Be Blues! Ao ni Nare

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His manga ended prematurely, I thought we would see the protagonist going to a team, playing a world cup, but it ends with him in the second year. I always delude myself with sports manga, because of MAJOR who gave me a complete story of the beginning in sports, school, professional and world career, whenever I read a sports manga I imagine that I can get to that, apparently it won't having a manga like MAJOR that really focuses on the protagonist's life from the beginning to the professional career and the end of it.
Note 7, for the early ending.

Be Blues is a manga about football. Now that’s obviously a little silly to say, but it’s true. Be Blues is a series that practically oozes passion for the sport of football. This is very clearly a series directly aimed at fans of the sport, jam-packed with football jargon and references that I found myself having to look up. It’s the kind of series that makes me, someone who actively dislikes football, kinda miss playing it.

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The Good:

I said that this is a manga about football, and the way it’s drawn full lives up to that. The action on display here is incredibly intricate. Motoyuki Tanaka just knows how to draw football. There’s a fluidity to the way everything is handled that makes even very small plays feel exciting and impressive.

This series also has a really interesting approach to telling the overall story of the central team. It completely skips matches that would be epic showdowns in most other sports manga. It catches me off-guard every time it does it, but I really like it.

But where Be Blues shines most is undoubtedly in its supporting cast. They range from fun and hilarious to earnest and heartwarming. The players we meet in the very beginning are a bit more one-note and less interesting, but once the series properly gets underway, we’re introduced to such a wide variety of characters that I’d be surprised if anyone were to read the series without latching onto at least one of them. There are several prominent characters who would be more than capable of carrying their own story (honestly, I’d argue that they carry this one, so that tracks), and those who wouldn’t are usually at least still entertaining or broadly likeable.

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The Bad:

I’ve always had a strong dislike for Mary Sue type characters, especially when they’re placed in the role of main protagonist, and Ryuu Ichijou undeniably falls into that category. The synopsis of this series had led me to believe that Ryuu’s struggle with the remnants of his injury would be a long-term focal point for both him and the series, but I was incredibly disappointed to find that he only really struggles with it in the very early stages of the story. However, the story seems to prefer to use his injury as a way to congratulate him on his prowess even further. Instead of looking inwards and exploring its main protagonist, the story is much more interested in celebrating how exceptionally good at football he is, which makes for some cool moments, but it can leave some of them feeling a little empty. The series also seems to bend over backwards to avoid criticising him. Whenever other players criticise him, it’s just so that they can be proven wrong when he makes a flashy play shortly after. Whenever something he’s trying to do on the pitch isn’t working, it’s probably because his teammates aren’t fully cooperating with him. He’s rarely, if ever, at fault. And on the rare occasion that criticisms of him are taken seriously, they’re usually overcome with a few chapters, treated as immediate obstacles to overcome rather than longterm ones, which leads to his improvement feeling more like divine blessing than effort.

The thing that bugs me most, however, is that I do get the feeling that the story thinks it’s about a hard-working individual triumphing against all odds. It seems blissfully unaware that it’s actually about a near-omnipotent football god with superhuman kindness and determination.

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In spite of its chronically uncompelling main protagonist and accidental celebration of innate talent, Be Blues is a series that strays dangerously close to greatness. It’s got an exceptional cast of supporting characters and some gorgeously-drawn action. It’s nothing too complex but it’s really good at what it does… for the most part.

I will keep it simple.

Be Blues has the worst Mc in a story I´ve ever read I´ve never seen a more boring and bland mc.
The characters are all pretty bland but he is by far the worst one.

The story is basic too, we follow the journey of the mc and his desire to join the japanese soccer team. He gets injured while prottecting his friend, struggles for 2 years but quickly gets better, there`s no internal strugle nothing, he genuinly feels like a robot.

The matches and the art are the best thing about the manga, the matches are genuinly entertaining, so if you dont really ... care about anything i complained about, and you love football i would still recommend it, just because you might enjoy the matches.

Be Blues defnitely deserves the praise it gets which is none.
It`s a solid 6.
I would probably rate it lower if i kept reading, because i doubt the characters and story gets any better