Blue lacquer vs U-20 Japan Just premiered, continuing the story with the third selection arc. However, unlike the first installment of the anime, which did not cut much from the source material, showing just about everything that happens both on and off the field except for a couple of chapters, Season 2 takes creative liberties with the manga by including original contentAbout upcoming events and even what will come in future arcs.
Although this may seem like a risky move by 8bit Studio, because one of the reasons Blue lacquer Season 1 was praised for its fidelity to the manga despite covering 94 chapters in 24 anime episodes, The changes in this new season do not modify future events, but instead improve the characterization of the players and the pacing By restructuring certain moments in history and creating anticipation in the viewers to one of the biggest matches in the series, the all-or-nothing game between the 11 best Blue Lock strikers with the Japanese U-20 National Team.
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Blue lacquers anime restructures the manga to highlight the relationship of the Itoshi brothers
The anime also leaves in the air Kunigami’s match in the second selection
BL Season 2, Episode 1 covers from chapter 95 to part of 97 of the manga, but the beginning teases the flashback to The fallout between Rin Itoshi and his brother Sae, which wasn’t shown until chapter 123 During the half of the match against Japan U-20. The rearranging is meant to make the Itoshi brothers’ relationship more intriguing, as the anime only revealed part of their 1vs1 without showing the full flashback and also included some sequences of them in the opening and a couple of hints to other scenes of Rin , even to one in chapter 270.
moreover, Another change from the manga is the scene with the match between Kunigami and Reo against Shido and Igaguri In chapters 88 and 89, as well as the scene of kunigami eliminated from chapter 94, which was skipped in the last season and has yet to be adapted, although it may be included in the episode as a way to introduce Shido. As this does not affect the continuation of the story, it may have been a decision to keep the mystery between viewers about Shido’s skills before the tryouts and the circumstances of Kunigami’s loss.
Blue Lock Season 2 Anime original scenes help introduce the new characters
The anime developed the relationships between Blue lacquers top 6 players ahead of the tryouts
Season 2 also creates anticipation for the match against the U-20 by creating original anime scenes Introducing earlier the first antagonist of Blue lacquerThe JFU chairman Hirotoshi Buratsuta who wants to eliminate the project. Buratsuta is first heard on a call with Ego and later makes his appearance in a conversation with Japan U-20’s coach Hoichi Yasumori, which is similar to their dialogues in chapter 107 of the manga, along with the introduction of the captain Oliver Aiku, Which doesn’t appear until later in chapter 110 and is one of the main characters of the arc.
Also, in the scene of Ego talking to Buratsuta on the phone, on the central screen He is analyzing the statistics of the Blue lacquer Best players, and on the left can be seen the members of the U-20 teamWhile the right screen has flags of different countries, which is a reference to the NEL arc. The episode also features more interactions from the top 6 elite players, Rin, Shido, Karasu, Otoya, Yukimiya, and Nagi that were not included in the manga and helped introduce the new characters’ personalities.
The original anime moments in Blue Lock Season 2 Improve the series for manga readers
Blue Lock Season 2 May include matches that were skipped in the manga
Some original anime scenes make allusions to other moments in the mangaLike the clash between Rin and Shido before the tryouts, which builds up their bad relationship. In this scene, Shido not only shows the same behavior he has in his introduction in chapter 88 but also the same ax kick and a similar dialogue to the one he said to Kunigami in chapter 89. Likewise, the new dialogue that Isagi says To Reo is similar to a quote Bachira said to Isagi at the beginning of the NEL arc in chapter 154.
It’s not really about what the right answer is. What is important is your determination to turn your decision into the right answer. – Isagi
It’s not about making the right choice…it’s about making the chosen path the right one. – Bachira
Additionally, the pacing felt better than in the manga by ending the episode after revealing each group, adapting only the first pages of chapter 97 instead of ending the chapter at the beginning of the first tryouts. Also, since the anime includes new content, it’s possible that it also includes the tryout matches that were skipped in the manga. Because of this, by carefully teasing the upcoming events of the story with new content, Blue Lock Season 2 Feels like a new experience for manga readers and also builds up the expectation of U-20 matches from the start.