Kodansha Comics introduced on Thursday that it’ll launch print variations of Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yūsuke Nomura‘s Blue Lock soccer manga in English beginning with the primary quantity this summer time.

Kodansha Comics is publishing the manga in English digitally, and it describes the story:

After a disastrous defeat on the 2018 World Cup, Japan’s staff 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 objectives and thirsts for victory, and who will be the decisive instrument in turning round a dropping match…and to take action, they’ve gathered 300 of Japan’s greatest and brightest youth gamers. Who will emerge to guide the staff…and can they have the ability to out-muscle and out-ego everybody who stands of their manner?

Kaneshiro and Nomura launched the manga in Weekly Shōnen Journal in August 2018. Kodansha printed the manga’s seventeenth compiled nook quantity on December 17. The volumes have over 4.5 million copies printed. The manga gained the Finest Shōnen Manga award in Kodansha‘s forty fifth annual Manga Awards final 12 months.

The manga is inspiring a tv anime that may premiere in 2022.

Supply: Electronic mail correspondence