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 Blue Lock

    Blue Lock tells the story of Yoichi Isagi and his journey to become Japan's top soccer striker. Project Blue Lock is an absurdly over-the-top training combine and competition. Teams and players are given soccer challenges and games to develop their "weapons" and unlock their fullest potential. Those who rise to the top are the one's who develop their ego into their greatest asset. They reach out and grab every chance at a goal, never settling for complacency. Isagi is in the lowest tier of the players in the Blue Lock, but he is determined to make it to the top, even if it means crushing the dreams of 299 other hopeful players. Along the way, he meets teammates who will eventually become competition and encounters what can only be called monsters, players so skilled and intimidating that their presence on the pitch is near paralyzing.

    I was able to make out a lot of the dialogue content when I turned off subtitles because there were many simple commands yelled out during the games the team played. Things became far more difficult to comprehend as the show dove into Isagi's hyper-analytical internal dialogue on and off the field. One of the craziest stories surrounding this show is its connection to the Japan national team competing in the Fifa World Cup. The jerseys the players wear are actually designed by the writers of the manga to match the ones in the anime. In Japan's game against Spain, Japan also scored two goals that were near identical copies of two of the goal plays made in the anime/manga. It was almost as if they got their strategy from the anime.