Blue Lock season 2 truly sucks all around. Everyone knows the animation is bad, and yeah, it is. Sometimes its almost decent, most of the time it's well below that. Every soccer scene is the same, someone tries to defend someone, they fail, they are surprised, Isagi monologues about it as if the greatest thing ever just happened, when in reality it was one of the most basic soccer moves ever.
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Lowlight of this is when Oliver talks about Reo copying his move, when all he did was head a ball away. Also, have you noticed that no goalie who isn't originally a striker has saved a shot yet?The overarching story is confusing and unsatisfactory, and yet manages to reach the most boring outcome. You expect me to believe there are this many great soccer players, yet none of them play for the national under 20 team, and somehow, neither does Sae? And if he didn't why wasn't he called up for Blue Lock?
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Also, why are we not seeing what happens to the corporate people who desparately didn't want to lose the match? Why does Sae tell the coach not to make substitutions? Why is there no focus on how he made one of the worst mistakes in the sport in losing the ball on your own half in the final minute, costing them the match? He just shrugs it off. And then, what the hell is this deus ex phase two doing here? Also, I expected them to lose the game early in the next season so they could build back up. But of course, the protagonist can't lose an important game. However, worst of all is how it refuses to commit to what it set up in season 1. Igaguri somehow makes it through the eliminator there and is presented as a possible threat in the end, and goes back to being a joke background character. They divert from the battle royale formula that made the concept interesting in the first place. Turns out, as soon as you abandon the elimination aspect, the hook of the show holds no weight anymore. On top of that, it means they suddenly have to play normal soccer, so they have to pull some bs like introducing new characters who excel in assisting (how did you make it this far in Blue Lock if you aren't egoistic?) and turning other characters into defenders or goalies, who not only accept this role (aren't you supposed to want to be the best striker too?) but perform up to par with the best of the country, too.
It really feels like nobody who worked on this really understands the game of soccer, because it fails at delivering both traditional soccer and the antithesis of soccer they try to set up. This is on a narration level as well as a visual one, because you rarely get to see plays from an angle where you can make out what is actually going on.
Additional time is fun, though.
