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Blue Lock Volume 1

Featured character: Yoichi Isagi

Background color: Fluorescent green* (08FF08)

*The color looks more like an olive color in the image, but the real color is a lot more vibrant

Why A/N thinks the cover is how it is: The cover of volume 1 features the character Yoichi Isagi. Isagi is the main character and protagonist of Blue Lock so it makes sense as to why he's on the first cover. His character color is fluorescent green, so the background color makes sense too. The pose Isagi is shown in is him running after a football. This could be because after he got the invite from Blue Lock, he was desperate to try and make himself good again and make his name known in the sport since he was devastated after the loss against Matsukaze Kokuo.

About the volume: Volume one is the first volume in the Blue Lock series and starts the first story arc, Introduction Arc. The volume starts out by going back to the time Japan lost the World Cup back in 2018. Now in our current time there is a meeting taking place with the JFU (Japanese Football Union) of Japan. The meeting is about what they can do to try and improve Japanese football and ends off by introducing a man who is said to lead Japan's players to the world cup.

In another part of Japan, two rival schools, Ichinan and Matsukaze Kokuo, are competing against each other to hopefully win the game. Whichever team wins gets to move on to Nationals. Ichinan's star forward is about to score a goal when he passes to another teammate who misses and Matsukaze Kokuo gains possession of the ball and scores a goal, winning the game. Matsukaze Kokuo celebrates their win greatly, while Ichinan is feeling utterly devastated by their loss.

When the players all go home, the two star players of the teams receive a letter, inviting them to a football training facility called Blue Lock. Upon arriving to Blue Lock, the two players meet and become friendly with each other. After being given a speech about the greatness of the program, all 300 of the total players get sorted into teams of 12 and are asked to play a game of 'tag' to eliminate one player, now having only 275 players.

The following day is spent with everyone doing fitness tests, and when they’re done they eat dinner, and go to sleep. However, in the middle of the night two players sneak off to do some late night training together, playing a 1 vs 1 against each other. When they get back, the guy who runs Blue Lock explains how everyone is divided up (five teams, B-Z, in five strata’s, each with their own team of 11).

Presumably, as that is happening, a star football prodigy is getting interviewed by a journalist after moving back from Spain. At the end of the interview he had said something, that might offend a lot of Japanese football fans, and walked out with his manager following behind. As he’s walking down the hallway he overhears a Blue Lock press conference and becomes interested.

Back at Blue Lock the man in charge explains how the games and point system will work for the first selection. Then he explains how football was originally a game with everyone as strikers, and how he wants them all to 'rebuild the game from zero'.

Back at the press conference, the JFU's newest hire explains how Japan has made a lot of improvements over the years. Although, after that, she says that the current state of Japanese football must die.

Back to the man in charge of Blue Lock, he says how one person can change the state of Japanese football. Back and forth between the man running Blue Lock and JFU's newest hire, they both say how Blue Lock can change Japanese football.

Click here to see the whole document

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Yall, I am SO sorry for not posting. My motivation has just been 👎 recently so I haven't gotten to finish writing, although I promise the next part is almost finished being written, I'll get it out as soon as I feel like it

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Volume chapters layout/plan

A/N: I just wanna apologize about not posting about this book for a while, but this is to hopefully make up for it and I promise to have the next part out soon, either today or tomorrow (most likely today)

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[Volume cover here (on the doc it'll be on the right and a good amount of the text would be to the left of it)]

Featured character: [Character on cover]

Background color: [Color of cover background + hex code]

Why A/N thinks the cover is how it is: [Why I think the cover was designed how it was]

About the volume: [What was actually within the volume explained in kinda detailed writing (I go a lot more into detail in the individual chapters)]

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I would just like to point out that this will have HEAVY manga and anime spoilers. I pretty much describe it, so if you haven’t read the manga or even seen the anime, I recommend that you don’t read this until you’ve seen/read Blue Lock.

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Summary of Blue Lock

Blue Lock is a manga and anime series written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yusuke Nomura. Since August of 2018 it has been serialized in a Japanese magazine from the publishing company Kodansha called Weekly Shōnen Magazine. The series is about a 17 year old striker named Yoichi Isagi. One day, after losing in a match against a rivaling school, Isagi receives a letter in the mail from the JFU (Japanese Football Union) inviting him to a special football training facility called Blue Lock. Upon arriving at Blue Lock Isagi learns that he is among 299 other 18 and under strikers in his country. Now Isagi has to compete against all the other strikers to become the best in the world.

He starts off the series joining a team ranked the lowest of the low, Team Z, as well as being in the worst ranked strata, strata 5. Z is the worst ranked team out of all the teams B-Z in Blue Lock. Their players all have the rankings 289-300, but after playing a game of tag and eliminating one player from each team, their rankings change to 265-275. Isagi plays with that team for all of the first selection and after winning 3/5 of their games against the other teams in the strata, their whole team moves on to the second selection.

In the second selection they learn that the person in charge of Blue Lock, Jinpachi Ego, lied to them and everyone else in Blue Lock when he told everyone that they were all ranked the worst in teams V-Z. After that, the ones who make it past a 1v1 with a hologram called "Blue Lock Man" and score 100 goals in the time limit will move on to stage 2 of the second selection. There they have to team up with two other players and compete against another team of three. Whichever team wins that takes a player from the other team, and whichever loses has to most back a stage and play in a 2v2. And whichever player doesn't get chosen gets kicked out.

Eventually, after playing in a few rounds, the teams of five will go on to play against a team of five made up of very good players from across the globe; a rainbow Argentinian, a French prodigy, a Brazilian tank, a British man, and a sarcastic Spanish guy. No team managed to beat them, the furthest a team got was 1 goal, which was Isagi's team.

After the game was over and all the other six (not including Isagi’s) teams had finished their game against the Team World Five, everyone gathered into one large room. After that for the third selection everyone is divided up into three teams; A, B, and C, and two of each of the top six players will be automatically put into each of the three teams. B and C each play in three games, while A plays in four. Three players (not including the top 6) from each team are randomly chosen to play on each game along with their two players from the top 6.

When this arc was finished Blue Lock got to play in their biggest game so far against Japan’s U-20 team. One player from Blue Lock got picked to play for the U-20 team, but everyone else stayed on team Blue Lock. After a long and fan favorite match, Blue Lock ended up winning 3-4.

They all got a 2 week break to go home and just have a break then they were back at Blue Lock. When they returned they had all got to pick 5 world class leagues to play on. The options were England; speed and physique, Spain; technique and creativity, Italy; slyness and tactics, France; a gateway for success for up-and-coming athletes/money making, and Germany; logic and rationality.

Each of the five teams plays against each other in what is called the Neo Egoist League.

(To be updated)

You can view the doc with the whole book so far here

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Cover (for now)

Link to book (doc)