll score.

Isagi!

One for all and all for one, remember?

That's right.

Because this is soccer.

A sport played by teams of 11.

Good. Now we're tied up--

No!

-- Counter! -- Push up!

Crap!

Stop them!

C'mon, get through!

I ruined everything, I'm sorry!

I suck!

It's not your fault, Tada.

You did your best.

I'm sorry!

Kira, I can see why people call you the jewel

of Japanese soccer.

I also heard you've been called up to play for Japan's

U-18 team. Tell us about that.

Well, it's true.

But right now, my focus is on winning at nationals.

With this team.

One thing I can say

is that I'm here because of them.

I wouldn't have become the person I am today

without these guys.

You're amazing, Kira!

You fought well out there.

Third-years, this was your last game.

But you should be very proud of the time you spent

together as a team.

We may have lost, but I believe that someday--

Someday, you'll look back on this match

and know it wasn't a waste!

Whatever anyone else says, as far as I'm concerned,

Ichinan is the best damn soccer team in Japan!

No.

We're a team that didn't make it to nationals

'cause we lost in the prefectural qualifier.

And I'm just an unknown second-year forward

on that team.

That's the reality.

Sorry to let you down, Noa.

You're a true superstar.

A direct volley!

An incredible goal from Noel Noa!

Something I'm never going to be.

Wow, Yoichi!

You're unstoppable!

I admired you for so long.

Nice shot!

Are you sure you're in middle school?

And gave so much of my life to soccer. But...

It's one for all, and all for one.

Let's make nationals together!

Yeah!

It looks like my dream will never be more than that.

My idiotic dream of becoming a star striker for Japan.

And one day

taking the national team all the way

to win the World Cup.

What if...

...when I saw he was open,

I hadn't passed...

...but taken the shot, instead?

Would that have changed the game?

And maybe my whole life?

Remember, it's one for all. And all for one.

Because soccer is a sport played by teams of 11.

You can't do it alone.

Damn it!

I really wanted to win.

Hey, I'm home.

Welcome back, hon.

How did the game turn out?

We lost, two-nil. Tell me there's food.

I made pork cutlet for good luck,

but I guess it didn't help.

Of course it didn't.

You're supposed to eat that the day before the game.

Is that right? Well, it's good. Eat up.

I've got something that might help take your mind

off it for a bit.

A letter came for you! From the Japan Football Union.

Selected to become a "certified athlete"?

Is that a good thing? It sounds like it is.

I haven't the foggiest!

I don't get it. Why me?

I guess this is the right place.

Oh, hey, you're from Ichinan.

It's Isagi, isn't it?

Figures you got an invitation, too.

Good game the other day.

I was there. Remember?

Kira.

Yeah. I mean, of course I do.

Not the kind of loss you forget.

Well, for what it's worth, you totally stood out.

You've got a high soccer IQ.

Like, you see the bigger picture, ya know?

If we were on the same team,

you'd hit some amazing passes to me, for sure.

Oh, um, thank you.

Did that actually just happen?

Ryosuke Kira complimented me?

So, shall we?

Don't know about you, but I'd like to find out

why we're here.

Yes. Please.

Come on.

We don't need to be all weird and formal with each other.

Besides, I'm glad we met.

Oh! Me too.

He's such a nice guy.

This seems like the place?

Oh, wow. There are a ton of guys here.

Yeah, and I see some I recognize, too.

Okawa, Sennou's star player.

Ishikari, the tallest high school athlete.

Even Nishioka, the "Messi of Aomori."

Wait, is everyone here a forward?

And, test. Test, test.

Congratulations and welcome, diamonds in the rough.

You are the 318-and-under strikers

who have been chosen according to my arbitrary

and biased decision-making.

And I am Jinpachi Ego.

The man who was hired to ensure Japan's future victory

at the World Cup.

Huh? What did he just say?

Japan's victory at the World Cup?

Who is he? Do you know?

No clue. Sorry.

It's simple, really.

In order to outstrip the rest of the world,

Japanese soccer requires just one thing.

And that is the birth of a revolutionary striker.

I'll be performing an experiment to turn one of you 300

into the single best striker in the world.

Here, at this facility.

"Blue Lock."

Starting today, you will live there together and undergo

the specialized training I've devised to transform you.

You won't be allowed to go home,

and your previous soccer careers will be a mere memory.

But I promise you this: if you fight hard enough,

if you survive to be the last man standing

out of the 300 candidates assembled here,

you will be the greatest striker in history.

That's all for now.

It's been fun.

He's not serious, is he?

Excuse me. Sorry.

But I can't agree to these conditions.

All of us have teams we've given our loyalty to.

And some of us have nationals coming up.

You want me to abandon my team? For what?

To participate in some crazy-sounding program?

He's right! I've got nationals, too, man!

I don't want to live with a bunch of guys in some

creepy facility.

Yeah, who are you, anyway?

Bring out somebody who's not insane!

A pity.

You're all seriously ill, it seems.

Lock off.

Anyone who wants to leave can go.

Huh?

Are your perspectives truly this limited?

You'd rather be the top high schooler in this soccer

backwater than the world's best striker?

Ha.

The future of Japan is in your hands?

It's enough to make a man weep.

What?

Listen up.

There's no denying Japanese soccer's first-rate teamwork.

Call it the result of our country's

characteristic thoughtfulness.

But in all other aspects of the sport, we are second-rate.

Let me ask you this.

What is soccer?

Is it about 11 players working together?

The bonds that you form?

Self-sacrifice? Fighting for your teammates?

That kind of thinking is why this country's game

has remained weak.

I'll tell you the right answer.