*Power of friendship and teamwork exists*

Bluelock: Nope, we don't do that here. We winning with the power of *EGO*.

A story revolving around a striker's egoism. Footballing action with the shounen spice, breaking the cliche of typical sports anime with power of friendship tropes and prioritizing one's selfishness and ego in order to become the best of the best...that's bluelock for you.

You watch football for the action and this show is exactly that.

The manga of bluelock is just different gravy. It's an absolute peak rollercoaster of footballing action with godly art in every single chapter along with such spine chilling hype levels...also the moment at the end of episode is so hype but that's literally like the 10% of the hype this show offers. The best parts are yet to come.
Perfect 1st episode, really living up to the levels of the manga & If the whole series continues the level of adaptation as good as the 1st episode, we are going to be in a hell of a ride!

Imagine if united had even an ounce of drive and greed that these guys have lol. You would not be losing 6-3 to your rivals for sure

Lmao man true, Man United is dying due to the glazers. Just like how the Japanese football is dying in the anime due to their incompetent FA

Feel bad for Ronaldo lol, he stressing at Man United…

I like how this anime mentioned a real life football player like Messi and Ronaldo

Actually except for the French guy, all of them were real footballers :D

Lol I think that French guy was meant to be benzema but since thwy didn't get copyright's they had to improvise
I mean he's from France and he won the ballon d'or solo
Also is it just me or is this show just trying to create the next Zlatan Ibrahimovic😂🦁

Not very knowledgeable about football but I know for sure that Benzema is nowhere near the greatness of Messi or Ronaldo.

The funny thing, for some reason, he was supposed to be Lewa.
Except for being French, and winning the Balloon D'Or :D
Benzema was my first thought as well, but since manga is older, Lewa was still playing for Bayern so that kinda fits.

But yea, he's not a real one.

they dont actually play anymore do they o.o

And here I thought I was the one living under the rock.

Dude they are playing and beautifully too.

I mean he shouldn't have come to Premier League, while he started off good, he's best days are gone.

japanese football is actually suffering the same way :- the lack of individuality.

Ego FTW!

Thays for the win and i read it as fk the what , wtf lmao

Woah dude, you good?

No , not at all :') lol
Well been a while since i chatted and even commented or replied so kinda forgot full forms... as i was busy with dbs and other stuff

Ah. I see.

ok so I haven't watched a soccer anime since captain tsubasa, so I decided to give this one a shot, and yeah what that guy said about be "the best in the world" by becoming the "biggest egoist" in the world is full crap, we can say cristiano ronaldo is the most "egoist player" in the world he won the champions league with real madrid but that's because he got teammates like Bale, Modric, Benzema, Casemiro etc and unfortunately he never won the world cup, he played with Portugal and never made it to the third round and that's because portugal doesn't have players like real madrid does, messi was closed back in 2014 he even missed a shot against Germany in the final, I don't really know what's happening in japanese soccer national team, but yeah even if Japan has a "egoist" player like cristiano ronaldo or messi it won't be enough to win the world cup

why are you comparing it in real life lol?? this is just fantasy, made up for the sole purpose of setting the whole story. and the dude wasnt full of crap, passing or trusting your friends isnt always the best choice lol. theres no reason to pass if you have the chance to score, jut kick and be the best out there

oh I know it's fantasy, but still you could ask cristiano ronaldo if he won the world cup because he didn't trust his teammates and pretty sure if it wans't for benezma, modric, casemiro, Bale etc Cristiano would have never won the champions league with madrid, football (soccer) is a team sport so yeah what that guy said about be "the best in the world" by becoming the "biggest egoist" in the world is full crap

then why is the rest of christiano ronaldo's team isnt as popular as him then? right now ronaldo is regarded as one of the best in the world. his team is not the best in the world but he is one of the best among soccer players. take away ronaldo, do you think his team can win? they can but not as high if ronaldo were in the team. passing the ball doesnt guarantee you the win lmao. the first 5 minutes of the show literally showed you that.

No shit dude. Is soccer a solo sport? No its a teamsport. I don't know why you need to point out so obvious shit.

