The Fall 2022 anime schedule has released the adaptation of Blue Lock, a special battle royale soccer spokon from the manga series of the same name, written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and drawn by Yusuke Nomura. In the last few hours, the work has jumped to the top of the bestseller charts and set an incredible record.
They were distributed in the last 14 days 2 million copies of the Blue Lock manga, for the stratospheric count of nearly 150,000 units per day. With these numbers, the soccer series has overcome the rivalry of renowned contenders like Chainsaw Man and Spy x Family, both of which are present in the fall anime season 2022.
This incredible achievement is the result of brilliant storytelling, inspired characters and the Realism of the game action of matches, as well as of course the boost given by the debut of the anime adaptation produced by the 8-bit studio. But not only these characteristics made Blue Lock successful.
A portion of the earnings goes to the drug Journey of the Japanese national team to the 2022 World Cup taking place in Qatar these weeks. In an ironclad group that included the very strong selections of Spain and Germany, Japan took first place with two wins, precisely with the two teams mentioned above, and one loss with Costa Rica. Here is how the author of Blue Lock celebrated Japan's victories.
Japan's trip ended in a penalty shoot-out defeat by Croatia in the round of 16. However, Blue Lock continues to enjoy the benefits of the FIFA World Cupwith the final taking place on Sunday 18 December 2022. We leave you with a fanart of Leo Messi in Blue Lock.
Oricon reports that the circulation of BLUE LOCK manga has increased
2 MILLION copies in just 2 WEEKS!!
Effects of Anime & World Cup pic.twitter.com/efWReXft89— Shonenleaks (@shonenleaks) December 14, 2022
