If you're a veteran or intermediate Shonen enjoyer and have been paying attention to common anime tropes, you'll appreciate Blue Lock so much. It’s instead a focused look into the nature of competition and the very depths one must dive within themselves to reach the level that other heroes have gone before. The motivations of these characters is simple to understand and the series is better served for it, as even as the character writing stagnates, the investment is still there.įor those looking to understand the sport of football and it’s global appeal, this manga isn’t out to sell you on the game. As often is the case for real life wannabe pros, would you rather win and have played bad or have lost but played well. To the point where the exaggerated life or death stakes can be truly empathised with. It enables the story to go beyond playing out formulaic matches and puts the characters in situations that raise tension. The environment of Blue Lock is what helps separate itself from many others in the genre. Rivalries develop across the pitch and among those in the team and this creates a dynamic of tension that goes beyond a typical 3-2 score line. In fact, in a way it could be argued the predominantly singular goal focused characters with homogenous ambition makes for gripping, unpredictable contests. necessarily watch a boxing or UFC bout because of a deep connection to a complex character, the competitive battles of Blue Lock aren’t any less engaging. The cast of characters are a collection of manga tropes to be sure but it hasn’t lessened my enjoyment of seeing them wanting to devour each other. Its focus on the striker position is perfect to grab the attention of the Everyman reader, who even if they don’t know or care about football in real life, can grasp the simplicity of I score I win. My criticisms of the current world game aside, this series deserves attention for highlighting the egoism that’s needed to succeed in professional team sports. Using this golden opportunity given by the Blue Lock Project, Yoichi aims to clear his doubts and chase his ultimate desire-to become the greatest striker in the world and lead Japan to World Cup glory.īlue Lock infuses personality into a sport that is currently lacking it. After choosing to pass to a teammate who missed instead of scoring on his own, he could not help but wonder if the results would have been different had he been more selfish. Selected to join this risky project is Yoichi Isagi, a striker who failed to bring his high school soccer team to the national tournament. The sole survivor of Blue Lock will earn the right to become the national team's striker, and those who are defeated shall be banned from joining the team forever. Believing that Japan has lacked an egoistic striker hungry for goals, Jinpachi initiates the Blue Lock-a prison-like facility where three hundred talented strikers from high schools all over Japan are isolated and pitted against each other. Their coach will be Ego Jinpachi, who intends to “destroy Japanese loser football” by introducing a radical new training regimen: isolate 300 young forwards in a prison-like institution called “Blue Lock” and put them through rigorous training aimed at creating “the world’s greatest egotist striker.EditSynopsis After reflecting on the current state of Japanese soccer, the Japanese Football Association decides to hire the enigmatic and eccentric coach Jinpachi Ego to achieve their dream of winning the World Cup. Isagi Youichi, a forward, receives an invitation to this programme soon after his team loses the chance to go to Nationals because he passed to his less-skilled teammate – who missed – without trying to make the game-changing goal by himself. The story begins with Japan’s elimination from the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which prompts the Japanese Football Union to start a programme scouting high school players who will begin training in preparation for the 2022 Cup. An anime television series adaptation by Eight Bit is set to premiere in 2022.īlue Lock won the 45th Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category in 2021. It has been serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine since August 2018. Blue Lock (Japanese: ブルーロック, Hepburn: Burū Rokku) is a Japanese manga series written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yusuke Nomura.
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