Tokyo's Sunshine Aquarium to host Blue Lock Ego Aquarium Night

Last Updated on March 27, 2025

Event Overview

A new collaboration event will combine one of Tokyo’s most popular aquariums with fan favorite soccer anime, Blue Lock.

Blue Lock is a popular soccer manga series by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yusuke Nomura, currently being serialized in Kodansha’s “Weekly Shonen Magazine”.

Tokyo’s Sunshine Aquarium is located in Sunshine City shopping mall, in the popular Ikebukuro area.

The Sunshine Aquarium x Blue Lock “Blue Lock Ego Aquarium Night” event will be held at Sunshine Aquarium each evening from March 20th to March 31st 2025.

For a limited time only, the aquarium will have life-sized illustration panels of characters in casual clothes holding stuffed toys of the aquarium’s creatures, miniature illustration panels of characters dressed as aquarium creatures and 3D holographic signage !

In the aquarium’s outdoor area, Marine Garden, music from the anime “Blue Rock” will play in the background, and for a limited time only, there will be a night-time illumination display made up of 23,500 light bulbs in various colors.

Character panels and illustrations throughout the aquarium will be viewable throughout the day, however the illuminations will only take place between 6pm and 9pm.

A number of new items will be available, including acrylic stands, badges, bath towels, and more, featuring original illustrations unique to this collaboration of characters holding stuffed animals sold at the aquarium!