With a second season fast approaching, Blue Lock is about to take another step toward fulfilling its narrative. The story follows the Blue Lock project as it seeks to create the world’s best striker from Japan and, in turn, win Japan the World Cup. However, Blue Lock sure does quite the number of strikers for a series looking to make just one striker.
Blue Lock: 8 Characters Who Are The Best Team Players
These characters in Blue Lock are adept at bringing out the best in their team players.
Among them are even more outstanding strikers who stand heads and shoulders above every other character for one reason or the other, or possibly all the reasons. Others and statistics acknowledge these characters to be the best of the bunch, and below is a list of these such characters.
9 Shoei Barou
The King
- Age: 18
- Affiliation: Blue Lock
- Blue Lock Rank: Rank 2
The self-proclaimed King, Shoei Barou, is one of the participants of Blue Lock, who currently plays for Italy’s Ubers in the Neo Egoist League under Marc Snuffy. Arrogant, selfish, and condescending, Barou’s dream is to become the world’s best striker, but so that he can look down on others who he decides are not good enough.
However, his terrible personality aside, Barou is a highly competent striker who is one of the top ranks in Blue Lock alongside Rin. Barou plays a highly self-centered type of football—a trait that not only makes him one of the best goalscorers in the series but also one of the best players. Profiled as a complete forward, Barou’s abilities in the box are nothing to scoff at. However, his independent style means he is unable to perform better to earn a rank higher up on this list.
8 Ryusei Shido
Demon
- Age: 18
- Affiliation: Blue Lock
- Blue Lock Rank: Rank 4
The series’ biggest outlier, Ryusei Shido, plays for Paris X Gen alongside Rin in the Neo Eogist League. Of all the 300 participants in the Blue Lock project, Shido is the only one whose dream has nothing to do with football, as he is not trying to become the best striker or win Japan the World Cup.
Shido simply desires to live his life to the fullest, regardless of whatever he chooses to do, which makes him the most suitable type of striker Ego Jinpachi envisions. Shido plays a highly intuitive and irregular football coupled with a sort of aggressive that passes off as violent behavior, making him one of the series’ most unpredictable characters. However, his unpredictability accentuates his profile as a goal poacher, which expands his lethality in front of goal.
7 Micheal Kaiser
Blue Rose
- Age: 19
- Affiliation: Bastard Munchen
- Blue Lock Rank: N/A
Micheal Kaiser plays as the current main striker for Germany’s Bastard Munchen in the Neo Egoist League and is also considered to be the team’s ace, that is, until Isagi. His rivalry with the prodigy of adaptability aside, Kaiser is the arrogant type of striker who can back up his chat with a ludicrous amount of talent and skill.
As a striker, Kaiser does not perform below anyone in terms of skill, particularly his surprising lethality in front of goal due to his profile as a clinical finisher. In tandem with meta vision like a playmaker, his finishing ability elevates his ability to find the back of the net up another notch, earning him his place.
6 Rin Itoshi
The Destructive Prodigy
- Age: 16
- Affiliation: Blue Lock
- Blue Lock Rank: Rank 1
Blue Lock’s number one player, Rin Itoshi, currently plays as a striker for Paris X Gen of France in the Neo Egoist League. Regarding ability and physique, Rin is head and shoulders above everyone else in the Blue Lock project. As a player, Rin is profiled as a playmaker, which means he can determine the creation of a goal by himself.
However, his preferred position is the main striker, which means not only can he determine the creation of a goal, he can do it singlehandedly— a trait that speaks to his immense talent. As for his placement on this list, he is not ranked higher simply because of the inference of a wide gap in professional experience between himself and other professional strikers.
5 Marc Snuffy
Crown Messenger
- Age: N/A
- Affiliation: Italy Ubers
- Blue Lock Rank: N/A
The human representation of efficient and coordinated football, Marc Snuffy plays for Italy’s Ubers as a striker and is the team's master striker and coach during the Neo Egoist League. Marc Snuffy is a mild-mannered person who can seem cold due to his calculative and patient footballing philosophies.
As a player, Marc ingrained his traits in his play style, which is an iteration of the Jujutsu martial art related to movement and contact. With full control over the Ubers, Snuffy’s play style is mirrored across the team. Profiled as a complete forward, nailing all the required ability specs, Snuffy also possesses meta vision, which allows him to be both a lethal finisher and a deadly creator.
4 Lavinho
The Dancer
- Age: N/A
- Affiliation: FC Barcha
- Blue Lock Rank: N/A
FC Barcha’s main man, Lavinho, is a Brazilian footballer and the club's master striker in the Neo Egoist League. As a person and player, Lavinho is rather expressive, especially in his football. Full of flair and creativity, Lavinho is the series’ best dribbler and Bachira’s mentor.
Like Bachira, Lavinho is also profiled as a dribbler. Still, unlike the former, Lavinho has mastered dribbling with a football to the point where he can dribble from any position and in the most unpredictable ways. In addition to being one of the world’s deadliest strikers shown by his goal tally in the Spanish league.
3 Julian Loki
The God Sprinter
- Age: 17
- Affiliation: Paris X Gen
- Blue Lock Rank: N/A
The French league’s supernova, Julian Loki, is a footballing prodigy playing for the French team Paris X Gen and is the team’s master striker and coach during the Neo Egoist League. Loki is rather polite and has a strong air of sportsmanship, as he never makes light of his opponents, regardless of who they are.
Blue Lock: 10 Fastest Players, Ranked
These players in Blue Lock are incredibly fast on the field, which makes them difficult for other opponents to mark.
As a footballer, Loki’s latent potential puts him in the top echelons of this list, and rightly so, given that he is the youngest master striker at 17 years old. Despite his age, Loki was handpicked by Ego for the World Select. As a footballer, Loki’s biggest weapon is his blinding speed, given he can move before players can even react, which makes sense as to why he is profiled as the ideal counterattacker.
2 Chris Prince
The Perfect Hero
- Age: N/A
- Affiliation: Manshine City
- Blue Lock Rank: N/A
Football’s perfect hero, as described in the series, Chris Prince, plays as a striker for England’s Manshine City and is the team’s master striker and coach during the Neo Egoist League. Highly confident and much more expressive than Noel Noa, Chris is considered by most to be just behind Noel Noa in footballing ability, making him just a step behind the best in the series and on this list.
In terms of ability, Chris possesses the archetype of a target man, which typically hinges on physicality— Chris’ best trait. It is no mean feat that he is unanimously considered to be the best right after Noel Noa, given his limited skillset.
1 Noel Noa
Best Striker In The World
- Age: 31
- Affiliation: Bastard Munchen
- Blue Lock Rank: N/A
The series’ best player and unarguably the world’s best striker, Noel Noa, is Isagi’s idol and current mentor. Currently the master striker and coach for Bastard Munchen in the Neo Eogist League, Noel Noa is a seriously stoic and stone-faced individual who always says his mind as candidly as possible with as little emotion as he can muster—a trait that has earned him the nickname of ‘Cyborg’ among his colleagues.
As a footballer, Noel Noa represents football’s peak as the best striker in the world, which catapults him to the top of this list. With his archetype as a complete forward, Noel Noa has all the skills and abilities that make a striker. However, the critical difference is the gap between his abilities and complete command over his ambidexterity compared to other strikers.
Blue Lock
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- 2022 - 2024
- Seasons
- 1
- Studio
- 8bit
- Based On
- Manga
- Creator
- Muneyuki Kaneshiro
- Number of Episodes
- 24 Episodes (Season 1); 14 Episodes (Season 2)
- Streaming Service(s)
- Crunchyroll
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