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?
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)
 
Note: Winner of the 45th Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen Category in 2021.

Japan’s desire for World Cup glory leads the Japanese Football Association to launch a new rigorous training program to find the national team’s next striker. Three hundred high school players are pitted against each other for the position, but only one will come out on top. Who among them will be the striker to usher in a new era of Japanese soccer? 
 
(Source: Crunchyroll)

Vinícius Moreira Barros Leite is a Brazilian actor and voice actor.

__Non-Anime Roles:__
~!- Mar Novu / Monitor / Anti-Monitor (Arrowverse series)
- Charles Smith (Riverdale)
- Jackson Whittemore (2nd voice; Teen Wolf)
- Hizdahr zo Loraq (Game of Thrones)
- Luis Roberto Guzmán (Lo Que la Vida me Robó [2nd dub], ¿Quién mató a Sara? and Cobra Kai)
- Tyler James Williams (Whiskey Cavalier, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders and Detroit [2nd dub])
- Nathan Parsons (The Originals and Roswell, New Mexico)
- Aethelwold (The Last Kingdom)
- Stanley "Stan" Bowes (Pose)
- Harold Copter / Phil Jones (WandaVision)
- Brion Markov / Geo-Force (Young Justice)
- Simon Grimault (Miraculous: Les aventures de Ladybug et Chat Noir)
- Delford "Iraq" Wade (Watch Dogs)
- Dr. Caio Durão (Super Drags)
!~

Seishiro Nagi, a second-year high schooler, thought everything was a pain and lived his life in an apathetic fog. That is, until he met Reo Mikage and they entered the mysterious striker training center, Blue Lock...
 
A new spin-off from Blue Lock's author, Muneyuki Kaneshiro, telling the story from Nagi's point of view!
 
(Source: K-Manga)

My life was full of boredom. Until I met him.
 
“That’s a hassle.” 
 That was second-year high schooler Nagi Seishirou’s favorite phrase as he lived his dull life. Until Reo Mikage, a classmate who dreamed of winning the World Cup, discovered Nagi’s hidden skill, inspiring him to play soccer and share his outstanding talent. Nagi is pulled into Reo's world of soccer and out of his leisurely lifestyle. What fate awaits this prodigy in BLUE LOCK?: A world he’s never known.
 
(Source: Crunchyroll, edited)

Okuhito Lemon