Be Blues!

Be Blues! – Ao ni Nare (Japanese: 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-two tankōbon volumes as of January 2021.

Be Blues! – Ao ni Nare
Cover of volume 1.
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
Volumes42

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

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 January 18, 2021, forty-two volumes have been released.[4]

Volume list
VolumeRelease dateISBNOriconCopies
sold		Refs.
1June 17, 2011978-4-09-123005-8[3]
2September 16, 2011978-4-09-123248-9[5]
3November 18, 2011978-4-09-123370-7[6]
4February 17, 2012978-4-09-123545-9[7]
5May 18, 2012978-4-09-123658-6[8]
6July 18, 2012978-4-09-123773-6[9]
7October 18, 2012978-4-09-123895-5[10]
8December 18, 2012978-4-09-123895-54127,329[lower-alpha 1][11][12]
9March 18, 2013978-4-09-124199-32436,329[lower-alpha 2][13][14]
10June 18, 2016978-4-09-124317-13836,724[lower-alpha 3][15][16]
11September 18, 2013978-4-09-124380-52435,490[lower-alpha 4][17][18]
12November 18, 2013978-4-09-124492-51540,057[lower-alpha 5][19][20]
13February 18, 2014978-4-09-124560-11741,071[lower-alpha 6][21][22]
14May 16, 2014978-4-09-124641-73426,320[lower-alpha 7][23][24]
15June 18, 2014978-4-09-124739-13135,324[lower-alpha 8][25][26]
16September 18, 2014978-4-09-125100-83033,794[lower-alpha 9][27][28]
17December 18, 2014978-4-09-125395-82735,806[lower-alpha 10][29][30]
18March 18, 2015978-4-09-125630-02344,336[lower-alpha 11][31][32]
19May 18, 2015978-4-09-125834-21049,322[lower-alpha 12][33][34]
20August 18, 2015978-4-09-126205-91849,224[lower-alpha 13][35][36]
21November 18, 2015978-4-09-126491-62144,625[lower-alpha 14][37][38]
22February 18, 2016978-4-09-126779-51659,953[lower-alpha 15][39][40][41]
23May 18, 2016978-4-09-127138-91540,959[lower-alpha 16][42][43]
24August 18, 2016978-4-09-127327-71849,224[lower-alpha 17][44][45]
25November 18, 2016978-4-09-127416-82752,216[lower-alpha 18][46][47][48]
26February 17, 2017978-4-09-127500-41754,062[lower-alpha 19][49][50][51]
27May 18, 2017978-4-09-127569-11454,323[lower-alpha 20][52][53][54]
28August 18, 2017978-4-09-127678-0[55]
29November 17, 2017978-4-09-127869-2[56]
30February 16, 2018978-4-09-128084-8[57]
31May 18, 2018978-4-09-128248-4[58]
32August 17, 2018978-4-09-128350-4[59]
33November 16, 2018978-4-09-128576-8[60]
34February 18, 2019978-4-09-128878-3[61]
35May 17, 2019978-4-09-129150-9[62]
36August 16, 2019978-4-09-129319-0[63]
37November 18, 2019978-4-09-129444-9[64]
38February 18, 2020978-4-09-129559-0[65]
39May 18, 2020978-4-09-850076-5[66]
40July 17, 2020978-4-09-850160-1[67]
41September 18, 2020978-4-09-850175-5[68]
42January 18, 2021978-4-09-850381-0[4]

Reception

In 2015, the manga won the 60th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category.[69]

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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