Buratsuta 3

Buratsuta 3 is a three-man unit assembled at the personal discretion of Hirotoshi Buratsuta, who acts as both its manager and coach. The group's stated aim is to bring down Blue Lock and secure a way into the U-20 World Cup. As of its introduction it sits in a recruiting state, with only Sae Itoshi confirmed and the two remaining berths reserved for players surfacing through the Side-B program. The team represents Japan and debuts in the manga's 308th chapter.

The unit springs from a bargain struck between Buratsuta and Ego. Buratsuta green-lights the funding for the Blue Lock TV venture, and in return he gets to fill the last three openings on Japan's U-20 roster, rounding it out to the twenty-six players PIFA permits. Anyone he taps has to clear a bespoke assessment of his own design and surrender authority over their professional career. The arrangement doubles as a power grab, since the recruits are meant to expose Ego's methods as broken, engineering his removal so Buratsuta can take command of Blue Lock himself.

With Japan buried in a brutal group beside England U-20 and France U-20, Buratsuta hands Sae Itoshi a place outright, waiving the first two requirements. Sae, however, agrees to sign on only after Japan clears the group phase, since his real target is a meeting with Spain.

Sae Itoshi stands as the group's inaugural and only confirmed member. The other two positions run through a trial staged during the World Cup group stage and aired on Blue Lock TV, where 301 hopefuls chase just two openings in Side-B, a project built as a mirror of the original Blue Lock. Those outcomes are set to be announced once the group phase wraps. Ego, for his part, insists that aside from Sae he will block the two reinstated Locked-Off players from ever joining, convinced they fall short of the current Blue Lock roster.