Blue Lock vs. U-20 Japan Episode 3 Discussion

@FMmatron I thought the animation kinda upgraded from whatever last ep was but ig not lol. Last ep felt like a visual novel at times...

I don't think they'll show the Nagi and Reo game in its entirety but I'm looking forward to how that pans out as well. It's weird bcz I'm a manga reader and not remembering many things that happen in this arc just allows me to relive the hype again.

How do animators (and just... staff in general, whoever watches it, but especially those actually supervising) look at an episode, see so many instances of flashback-replay-seconds-after-they-happen, and go "oh yeah that's good"?? Just. Genuinely curious at this point, I guess. Especially when so much of the episode is, indeed, a barely animated slideshow. Did too much of the BL money pool gp down the Blaze Battle drain or something, because if there's a franchise with seemingly infinite amount of funds, this would be it? I don't get it.
At least Hiori's kansai gets to be a saving grace, though I'm not so much into the translation trying to emulate things so forcibly.

Even additional time got a kick in the nuts - hilarious as it was in other aspects, did they really have to put in that "i'm not into dudes" line? Come on...

I dont know , that you guys will agree to me or not , but this episode was actually better than previous episode, although we still got slideshows hehehe....

At this point it really seems like their mouths are the only things moving on the screen, and even then there are moments where we won't even get that at the minimum lol.

Nice comeback I guess, and a cool "power-up" for Isagi, but it's difficult to feel the hype that they're seemingly trying to emulate when the action is just still images and colored manga panels. Imagine you're watching a cool fight in the anime adaptation of your favorite action manga, and it's just slideshow images with punching sound effects over it. You wouldn't feel the hype right? Same thing here. What a shame man.

@Mob_Psykos Honestly, I think the animation for the U-20 match will be better, but how they're executing these recent episodes are not it. It might turn off some fans, and let them read the manga on some pirated website instead. They better fix their act quickly before the anime dies instead of thrives in popularity.

You described Record Of Ragnarok Season 1.
At least they improved in the second season.

@AmirKazeXD Oh god I almost forgot about that show. I still need to watch S2 so it’s nice to hear things improved.