An uninspiring shallow sport series that feels like the target audience was women.
This is a great reason why MDL demographic is a problem when rating series.
At the time of writing this review MDL boast an 8.3 so I decided to give this series a shot because I am a big fan of watching sport "media" in terms of anime, series, movies and what got me into this genre is The Mighty Ducks like I don't know a lick about Hockey but one thing remains common for all these great media that has surfaced over the decades which is pulling on the heartstrings of what men care about.
This series however I'm going to sound sexists saying this but it feels like the target audience is women.
The core concept of this series that brings all the characters together is football yet the entire series lacks depth into football. They don't bother diving into techniques which is how sport media shows growth in characters through techniques and learning about the game. You know what they show, them in a classroom and the coach putting the most generic "this is the strategy" like what?
The directing of the game is even worse and shows football as a third class citizen in this series. They practically start the game then Michael Bay was hired to shoot the scene so the camera goes every where then in the ending they decided to be inspired by Naruto with 100 flashbacks in the FINAL GAME and yet the entire game is just done because they literally TIME SKIPPED like what the hell did I just watch and I didn't think it could get worse.
At this point I was already on 3X speed trying to get through this garbage to see if there's a single redeeming quality.
Let me just say avoid this garbage if you are after something like Ao Ashi which is a great anime about football and season 2 I believe is releasing very soon an absolute watch for sport fans, sport growth, brotherhood, and really just something where the target audience is men and I teared up watching Ao Ashi but I am no fan of Blue Lock that is just incredibly obscene.
See I was expecting a series made from China like Hikaru No Go obviously that's an anime but the Chinese did a drama on it and it was so well executed unlike this garbage so watch that instead.
I'll break down the entire series with what it focuses on
1. I'm the teacher, I have past drama so I'm actually of greatness but I come to humble home town and I'm going to develop into a person that inspires a team with my dullness
2. I'm the coach, I'm entangled with your teacher and have past drama too, I need direction to grow and resolve my issues but once I resolve them I'm going into the romance arc and all the female viewers will fawn over lack luster romance
3. We're the players, we don't really know how to kick a ball so the camera pans around like Michael Bay came to China and we're going to CGI some things because it cost more for our time trying to kick the ball than it does actually acting. On top of that we're devoid from learning about football even though we're amateurs so you won't see technical growth but instead you're going to see a whole lot of dumb drama around our personal life like our teacher and coach.
Then the absolute dumb things this series engages in
1. I'm the teachers BEST friend coming into late in the series, I have no real purpose to be here but waste screen time and probably the director knew my dad or something so I got to be in this series. I add nothing to this series and my existence is completely pointless
2. I'm the antagonist of both the leads and somehow it all relates to me but I exist much much later in the series. I'm supposedly methodical and intelligent but I'll be a Power Rangers villain and just tell everyone I'm guilty to quickly resolve our issue and by the way although I was the male leads antagonist we're going to quickly forget about that so we can focus on the female lead getting horny over male lead
3. I'm one of the kids parents, I do no no things and teacher and coach gets involved. I show you parents can be very nasty to their kids aspiring dreams; is it not so relatable to you viewers. In the end I'll have a scene where I say something positive meaning all our familial troubles are resolved. Don't forget me parent #2 who does no no things and I don't show up anymore because I'm not supportive at all and by the way the entire series won't focus on my unsupportive ass and how a core player feels at the height of their moment in their final game of the season.
4. Not spoiling this one but we're a group hush hush that is very important to story development for the teacher because we exists to give the story a sense of mystery oooo people like mystery right...
Absolute garbage.
Thing is if you're a girl this might be up your alley if you want a chill series that isn't drama heavy. It's stupid though like you'll be like what the hell resolution is that at some points at the end and become baffled why they are injecting pointless characters into the series and not focusing on core personal drama.
As a guy if you want sports, you ain't getting it here and just avoid it.
I'd have LESS problems with this series if it was diving into players having ACTUAL problems surrounding the sports so they don't focus on growth on field but the problems around it which some movies I've watched do because it's like 90% things men go through which is why the target audience here is clearly not men.
