The official web site for the anime movie of Kōta Sannomiya‘s BLUELOCK -Episode Nagi- spinoff of Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yūsuke Nomura‘s Blue Lock soccer manga started streaming a brand new “Kakusei” (Awakening promotional video on Friday. The video highlights Nagi, the lazy genius.

BLUELOCK -Episode Nagi- will open in Japan on April 19. The movie can have 4 mini-anime titled “BLUELOCK Extra Time!” after the credit for the primary 4 weeks of the movie’s screening. The mini-anime episode proven will change every week. The movie may even display screen in IMAX, MX4D, and 4DX. Crunchyroll will display screen the movie in theaters in North America on June 28 in each English subtitles and an English dub.

The movie stars:

• 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 Saitō as Hyōma Chigiri
• Kōki Uchiyama as Rin Itoshi
• Hiroshi Kamiya as Jinpachi Ego
• Subaru Kimura as Ryō Nameoka

The movie options returning forged and workers members. The tv anime’s assistant director Shunsuke Ishikawa is directing the movie at 8-Bit. Taku Kishimoto (Haikyu!!, Silver Spoon, 2019 Fruits Basket) is supervising and writing the sequence scripts, and the manga’s Kaneshiro is supervising the story. Nomura is credited because the character designer. Jun Murayama is composing the music.

Nissy and SKY-HI carry out the theme music “Stormy.” Takahiro Nishijima is a member of the group AAA and does solo work beneath the title Nissy. Mitsuhiro Hidaka can be a part of the band and makes use of the title SKY-HI for his solo work.

The spinoff manga focuses on Seishirō Nagi earlier than he enters the titular Blue Lock facility. Kodansha USA Publishing introduced in October it is going to begin releasing the spinoff manga in print in fall 2024.

Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the unique Blue Lock manga in English digitally, and can be releasing it in print. The corporate describes the story:

After a disastrous defeat on the 2018 World Cup, Japan’s group struggles to regroup. However what’s lacking? An absolute Ace Striker, who can information them to the win. The Japan Soccer Union is hell-bent on making a striker who hungers for targets and thirsts for victory, and who might be the decisive instrument in turning round a shedding match…and to take action, they’ve gathered 300 of Japan’s greatest and brightest youth gamers. Who will emerge to guide the group…and can they be capable of out-muscle and out-ego everybody who stands of their manner?

Kaneshiro and Nomura launched the manga in Weekly Shōnen Journal in August 2018.

The BLUELOCK TV anime premiered in Japan in October 2022. Crunchyroll streamed the sequence because it aired, and streamed an English dub. The anime is getting a second season.

Sources: BLUELOCK -Episode Nagi- movie’s web site, Comedian Natalie