Blue Lock is NOT a Sports Anime. 

The most unrealistic part is how isagi spends like 15 minutes taking apart and putting a puzzle back together

Most of the things the players do in blue lock isn’t unrealistic the moves just have effects on it to look cool

I love how in Blue Lock everyone is OP until Isagi pulls out his puzzle

Once you realize the show is trying to answer the question "what makes a good competitor?" It gets 1000x better. All the characters and plot points are centered around answering this question

as a manga reader i can guarantee you that you wont regret watching blue lock...

Great review! To answer your question: If someone fails at Blue Lock, it's not that they aren't allowed to play soccer again. It's just that they're banned from ever playing for Japan internationally. Basically what Ego is saying is that they can still play the little leagues and have jolly good generic sports anime times at nationals or inter-high or whatever but they'll never get any further.

5:15 "I have this monster living inside me.. And I cant control it.." GOT ME DYING

I used to play soccer when I was in high school as a winger so I find Blue Lock kinda relatable in terms of the "vibe" you get while on the pitch. Of course a lot of the action is exaggerated to make it look cool but the portrayal of the spirit of competitiveness isn't too far off honestly. I'm usually a really reserved and chill type of guy but I always get really competitive when I play for some reason and what Karu said at 5:24 - 5:40 is spot on.

Great video! This is exactly how I would describe Blue Lock. Instead of a sports anime, it's a battle shonen story that happens to have sports in it. I understand a lot of football players' biggest complaint about the series is that it only tackles the roles of strikers and there is a lack of "real" football games but as a manga reader I promise Blue Lock will eventually explore other roles and more realistic games will be played.

If you don't realize that the whole EGOTISM and getting the BEST SINGLE PLAYER out of Blue Lock is just a vail. Every episode adds another aspect of playing soccer as a team. Blue Lock is a system to create the best 11 man roster Japan possibly can by pushing them all further than they would have been otherwise.

i really enjoy the plot of blue lock and the main topic of egoism. but as an athlete myself i really tend to think of it as blue lock focuses on the individuality of an athlete when they're in a game. how you're always wanting to win and if you're really passionate about it, you'll pretty much do anything to win. i also like to think that it focuses on the mentality of the said athlete as a lot of the characters in blue lock have a certain goal and drive on why they play soccer and why they want to win. and as the manga is ongoing it really showed a lot of rivalry between current and former teammates, as well as how well one person deals with a certain kind of setting compared to someone else also in the same setting.

i started reading blue lock when the anime adaption was announced around late summer last year because one of my favorite voice actor was casted as one of the characters. when i started reading it, i realized blue lock wasnt really about sports but like ego said, its about your OWN ego, your selfishness, being narcissist, ambition for yourself., not talent, but hard work. yk almost every shounen manga is about like "i have the power of my friends with me so i can win!" and reading blue lock kinda changed me on how i see that genre. i like that each characters has their own ambition but it doesnt run on others, but on themself. like the part where nagi abandoned reo wasnt really about betrayal, but how reo shouldnt have always relied on someone if he wanted something. he needed himself. its not a good analysis but its how i see blue lock which is why i love the selfishness.

I havent watched the anime yet but i am reading the manga and i have caught up to Ao Ashi too and they are like the complete opposites of each other, Blue Lock is about becoming an egoistic player that the team should revolve around and Ao Ashi is about an egoistic player becoming a team player, the only similarity is that both protagonists have "field vision" as their special ability but they are fundamentally opposing concepts, also Ao Ashi explains more soccer strategy than blue lock for the obvious reason that Ao Ashi treats football as a team sport and builds the concepts from the ground up so you learn along with Ashi, its great to understand football at a high level since Blue Lock doesnt really stop to teach you strats, they just do them

in the nagi manga, both him and reo said this is like squid game lol

Hey there! Just wanted to say that I think you've made one of the best videos explaining Bluelock. I completely agree with you when you say that the argument about the anime being unrealistic isn't fully justified - the skills used by the players are definitely replicated in real life football. I've made a few videos explaining who the players might be based on which definitely shows their moves are inspired and not pure fantasy. Plus, your comment on CGI was hilarious!

