PUBG Mobile teams up with Blue Lock for new crossover events

PUBG Mobile’s Blue Lock crossover lands where battle royale and sports anime actually overlap: ego, pressure and the final finish. Blue Lock is built around the Japan Football Union’s project to create the world’s best striker, while PUBG Mobile presents itself as the free battle royale shooter chosen by more than 1 billion players worldwide. That makes the pairing feel less like a sticker swap and more like two competition-first brands meeting in the same lane.

The fit also makes sense when you look at how PUBG Mobile has handled crossovers before. Its Football Mania update tied in Lionel Messi and pushed football-themed gameplay, while earlier anime partnerships brought in Evangelion content that played on Erangel and Livik and a SPY×FAMILY collaboration with themed items such as the Bond Glider, Yor Stilettos, Dacia, parachute and Anya hairstyle. Blue Lock sits closer to that battle-ready playbook than to a generic promo because its whole premise is built on scoring, rivalry and clutch decision-making under pressure.

Blue Lock arrives with real franchise weight, too. Kodansha says the manga passed 30 million cumulative copies as of April 2024 and won the 45th Kodansha Manga Award in the boys’ category, while the anime portal says season 2 began in October 2024. Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yusuke Nomura’s series has stayed loud in the sports-anime conversation, and that current momentum gives PUBG Mobile a crossover that already feels active rather than archival.

The real question for lapsed players is whether this becomes a reason to reinstall. On theme alone, it is one of PUBG Mobile’s cleaner crossover fits because Blue Lock’s ruthless striker mindset maps neatly onto a game built around surviving until the last player stands. Even before any reward list or rollout details are in view, the concept already looks stronger than a pasted-on anime logo, and that is exactly why it has a shot at pulling players back into the drop zone.