– 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].

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.

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.

[2][3] Shogakukan collected its chapters in 49 tankōbon volumes, released from June 17, 2011,[4] to November 18, 2022.