BLUE LOCK Teams Up with Concacaf to Unite Worlds of Anime and Soccer

The worlds of football—or soccer, if you please—and anime are colliding with the help of the boys of BLUE LOCK once again. Kodansha announced a first-of-its-kind collaboration with Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yusuke Nomura’s series and the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf), which will result in original content, limited-edition merchandise and crossover activations.  The collaboration is set for a mid-2025 launch and will continue through 2026 on the road to the World Cup. Licensing and brand strategy partner Artworks Entertainment is overseeing the project’s implementation across the Americas and “other key markets.”  Further details will be shared in the future. For now, plans include: Special events during key Concacaf tournaments Limited edition BLUE LOCK x Concacaf merchandise Cross-platform campaigns across anime, manga, and football fan communities RELATED: 15 Moments When Anime Characters Snapped Crunchyroll streams the BLUE LOCK anime and describes it like so: 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: Press release

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