The director change is very noticeable

Oct 12, 4:23 PM

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this season is amazing, it focuses on the important parts and makes them shine. People just have an ingrained stinginess surrounding animation and even if deep down they like it they feel an obligation to hate on it. This season is a massive improvement from the last imo.

Oct 12, 5:02 PM

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utopia-

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Let's face it, the first season was already like this lol, it just got worse

Oct 12, 5:20 PM

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Let's face it, the first season was already like this lol, it just got worse

@utopia- For sure. I am not watching this show for the animation, I'm watching it because it gets me hyped like crazy

Oct 12, 5:23 PM

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Animation is definitely a low point for this show, but I do feel the other parts sufficiently make up for it.

Visuals, VA work and other SFX are great.

Oct 12, 5:23 PM

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@utopia- For sure. I am not watching this show for the animation, I'm watching it because it gets me hyped like crazy

@The_W3za_Man Watching a colored manga with sound really cheers you up lol, and even more so when it's a colorful sports manga with still scenes and a lot of screaming, it really cheers you up a lot, congratulations

Oct 12, 5:31 PM

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kyo_1 said:
this season is amazing, it focuses on the important parts and makes them shine. People just have an ingrained stinginess surrounding animation and even if deep down they like it they feel an obligation to hate on it. This season is a massive improvement from the last imo.

As someone who doesn’t usually focus on animation and someone that just rewatched Season 1; allow me to be the one to tell you that this season is a massive downgrade from Season 1.

Season 1 was always relatively PowerPoint themed, and the CGI has always been slightly hard to look at, but Blue Lock was always filled with hype moments so it kept me into the show.

Season 2 however has made the PowerPoint presentation more obvious and even harder to watch. Even the CGI looks clunkier than it did in Season 1. The hype isn’t enough as of now to keep my attention. I would rather go read the manga to get my dose of hype. So that’s just a terrible take on your part.

Now credit to @3inPunisher here, I think Season 2 will deliver better on the visuals. Episode 2 at least showed that much (But I think it’s an insult to compare it to the 7th Prince). Chigiri’s scene was also decent. I don’t however think there was a massive improvement on the voice acting (unless your Japanese and can tell either way) or the OST seemed like the same stuff from Season 1.

Oct 12, 6:49 PM

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kyo_1 said:
this season is amazing, it focuses on the important parts and makes them shine. People just have an ingrained stinginess surrounding animation and even if deep down they like it they feel an obligation to hate on it. This season is a massive improvement from the last imo.

As someone who doesn’t usually focus on animation and someone that just rewatched Season 1; allow me to be the one to tell you that this season is a massive downgrade from Season 1.

Season 1 was always relatively PowerPoint themed, and the CGI has always been slightly hard to look at, but Blue Lock was always filled with hype moments so it kept me into the show.

Season 2 however has made the PowerPoint presentation more obvious and even harder to watch. Even the CGI looks clunkier than it did in Season 1. The hype isn’t enough as of now to keep my attention. I would rather go read the manga to get my dose of hype. So that’s just a terrible take on your part.

Now credit to @3inPunisher here, I think Season 2 will deliver better on the visuals. Episode 2 at least showed that much (But I think it’s an insult to compare it to the 7th Prince). Chigiri’s scene was also decent. I don’t however think there was a massive improvement on the voice acting (unless your Japanese and can tell either way) or the OST seemed like the same stuff from Season 1.

@Kaze1214 the CGI definitely doesn’t look as jarring as season 1 to me. Ofc the hype isn’t enough yet. We just started a slew of matches that will decide the players for the main match. To my knowledge, this is the only match that we focus on and every other match will just be shown as highlights.

From a writing standpoint, scenes like Rin using Shidou as a decoy, or Shidou’s first goal should be hype AF but it just looks like some visual novel. That’s the problem.

𝒮𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓈, 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒸𝒶𝓃'𝓉 𝓂𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒸𝓁𝑜𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝑜𝑜𝓇 𝒷𝑒𝒽𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊. - 𝑅𝑒𝒾 𝒦𝒾𝓇𝒾𝓎𝒶𝓂𝒶

Oct 12, 6:58 PM

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this season is amazing, it focuses on the important parts and makes them shine. People just have an ingrained stinginess surrounding animation and even if deep down they like it they feel an obligation to hate on it. This season is a massive improvement from the last imo.

