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I believe there are two different audiences for this anime: Those who have never read Berserk and are having their first contact with Miura's work through the anime, and the assiduous readers of the manga. The anime will vary in quality depending on which of these people you are.

- If you've never read Berserk and that's your first contact with anything related, I think you might like the experience

Berserk has an almost impeccable story, and the main events of the story are relatively well portrayed. In general you can have a good contact with the story and although the anime is not as impactful as ... the manga you still manage to have a dimension of the depth of events and the great development and progression of the story. Perhaps the part that can drive some people away is animation, which is not exactly good, the use of CGI seems out of place in certain parts of the story but is something that can be ignored. But between this adaptation and others like the anime of 97 or the movies, I would recommend the anime of 97, it has a dated animation but is the only one that managed to capture part of the essence of the manga, and if possible read the manga since no adaptation has lived up to the original material till this day.

- If you are a reader of Berserk this anime is more of the same

This anime is a TV adaptation of the film saga released between 2012 and 2013 that adapts the Golden Age arc. My problem here as a manga reader is that they always adapt the same arc, completely ignoring the 2016 adaptation we've never had a sequel to the story. I understand that the Golden Age is probably Berserk's most important arc because it was the beginning of everything but this is not the only arc. In addition to those who are used to the incredible art of Miura the animation will bother, even with the improvement in CGI the scenes lose the weight they had in the manga. Apart from the animation, certain scenes are either cut, or modified probably because of censorship and again is something that bothers, because if the indicative rating was already high I do not see the reason for censorship. If you've seen the movie saga I see no reason to watch this anime.

I should start by saying that it took me a long time to see Tokyo Revengers for the simple fact that it wasn't an anime that caught my attention in any way, but with so many people talking it was impossible not to watch if I wanted to have some basis to discuss on the subject.

My biggest problem with the anime lies in the characters' complete inability to act like a human being. I am unable to believe that the protagonist Takemichi Hanagaki of 26 years is unable to manipulate 14-year-olds. The protagonist is not only almost twice the age of all the teenagers portrayed ... in the series but he has the knowledge of future situations and how they will unfold, and yet he cannot create a single plan that works to successfully modify the events of the future. I'd say it's really impressive.

The anime also expects you to ignore certain aspects and complications that come with time travel, such as the butterfly effect, because it won't explain much of the holes that are created in the script with Takemichi's time travel. Time travel here is not well built and it has no well-defined rules.

The best part of the anime is without a doubt the soundtrack that is amazing, especially the opening Cry Baby. The animation is median bordering on the bare minimum, has nothing special and I would not say that it is the best adaptation for the series by the little I read of the manga.

When I went to see this anime my expectations were high, especially with regard to the protagonist Ayanokoji. The initial speech brings an interesting question "Are humans equal?", the more I watched the more this question lost value. I've seen a lot of high school animes, more of the same tires you especially when other people talk about this anime as if it were something amazing.

In the first episode we are presented the school in which the anime will take place, is a prestigious school with high approval indicies that divides students into four classes (A, B, C and D) by skill level. The anime ... presents as the central objective of the series the accession of the two protagonists Ayanokoji Kiyotaka and Horikita Suzune, (who were placed in class D) in the school rankings.

The development of the main plot is something that this anime sins a lot. To ascend in the rankings the anime creates a points system, where points are lost for misconduct and low grades, but it is not clear how to earn points. Having established the central motivation and the way to achieve this goal the story should have a certain fluidity but that is not the case. As the anime progresses the class score is getting in the background in such a way that there comes a point that anime does not even quote the points system anymore. And the main plot is left in the background overshadowed by failed attempts to develop characters.

Character development in this anime is also something that leaves to be desired. Ayanokoji has an interesting personality, his disinterest and at the same time the value he puts in his own freedom in conjunction with some flashes of his past make him the best character in the series. But the other characters are forgettable and mostly annoying, the anime tries to give them different quirks to try to make their personality unique the greatest example of this being the character Kikyou Kushida, but this does not work and turns out to be just something without development played in the story.

Perhaps the most annoying part of this anime is the ecchi, it serves no purpose other than pure fanservise and happens every episode. The harem is another part of the story that serves no purpose, virtually all the female characters in the anime are introduced in order to be part of this harem and this becomes the focus of the story.

Blue Lock brings a different concept to football animes, I myself am a great fan of the sport so when the initial speech of the character Ego Jimpachi was presented I was caught of guard. The anime discusses in the first episode how Japanese football is not good enough as it is, and that it takes a striker capable of rivaling the big stars of the football world for Japan to win the dream World Cup.

I would say that the egotistic speech caught me off guard I was not expecting that and my initial thought was how it didn't make sense since football is a ... team sport, every position is important. However the anime is relevant to the current scenario of japanese football, Japan has been surprising more and more with its performances in past editions of the World Cup having a style of play focused on passes, but failing to have a striker able to score consistently, in this context this anime fits perfectly and touches on issues relevant to the japanese football fans.

The story is built around the matches. The anime does a good job adding an emotional load on each match, which makes each one special, along with the animation you get stuck in the chair eager to know the outcome. Blue Lock is right to make the protagonist lose a few matches, so you're never sure of the real outcome and that makes you more involved in the plot.

The characters are fun, for the most part they're charismatic and the anime does a good job developing the secondary characters. The protagonist (Isagi Yoichi) does not start the anime as a genius, and unlike other works of the same genre his development is gradual and slow which can annoy some people (although the rhythm is better in the anime than in the manga). Antagonists such as Itoshi Rin, although not so well developed, fulfill their role of serving as an obstacle for the protagonist.

About some parts of the story like Bachira's monster and other visual representations used in the anime, I would say that they are visual representations of a feeling. The aura of that character, the flames would be visually the sensation he is passing to the opponent at that moment. Much like Kuruko I do not see these details of Blue Lock as powers but visual exaggerations that make the story more interesting visually, but I don't deny that it may be something unattractive to some people.