Be Blues!

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Be Blues! – Ao ni Nare
Be Blues! - Ao ni Nare cover.jpeg
Manga volume 1 cover, featuring Ryū Ichijō
BE BLUES!〜青になれ〜
GenreSports
Manga
Written byMotoyuki Tanaka
Published byShogakukan
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original runJanuary 26, 2011 – present
Volumes44 (List of volumes)
Wikipe-tan face.svg Anime and manga portal

Be Blues! – Ao ni Nare (BE BLUES!〜青になれ〜) is a Japanese association football manga series written and illustrated by Motoyuki Tanaka. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday since January 2011, with its chapters collected into forty-four tankōbon volumes as of July 2021. In 2015, the manga won the 60th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category.

Plot[]

Ryū Ichijō (一条  龍) is a prodigy football player who dreams of becoming a professional player and member of the Japan national team (the "Blues" of the title) by the age of 18. He excels as he proceeds through his schooling, but just as he prepares to start his junior high school he suffers a fall leading to really serious injuries, and has to go through a long period of rehabilitation. Two years after his accident, he is able to play again and starts working to get his skills up again, and to improve so as to achieve his dreams of making it to the national team.

Characters[]

Ryū Ichijō (一条 龍, Ichijō Ryū)[1]
Yūto Oume (青梅 優人, Oume Yūto)
Tatsuhiko Kuze (久世 立彦, Kuze Tatsuhiko)
Takumi Sakuraba (桜庭 巧美, Sakuraba Takumi)

Publication[]

Be Blues! – Ao ni Nare is written and illustrated by Motoyuki Tanaka. The manga started in Shogakukan's magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday on January 26, 2011.[2] Shogakukan has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was published on June 17, 2011.[3] As of July 16, 2021, forty-four volumes have been released.[4]

Volume list[]

Volume Release date ISBN Oricon Copies
sold
Refs.
1 June 17, 2011 978-4-09-123005-8 [3]
2 September 16, 2011 978-4-09-123248-9 [5]
3 November 18, 2011 978-4-09-123370-7 [6]
4 February 17, 2012 978-4-09-123545-9 [7]
5 May 18, 2012 978-4-09-123658-6 [8]
6 July 18, 2012 978-4-09-123773-6 [9]
7 October 18, 2012 978-4-09-123895-5 [10]
8 December 18, 2012 978-4-09-123895-5 41 27,329[a] [11][12]
9 March 18, 2013 978-4-09-124199-3 24 36,329[b] [13][14]
10 June 18, 2016 978-4-09-124317-1 38 36,724[c] [15][16]
11 September 18, 2013 978-4-09-124380-5 24 35,490[d] [17][18]
12 November 18, 2013 978-4-09-124492-5 15 40,057[e] [19][20]
13 February 18, 2014 978-4-09-124560-1 17 41,071[f] [21][22]
14 May 16, 2014 978-4-09-124641-7 34 26,320[g] [23][24]
15 June 18, 2014 978-4-09-124739-1 31 35,324[h] [25][26]
16 September 18, 2014 978-4-09-125100-8 30 33,794[i] [27][28]
17 December 18, 2014 978-4-09-125395-8 27 35,806[j] [29][30]
18 March 18, 2015 978-4-09-125630-0 23 44,336[k] [31][32]
19 May 18, 2015 978-4-09-125834-2 10 49,322[l] [33][34]
20 August 18, 2015 978-4-09-126205-9 18 49,224[m] [35][36]
21 November 18, 2015 978-4-09-126491-6 21 44,625[n] [37][38]
22 February 18, 2016 978-4-09-126779-5 16 59,953[o] [39][40][41]
23 May 18, 2016 978-4-09-127138-9 15 40,959[p] [42][43]
24 August 18, 2016 978-4-09-127327-7 18 49,224[q] [44][45]
25 November 18, 2016 978-4-09-127416-8 27 52,216[r] [46][47][48]
26 February 17, 2017 978-4-09-127500-4 17 54,062[s] [49][50][51]
27 May 18, 2017 978-4-09-127569-1 14 54,323[t] [52][53][54]
28 August 18, 2017 978-4-09-127678-0 [55]
29 November 17, 2017 978-4-09-127869-2 [56]
30 February 16, 2018 978-4-09-128084-8 [57]
31 May 18, 2018 978-4-09-128248-4 [58]
32 August 17, 2018 978-4-09-128350-4 [59]
33 November 16, 2018 978-4-09-128576-8 [60]
34 February 18, 2019 978-4-09-128878-3 [61]
35 May 17, 2019 978-4-09-129150-9 [62]
36 August 16, 2019 978-4-09-129319-0 [63]
37 November 18, 2019 978-4-09-129444-9 [64]
38 February 18, 2020 978-4-09-129559-0 [65]
39 May 18, 2020 978-4-09-850076-5 [66]
40 July 17, 2020 978-4-09-850160-1 [67]
41 September 18, 2020 978-4-09-850175-5 [68]
42 January 18, 2021 978-4-09-850381-0 [69]
43 April 16, 2021 978-4-09-850516-6 [70]
44 April 16, 2021 978-4-09-850632-3 [4]

Reception[]

In 2015, the manga won the 60th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category.[71]

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ As of December 23, 2012.
  2. ^ As of March 24, 2013.
  3. ^ As of June 22, 2013.
  4. ^ As of September 22, 2013.
  5. ^ As of November 24, 2013.
  6. ^ As of February 23, 2014.
  7. ^ As of May 18, 2014.
  8. ^ As of June 22, 2014.
  9. ^ As of September 21, 2014.
  10. ^ As of December 21, 2014.
  11. ^ As of March 22, 2015.
  12. ^ As of May 24, 2015.
  13. ^ As of August 23, 2015.
  14. ^ As of November 22, 2015.
  15. ^ As of February 28, 2016.
  16. ^ As of May 24, 2016.
  17. ^ As of August 23, 2016.
  18. ^ As of November 30, 2016.
  19. ^ As of February 26, 2017.
  20. ^ As of May 28, 2017.

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