Blue Lock

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Japanese: ブルーロック
English: Blue Lock
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Type: TV
Episodes: 24
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 9, 2022 to Mar 26, 2023
Premiered: Fall 2022
Broadcast: Sundays at 01:30 (JST)
Licensors: None found, add some
Studios: 8bit
Source: Manga
Genre: SportsSports
Theme: Team SportsTeam Sports
Demographic: ShounenShounen
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.181 (scored by 444078444,078 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #4232
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #255
Members: 815,408
Favorites: 13,924

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Preliminary Spoiler
Mar 25, 2025
Frankly speaking, I do not know what the hype is all about for this anime series. There is not much going on other than a bunch of frenzied "strikers" throughout the whole show trying to outdo one another. Actual matches with normal players are pretty much non-existent.

Next, I need to talk about the art. The eyes! Why? Why do the characters look like they are in a permanent state of shock the whole time? Also, some of those eyes gave me the heebie-jeebies more than most horror shows did. I hated how they creeped me out while watching, and it was really a major distraction.

There ...
Jan 9, 2023
Preliminary (3/24 eps)
Blue Lock came out with some serious hype. It gained a lot of traction during the 2022 FIFA world cup, a strategic release decision no doubt, and despite my waning interest in anime as a medium, I love football enough that it really piqued my interest to watch it.

It sucks.

I appreciate the attempts to exaggerate and personify the aspects of the sport and its athletes, particularly the "lethality" and "composure" that the greatest strikers are synonymous with, but the author forgot to give each character something just as equally important as an ego: a brain.

But bad characters, premise, animation, sound track and arguably art style ...
Sep 4, 2023
Preliminary (10/24 eps)
I've watched a fair amount of sports anime, and I watched this one based off my friend's strong recommendation. I'm very disappointed.

The animation is fine, but the characters and tropes are tired and overused. In crucial moments, where it'd last a second maybe in the real world, it's drawn out. Every character needs to get a line in in the time it takes for the ball to be passed. Characters are always going above and beyond because they 'found it within themselves' because they've now tasted failure or been near defeat. And Ego? So annoying. He's there to be an antagonist for antagonist's sake.
Jan 14, 2025
Pulling no punches, Blue Lock underwhelmed me from start to finish. Its base concept on which the entire show revolves around and within which it takes itself extremely seriously, youth soccer, simply isn't all that intense or all that dramatic. The setting wildly underwhelms as it is an entirely true, non-hyperbolic statement when I tell you that literally every single episode, 24 out of 24, takes place within the Blue Lock facility and after reaching said facility in the first episode, the characters literally never leave. The writing and manufactured drama have a very juvenile, blatantly aimed at teenagers kind of tone and never has ...
Mar 25, 2023
I love the manga and that's why i hate how the second arc is animated, i have to say IT'S HORRIBLE.

First arc is well animated, they should've done something similar.

AND I HATE HOW THE AURA LOOKS LIKE ISAGI IS SMELLING BAD, Rin's aura too, i didn't hate the season overall, so you're probably wondering why 1 out of 10, Manga is extremely epic, so it's normal to expect Anime being even better or at least the same, but it is not

So i recommend you to read the manga, or not, i've seen people that liked the anime, this is just my opinion, i can be ...
Nov 11, 2022
Preliminary (5/24 eps)
What's the plot? None. Blue Lock is one of the most overhyped garbage this season. After watching 5 episodes of it, I saw the real reason why it has so many fans, "Fujoshi Bait." Typical strategy of authors when they can't write a good story so they rely on the yaoi shippers instead to make their works popular, making their characters do some loving-loving hug and blush, naked scenes and spoon feeding. For blue lock fans, "good looking characters = peak fiction". Lol

So everyone asks, "Is blue lock good?" No it's not. If this is your definition of "good", then your taste is trash ...
Nov 6, 2022
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Preliminary (5/24 eps)
Okay wow, the heck did this one get an 8.0+ rating? Such a massive fan of the manga, But this anime adaptation can't even be called "mid". It is such a shame how poorly directed this adaptation is.

The pacing is so fked. Haikyuu for example, though completely different sports, The pacing made it still feel smooth even though they are still talking mid-game. I don't think they did their homework of actually watching a real football game cause of how awkward they made them look when they were on the field.

I don't actually mind the 3d in this. The animation is fine but in ...
Mar 25, 2023
At first glance, Blue Lock seemed refreshing. A breakout from the typical sports anime formula of growing as a team to overcome all odds.
A bunch of high schoolers living inside a megabuilding to cultivate a world-class striker. They are told multiple times to only have their own interests in mind and to stop at nothing to become the best. If it helps their growth, they should sell their own grandma.
No buddy-buddy with your teammates, goody-two-shoes get left behind, and betrayal is part of the game.
The whole facility is designed to provide the best training technology can offer, only to produce one singular world-class striker. I ...