The new generation sports anime. Can we say it's Haikyuu's successor? Famous sports shounen anime (the most famous in the world) full of characters with flashy designs and exuding competition. Generational anime.
It's not like I didn't enjoy it, I actually felt really excited watching Blue Lock. Sports themes excite me a lot in general, even more so being my favorite sport, football, however, it is difficult to disassociate reason from emotion. For the reason I want to devour these stories right now, I want a new season as soon as possible. However, for the reason, it is notorious that this anime fails in many aspects.
Starting with your cast of characters. Everyone is extremely well-versed and their ways of adding to the story are so forced that it even seems amateurish in some cases. The animation is very weak and stuck, the direction of the scene is only saved in a few takes and the emotion of the scene is being quite carried by the dubbing. And the way they've approached football this first season leaves me on the back foot. Any minimally assiduous football fan realizes that the sport practiced by them is out of reality, and comparing with Haikyuu, the anime that I consider its predecessor, which works in an exemplary way the sport of volleyball, makes the work of football here seem extremely shallow. Tactics being used in a cliché way, disconnected plays, thoughts completely outside of football, with the sole intention of promoting an action scene, without worrying about the execution. It bothered me a lot. It's a good sports anime but not a good football anime. I hope this point improves next season.
Already in world lore, it's really exciting to know that the story has world flights as its objective, and that excites me and makes me captivated to continue in the work. Despite all the mistakes and annoyances I had watching, Blue Lock is still a hope for a good generational anime.