Blue Lock - Anime vs Manga 

The anime occasionally lacks the ferocity, and powerful emotions conveyed in the manga. I'm hoping season 2 takes the anime up a notch, and is on par with the manga, if not better.

Me personally, I would watch the anime up until the match against the wanma brothers, and then read the manga, that's really where I started noticing the anime not doing the manga justice (chigiri breaking his chains) I'd give blue lock season 2 a chance, though, with all the hype it's gotten I hope it motivates them to take their time and produce a wonderful production

The fear, suspense, hopelessness and embarrassment that I got from Rin's team vs The World five, was very different in the anime than reading the manga. The animated version of Rin's team vs The World Five was like a caricature of what was in the manga.

ahhh yes the audio comparisons my favorite

simple solution for manga readers, play the Blue Lock ost in the background while reading the manga. Elevates the whole reading experience to a completely new level (I went a bit further and simply played the episodes in the background while reading the manga, wouldn't recommend that tho).

When Loki passed Isagi, in manga you're like, 'shit dudes fast'. In anime you're like, 'Oh. He is fast'.

Haven’t finished the video yet, but I have to say blue lock is pretty good. Never really had a thing for sports anime but this and Kuroko’s Basketball have definitely changed that!

I will admit that from the clips I seen the anime version of Blue Lock is animated decently well, but man does the manga's goated art and fast pacing makes it really hard not to just reread that same section.

Can’t believe you didn’t mention the yeeyee ass run animation

Kuroko no basket walked so that blue lock could run , and it ran… backwards

As a newly introduced Blue Lock Stan who has the first 5 volumes irl, more videos like this need to be made. As an anime and manga enthusiast, it's always been hard to try and tell this to the homies that only wanna watch anime because they don't like still shots or my favorite "I don't have time to read"

That "gottem" gets me every time man

10/10 video really love the editing!!

Finally, someone else said it! I've been thinking this since episode 3. It's has to many still shots. It's like a hype sideshow. Reading the manga, you can imagine more movement than what the anime actually did.

Always down for a blue lock vid(I don't watch or read it at all) Also loving the extra personality I've been seeing lately in the vids.

Honestly, I started watching the anime before the manga, and thst really helped get a feel for how the characters spoke and the intensity for me. I just reread the manga and the hype of watching the anime and reading the manga is literally insane

Apparently the studio behind the anime had a terrible production schedule Unfortunate but that's just how it is And as for pacing, this kinda applies to every anime adaptation lol.

As someone who has seen the other anime that 8-bit put out, they are mostly making adaptation that could be considered "pretty ok". It's like that with Slime as well

I just started reading it yesterday and I’m already on chapter 50. I can honestly say this is shaping up to be one of my favorite sports series, and I think I already like it more than Captain Tsubasa (another soccer series). Haven’t seen the anime but I do plan to some time in the future. My favorite sports series still has to be Slam Dunk, but I can see Blue Lock getting into my top 3 favorites.

2:47 I absolutely love that take Finally yes it's a sports anime but I don't want realism I want all the Insanity and more

Great video mate ! I also read the manga, you summed up my thoughts perfectly at 2:10 One thing that would add about the animation that somewhat goes somewhat unoticed often is the edititing. You were talking about how the action doesn't feel as fast paced and elastic like the manga, well that's what happens when the studio has to stretch the action to a 24 min runtime for 20+ episodes. I strongly disagree that the pacing is fine outside of the intern monologues. Some sequences go into powerpoint mode and the VAs seem to be forced to pace their speech as slow as possible without sounding too off. Even actually "oh this was worth animating" moments like Bachira's very last play end up being butchered with flashbacks shots in the middle of the action when it would feel so much better as an uninterrupted ramp up in tension. Like yes, the anime has to adapt from the manga but as you pointed out, a character monologuing to himself with flashbacks in the background (like at 9:32) is lightspeed faster that the anime. They could have cut a couple of Isagi's "how can I evolve ? How can I devour him ?" here and there, some of these are truly just repetitions. But it's good padding for the budget. And very understandable, can you imagine having to animate whole episodes where at least character has to be moving his whole body, fast, constantly ? (also that's truly a nitpick) but why isn't Isagi's aura in the eyes consistently blue (and Chigiri red, Bachira yellow, etc) ?

Bro it’s been a long time just looked back at your old channel brought back a lot of good memories I’m gonna start watching this channel it’s interesting

One thing I love about the anime sound design is that whenever Chigiri starts sprinting, there is a jet engine sound over the top of it.

