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| This series isn’t very good in keeping the characters they’ve introduced being even somewhat relevant for a period of time. I mean I don’t remember half of them at this point, and neither these characters who got teamed up with Isagi. Yeah, and for some reason dude has really bad luck that he landed in the team with Rin and Shido, or more like I guess, he the main guy that’s why he landed. Leaving all that stuff about hyping these seeded players aside, what is actually happening with the matches lol???? I held back from saying anything over animation last time but yeah, this is just moving manga panels lol… coloured manga panels, to be precise. I don’t remember this series struggling this much last season with the matches, but yeah here, just the second episode and we’re out of juice. At least the characters seem to be running fine enough, so some saving grace. Not sure anymore, but can only hope it’ll get decent enough(?). Btw the usual with Isagi… he’ll bounce back, we know. |
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| It's really hitting me now that at least for the next five weeks we're gonna have to sit through this stinky ass arc. Already off the bat, animation is looking just... lol. Still frames and CGI galore. The whole "the manga moves more" argument might actually might hold up. They just adding effects and some color to the manga panel and calling it a day lmaoooooo. Animation wasn't the only thing giving me second hand embarrassment, it gave me so much second-hand embarrassment when I had to imagine that after training so hard to be the best striker and getting crushed in the match. Isagi’s mental strength is crazy—I’d just quit Blue Lock. I mean, dude can't dribble for shit, can't defend for shit, and is slow as hell. I get what author is TRYING to do, but man, just makes it all the more harder to try to break him out of this state he's in currently. If every episode is going to look this horrid, I'm going to keep it a buck with you, man just pick up the manga, |
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| Well, fuck... the fall off was real. Disgraceful to see such a good manga take such a downturn after all the time they had to properly animate this, this might be the first anime I ever drop in my life. Shit looks like it was edited in CapCut. |
| I didn't just imagine this, right? The soccer match is really just slideshows holy shit |
| if only this took a kurko no basket route it coulda been somewhat enjoyable |
| Only good thing was chigiris moment |
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| lol the animation is so weak its powerpoint slideshow but ye at least they focus on detailed drawings of still frames anyway karasu is right isagi is just average player individually |
| Oh boy... Isagi can't do anything in this game so far. Everyone's outshining him in one way or another and he can't seem to get past these top players. They're far behind his reach so far. But, it seems like there might be some hope for him, using Rin and Shidou in his favor going forward. By the way, the two kids on Isagi's team are so sweet. I like them both. Completely different than what Isagi is used to. LOL. Also, Chigiri was amazing during his time that even his top teammates were impressed by him. Very limited animation wise, sadly. |
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| Ah, Kaito Momota low cost, I know. |
| It's actually time to play and with cut shots nonetheless so that we would imagine their movements in a more epic way than they probably are. Indeed, Shidou's shot was cut in the middle and some passes alternate between the player disappearing and appearing out of nowhere. With that we get to a spectacle as serious in nature as the King's League isn't (at least that's the idea). Regardless, Isagi's playing like trash and probably being the weakest link if it weren't for the fact that the other farm dude didn't appear at all. It's 2-4 and only one match so my guess is that they'll come back with some jigsaw puzzle metaphor or whatever. |
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| +1 for the whole "adding some particle effects ain't gonna make an animation" pile of voices here. Like, I wouldn't have an issue with that but they should be additions, not replacements. That's just lazy. Also +1 for the heavy rotation of the cast. Felt this in s1 already, but ofc now it's becoming a lot more obvious. Trying to get us to feel emotionally invested in characters, only for them to be uhh... locked off, so to say - it gets old quick and when the audience catches on, they'll just stop caring. And only to make way for newer and newer "tourists" (because how many of these are gonna remain eventually?), whose lack of background they're trying to make up for by making them flashier and flashier...in all the weirdest ways. It feels cheap. Especially when, in the meantime, all the insane amount of official merch makes it feel like the entire cast is maybe, what, 8 guys total. Ugh. Plus, it kinda feels like the translators are trying a little too hard to come up with stuff and I'm not convinced all of that still feels natural. Poor Aryu and Chigiri though. To be surrounded by such plebs. Pfft. |
| All right now that we've actually seen a soccer match, I'll officially add on to the pile of bad animation complaints. That was just.....wow. Genuinely a powerpoint, this was literally just manga panels with color. Still images galore, and just limited stilted "animation," if you could even call it that. I look at sports anime like Kuroko no Basket and Haikyuu and wonder how much better looking this series could be if Production IG was at the helm. As for the episode itself, Isagi is gonna need to get his shit together fast with his team on the verge of losing, not to mention his "Top 2" teammates being incompatible with each other. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol. |
Toki wo tomare!!! |
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| I can complain a lot about the plot and characters as usual in this series but the animation... absolutely dreadful lol. Season 1 had plenty of animation issues present but this episode didn't even try to animate the movements and kicks properly whatsoever. No effects can change that, and it makes the actual football even less hype in this instance since it is clearly trying to fool viewers into thinking sick passes and interceptions are happening but it's not. For how cool the series wants to be to its viewers, stuff like this doesn't help positively at all. |
| it was okay, i like the colours. |
| “Do what feels right in your heart. You will be criticized either way.” (Eleanor Roosevelt) |
| ....Wow, I really have shit luck. Literally Tower of God S2 and Blue Lock S2 were the top 2 anime I was looking forward to all year long, and they both got the PowerPoint slide animation treatment. I thought the animation would maybe somewhat improve from the second half of S1, considering how successful S1 was in boosting manga sales and with the Episode Nagi movie, but nope....I'm not even gonna have expectations that the animation will improve in the U-20 match, though of course I hope I'll be proven wrong. Welp, even though the visuals also got a downgrade, at least that's still somewhat decent. Well onto the episode itself - seeing a brief wholesome bonding moment between Isagi, Hiori, and Nanase was pretty great, considering how crass a majority of the other players are. But the rest of the match was basically watching Isagi yapping away with expositions while he's flailing around and failing to properly assert himself into the match. Not very enjoyable to watch, but guess we'll see what new idea Isagi came up with in the next episode. |
  "As promised, all that you seek, all that we desire, is prepared up there. On top of the Tower." |
| Karasu and Ninja work well together. Rin and Shidou are so good that they can score on their own, yet their horrible chemistry puts them at a disadvantage. That's the angle Isagi can exploit. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| Good episode, as always it's a pleasure to listen to Isagi's inner monologues and his great enlightenments are satisfying. It's a shame the animation is so average/hopeless, it's literally a slide show... xD 3/5 |
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