Be Blues!
Be Blues! – Ao ni Nare is a Japanese association football manga series written and illustrated by. It was serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from January 2011 to October 2022, with its chapters collected into 49 volumes.
In 2015, Be Blues! won the 60th Shogakukan Manga Award in the category.
Plot
Ryū Ichijō is a prodigy football player who dreams of becoming a professional player and member of the Japan national team 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;Yūto Oume
;Tatsuhiko Kuze
;Takumi Sakuraba