@kyo_1 I'm not one to usually criticize animation, but episode 2 took it way too far. They relied on the special effects so much that it was distracting. This was like the equivalent of watching an action movie with the majority of scenes being in slow motion. These effects would be fine if they saved them for special moments, but when they use them in almost every scene the only conclusion I can come to is that they're just trying to cover up the lack of movement.

Look at Shidou's goal in this episode. When it shows him making the shot for the goal, not one part of his body is moving. It's just a still of the panel from the manga with color added and pink/purple special effects. They don't show how he actually kicked the ball in, you have to fill in the blanks with your imagination. Compare this with Isagi's backheel goal vs. Rin from last season - it's not perfect animation but you see how Isagi positions himself against Rin and moves his leg to hit the ball - you can see how someone could score this goal in real life.

Oct 12, 7:05 PM

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Cowheart said:
@kyo_1 I'm not one to usually criticize animation, but episode 2 took it way too far. They relied on the special effects so much that it was distracting. This was like the equivalent of watching an action movie with the majority of scenes being in slow motion. These effects would be fine if they saved them for special moments, but when they use them in almost every scene the only conclusion I can come to is that they're just trying to cover up the lack of movement.

Look at Shidou's goal in this episode. When it shows him making the shot for the goal, not one part of his body is moving. It's just a still of the panel from the manga with color added and pink/purple special effects. They don't show how he actually kicked the ball in, you have to fill in the blanks with your imagination. Compare this with Isagi's backheel goal vs. Rin from last season - it's not perfect animation but you see how Isagi positions himself against Rin and moves his leg to hit the ball - you can see how someone could score this goal in real life.

My god, thank god someone said it.

The episode was filled ad nauseam with effects.

Oct 12, 7:20 PM

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kyo_1 said:
this season is amazing, it focuses on the important parts and makes them shine. People just have an ingrained stinginess surrounding animation and even if deep down they like it they feel an obligation to hate on it. This season is a massive improvement from the last imo.

As someone who doesn’t usually focus on animation and someone that just rewatched Season 1; allow me to be the one to tell you that this season is a massive downgrade from Season 1.

Season 1 was always relatively PowerPoint themed, and the CGI has always been slightly hard to look at, but Blue Lock was always filled with hype moments so it kept me into the show.

Season 2 however has made the PowerPoint presentation more obvious and even harder to watch. Even the CGI looks clunkier than it did in Season 1. The hype isn’t enough as of now to keep my attention. I would rather go read the manga to get my dose of hype. So that’s just a terrible take on your part.

Now credit to @3inPunisher here, I think Season 2 will deliver better on the visuals. Episode 2 at least showed that much (But I think it’s an insult to compare it to the 7th Prince). Chigiri’s scene was also decent. I don’t however think there was a massive improvement on the voice acting (unless your Japanese and can tell either way) or the OST seemed like the same stuff from Season 1.

@Kaze1214 I wasn't comparing blue lock to 7th prince. I was just stating how the sound design and ost just work so well together in both 7th prince and blue lock. And na i ant Japanese so i wouldnt be able to notice the subtle changes in the already good voice acting

Oct 12, 8:12 PM

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Cowheart said:
@kyo_1 I'm not one to usually criticize animation, but episode 2 took it way too far. They relied on the special effects so much that it was distracting. This was like the equivalent of watching an action movie with the majority of scenes being in slow motion. These effects would be fine if they saved them for special moments, but when they use them in almost every scene the only conclusion I can come to is that they're just trying to cover up the lack of movement.

Look at Shidou's goal in this episode. When it shows him making the shot for the goal, not one part of his body is moving. It's just a still of the panel from the manga with color added and pink/purple special effects. They don't show how he actually kicked the ball in, you have to fill in the blanks with your imagination. Compare this with Isagi's backheel goal vs. Rin from last season - it's not perfect animation but you see how Isagi positions himself against Rin and moves his leg to hit the ball - you can see how someone could score this goal in real life.

Also in Otoya's second goal. After Chigiri passed the ball, there was no animation of Otoya hitting it. Only a still frame.

Oct 12, 8:44 PM

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Leon888

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Yeah okay we are not listening to a concert, we are watching an anime, obviously the visual part will be the one that will have the greatest impact, and it is incredible the worsening made in the 2nd episode, it is only 2 episodes, but if it already starts badly (and the trailer did not give much hope) you can understand how natural it is that people are complaining about this, without taking into account that it is an anime based on football, obviously it will need a great animation to represent it well, which is something we are not getting though

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