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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Blue Lock was released on Blu-ray and DVD in four volumes from January 27, 2023 to July 28, 2023.

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Sakurai, Takahiro
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Furukawa, Makoto

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Watanabe, Tetsuaki

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Gou, Fumiyuki

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Kawase, Masao

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	1: "Chaos ga Kiwamaru (カオスが極まる)" by UNISON SQUARE GARDEN (eps 2-13)
	2: "Judgement" by ASH DA HERO (eps 14-)

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	1: "Chaos ga Kiwamaru (カオスが極まる)" by UNISON SQUARE GARDEN (eps 1)
	2: "WINNER" by Shuugo Nakamura (eps 2-12)
	3: "Judgement" by ASH DA HERO (eps 13)
	4: "Numbness like a ginger" by UNISON SQUARE GARDEN (eps 15-)

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Oct 22, 2022

snowbae

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"CARRIED BY ANIMATION"

Yes. Blue Lock is literally a sports series who can only offer good animation and good looking characters. Now, that's not totally a bad thing cuz I, myself is a sucker for animanga with good looking and all boys characters whom I can ship with each other.

BUT! As a fan of sports animes, I hate those who can't even represent the sports properly. Although I don't play sports, I highly respect each of them and I despise those who makes them look ridiculous and stupid.

Story (4): Maybe you think it's too early for me to give a review when the anime is ...

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Oct 23, 2022

xdoubtx

Not Recommended

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Blue Lock's plot is simple. To produce the greatest striker in the world and to make a football team consist only of best strikers and win the world cup. Against who? Of course it's against other teams that also consist of strikers and was locked up in other facility like blue lock.

It has one straight line to the conclusion, so the outcome is pretty much predictable. In simple words, blue lock is all about strikers. Other positions is not important and nonexistent in the story.

For a non-football fan, they might think that's okay but I'm sure majority of football fans, or even just sports fans ... in general are appalled. You see, strikers are important players, sure. But other positions in the field plays the same importance in the sport. It's bad and it's annoying how this series keep showing/implying that players in other positions is considered weak and irrelevant. Blue lock believes that "strikers" are the only important players in football. It's like saying "spikers" are the only important players in volleyball, and "centers" in basketball. That's so stupid, so tell me, how can I turn blind eye on this? Let's say it's just an anime, but it was tagged as "sports anime" so I'm atleast expecting a decent sports representation but what did we get? An anime that bastardizes football and spreads misinformation, convincing the public that their way of playing is the right way.

So if you are looking for football anime with accurate, realistic, decent and informative representation of football, blue lock is not for you. In this anime, everything is made to be stupid and rushed. You cannot see how they learned their moves, they just popped up with the talent already gifted in them, and already good at it, making them overpowered, best example is Isagi's vision and playmaking. He's already so good at doing them from the very beginning so what's the point of watching? To see him beat other overpowered characters like him?

The characters, you can't even call them athletes. Aside from the fact that they are overpowered, the thing that doesn't really make sense is all of them only want to be strikers. And I mean, each and everyone of them, no one even wants to be on other position, like what? They all have the same personality! And they are all good for nothing brats. Imagine, 300 high school teenagers voluntarily agreed to throw their future away just to produce 1 great player, locked up in a facility with no sunlight, not allowed to have a life outside, no diet plan, no proper rooms, no coaches or anyone to teach them about football... sorry but that's not gonna improve anyone. Agreeing to enter blue lock is like agreeing to be put in an asylum.

Speaking of 1 great player, who do you think it will be? I'm sure you already know the answer because it's pretty much obvious by just watching 3 episodes of it.

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Animation is decent. Though sometimes their expressions are too exaggerated to the point where the cringe is unbearable I have to fast forward lmao. And don't get started with the dialogues, it's so cringe I want to rip my ears and eyes out.

And just for the heads-up, if you are easily bothered by vulgar words, curses and death threats, better avoid this anime because there are tons of them. Jeez., just talking about it makes my head hurt.

Music: OP and ED is not good. Trying hard to be edgy but ended up sounding mess. Voice actors are bad too idk maybe it's a personal preference but I hate their voices.

Seriously,.this anime feels like a fan service. Carried by animation and fujoshi bait. Only made to please the eyes but can't give a deep impact that stays in memory and emotions of the viewers. Everything feels like robot, everything is one dimensional. And the most issue I have is, I can't feel the love and passion for football, Blue lock treats it like a past time and some sort of gambling because they're bored and has no future. Such a shame. That's the biggest down for me.

Overall, I don't like it. The author doesn't know football that's why he made it a fantasy instead. I don't recommend it cuz this anime can ruin your perspective about football. But it's still up to you, watch it ot not, I couldn't care less.

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Oct 26, 2022

Naitrodex

Not Recommended

Preliminary (3/24 eps)

I've seen moderate hype around this anime and was wondering - so I gave it a watch.

And what can I say - it's one of those anime catered towards the "14-year old Tumblr-Girls" of the community. I can't express how much I dislike this side of the anime audience. Tokyo Revengers, Jujutsu Kaisen, Haikyuu and now Blue Lock. While I certainly don't mind some fangirl-bait when the show is somewhat good or funny (e.g. Haikyuu or JJK), it more recently felt like shows revolving around that got progressively worse. I already hated the amount of Gojo "art" I've seen on the internet, oh lord.

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