What I would say as i've watched both Bluelock and Ao Ashi: Bluelock is more of an adrenaline hype kinda anime. where it's like the spirit of playing competitive soccer and to be the best kinda thing because they need to have more ego to become the best striker in the world. even though the actions are exaggerated (although the actions aren't like crazy unrealistic) i think that helps extend the hyped moments, like i've watched it and my heart started racing, even reading the manga made my heart race. Ao Ashi is more of a soccer with a slice of life anime. where it's got a great plot and stuff like the main character goes through so many life altering moments but it's more like he figures out himself and then also focuses on the people around him, and is finally on the path to become a pro player at hopefully 16 -17. and it also has a slight hint of romance not really expanded on but there is something. overall i like both of the animes and i don't really have a favorite of either of them they are both really good and I'm happy to have gotten more good sport anime to watch

Definitely recommend Ao Ashi if you want a more realistic soccer anime/manga. I do enjoy Blue Lock a lot though. It was my first soccer manga (still ongoing), but then I got into Ao Ashi, and I LOVE it. I didn't know anything about soccer before reading Ao Ashi, because Blue Lock doesn't go into most of that stuff. Ao Ashi goes into ALL of it, which is part of why I love it. Either way, I recommend both manga.

agreed with most of this exept the 11 people gives them less screentime argument it will go away once more material is released

Blue Lock is peak sports manga

Honestly when I started Blue Lock I expected a normal sports anime but after the first 2 or 3 episodes it changed my hole perspective to soccer. And after finishing the season I created my own scoring formula and became a better player overall. I learned that if you want to be the best you have to know how to score a goal in every possible situation with a scoring formula and your own personal skills. And most importantly I learn to be an egoist and that helped me a lot. Any way, my number 1 anime.

I love _BlueLock._ For now, one of my top animes this year so far. What I like about BlueLock that they dive into the concept of _Egoism_ and the psychology, strategy behind a competitive game. It's very thrilling to watch. I was excited the whole time.

I finally watch Blue Lock after sometimes and let me tell you.Its batshit insane and intense af.Even after Isagi manage to win he still have to face powerfull opponents that challenges his strategy,mindset and how he score goals and i freaking love it.The stakes is always high and even if it got lower after time it just rise back.I feel anxious when Isagi and his teams bout to lose their dreams and i was literally on the edge of my seat.Overall I freaking enjoyed it 10/10 but i wish they develop more character later on

It's not they can't play football it's that they can't play for Japan.

As a member of the anime and football community, I was HYPED when I heard this come out. When I saw isagi’s first goal that was hard bro

It's unrealistic, cuz nobody in real life has their eyes burn with a blue flame every time they're overthinking about kicking a ball.

Blue Lock is unique and that’s why we like it. Great video bro 💯

The manga is so good. I absolutely love the art style.

Great video and interesting analysis. I recommend you reading the manga because it works on some of the things you've mentioned here especially the character screentime part, also the art is crazy

Man Idk but somehow Blue Lock is an anime that I just enjpy so much, from the concept to the character development. Further more the animation is amazinggg.

Title: blue lock is not a sports anime First thing in video : blue lock is a sports anime Wtf 💀

Bro I was bursting when ichigo said my balls are itching😂😂😂

Literally I was so in love with the anime that after the 13th episode I had to read the manga and literally is so amazing. And he and every panel looked so intense literally I was so curious I read over 70 chapters in just a few days

This anime is going to be hella sick. Manga readers know

blue lock made me remember all of the fun i had when i used to play football in 2016-2017 even so the team was ended from lack of members

im not a football fan but i absolutely loveee bluelock. ive been rereading the manga for like 3x

I don't care about the people who say it's childish and unrealistic because tbh this anime is a killer and if you have read the manga then you should how good it's potential and hype will be.

It's not, "You're not allowed to play soccer/football again" but "You're not allowed to join Japan's National Team" those are two different things. Great video though! So far, it seems like Ego will be choosing people who are undergoing training in Blue Lock as a part of the National Team, bench players included. There can only be 1 striker, hence his words early on about there only being one player who could be the Striker.

Sport anime using generic plot : wow,so good Sport anime using a unique plot : childish,cringe They just hate hype anime and prefer generic one and that is why isekai still popular till now

isagi being the nerd dude solving puzzles in his brain in a match

Ok picture this: You are having a really good day, Lying on the bed, Smiling while watching this video because you like both anime and football, And then 0:41 I literally dropped my phone from my hand. 😢

When he said it's the purest form of hype it's real cuz when me n my cousins were watching Blue lock my cousin was like he was watching the wc or something 🤣

I am SO excited for the arc beyond 2nd selection. That's all I'll say.

the title "bluelock is not a sports anime" the intro "BLUELOCK IS THE NEWEST SPORTS ANIME!"

