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Excuse me, wtf?

Do people who didn't like the anime REALLY understand how it works?
Do you really prefer that the "sport" genre is ALWAYS THE SAME THING THAT WE ARE TIRED OF SEEING? (And i say this as an absolute sports fan, including animes).
The next football anime, what will it have NEW if Ao Ashi already addresses everything?

That's why i like different proposals when well executed, and Blue Lock does it perfectly.

Story: 10/10
In short, Japanese football cannot progress, they do not have decisive strikers and this is their weakest point, so they need drastic measures to solve this problem, in this way, Blue Lock emerged, which ... aims to create the best striker in the world, the one who will carry the Japanese national team and make the country win the world cup.
ONLY HERE we can already see something to be considered, ALL other football animes always have the same idea of ​​"joining a team and going out trying to win all the championships ahead", Blue Lock innovates, it manages to stand out precisely because it is different from the others. You can look at it and think that the purpose is empty, but the amount of plots that are happening involving Blue Lock is ABSURD, they are things you would never expect and that's fantastic.

Animation: 8/10
It's not perfect like Bleach's animation this season, BUT, it's still extremely good, even more so for a football anime. It presents different angles of view, graphical representations, solid transitions, an art with highlighted lines, and even has the apex moments where the animation becomes surreal, the only questionable thing in my view is the sudden 3D models that may not be to taste from everyone and they can save the budget (but it's still good) like it did in Episode 8, but it's clear that the focus is on the action scenes and that really has to be the priority.

Soundtrack: 8/10
Both the opening and ending songs in addition to the Ost's are very good, they are not memorable as Haikyu songs, the ones you even want to listen to on Youtube, but they represent the atmosphere of all events well, especially the hype moments omfg.

Characters/Development: 10/10
Players practically have their main skills where they are better than others, but at the same time they evolve their other points to become complete strikers, which is precisely the methodology, a PERFECT striker. The main characters have backstories where things are shown such as why they play football and why they enter the Blue Lock, many of them establish relationships between them, both positive and negative, like conflicts, not everything is a rainbow. Characters have a variety of personalities and appearances, I like, not much to say here.

And some quick answers

- Blue Lock has nothing cringe, the dialogues and facial expressions are the essence of the show, it works AND MUST exist
- No, they don't play football alone, in Episode 3 you'll see why that's wrong, selfishness doesn't mean picking up the ball and playing alone, it's just a mix of "knowing you're capable of deciding the match in hours needed + player confidence + will to win at any cost" :)