Blue Lock 29

Isagi and his teammates have come to the final day of the Neo-Egoist League, and it is shaping up to be the biggest match yet. Two teams have gone through the tournament without a single loss: France's PXG and Germany's Bastard München. Now they meet on the pitch, with everything on the line.

This is the setting of Blue Lock, Muneyuki Kaneshiro's series about a ruthless training program. A eccentric young coach gathers strikers from across Japan and pits them against each other in strange, high-pressure trials inside a high-tech facility called Blue Lock. Only one can come out as the country's next top striker. Think Squid Game staged on a soccer field.

Over the course of this volume, Isagi's growth is on full display. Through flow, originality and meta vision, he has picked up one new weapon after another on his way to this final. The trouble is that the opposition has been sharpening its own tools just as quickly. With every player on the field performing at such a high level, anything short of their absolute peak could mean losing it all.

This is volume 29 of the manga, published in print by Kodansha.