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As the Gods Will's Muneyuki Kaneshiro Launches Blue Lock Soccer Manga
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Weekly Shōnen Magazine on Wednesday. The first chapter has 82 pages. Kaneshiro is credited with the original work, and Nomura is drawing the art.
The manga begins with Japan's elimination from the 2018 World Cup, which prompts the Japanese Football Union to start a program to scout high schools for select players that will train and prepare for the 2022 World Cup. The protagonist Yuichi Kiyoshi (Note: Name romanization not official), a forward in his high school team, receives an invitation to the program, just after his team loses the Saitama finals and misses their chance to play in nationals.
Kaneshiro previously wrote the Kodansha Comics released the 21 compiled volumes digitally.
Kami-sama no Iu Toori released the film on home video in North America.
Kaneshiro and Fujimura recently Young Magazine in July 2017.
Sources: Comic Natalie, The Mainchi Shimbun's Mantan Web
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