It's mostly just the visuals for me (and the auras). The intensity in the visuals in the manga are just better imo. And it helps with the hype. I was listening to action music duriing the U-20 and it went SO HARD. The anime isn't bad by any means. I think it's just the perfect example of a mediocre, OK anime adaptation vs a very exceptional manga in the art department. That's all.

A good example of pacing is the jojo anime. The manga has lots monologues but the anime translates it very but I don’t understand how

You deserve more subs

14:27 I did not think about that while watching but now that he said that.. I can’t unsee it😂especially with rin putting his nose in his shirt

Got me giggling farrrr too many times in this one, ronin. “Please…I’m not one of THEM” 😭💀🙌🏼

Tbh I really only like the anime because the certain godly animated moments and it's also easier to watch and understand what's happening and where they're going. But the manga looks better, is more dramatic and hype, already better moments since they LEFT OUT THE MATCH, or specifically the introduction of shidou, with kunigami and reo vs him. Anyway the "effects" and color are also better, it's also way more smooth, and yet at the same time it's so rough.

I immediately read the whole manga of blue lock when bachira was chosen in rin's team,I became curious and can't wait for a week and read and like Manga more than anime.

The anime has some great moments - the bits of sakuga they have look wonderful - but you ae generally right. However, I expect season 2 to be much, much better because there's no way with the budget they received for season 1 that they knew how big of a deal this series would be.

This video gonna smack in the hot box

Ronin power bombs grandmas confirmed. Not his grandma though. He loves his grandma. 😭

Love the anime for the outstanding Japanese VA's and electric OST. Love the manga for it's pacing and no-holds-barred dialogue

From the clips and panels I've seen, they both look pretty good, but that's my take

One of the best OSTs out of any anime.

I was waiting for this video, since you said it on the podcast. I love the Anine, but the Manga is BETTER in that INTENSE. I feel if they went more on the Movement, people would not like it, similar to MHA with alot of lines motion

The moment when rin said kill while staring daggers at sae ready for the finale of the U-20 match with those eyes the tounge out and the dark blue color got me hyped up

Yeat x blue lock manga x colored panels equals the best chemical reaction

Interesting insights. I never really thought about the anime being lacking on the pacing/animation department but after hearing your thoughts about it, it does make sense. That said, I feel like the things you said here is hugely influenced by you being a manga reader before being an anime watcher. I actually watched the anime first before reading the manga and the anime actually does a great job in hyping its audience up. Though, like 7-9 episodes in the anime, I just read the manga since it was honestly torture to wait another week for another episode. After reading the manga, however, I started to notice how the anime kinda falls off (although not by much) conpared to the manga. That's why I was able to say that you are influenced by you reading the manga. Of course, this is not a bad thing at all but I kinda just wanted to point it out. Besides, you wouldn't have noticed these flaws in the anime if not for you being a manga reader.

The production committee wanted to release a 24 episode series around the same time as the World Cup imo. It only makes sense due to the fact that Cour 2 looked extremely rushed and the animators didn’t even have enough time to animate it properly. Blue lock season 2 need a better Schedule/Time. Studio isn’t the problem because going off episodes 1 and 2 we can see that having time, you can release top quality episodes so we have to pray that the production committee let the animators take they time for next season. The staff team that produced episodes 1 and 2 need to do all of the episodes with probably a better director. ( BETTER SCHEDULE/ TIME )

I lobe both the Blue Lock Manga and Anime. But for me, the anime is on top. When i was reading U - 20 V Blue lock, the amount of hype i felt while reading that stuff was crazy. It fully grasped me and took my attention to 200%.

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Yeah there gonna have to use a combination of techniques like shorting the dialogue while retaining the impact and hype and make the animation extremely cracked for the important dialogue that can’t be changed

I’ve been meaning to pick up the manga since the anime ended, shit is hype af

man the u-20 winner was so frickin hype and his most recent goal gets me yelling at nothing but top tier hype

12:52 brother you have a channel for anime content.. we are all nerds here :D

one more thing, im not sure how to put it but the characters and their forms feel kinda wonky and flippy floppy, i mean that when you look at a manga panel, you can tell theirs solid mass under the forms of the muscles and the jawlines and hair, anime loses that. i think that might just be a manga vs anime thing tho