As a football fan who's never watched anime before the first few episodes of this show was just so hilarious to me😂. Like how does Nagi play like prime Dennis Bergkamp but isn't even in J League. Over time I just find it so dumb that it's brilliant! I'm definitely starting to love it lol.

Although Blue Lock takes the concepts of "self-perservation/selfishness" to the extreme (on a surface level), the real message of the show is to find and develop your own ego. I think a lot of people confuse Blue Lock's idea of being "egoistic" with being "egotistic". They are two different things: - "Egoistic" is about putting your own needs and interests before those of others. - "Egotistic" is about having an exagerrated sense of self-importance (in a narcissistic/delusional way). Again, Blue Lock revolves the idea of being "EGOISTIC". "Humility" & "ego/boldness" are like Yin & Yang. You need to have a balance of both. The reason it needs to be said in modern day that we need to develop our egos is because modern soceity (not just Japan's) has become too hung up on the humility/modesty side of things. While it's not inherently wrong, we have become too obsessed with being "virtuous" and "self-less", and have been, almost completely, demonizing the idea of the ego and following our desires. Blue Lock is basically teaching us this (but in an exagerrated way for entertainment of course).

me when i hear karu say "soccer" my brain: *explodes*

this has been my favorite manga since like 2019, i have been so excited and the anime is just so good, they did loose a little bit in the animation but thats normal. the originality of the manga is jjust so RAAAAAH i wish i could read it for the first time again.

0:50 300 of the top *high school* forwards, actually. They didn't all play the striker position before coming to Blue Lock, but they are all forwards. And Isagi is 17. He's not a middle schooler. Also, the losers aren't barred from professional football for the rest of their lives. They're just blacklisted from the Japanese National Team. Manga spoilers ahead btw It's actually the Top 23 players who will be chosen to represent the U20 National Team, not one. Jinpachi is made coach of the national team after the Blue Lock Eleven's win over Japan's U20 squad. Now there are like six members of the U20 team participating in the Blue Lock Project for a chance to get their positions back.

Blue lock is great and was the first anime to get me to go read ahead in the manga just because it's just hype and I want to know what happens next unlike most of my favorite anime it's not deep i described it to my friends as if a edgy 13 year old who failed his high school soccer try outs wrote a manga but it's just fun ya it's over exadurated play and the dialog is edgy but that's what makes it enjoyable and even then the idea of in sports believing your the best to be the best and using your teammates as a way to improve yourself still slightly holds true during a race or even durring a work out if I see one of my teammates head of me I'm not going to let them stay ahead of me like anyone eles I'll stick to them like glue and pass them when I get a chance and expect them to do the same

i only discovered ep 1 of blue lock when it was just released because when i was visiting my little cousins house, he was watching it on animax, learning that they posted new eps every sunday ( used to ) and then went back home. waited for new eps on netflix and i dont regret it lmao

4:56 Thats exactly how isagi scored in one of the matches

As someone who plays soccer and is a defender, this anime was so good to watch I'm excited for new episodes

Blue lock is pure hype Anime

4:18 Hes free of his chains

In themanga its explained they wont be able to play for Japan's team if they dont win blue lock past the second selection ; if were kicked out during the second and first selection then yeah you can never play it for a career but after the U20 game all the players are eligible to be scouted and not lose the ability to play, the U20 game changed all the rules and all the contact's that Ego had made previously became void I think by the end of the seires we will see a full team and not just a single player survivor i think the rules will once again be changed later on in the line up because now Blue Lock owns the U20 team completely so Blue Lock gets to pick for U20 for all the players and yeah Ego being Ego is probably gonna pick mainly people from Blue Lock there are a ton of high class strikers who we have seen be used elsewhere and he'll probably do that again lol

People trying to make this anime look realistic, no it has nothing to do with the actual sports , people dribbling trough whole defense and scores just few people could do that and not in everything game , messi the god of dribbling did it very few times , The tactics have no impact in bluelock while in football it’s tactics are 80%,90% of the modern game , teamwork is not just necessary but football can’t be football without it , actually the team with the most collective game wins over the strongest team , Argentina world champions is a great example . B.L is B.S that doesn’t show/have even the basics of the clubs , and just focuses on the hype of characters and shonen identity instead of football. And actually is you guys (B.L) fans that don’t have Arguments that backs this trashed plot , specially when it comes to ego

