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)

__Height:__ 173 cm
__Hobbies:__ Karaoke, gaming
__Agency:__ Across Entertainment

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Won Best Rookie at the 9th Seiyuu Awards (2015) for his role as Inaho Kaizuka in _Aldnoah.Zero_. Won Best Lead Actor at the 14th Seiyuu Awards (2020) for his role as Tanjiro Kamado in _Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba_.

He is married, is a father of twin daughters, and has a cat named [Konpei](https://anilist.co/staff/269430/Konpei).

__Non-Anime Roles:__

- Protagonist - Metaphor: ReFantazio (VG)
- Ling Yang - Wuthering Waves (VG)

David Anthony Matranga is an American voice actor from Houston, Texas. He works primarily for English dubbed anime for Funimation and Sentai Filmworks.

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Filipe Gimenez is a Brazilian actor and voice actor.

__Non-Anime Roles:__
~!- Louis Partridge (Enola Holmes 1 & 2 and Pistol)
!~

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A Mexican voice actor. He is the son of [Martha Rave](https://anilist.co/staff/205847/Martha-Rave).

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)

The second season of Blue Lock. 
The hottest soccer matches start again as the U-20 Japan National Team makes their debut! 
(Source: Crunchyroll News)

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)

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