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Netflix India Simulcasts Blue Lock Anime, My Hero Academia Season 6
posted on by Adriana Hazra
Netflix is currently streaming the following anime in India as they air in Japan:
- The television anime of Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yūsuke Nomura's Blue Lock soccer manga.
- The sixth season of the My Hero Academia anime.
Blue Lock premiered in Japan on October 8 on TV Asahi and its affiliates in the "NUMAnimation" programming block. The anime will run for two consecutive cours (quarters of a year) with 24 episodes. Ani-One Asia's YouTube channel is also streaming the anime in India as it airs in Japan.
Ani-One describes Blue Lock:
Only the most self-centered player can be the best striker in the world! In order to create a better soccer team for Japan to win the World Cup, a project called BLUE LOCK is launched to cultivate strikers. Three hundred talented strikers from high schools all over Japan are isolated and pitted against each other. Fighting against 299 other young soccer players, who would finally earn the right to become the national team's striker? Now, the most exciting soccer anime begins.
Tetsuaki Watanabe (Powerful Pro Yakyū Powerful Kōkō-hen) is directing the anime at 8-Bit with Shunsuke Ishikawa as assistant director. Taku Kishimoto (Haikyu!!, Silver Spoon, 2019 Fruits Basket) is supervising and writing the series scripts, and the manga's Kaneshiro is supervising the story. Yutaka Uemura (Saga of Tanya the Evil director) is the concept adviser. Masaru Shindō (Fruits Basket, Macross Delta, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU) is the main character designer and chief animation director, and Kenji Tanabe and Kento Toya are also character designers and chief animation directors. Jun Murayama is composing the music.
Kodansha USA Publishing is publishing the manga in English digitally and in print.
The new season of My Hero Academia premiered on October 1. The season will air for two continuous cours (quarter of a year) for a total of 25 episodes.
The new season adapts the "Paranormal Liberation War" arc of Kōhei Horikoshi's original manga, which features an all-out war between heroes and villains. SUPER BEAVER performs the opening theme song "Hitamuki," and Kiro Akiyama performs the ending theme song "SKETCH."
The anime's first 13-episode season premiered in April 2016. The 25-episode second season premiered in April 2017, and the third season premiered in April 2018 and ran for 25 episodes. The fourth season premiered in Japan in October 2019, and aired for 25 episodes. A two-episode original video anime for the franchise streamed in Japan in August 2020. The show's fifth season premiered in Japan in March 2021, and aired for 25 episodes. A new two-episode original video anime screened in Japan on June 16-19.
Source: Netflix
