Blue Lock Soccer Anime's Character Video Highlights Hyōma Chigiri

The official website for the television anime of Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yūsuke Nomura's Blue Lock soccer manga posted a character promotional video that highlights Hyōma Chigiri on Wednesday. Sōma Saitō voices this player whose cool and collected demeanor and mysterious ambience belies past trauma.

The site streamed a video highlighting Meguru Bachira in January, Yoichi Isagi in February, and Rensuke Kunigami in March.

The anime will premiere this year, and stars:

• Tasuku Kaito as Meguru Bachira
• Kazuki Ura as Yoichi Isagi
• Yūki Ono as Rensuke Kunigami
• Sōma Saitō as Hyōma Chigiri

Tetsuaki Watanabe (Powerful Pro Yakyū Powerful Kōkō-hen) is directing the anime at 8-Bit with Shunsuke Ishikawa as assistant director. Taku Kishimoto (Haikyu!!, Silver Spoon, 2019 Fruits Basket) is supervising and writing the series scripts, and the manga's Kaneshiro is supervising the story. Yutaka Uemura (Saga of Tanya the Evil director) is the concept adviser. Masaru Shindō (Fruits Basket, Macross Delta, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU) is the main character designer and chief animation director, and Kenji Tanabe and Kento Toya are also character designers and chief animation directors. Jun Murayama is composing the music.

Kodansha Comics is publishing the manga in English digitally and in print, and it 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?

Kaneshiro and Nomura launched the ongoing manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in August 2018. The manga won the Best Shōnen Manga award in Kodansha's 45th annual Manga Awards last year. A spinoff manga about Seishirō Nagi's past will launch in the July issue of Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine on June 9.

Sources: Blue Lock anime's website, Comic Natalie