【Be Blues!】Sports x Shounen! Winner of the 60th Shogakukan Manga Award!! Story of a football enthusiast, trying to make it to the national team!!

Be Blues! is a Japanese football franchise written and illustrated by Motoyuki Tanaka.

The series is being serialized in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shounen Sunday since 2011. Its chapters are compiled and published into 45 separate volumes. The manga series won the 60th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shounen category.

An anime adaptation is yet to be announced.

Ryu Ichijou is a prodigy football player whose ambition is to become a pro and play for Japan's national team, The Blues.

The chapter begins with Ryu cramming all of his lunch into his mouth at once, just so he can play football for the remainder of the break at school. He begins playing on his own before his friends Yuuto and Yuki, as well as the other children arrive. They begin to play, and Ryu's skills are immediately apparent as he expertly handles the ball. Ryu passes the ball to Yuuto to shoot, but Yuuto misses the target and Yuki scores instead.

Tatsuhiko, their senior, arrives and chastises Yuuto for being too irresponsible and failing to take the shot. When Ryu tries to defend the twins, Yuki and Yuuto, he starts yelling at Ryu to be more serious as he is their ace.

As the three of them head home after practice, discussing about there skills, Yuki suddenly says that she is a girl, which surprises Ryu because he had no idea.

Back at the twins house, the trio is attempting to complete their homework when Yuki informs Ryu that the coach told her that the other players would be hesitant to play if they found out she was a girl. Ryu claims he had no idea she was a girl, and Yuki proves him wrong by putting his palm on her chest.

Yuki then expresses her desire to score a goal after receiving a pass from Ryu.

In their next match against another team, Ryu devises a scheme to pass Yuki off as Yuuto. While the actual Yuuto was in the crowd cheering for them, the coach notices Yuki, who is pretending to be Yuuto, that he seems hyped for the match. When the game begins, Ryu recognises a chance to pass to Yuki. Yuki obtains the ball, but rather than passing it, takes a reckless shot that goes wide of the goal.

The twins parents have come to spectate and realize that Yuki and Yuuto have switched places. Ryu finds another chance to pass to Yuki, but she is being targeted by the opponent team, causing her to lose control of the ball. The opponents take the shot and the keeper falls down. Ryu comes back to clear the undefended goal post just as the half-time bell rings. Tatsuhiko figures out that Yuki and Yuuto have switched places but Ryu convinces him to stay silent.

Ryu tells Tatsuhiko that he will take responsibility if anything goes wrong.

The second half begins and Yuki misses a critical pass from Ryu. Ryu comes up with a plan and dribbles his way through two defenders, making a pass to Yuki, who runs head first into the ball, scoring a goal. Ecstatic at their win, Yuuto screams out Yuki’s name, resulting in them being caught.

Back at their home, Yuki thanks Ryu for everything.

As the kids get up for lunch, we get a look at Ryu’s notebook in which he has written his goal to join Japan’s national soccer team and play in the world cup.

Will Ryu accomplish his goal of becoming a professional soccer player?