Be Blues!

Be Blues! – Ao ni Nare (Japanese: BE BLUES!〜青になれ〜, Hepburn: Bī Burūzu! Ao ni Nare) 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-five tankōbon volumes as of October 2021. In 2015, the manga won the 60th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category.

Be Blues! – Ao ni Nare
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Ryū Ichijō
BE BLUES!〜青になれ〜
(Bī Burūzu! Ao ni Nare)
GenreSports
Manga
Written byMotoyuki Tanaka
Published byShogakukan
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original runJanuary 26, 2011 – present
Volumes45

Plot

Ryū Ichijō 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)
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.[1] Shogakukan has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was published on June 17, 2011.[2] As of October 18, 2021, forty-five volumes have been released.[3]

Volume list
No. Release date ISBN
1 June 17, 2011[2]978-4-09-123005-8
2 September 16, 2011[4]978-4-09-123248-9
3 November 18, 2011[5]978-4-09-123370-7
4 February 17, 2012[6]978-4-09-123545-9
5 May 18, 2012[7]978-4-09-123658-6
6 July 18, 2012[8]978-4-09-123773-6
7 October 18, 2012[9]978-4-09-123895-5
8 December 18, 2012[10]978-4-09-123895-5
9 March 18, 2013[11]978-4-09-124199-3
10 June 18, 2013[12]978-4-09-124317-1
11 September 18, 2013[13]978-4-09-124380-5
12 November 18, 2013[14]978-4-09-124492-5
13 February 18, 2014[15]978-4-09-124560-1
14 May 16, 2014[16]978-4-09-124641-7
15 June 18, 2014[17]978-4-09-124739-1
16 September 18, 2014[18]978-4-09-125100-8
17 December 18, 2014[19]978-4-09-125395-8
18 March 18, 2015[20]978-4-09-125630-0
19 May 18, 2015[21]978-4-09-125834-2
20 August 18, 2015[22]978-4-09-126205-9
21 November 18, 2015[23]978-4-09-126491-6
22 February 18, 2016[24]978-4-09-126779-5
23 May 18, 2016[25]978-4-09-127138-9
24 August 18, 2016[26]978-4-09-127327-7
25 November 18, 2016[27]978-4-09-127416-8
26 February 17, 2017[28]978-4-09-127500-4
27 May 18, 2017[29]978-4-09-127569-1
28 August 18, 2017[30]978-4-09-127678-0
29 November 17, 2017[31]978-4-09-127869-2
30 February 16, 2018[32]978-4-09-128084-8
31 May 18, 2018[33]978-4-09-128248-4
32 August 17, 2018[34]978-4-09-128350-4
33 November 16, 2018[35]978-4-09-128576-8
34 February 18, 2019[36]978-4-09-128878-3
35 May 17, 2019[37]978-4-09-129150-9
36 August 16, 2019[38]978-4-09-129319-0
37 November 18, 2019[39]978-4-09-129444-9
38 February 18, 2020[40]978-4-09-129559-0
39 May 18, 2020[41]978-4-09-850076-5
40 July 17, 2020[42]978-4-09-128084-8
41 September 18, 2020[43]978-4-09-850175-5
42 January 18, 2021[44]978-4-09-850381-0
43 April 16, 2021[45]978-4-09-850516-6
44 July 16, 2021[46]978-4-09-850632-3
45 October 18, 2021[3]978-4-09-850721-4

Reception

In 2015, the manga won the 60th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category.[47]

See also

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