Crazy how I started reading it yesterday

bro the manga audio is goated

I started off watching the anime before switching to the manga. Originally, I was hyped while watching the anime. Afterward, I couldn’t help but feel like the anime was almost boring in comparison at moments. Sorta ruined the enjoyment I originally had for the anime on the rewatch. Hopefully season 2 is an improvement, and actually takes full advantage of the fact it’s a moving visual medium that can have much greater fluidity than the manga. (W BR, as expected)

hard to have ferocity when they're giving exposition during those moments

I also love the manga more. The art is so good ❤

My feelings regarding the anime are weird to me. Obviously the CGI is pretty bad, and some of the hype scenes from the story aren't as great animated as they were in the manga, but damn, the voice acting and soundtracks here are insane. How some of these scenes were crafted with all of these things in mind made moments like the ending of the first selection and Bachira's awakening were so damn good the manga elitist in me had to shit up. And yet, I can't help but feel this disconnected from the anime. I wouldn't say it's the pacing per say, as tbh I think the anime actually paces out the matches pretty well, to me, it's actually the dialogue. Reading the manga, stuff like 'devouring each other,' and other typical anime phrases didn't bother me but when they were translated into the show with voice actors taking their lines as seriously as they could possible, but _without_ the super edgy artstyle to sell the intensity of the dialogue, then we'll it starts to be more corny to me than cool. (Although saying all that, yeah ig it really isn't as much as a big deal as the inconsistent quality of movement in the matches, huh I really just wrote all of that for nothing.)

imagine they go crazy for season 2 n have studio bones or sum to animate it

at first when blue lock first realeased as an anime i was amazed by its storyline and others too and at that time I havent really read alot of manga but when i read the blue lock manga i felt that the manga was much better than the animeq

Yeat really do be going crazy while reading manga

personally i prefer the manga but not by that much. the manga only takes the cake for me bc of how they draw some of the scenes and how far along it is, my favorite characters havent been shown in the anime yet. but the voice actor casting for the anime (mosty sub) was done phenomenally imo so thats why i love the anime so much too and seeing it in action kinda helped grasp my attention more than if i read the manga first. i definitely recommend reading the manga after you finish the anime bc the anime left off in a spot where its just getting super hype and leaves you hanging to go and pick up the manga. so yeah thats my take thanks for reading

I still fantasize about the sound fx

The anime is really good. I’m also a big fan of the animation tbh, I don’t know exactly how to phrase it but it’s still very “sports like” if that makes any sense despite blue lock being unlike any other sports manga. And while still feeling almost like a battle anime. I was worried going into it that there would actually be too much detail that would take away from the fluidity of the movements during play. The animation is definitely less intense/dramatic compared to the manga art but for the first season I think that’s completely fine, if it were too accurate I can see it turning people off to it. I say keep the animation style unique and still very fluid, maybe making the animation in key moments more dramatic to accurately depict them similar to the manga in season 2.

14:30 “It’s nuts that whey would do that to my goat 😩”

Also the fact people have blue lock at a top 5 new gen is crazy a sports manga I'd competing with the likes of mha jjk black clover boruto ect

The manga clears the anime. Almost every episode is just the manga panels coloured in with slight movement.

14:09 😂I shouldn’t have laughed at that

As someone who's seen both, and I don't wanna be that guy. BUT, the manga was better. It provides you with one of the most unique reading experiences and whatever emotion I felt the anime conveyed (mostly hype), was just amplified X10 in the manga. The biggest mistake the anime did was trying to adapt 24 episodes within a year 💀. Like dawg, 12 episodes and ending off at the first selection while fleshing it out a bit more could've worked so much more and we saw the first few episodes having great quality. As you can see during the 2nd cour, this decision led to the anime looking like a ppt at A LOT OF TIMES.

I personally lean more towards the manga myself. I thought the whacky looking CGI and the fact that most scenes were still shots even during scenes where that same character is about to initiate a crazy move just seemed so out of whack. The sheer explosiveness that the manga depicts gets the benefit of our brains filling in the images between the panels, but anime can't do that because it has to *animate* the in-betweens. Otherwise it's just a colored in version of the manga. I did really enjoy how they depicted individual character's strengths through their aura (Nagi's starry sky aura for his blackhole technique is by far my fave). Blue lock needs to introduce interesting angles and movement. Death note is a great example, as most of the show is inner monologuing, but the way it was shot created tension and the erratic movements of L and Light really sucked you in. I think they could take a note or two from that anime and maybe it could help. Also bigger budget