At the time of writing this review MDL boast an 8.3 so I decided to give this series a shot because I am a big fan of watching sport "media" in terms of anime, series, movies and what got me into this genre is The Mighty Ducks like I don't know a lick about Hockey but one thing remains common for all these great media that has surfaced over the decades which is pulling on the heartstrings of what men care about.
This series however I'm going to sound sexists saying this but it feels like the target audience is women.
The core concept of this series that brings all the characters together is football yet the entire series lacks depth into football. They don't bother diving into techniques which is how sport media shows growth in characters through techniques and learning about the game. You know what they show, them in a classroom and the coach putting the most generic "this is the strategy" like what?
The directing of the game is even worse and shows football as a third class citizen in this series. They practically start the game then Michael Bay was hired to shoot the scene so the camera goes every where then in the ending they decided to be inspired by Naruto with 100 flashbacks in the FINAL GAME and yet the entire game is just done because they literally TIME SKIPPED like what the hell did I just watch and I didn't think it could get worse.
At this point I was already on 3X speed trying to get through this garbage to see if there's a single redeeming quality.
Let me just say avoid this garbage if you are after something like Ao Ashi which is a great anime about football and season 2 I believe is releasing very soon an absolute watch for sport fans, sport growth, brotherhood, and really just something where the target audience is men and I teared up watching Ao Ashi but I am no fan of Blue Lock that is just incredibly obscene.
See I was expecting a series made from China like Hikaru No Go obviously that's an anime but the Chinese did a drama on it and it was so well executed unlike this garbage so watch that instead.
I'll break down the entire series with what it focuses on
1. I'm the teacher, I have past drama so I'm actually of greatness but I come to humble home town and I'm going to develop into a person that inspires a team with my dullness
2. I'm the coach, I'm entangled with your teacher and have past drama too, I need direction to grow and resolve my issues but once I resolve them I'm going into the romance arc and all the female viewers will fawn over lack luster romance
3. We're the players, we don't really know how to kick a ball so the camera pans around like Michael Bay came to China and we're going to CGI some things because it cost more for our time trying to kick the ball than it does actually acting. On top of that we're devoid from learning about football even though we're amateurs so you won't see technical growth but instead you're going to see a whole lot of dumb drama around our personal life like our teacher and coach.
Then the absolute dumb things this series engages in
1. I'm the teachers BEST friend coming into late in the series, I have no real purpose to be here but waste screen time and probably the director knew my dad or something so I got to be in this series. I add nothing to this series and my existence is completely pointless
2. I'm the antagonist of both the leads and somehow it all relates to me but I exist much much later in the series. I'm supposedly methodical and intelligent but I'll be a Power Rangers villain and just tell everyone I'm guilty to quickly resolve our issue and by the way although I was the male leads antagonist we're going to quickly forget about that so we can focus on the female lead getting horny over male lead
3. I'm one of the kids parents, I do no no things and teacher and coach gets involved. I show you parents can be very nasty to their kids aspiring dreams; is it not so relatable to you viewers. In the end I'll have a scene where I say something positive meaning all our familial troubles are resolved. Don't forget me parent #2 who does no no things and I don't show up anymore because I'm not supportive at all and by the way the entire series won't focus on my unsupportive ass and how a core player feels at the height of their moment in their final game of the season.
4. Not spoiling this one but we're a group hush hush that is very important to story development for the teacher because we exists to give the story a sense of mystery oooo people like mystery right...
Absolute garbage.
Thing is if you're a girl this might be up your alley if you want a chill series that isn't drama heavy. It's stupid though like you'll be like what the hell resolution is that at some points at the end and become baffled why they are injecting pointless characters into the series and not focusing on core personal drama.
As a guy if you want sports, you ain't getting it here and just avoid it.
I'd have LESS problems with this series if it was diving into players having ACTUAL problems surrounding the sports so they don't focus on growth on field but the problems around it which some movies I've watched do because it's like 90% things men go through which is why the target audience here is clearly not men.
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