It's quite disgusting how Blue Lock, the literal best-selling manga of 2023, bringing hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue, is yet unable to get the budget to animate the sequel to a highly successful, well animated season 1.
Despite a lot of glaring flaws, shounen logic, and a host to fast paced development, I still gave Blue Lock a generous 9/10. Because ultimately, the good points shone through that much. If season 2 had as much budget as season 1, that would have cemented Blue Lock as the best soccer show I've watched by a long shot.
Yet, we got glorified slideshows? We can go ahead and point fingers. 8Bit, the studio did not give enough budget for this show. The production committee of the anime are full of scumbags. True. Executives only looked at what they could skim off the top and give to the peasants? Yes. Eat the rich? Probably.
Ultimately, similar to how Blue Lock's only objective is to win and score goals as cold hard results, the result here, regardless of any processes involved is the complete abysmally animated season 2 of Blue Lock as a result of the animation studio budget planning committee trying to scam the viewers for all they're worth off a successful franchise.
I understand that the storyboarding is actually still quite good. For the few high fidelity scenes that the show had animated, it was amazingly good. The voice acting, artstyle, pacing, and storyboarding were golden. The only problem is animation budget. What a shame. I think the ability for the studio to put literal slideshows and piece together to be honest, a half decent sports show is quite amazing. Still, that's all it is. Great storyboarding, scripting, pacing, and original material churned out to be mediocrity itself. What a shame.