Blue Lock: Episode Nagi

If you watched Blue Lock and were interested in Nagi and Reo's characters/motivations, this is the movie for you! It delves deeper into their backstories than the anime, showing the Blue Lock experience through Nagi's (and Reo's) POV.

While it recaps certain parts of the original anime, they are experienced from a different character's viewpoint so I didn't necessarily see it as a "recap." If anything, it adds another level to what we saw from Isagi/Team Z's POV. After all, we got to see more of what took place before Nagi and Reo got to the point we see in the original anime!

The end felt a ... bit rushed, however, there was only so much "new" content they could show at that point since Nagi played a larger role later in the original anime. So it was understandable that they didn't want to linger on things the audience already saw the first time around. Enough time has passed since I watched the anime and it was nice to get this refresher before the next season!

All in all, I enjoyed seeing the Blue Lock experience through Nagi and Reo's perspectives. I loved both of their characters in the original anime - it felt like a gift to get content focused on their relationship and the paths they take. It helped me better understand what drives both of them on their journey and made me want to cheer them on, even more!

Episode Nagi is a recap episode in disguise. The entire movie consists of the contents of season one, replayed from Nagi and Reo’s perspectives. The beginning does feature some new content to show the two first beginning to play soccer together and highlights of their matches during the first round of selection that we had not seen. Everything afterward is running through the contents of season one while Nagi narrates.

If that wasn’t bad enough, the production quality is also miserable. A lot of shots are reused from season one when available. Otherwise, the show uses a lot of still shots during big moments and narrows ... down to the smallest amount of animation possible for Nagi’s big shots. There’s also this irritating cut to a blue flame that is on the screen during Nagi’s reflections instead of literally anything happening during the game.

There is some merit to the perspective of Nagi during this season. The movie ends with the viewer having a better understanding of his relationship to Reo and soccer itself. I wouldn’t advise anyone waste money seeing this in theaters. Rather, consider picking this up if you need a refresher on season one before the next season later this year airs. Because, again, this is just a recap movie.

Paying just to watch a recap, nah man.
This movie was really a let down, I expected to see something different compared to what i watched in the first season, but over 80% of this movie is just stuff everyone already watched but a bit more from Nagi's POV, I expected to see something more "In-Depth" about Nagi, but there was nothing literally.
The whole time i was in the movie theatre my reaction to most of the movie was "Oh, but I already watched this".
To be fair I don't see the point of this movie at all, could've just made it an OVA.