Blue Lock

Yoichi Isagi was mere moments away from scoring a goal that would have sent his high school soccer team to the nationals, but a split-second decision to pass the ball to his teammate cost him that reality. Bitter, confused, and disappointed, Isagi wonders if the outcome would have been different had he not made the pass. When the young striker returns home, an invitation from the Japan Football Union awaits him. Through an arbitrary and biased decision-making process, Isagi is one of three hundred U-18 strikers selected for a controversial project named Blue Lock.

The project's ultimate goal is to turn one of the selected players into the star striker for the Japanese national team. To find the best participant, each diamond in the rough must compete against others through a series of solo and team competitions to rise to the top. Putting aside his ethical objections to the project, Isagi feels compelled to fight his way to the top, even if it means ruthlessly crushing the dreams of 299 aspiring young strikers.

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Bachira, Meguru Main

Kaito, Tasuku Japanese

Isagi, Yoichi Main

Ura, Kazuki Japanese

Chigiri, Hyouma Main

Saitou, Souma Japanese

Kunigami, Rensuke Main

Ono, Yuuki Japanese

Nagi, Seishirou Supporting

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Itoshi, Rin Supporting

Uchiyama, Kouki Japanese

Barou, Shouei Supporting

Suwabe, Junichi Japanese

Shidou, Ryuusei Supporting

Nakamura, Yuuichi Japanese

Mikage, Reo Supporting

Uchida, Yuuma Japanese

Itoshi, Sae Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

Furukawa, Shin Producer

Arisawa, Ryouya Producer

Mori, Yuuki Producer

Hirano, Tsutomu Producer

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Jun 15, 2025

sunsetkugo

Recommended

This is my favorite anime about sport. I don't play football or have any interests in that sport BUT the way the anime showed it, made it sounds like it was something amazing. However, it only looks appealing to me thanks to Blue Lock. I LOVED HOW WE LOVE EVERY CHARACTERS AND CANNOT chose who is going to be the best striker in the world. Every characters has something really different. My favorite characters is Sae, but I also like his younger brother Rin, I think the whole story is also really symbolic as it also shows the dynamics btw ambitions, dreams, mental health, family ... matters, etc... I strongly advised to watch this one. I even bought the manga because the anime didn't filled the void in me, I could not wait another season. ALSO, I WAS REALLY INTO EVERY MATCHES, I was cheering as if the characters were real players, it actually really makes you want to play in teams and have friends on who you can count.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Apr 17, 2025

bergars

Mixed Feelings

It's fun to see a show admit you have to be an egotistical bastard at times.

I'm tired of battle royale's, man. I've seen the tropes. How characters unite in the most unlikely ways. The empathetic main character, or the morality at play when put against people who could be good. Rarely done with nuance, and I'll admit, this one gets pretty close to being great, but I really couldn't take it seriously.

Battle Royale, but with soccer. You got monsters who can level the playfield, you've got the underdogs, the great prospects, and our protagonist who is very much a nobody in a sea ... of potential nobodies. He's gotta climb his way through, alright, sure, fine. I went along with it, and took what was essentially 24 episodes of what I can only describe as an author holding back.

Be it the slow progression, the character dialogue, and the constant weirdness in all of them. First, you can tell the big cast of characters merits diverse personalities. It allows them to stand out, to have their voice, but as a problem, they're too out there, exaggerated, stupid, incoherent. Their way of thinking makes sense for each character, but they get so repetitive.

They repeat their way of talking every time they're on-screen, just for those three seconds to remind us of their existence. It speaks poorly of the writer's ability to direct them without being edgy, or plain cringe. Stuff like “I have a demon in my heart”. These are highschoolers, close to 18-years-old. If they were middle schoolers, that's the limit, but please, STFU.

Second. This is an experiment from the author, and you can tell. I've read the author's biggest works before this one, and while still childishly dealing with adult themes, the writing stood out, the characters were given proper depth, since they couldn't cross the line of excess. There were always smaller casts, and thing is, the next season, or part of the story probably works way better since the story rids itself of unneeded characters. However, the most edgy ones stay, and weirder ones just got in, making my optimism utterly stupid.

I wish there was more to chew on, more of an interesting main character. Even if his dynamic is very fresh, being able to predict the playing field, and what not, his personality is as plain as you can imagine. Main character, underdog, nice guy, the least unusual, with a strange awakened state. I'm tired of it, and this simply perpetuates cliché's without being able to break away from them.

The animation works, the story works, and it moves, but I'll give it a chance to redeem itself. It's not bad, it's just on the verge of being bad. It can only get better if the author manages to truly use its cast, and lesson, to change the protagonist and the people around him. Other than that, it just doesn't stand out that much compared to the author's other works, which have a little more to say about its world than this.

6/10. If the author was trying to make a typical Shonen, you can feel the Victorian style skeleton whispering he should go back to his edgy roots.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 25, 2025

Yunice

Not Recommended

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 ... is also so much internal monologue! If there isn't so much of that, I am quite sure the whole series could have been done within a twelve-episode run. It has been exhausting having to sit through a few minutes of internal monologue before almost every tiny bit of kick or pass in a sports show.

The only dramatic thing in this show is the unnecessary drama within the brains of the characters every time they see, or want to do something.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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