— They said blue lock is not about friendship but the whole series says otherwise. The characters are more friendly and intimately close to each other than haikyuu. They win by the use of friendship and comradely, it's just they talk like children and always arguing and cursing but they are really close, it's almost giving a boys love vibe. —
Blue Lock is definitely about power of friendship. Don't deny it.
Story (1):
Atleast they tried to do something new. However, the whole concept became failure instead. Because the author wanted to create a football world and a team consist only of strikers, the whole plot is repetitive. Main reason why it's repetitive is because the characters are already overpowered and already very good at playing football so there's nothing to be written anymore in terms of development as a player. The whole story or the plot is now more about personality development where players get to know how to be more kind, friendly and get along.
The author's only way to make the whole story going on is to introduce more and more characters so that Isagi have more competitions, and for them to create more story/character development (personality development) arcs. It's a recycle of events but with different characters as the topic.
Tactics and football knowledge is very few and most of the time inaccurate and made up. The author is making his own football rules, I mean it's kind of understandable because blue lock is just pure fantasy afterall, but I don't like it.
Characters (3):
Characters are fun to watch but they have the same personalities, just different voices and looks but are written the same. Isagi is one of the most lame main character I've ever encountered. He's already overpowered but he's still getting left behind. He only know how to talk big.
—Dialogues—
Cringe and Idiotic.
Back then, when I see people saying blue lock's dialogues is cringe and stupid, i thought they're just overreacting. But when I saw it myself, it really is cringe and stupid. It's true. During matches and practice, instead of talking about football stuffs, or just y'know normal conversations between players, they are instead saying bunch of random words and cringe quotes that doesn't make any sense, plus the weird reaction...
"Acceleration!"
"Accelerate!"
"Dash"
"I'm gonna kill you!"
"I'm gonna devour you!"
"fertilization!"
*boogsh!*
*swish*
*aaaaaahhhhhhhhrrrgggg*
"dying is part of playing football"
"im better than you squirt"
"the ball is like an egg going on it's nest"
and many more, and so on and so fort...😂and the fact that they're saying most of this on their own teammates...
I CAN'T —
Animation (7):
8bit is not a sports studio maybe that's why they don't know how sports pacing works. Blue Lock's pacing is fast and mess, I don't know if it's the same in the manga but that's how it is in the anime. Animation is sometimes like a slideshow but it's fine, like I said above, it's visually entertaining.
Art (6):
It's fine. But sometimes it's too exaggerated it's also gives cringe. Facial expressions are over the top, their uniforms are weird asf. But it's still fine I guess.
Music & OST (6):
Fine but nothing special. OP & ED is bad but I like the OSTs
Overall (3):
Blue Lock is like, "I'm gonna fvck your ass using my football" & "I like you but you're getting in my way in becoming the greatest striker in the world so ill kill you instead" ... kind of thing. Yeah it's not for me.
