Unlike most sports manga, Blue Lock emphasizes the selfishness and individuality of the players over teamwork so as to create the strongest striker as all players are competing are strikers. Thus, the majority of the cast are strong headed and aggressive. While it makes sense for the storyline, this unfortunately makes most of the characters unpleasant and insufferable. Throughout the whole manga I only ever had two I actually cared for (neither of which were the main character) and even later on I stopped caring about one of them because the nature of the games causes them to grow into another asshole like the rest of the cast. I feel no warmth from the characters or the shallow bonds they form, which in turn grants me no satisfaction when I see them triumph. In fact, I wish to see them fail.
The best thing about this manga is the art but even that often falls prey to overusing "crazy" faces to make the characters look like psychos or silly when they start sticking their tongues out and drooling. I can't take most characters or moments seriously because of this.
While I don't recommend this manga there was still something about it that compelled me to read all of the currently available chapters (although I skimmed a lot of the matches as there was a lot of repetition). So if such a cutthroat manga about sports sounds interesting to you then you may love it.
