A few years back, I got so crazy about a certain a sports manga I randomly read online. It's a soccer manga and I found it really unique and different from all the other soccer manga and anime I have read and watched. Because of how hyped up I was after reading it, I remember making a post about it and wanting to have an anime version of it. I found the post here!
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And guess what? Just almost a couple of years after that, the animated series of Blue Lock was announced. It made me so happy and I really was expecting something great from it.
I didn't watch it until a couple weeks back. I tried to stop myself from watching it while it was ongoing because I wanted to binge watch the whole season... and so I did.
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The anime didn't fail me. It was greatly made and was as awesome as I expected it to be. The visuals, the animation, the music they used... chef's kiss!
I especially like it when the animated version actually follows the manga. It was superb! I fell in love with the manga version the first time I read it years back and after watching the anime, it made me fall all over again. The manga is still ongoing, but I'm more than willing to read again from the beginning. haha
It's awesome that I could still feel pretty excited watching it even though I'm already aware of the story. I guess it's the impact of the animation. Seeing the characters move and play extraordinary soccer. The effects were as crazy as I have imagined them to be. And the art style... ugh! I've been all-praise to it with the manga, but seeing a colored version in the anime is beyond amazing!
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As you see in the trailer, BLUE LOCK isn't the usual soccer anime people are familiar with.
BLUE LOCK is a facility where "diamond in the rough" strikers gather. They're going to undergo crazy challenges and trainings to produce amazing and egoistic strikers that would make Japanese soccer better than the rest of the world.
Inside the Blue Lock, you have to survive and prove your worth... otherwise, you won't be able to see yourself in the soccer world ever again. Well, at least that's what they claim it to be. It's a world of eat or be eaten.
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There are a bunch of monstrous players inside Blue Lock, but this character really caught my eye ever since I started reading the manga. Sure, every character is awesome and has really interesting abilities, but I just can't take my eyes off Bachira. I guess it's because I love eccentric characters... as well as those with gap moe. He can transform from an adorable and innocent baby to a monster ready to devour his prey.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to watching the second season. It'll get even better from now. :) And I'm also planning to read the manga again because when I caught up with the latest available chapter last time, I decided to stop and wait for it to pile up so I could binge read... but as always, I forgot what chapter I last read was. So, from the beginning it is! <3
If you're into sports anime, I recommend you give this one a shot! It'll be worth it. ;)
See you around otaku(s)!!! I'm going to be actively talking about anime again... I hope this community thrive on Hive, too. <3