


Both of which are proving to be extremely popular.

SOCCER SPIRITS ANIME JAPANESE NAME SERIES
Netflix has begun experimenting with the weekly releases of the anime series Blue Period and Komi Can’t Communicate. However, thanks to recent anime releases from Netflix, the term Netflix Jail will be a thing of the past. Naturally, thanks to Netflix’s past history with some of its anime titles, fans of either series would be worried that a stint in Netflix Jail would stop them from watching until several weeks or months after its broadcast in Japan. And while we have seen some half-decent soccer anime in the past, such as Days and Inazuma Eleven, both Ao Ashi and Blue Lock will be on a whole different level.Ĭurrently, the hype around the upcoming releases of the Ao Ashi and Blue Lock anime is mostly limited to its manga readers, but once both series begin broadcasting in Japan we expect their popularity to explode, much in the same vein as Haikyuu!. If it isn’t already clear, both Ao Ashi and Blue Lock are the future kings of sports anime.

So why should Netflix pick up Ao Ashi and Blue Lock? What makes Blue Lock stand apart from its other soccer counterparts is how unbashful the story is to completely disregard the sports anime cliche of friendship and teamwork, and instead, feed on the egos of its characters as they all compete against the other to be the very best of Japan’s aspiring youth.īeautifully illustrated, the animation studio Eight Bit has a mammoth task on its hands to please fans, however, judging by the trailer, fans of the manga have nothing to fear and should be incredibly excited. Basking in the fun of its shonen genre, Blue Lock takes soccer to that over-the-top level of fun that could only be appreciated through manga and anime. Haikyu! is to Ao Ashi what Kuroko’s Basketball is to Blue Lock. As a result, the Japanese Football Union builds a facility called Blue Lock, which is dedicated to finding the very best of Japan’s talented pool of players. The story of Blue Lock takes place after the 2018 Russian World Cup where the Japanese National Football Team placed 16th in the tournament. On August 1st, 2018 the first chapter of Blue Lock debuted in Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine. But his dreams are dashed when he is the reason behind his team’s elimination from a tournament, however, his talent catches the eye of Tatsuya Fukuda, the youth coach of Tokyo City Esperion FC. The story is centered around aspiring soccer player Ashito Aoi, who dreams of becoming a professional. On January 5th, 2015 the first chapter of Aoashi was published in the Japanese magazine Big Comic Spirits. Those two challenges are Yuugo Kobayashi’s Ao Ashi and Muneyuki Kaneshiro’s Blue Lock. But after years of dominating the sports anime scene, two upcoming series have the potential to usurp the throne. Sports anime have been extremely popular in recent years, but arguably none have been more popular than the beloved high school volleyball anime Haikyuu!. The soccer anime scene is about to blow up, and Netflix needs to be a part of it, here’s why. The beautiful game will see the first-ever world cup tournament held in the Middle East when it kicks off in December 2022 and the highly anticipated anime adaptations of Ao Ashi and Blue Lock will debut. 2022 is going to be a huge year for soccer.