This the way this anime is portraying how to play Football is flawed yes individual greatness can win you trophies but at the end of the day every player on the court contributes to a win the big one no world cup winners won with 1 player being an absolute GOD on the field. They had the audacity to even mention Ronaldo and Messi losing LOL

does that mean u haven't seen inazuma 11, i think thats how its spelled yet, it's also a soccer anime.

Most egoist player int he world is Zlatan bruh

The author is implying that not changing one way or another for Japan currently now will not even guarantee them to even pass the group stage let alone go very far in the World Cup.

Basically their system is still the same so they need to surpass their limit

Yes. Some people here do understand that teamwork alone is not enough especially when you don't have decent quality players to make up the team to go far in the world cup. Japan is an example. A lot of people say Japan is a great team with great defensive and technical team, but that is like the only thing about them. Individually they are unable to hold their own ground. Egoism doesn't have to mean selfish, it can also mean having pride and self-confidence. Japan often is too soft against opponents which needs to change, you can't win by having that kind of lack of self-belief.

Aggree and now im motivated to fk all my teammates while playing and become the epitomy of INDIVIDUALITYY lol but bruuuuh the hype and anxiety lvls and goosebumps all of em go brrrrrrrrrr stututututu

Same with this anime it wants you to be heartless monster eliminate someone even though he's your friend

Oh yeah facts when your bosses are incompetent the team will be too. Can't believe i missed that similarity lol

There are many parallels from blue lock and the real thing.
Like the concept of ego, egoism, egotism can all be seen in real life.
But the thing in blue lock is these concepts are exaggerated and spiced up.

True

Yep and I love that about it. It takes some realism and spices it up for entertainment.

That monk kid was about to get eliminated because his leg got broken

Believe me this is also what i thought in the start. But he always lucky🤷

wow

Antony is doing amazing tho, the only egoist

I didn't expect to find reference to United here...

But then again, if you have a Norwegian Cyborg in your team, it's easy to get goals.

I am almost never into sports. But this might change that. The first episode itself was amazing.

It left me kinda disappointed. The MC literally killed his only friend in the blue lock place.

Was he his friend?

I mean... He treated him nicely. That's more than what you can ask for nowadays.

thats the point of the story tho .. cultivating that selfishness and egoism.

Spoilers don't read if u haven't read the manga.
At the end of the day blue lock failed to make that so called egotistic mentally to the players, if ur updated to the manga u'll find that only a few players have actually developed that egotistic mentality coz most ot the players accepted the role of MF, DF and GK. Even the MC always plays as the CM, not a single one of them complains about playing as the MF, DF and GK as they have accepted their roles and most of them doesn't even score goals egotistically instead they pass the all for better chances which basically throws away the fundamental concept of this shows and that's to score every goal urself. If every single one of them actually played egotistically then all of the players including the GK would all move up to score the goals themselves instead they play the positions they are given, as what "Noel Noa(the author's fantasy best striker) quoted "I'd like to get a hat-trick and lose rather than win 1-0" but most players in Blue Lock just aims for the win instead of scoring goals

well, i wouldn't say it failed then .. ego's probably fine if even only one of them gets it/keeps it in the end. he's trying to make one striker of his mindset for the national team afterall. but the premise of blue lock was already wrong.. you can't play that game with 11 strikers on the field in the first place lol. you could say pushing some of these players into "support roles" in the end just showed them that they loved the game more than being a striker and they grew into them. which in another way made the players fail (not the system) without being booted out of blue lock. because a striker who gives up on being a striker isnt selfish enough, as you said.

It's not bluelock's fault though, the FA wanted to shut them down so they need to form a team to beat the current u20 and the show just railed away from the initial plan. But I still like it a lot lol.

It's not just the U20 match but in Blue Lock, they've played a ton of matches, even amongst all the trials, most of them let others score the goals, Reo and Isagi keep passing to Nagi while Chigira and Bachira keeps on passing to Isagi even the current arc, a lot of the Blue Lock players aren't playing as FWs, they mostly play as MFs yet none of them even complains about playing other positions and let one person shine as their main striker

but if they beat the u20 tho, then blue lock would have managed to build the whole national team instead of cultivating a good striker lol