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Japanese manga series by Motoyuki Tanaka From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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 [ja]. It was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from January 2011 to October 2022, with its chapters collected into 49 tankōbon volumes.

GenreSports
WrittenbyMotoyuki Tanaka [ja]
PublishedbyShogakukan
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
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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 [ja]
Published byShogakukan
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
Original runJanuary 26, 2011 – October 12, 2022
Volumes49
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In 2015, Be Blues! won the 60th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category.

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

Written and illustrated by Motoyuki Tanaka [ja], Be Blues! – Ao ni Nare was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from January 26, 2011, to October 12, 2022.[1][2][3] Shogakukan collected its chapters in 49 tankōbon volumes, released from June 17, 2011, to November 18, 2022.[4][5]

Volumes

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No. Release date ISBN
1June 17, 2011[4]978-4-09-123005-8
2September 16, 2011[6]978-4-09-123248-9
3November 18, 2011[7]978-4-09-123370-7
4February 17, 2012[8]978-4-09-123545-9
5May 18, 2012[9]978-4-09-123658-6
6July 18, 2012[10]978-4-09-123773-6
7October 18, 2012[11]978-4-09-123895-5
8December 18, 2012[12]978-4-09-123895-5
9March 18, 2013[13]978-4-09-124199-3
10June 18, 2013[14]978-4-09-124317-1
11September 18, 2013[15]978-4-09-124380-5
12November 18, 2013[16]978-4-09-124492-5
13February 18, 2014[17]978-4-09-124560-1
14May 16, 2014[18]978-4-09-124641-7
15June 18, 2014[19]978-4-09-124739-1
16September 18, 2014[20]978-4-09-125100-8
17December 18, 2014[21]978-4-09-125395-8
18March 18, 2015[22]978-4-09-125630-0
19May 18, 2015[23]978-4-09-125834-2
20August 18, 2015[24]978-4-09-126205-9
21November 18, 2015[25]978-4-09-126491-6
22February 18, 2016[26]978-4-09-126779-5
23May 18, 2016[27]978-4-09-127138-9
24August 18, 2016[28]978-4-09-127327-7
25November 18, 2016[29]978-4-09-127416-8
26February 17, 2017[30]978-4-09-127500-4
27May 18, 2017[31]978-4-09-127569-1
28August 18, 2017[32]978-4-09-127678-0
29November 17, 2017[33]978-4-09-127869-2
30February 16, 2018[34]978-4-09-128084-8
31May 18, 2018[35]978-4-09-128248-4
32August 17, 2018[36]978-4-09-128350-4
33November 16, 2018[37]978-4-09-128576-8
34February 18, 2019[38]978-4-09-128878-3
35May 17, 2019[39]978-4-09-129150-9
36August 16, 2019[40]978-4-09-129319-0
37November 18, 2019[41]978-4-09-129444-9
38February 18, 2020[42]978-4-09-129559-0
39May 18, 2020[43]978-4-09-850076-5
40July 17, 2020[44]978-4-09-128084-8
41September 18, 2020[45]978-4-09-850175-5
42January 18, 2021[46]978-4-09-850381-0
43April 16, 2021[47]978-4-09-850516-6
44July 16, 2021[48]978-4-09-850632-3
45October 18, 2021[49]978-4-09-850721-4
46January 18, 2022[50]978-4-09-850862-4
47April 18, 2022[51]978-4-09-851060-3
48August 18, 2022[52]978-4-09-851186-0
49November 18, 2022[5]978-4-09-851391-8
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Reception

Be Blues! won the 60th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category in 2015.[53]

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