Blue Lock: Episode 1 Review
The following contains spoilers for Episode 1 of Blue Lock, «Dream,» now streaming on Crunchyroll and Netflix.
Blue Lock is one of the Fall 2022 anime season's sports anime, and is anticipated to be a big one. The manga for Blue Lock has been published on Weekly Shounen Magazine in 2018, and is still ongoing, and readership has continued to rise every year. In 2021, Blue Lock won the 45th Kodansha Manga Award, and the series has even been recommended by the mangaka of Attack on Titan Hajime Isayama. Posters for the anime series could be n been seen all over Tokyo in the days leading up to the premier of the first episode.
Blue Lock is about soccer, a sport popular both in Japan and around the world. It specifically follows a high school boy named Yoichi Isagi, a striker (the player whose main responsibility is to score goals) who dreams of representing Japan on the international stage. The Japanese Football Association has decided to start a risky and unprecedented new training regime to push Japan towards success in the World Cup, and this new program called «Blue Lock» has accepted Isagi as one of 300 under-18s to try. The last person to make it through (and survive) the program will be selected as Japan's next striker, and Isagi wants that to be him.
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The stakes in Blue Lock have never been higher. The Blue Lock program was developed by Jinpachi Ego, a man determined to use science and his new ideas to drive Japan into becoming the World Cup champions, something the country has never achieved. In Ego's eyes, the striker is the most important position on the team, and being the best striker in the world is more important than being a good team player. These are
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