You convinced me I’m watching it now

the blue lock characters act like me when I'm loosing at uno

Blue locks fundamental i struggle with cause at the end of the day you even our MC has to pass the ball and let someone else score to win sometimes. But the way it tackles developing skills, knowledge, strategy, even luck is all spot on and comparable to real life.

don't you think blue lock kinda goes against it's idea when it makes a team of just strikers, where most of the team is off-position , meaning they can't grow to their potential? great video btw

Blue Lock is the copium for Japanese sports fans asking for their athletes to have that aggression and selfishness needed to do the inevitable and just step on a few toes on their way to the top.

some random dude: "bluelock is realistic!!!" Also awakened bachira:

I think Blue Lock is a show that focuses more on the mental state of an athlete and his attempts to make himself better, but also works on the relationships between rivals and teammates as a result of each individual's mentality growth

first time watching a sport anime, and its moments are so hype I look forward to it more than My Hero and sometimes even chainsaw man (Ps: I've read all of chainsawman so some moments I just didn't care for as much.)

Honestly i love blue lock to begin with and hopefully it stays that way and also the things i kinda hate is the pacing its a just a tiny bit too slow like atleast make matches like every episode not every 2-3 eps. but i changed the way on how i loved haikyu before but i guess its not anymore XD and the problems too are over exaggeration like how isagi kicked the ball in the goal and it sounded like a shotgun being fired but Overall W shounen, Sports anime would leave a mark on how it impacted on my soccer addiction now!

The way I see it I would imagine the setting is in a parallel world where these kids are secretly trained to battle some aliens in a space jam like galactic level tournaments.

Ego explains flow state later in blue lock❤

0:08 Later i wann finish dis vid

Everyone should watch Blue Lock once, becoming an athlete is so fucking hard and you need to stuggle to compete with all kinds of opponents, playing with friends isn't like playing like a pro footballer, the series makes the ideology of becoming the best striker so good

3:21 I don't know how often I see a video like this. The incomparable SHUSH by Sinatraa appears

As a german, I am still a bit pissed that we were out this fast... but nice video :)

I played basketball, football, golf, and soccer briefly when I was in elementary school, as well as baseball. This show immediately registered with me, if you've never been in the flow state of mind you haven't lived. I was literally voted the MVP in my basketball team then I'd turn around and start gaining muscle and weight to make the football season then absolutely obliterate in that, then go back onto the diet to be ready for basketball season. I remember one time my Vic coach was playing a practice game and we actually pushed him into that flow state and he was going crazy on us. Dude literally jumped out of bounds grabbed the ball midair and flung it back in bounds to keep the game going. The only downside to that was the new guy wasn't prepared for it and got smacked in the face with a basketball at full force, dude was bleeding all over the court with a busted lip. But even then I remembered I was playing at the boys & girls club and I tripped on my laces and literally smacked the floor face first and immediately got up with what felt like a single movement and still made a 3 pointer, when you're that focused pain doesn't exist your only goal is to score at all costs. Hell I had the other teams family members come up to me after I just got done kicking their son or little brothers ass and tell me how amazing I was. This anime brought that feeling back to me while watching it especially when the MC just walked through all the players he just defeated. Even in football when I was still playing flag my coach told me he'd get me a full size bag of chips for each flag I got. I literally dove through the line and got trampled by cleats, but I still got the flag and the chips. Like my father got mad at me because my team won the championship and he was waiting for us to lose so he wouldn't have to be there all day long.

