One of the world’s biggest soccer video games, eFootball, has released its collaboration with the massively popular Blue Lock anime series, in conjunction with game developer Konami.
Via a press release, eFootball developers Konami Digital Entertainment released its latest update to eFootball 2024, with players able to access in-game items and log-in presents, complete challenges and more. During the campaign period, users can: add several different Blue Lock special edition cards to their Dream Team squads, including both Takefusa Kubo and Filippo Inzaghi as special log-in presents; receive the limited edition “Blue Lock Team Red” and “Blue Lock Team White” strips, which are included in both the “Blue Lock Pack: Yoichi Isagi” and the “Tour Event: Blue Lock 2nd Selection”; and finally, via the Campaign Achievements, get loot including 90,000 Exp., 60,000 GP, 50 eFootball Coins and more. Readers can visit the offical event page and check out the announcement trailer below, with world-famous players from Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan and more channeling the spirit of popular Blue Lock characters.
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In addition to the Blue Lock collaboration, the latest eFootball 3.4.0 version features ‘Position Training,’ granting players exclusive items to train up to two positional aptitudes per player, as well as increased defensive conviction — improving defenders’ abilities to win back the ball accurately — individual heading capabilities and more. Additionally, The ‘eFootball™ Championship: Arsenal FC’ mode launches on March 25, adding the special edition Big Time cards, Takehiro Tomiyasu, Gabriel Martinelli and Kai Havertz. eFootball represents Konami’s rebranding of the popular PES (Pro Evolution Soccer) to a free-to-play model. PES and eFootball have sold over a combined 100 million copies worldwide.
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Blue Lock‘s partnership with the game is quickly followed by the Blue Lock: Episode Nagi film, which is set for release on April 19, 2024. Season 2 of the anime series has also been announced, with studio Eight Bit returning to animate the series. Eight Bit will also animate Laid-Back Camp: Season 3, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 and The Irregular at Magic High School Season 3, all of which appear as part of Crunchyroll’s upcoming Spring 2024 lineup.
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Crunchyroll streams Blue Lock, describing the series: “Japan’s desire for World Cup glory leads the Japanese Football Association to launch a new rigorous training program to find the national team’s next striker. Three hundred high school players are pitted against each other for the position, but only one will come out on top. Who among them will be the striker to usher in a new era of Japanese soccer?”
Blue Lock
High school soccer players from across Japan gather for a controversial project designed to create the best and most egoistic striker in the world.
- Release Date
- October 8, 2022
- Cast
- Kazuki Ura , Tasuku Kaito , Yuki Ono , Soma Saito , Masatomo Nakazawa , Yoshitsugu Matsuoka , Shoya Chiba , Shugo Nakamura
- Seasons
- 1
- Studio
- Eight Bit
- Franchise
- Blue Lock
- Characters By
- Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura
- Creator
- Muneyuki Kaneshiro
- Distributor
- Crunchyroll
- Main Characters
- Yoichi ISagi, Meguru Bachira, Rensuke Kunigami, Hyoma Chigiri, Wataru Kuon, Jingo Raichi, Yudai Imamura, Gin Gagamaru
- Production Company
- Eight Bit
- Story By
- Muneyuki Kaneshiro
- Writers
- Muneyuki Kaneshiro
Source: Press release
