Synopsis

Blue Lock reimagines the sports manga as a survival game, and aims it straight at the striker's position. After a humiliating World Cup exit, Japan's football federation launches a radical, ruthless program: lock three hundred of the nation's best high-school strikers in a facility and pit them against each other to forge the single most lethal goal-scorer in the world. Lose your duels and you're eliminated — your dream of ever playing for Japan gone for good. Yoichi Isagi is a smart but unselfish forward who has to unlearn everything polite about his game and discover the ego a great striker needs. That's the show's real subject: the arrogance, hunger, and individual brilliance that team sports usually train out of players. It's football as a battle royale, and it's electric. The manga is ongoing and the anime brings its high-voltage duels to the screen. Whether or not you follow the sport, Blue Lock hooks you on the psychology of wanting to be the best — and being willing to leave everyone else behind to get there.