The reason why blue lock is based on egoism isn’t just because the author wanted to be different. Kaneshiro just thinks that selfish people get everything they want. U can find that view of his in Jagaaaaaan too (one of kaneshiro’s mangas)

its actually 24 episodes, they took a 2 week break after the 12th

Wait only 2.8k, Your videos are very clean, I subscribe

Blue lock is easily one of my fav anime’s rn, out of all the sports anime’s it definitely takes the Cake for me atleast

Blue lock is a battle shonen that has football in it. Ao ashi is an actual football anime that is leagues above blue lock

Spoiler (no elimination spoiler): I gotta tell you, you have to read the manga because some of the things you say could be debated, like the characters that are undeveloped. only about 2-3 on the team actually don't really get developed in the manga but they have some kind of backstory is not like they are just there some of the characters which you might think are "useless" or "background characters become really important in the anime . And secondly in the manga they stopped doing the "squid game only one wins" therefore not everyone is getting eliminated meaning that everyone has an equal chance of being the best, there is no "end" goal after a certain plot which I will not spoil. There are also a lot of people saying "oh im not gonna watch it because is just like squid game and ik the main character will win" well you are incorrect you should definitely give the manga a try because the plot is not as cliché as you might think and secondly because the anime is only about half of the manga adapted into the 24 episodes (it still isn't the whole story in the anime so you will have to wait till season 2)

Great analyzation of the first part of the series. BTW, they are highschoolers not middle. For those who enjoy this series but can’t wait for the next season. They have 26 volumes available for digital download. I say read the manga because it just gets better.

He's funny AND has a nice voice? **subscribes**

I am pretty sure it's not that you can NEVER play soccer if you fail BlueLock but more that you can never play for the Japanese National Team and I suppose not go pro either. But let's be honest here, the majority of these players were never going to go pro or play for Japan. So the stakes for losing aren't as high as it would first appear in the grand scheme of things. But I think that's what's great about the anime. Objectively, the stakes for losing isn't high but for the characters in the moment, it means everything!

there’s 24 episodes not 12, 11 just have yet to be released

they are not middle schoolers, they are high schoolers.

19 episodes in through the anime and this is HYPE! Every week at 5 pm I go to my room and watch the new episode that's been released. Although haikyuu has my heart blue lock has shown me something different then haikyuu

Bro this youtuber deserves more subs than he has!!! LIKE FR!!!

I bet that the people who say Bluelock is cringe because of stuff like every player saying that they have a "weapon" or Bachira saying that there is a monster inside him have never played football in their entire life. I would be surprised if they have ever played a sport competitively because I used to play as the goalkeeper in my football team and the hype is almost, if not exact, like the hype in Blue Lock. And yes, players in real life also have weapons in football which can and have turned over the tide.

A big misconception about blue lock is how people belive that the main premise is how teamwork is meaningless and that the individual is the only thing that matters, and that thinking is entirely Wrong. Its not that Blue Lock abandons the Team Aspect or "Friendship" part of sports but instead chooses to turn the focus away from those aspects and onto the individual. Its less of "Im the only one who matters on the team" but is actually "Do I matter without my team". Blue Locks message can spread beyond just "Soccer" or "Sports" as a whole. The theme of Egoism centers and isolates on the individual into a competitive environment. A fight to see whos truly the best in whatever you want to be. A core idea being that those who are complacent will never change ("I don't need to change"), be willing to change ("Why would I change?"), or understand those who changed ("If I changed I bet I would be just as good as you"). Egoism in the context of blue lock isn't simple pride or arrogance, its the willingness to do anything you can to become the best.

ive seen a lot of anime and boy is this one my favorite

as a manga reader i can confirm some of the characters in the anime who seem like they have been ignored get a decent screen time in the manga.

bluelock single-handedly got me interested in FOOTBALL

Its a battle royale where the protagonist is the first one to rush in and fully embrace the setiing

Dude deserves more likes and subs great vedio xD

I love how different it was haha this was like my second anime involving sports i ever watched. The first was Kuroko’s 😂 talk about different.

I dun really fxxk w soccer anime or soccer in general but blue lock artstyle and story got me so hooked not to mention that a bunch of those characters made me feel like I've seen emm lotta tines befo

Naah. The 90% of manga protagonists always want to be the best and care about team work only with words, not with facts. Anyway, good video

personally i play soccer comp and the vibe on the pitch is real and the competetiveness isn't completely unrealistic sure they do crasy stuff but alot of it is normal stuff with GODLY animations which make it look "unrealistic"

Bro be dissing haikyuu

Blue Lock is about the friends we made along the way!

blue lock completely changed my outlook on competitions in general be number 1 no matter what it takes use your team for your personal gain be the main character of your own life if you're at the bottom your as good as dead like Rin said the pitch isn't just a place where you play a game its a battlefield and losing means death

getting in the zone in kuroko is literally a super power bro its still fun asf