A mad young coach gathers soccer players from across the country to compete in a series of bizarre challenges in a high-tech colosseum he calls Blue Lock. It's a no-balls-barred battle to become Japan's next top striker, in this Squid Game-meets-World Cup manga, now available in print! Anime airing now!COULD YOU IMPROVISE TO SURVIVE? The curtain finally rises on the Blue Lock Eleven versus U-20 Japan game. Deprived of their wild-card striker, Shidou, the Blue Lock Eleven must find a way to break through the so-called diamond generation's ironclad defense. Individual battles play out across the field as the Itoshi brothers revisit old rivalries and Isagi discovers he's not the only one who can rely on reflexive thinking when it counts...