graphic novels

After an embarrassing defeat in the 2018 World Cup, the Japanese National Soccer Team decides it needs to train up the best striker in the world. To do so, they create Blue Lock, a rigorous training ground, and invite 300 of the best and brightest youth soccer players in Japan to come and compete in the ultimate battle royale for sports dominance.

In the midst of a dramatic soccer battle between Team V and Team Z, the players await their "awakening" that will elevate their skills and bring them victory. When the game is over, the players receive shocking news about the next level of play.

After Barou's awakening, Isagi's team beats Kunigami, Chigiri, and Reo. Now they must choose a player to steal and then the four-man team will take on the Top Three and Bachira. Hopefully Isagi's ego can defeat the talented striker Rin Itoshi.

Callie, a not-quite-human high school student, can see and speak to creatures invisible to others. Her father, a demon, runs a magical antique shop. On Callie's seventeenth birthday, her father disappears and she must enter the magical realm to find him. She is joined by a boy named Declan--who also can see invisible creatures--and a ghostly Radish. The unlikely heroes encounter medieval villages, enchanted forests, and talking trees in their quest to find Callie's father.

Now in the rivalry battles, where the winning team can select a player from the losing team to join them, Isagi and Nagi lose Bachira to Rin Itoshi. They are left alone to take on top scoring player Shouei Barou, and if they lose, they could be disqualified.

After defeating Team Y, Isagi struggles with the pressures of success after being ranked as the highest player on the team, but he slowly begins to feel a sense of belonging with the others on Team Z. Next, they must face off against Team W, led by the Wanima twins, but the divisions between the players of Team Z threaten to tear them apart. Team Z must put their differences aside if they are going to win.

Ra's al Ghul returns to Gotham to take it over, using his private security force to infiltrate the city under the pretence of helping the GCPD. His true goal, of course, is to take over the city and kill the Batman--and Bruce Wayne, or someone who looks very much like him, is standing at his side, watching it happen.

The gay boys Aoki and Ida have started dating, but with college entrance exams getting brutal, their hopes of getting into the same college together are growing dim, and their relationship is tested. Meanwhile, Hashimoto and Akkun have gone on different life roads, but they still have each other's backs when graduation troubles come up.

Far into the future, an aging Bruce Wayne is killed by his enemies and his mantle is taken over by Terry McGinnis, who tries to survive a new crop of villains in the city and struggles to fill the shoes of his predecessor in the first year after his death.

As the end of summer vacation approaches, Aoki and Ida go to a fireworks show, and Ida tells Aoki that he wants to be more public about their relationship. Aoki fails a test and starts to worry that he won't have good enough grades to go to the same college as Ida. Then, their class prepares for their final high school cultural festival, and they decide to put on a performance of Cinderella. Then, Ida meets Aoki's parents at the festival, but when Aoki overhears Ida's mom talking about him, he worries that she doesn't want them to be together.