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Apr 17, 2023
Mixed Feelings
Did everyone write their review before all 24 episodes was aired or something? I mean no one is talking about the absolutely unforgivable CGI usage. Its so painful to the eyes, it feels incredibly soulless and stiff. The animators mustve been held at gun point and forced to finish the series ASAP to ride the hype of the manga i guess cause theres no way anyone couldve thought this crap was acceptable. It was so hard to get into the goals and the one on ones because the animation was so horribly done it mightve been better to watch some child try to recreate the manga scene with toys in stop motion.

Moving on from the horrible animation, lets talk about the story itself. Imagine some high school kid randomly getting a letter from the soccer association, showing up to a meeting in a sketchy building where they ask 300 of them to voluntarily commit themselves to what is essentially a prison and then just play soccer day in and day out. Lets be serious. I mean honestly. What parent would allow their child to miss weeks and weeks of school for a supposed chance to become “the best striker in the world”. Im not saying anime has to be realistic always but like atleast have some basis in reality?? I cant even suspend my disbelief tbh some of this shit is js too silly.

The characters are basically weird and over the top. We hardly learn anything about any of them. The only thing we even know about the main character is that he lost some match because he passed to a teammate and that pissed him off. Idk if this changes in the manga but for the anime thats how it is for now. Its hard to get invested in any of the characters cause we have no reason to do so. Why should we root for any of these guys? We have no idea about their backstory or what drives them. Just some lame ass shtick like for bachira hes always like ‘i have a monster inside of me🤓’ or barou is like ‘im the king you donkeys’ omg and the worst dialogue is for sure ‘i need to devour him’ or whatever the hell.

Which leads me to the actual gameplay itself. The gameplay is very boring technical references to stuff in soccer. If you like soccer maybe you’ll like it. They be saying shi like ‘omg he did a triple nutmeg’ or ’i need to evade blah blah and make my direct shoot my main power’ like just going on and on about minor details during the match. ‘We need to create a chemical reaction to get this point’ PLEASE stfu jesus. On top of it its so hard to follow what theyre saying cause the matches are either practically still frames or really shit CGI.

Overall, blue lock is objectively terrible. As an anime. I am going to give the manga a chance cause i have a feeling a lot of stuff didn’t translate well to animation. Some of the weird story stuff is just ass tho and has nothing to do with the poor animation. For me, blue lock is like junk food. Objectively I know I shouldnt bother with it and that its bad, but i kinda just keep watching it cause its not really boring as per se. Like i’ll tune in and not really pay attention. Just like a bag of chips you just eat when youre bored or something, not cause you really love it - thats basically how i view blue lock.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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