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Blue Lock Anime Casts Kouki Uchiyama, Katsuyuki Konishi, Shinnosuke Tachibana

The official website for the television Blue Lock soccer manga revealed additional cast on Friday.

The new cast include:

Kōki Uchiyama as Rin Itoshi


Katsuyuki Konishi as Jyubei Aryu


Shinnosuke Tachibana as Aoshi Tokimitsu

The anime will air on October 8 on stream the series.

The anime stars:

• Tasuku Kaito as Meguru Bachira
• Kazuki Ura as Yoichi Isagi
• Yūki Ono as Rensuke Kunigami
• Sōma Saitō as Hyōma Chigiri
• Masatomo Nakazawa as Wataru Kuon
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Jingo Raichi
• Shōya Chiba as Yūdai Imamura
• Shugo Nakamura as Gin Gagamaru
• Daishi Kajita as Asahi Naruhaya
• Ryūnosuke Watanuki as Okuhito Iemon
• Aoi Ichikawa as Gurimu Igarashi
• Kenichi Suzumura as Ryōsuke Kira
• Hiroshi Kamiya as Jinpachi Ego
• Anri Teieri
• Junichi Suwabe as Shouei Barou
• Kazuyuki Okitsu as Zantetsu Tsurugi
• Natsuki Hanae as Ikki Niko
• Ryōta Suzuki as Junichi Wanima and Keisuke Wanima
• Takahiro Sakurai as Sae Itoshi

Jun Murayama is composing the music. Shugo Nakamura will perform the anime's ending theme song "Winner."

print, and it describes the story:

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?

Kaneshiro and Nomura Kodansha's 45th annual Manga Awards last year.

Sources: Blue Lock anime's website, Comic Natalie