I am a man of facts. Verdict, manga is faster to consume. Conclusion, manga is better.

the thing is i find the pacing of the anime pretty good i feel like it carries over the break neck speed of the manga without any major issues but the hype nahhhh bro the hype is not real in the anime i was hyped to see the two shot revolver fake volley but how it looked kinda disappointed me, it cannot compare how i fucking screamed at some of other's nagi's trickshots like the 5 shot revolver volley while reading chapter 190 i was fucking gasping i stoood up and started screaming holy shit hopefully the anime is able to recreate that feeling next season or even in the movie

Hopefully, season two will have more budget due to popularity

You should do hanma yujiro vs sukuna ryomen

this is one of the only animes that i think the manga is incredibly fire, usually im not a manga kind of person

it's the manga, just read the manga don't even breath in the same direction as the anime

14:00 You say it looks like a stink cloud, I say it looks like Getter Rays

Another W video!! I stopped watching the anime after episode 2, couldn’t sit through the mediocracy compared to the manga

off topic but regarding manga being hype, fellas know tomadachi game be up their. Everyone knows how crazy the cruiseship arc was, manga readers know what im talking about

Yo that manga audio kinda hitting 🤣

bro, the anime is called an anime because of the animation, if you could animate something as detailed as the manga the episode would to take a month with overwork instead of 1 week, you just have to take into account the timespan they have to make 24min anime episode in 1 week, when a manga chapter which is only at most half of the anime episode also takes 1 week.

Cool

manga is fking agrressive and emotion expressive,yes one of the best panels

Yo bro pls review be blues soccer manga pls

TRUE

In my opinion the anime's colors are too bright like in matchs sometimes I'm not even focus on the game but rather the bright green grass. I like the different hair colors and styles to keep the characters apart but honestly just tone it down a bit

Some of the audio effects on the anime make me dislike it more for example tokimitsu when he’s running and honesty some of the animation and art just does not feel right compared to what the manga has achieved emotionally. The animation in the first episode especially was exceptional but I have yet to seen any traces of that kind of detail and emotion ever since. The lack of frames given to advanced soccer techniques glazes over the technicality and difficulty making it seem almost like a stop motion. Hopefully season 2 is better but I definitely would’ve preferred if season 1 was cut in half and the rest was given more time to be animated.

Not a blue lock fan but just wanted to hear what someone had to say about it... Sounds like a good series but I couldn't personally get into it. Though, really not sure how much I agree with the pacing section; I find when manga has to shove in too much dialog it's not great either. Even if you can read fast, it still breaks up the flow of the pages and action. Just cause you can read it very fast doesn't mean it didn't fuck with the pacing, it just means you rushed past it and ignored it fucking with the pacing and flow.

I’m dyslexic(thank you autocorrect)… Still prefer the manga

at first and sometimes the anime does well and good but some if not most of the time its not as good as the manga which is okay but the manga art and panels and colored is just GOAT

9:47 bro i burst out laughing lmao

Ep 22 in my opinion is still one of the best ep in blue lock

To be honest the manga is really good but I just feel like it’s to early for the anime to have that exciting details you get from manga. The anime is mid right now but I feel like next season would be 10x better I don’t know

Bro am i the only one who kind of mad that he didn't say SIKE

A perfect example of an anime, that understood what fluidity should be for a sports manga. Is what Kuroko no Bakset did. I dare anyone to tell me otherwise, a 2012 anime has destroyed a 2022 show. You can say budget or studio, but its sad that whoever was in charge of the production. Did not understand the assignment

as a comedy enjoyer the anime is better cuz the cgi is straight up funny

obv should they have had a way crazier budget n studio like ufo table it couldve been insane but i dont think it was BADDD

manga creams the anime, but i still enjoyed watching the anime weekly

There are some moments where the animation does a great job in executing moments in bluelock that were correctly portrayed. But considering the amount of great art from the manga, the animation does fall short. I'm having a hard time having faith in the animation for the FUTURE arcs.

Watching the anime in 2x speed let's things flow better

WE NEED MORE BLACK EYES, LIKE NAGI FAKE VOLLEY. In general i agree with the video, the music kinda slaps and VAs are really nice, but the animation leaves much to desire. I prefer the manga

not as bad as the RoR manga adaptation though.

I recommend watching the anime in 2x speed

i liked the anime