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Blue Lock Manga Gets 4th Stage Play in May 2025

Get ready for a thrilling soccer experience as the fourth stage play adaptation of the popular manga series BLUELOCK is set to run in Tokyo and Osaka in May 2025!


Bandai Namco Filmworks has announced that the stage play, directed and written by Naohiro Ise, will run at the THEATRE MILANO-Za in Tokyo from May 15-25, and at the Higashi-Osaka Cultural Creation Hall Dream House Great Hall in Osaka, from May 30 to June 1.

Image courtesy of Bandai Namco Filmworks

The stage play follows the story of the manga, which revolves around the creation of an absolute Ace Striker who can guide Japan’s team to victory.

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Image via BLUELOCK stage plays’ Twitter account

The first stage play ran in May 2023, and the third stage play recently concluded its run in August.

Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the original BLUELOCK manga in English digitally and in print. The company describes the story:

After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan’s team struggles to regroup. But what’s missing? An absolute Ace Striker, who can guide them to the win. The Japan Football Union is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, and who can be the decisive instrument in turning around a losing match…and to do so, they’ve gathered 300 of Japan’s best and brightest youth players. Who will emerge to lead the team…and will they be able to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in their way?

The BLUELOCK television anime premiered in Japan in October 2022, and the second season titled BLUE LOCK vs. U-20 JAPAN will premiere on October 5. The anime film of Kōta Sannomiya‘s BLUELOCK -Episode Nagi- spinoff manga premiered in Japan on April 19.

Source: Press release