Blue Lock season two is in full swing. Half of the seven episodes have already aired and there are still seven to go. This week’s seventh episode, titled “Sae Itoshi”, was the most emotional episode of the season so far, finally getting into the real action of the U20 match. The threat of losing not only the Blue Lock opportunity, but also their football careers, hangs over the players’ heads. A lot is at stake in this game, but surprisingly, the Blue Lock players are not buckling under the immense pressure so far.
The episode was not only groundbreaking and emotionally tense included one of the best scenes of the season so far, featuring Blue Lock player Nagi Seishiro. Disgruntled fans continued to express their displeasure with Eight Bit’s animation style, which resulted in some choppy sequences and admittedly mediocre cutscenes. Although there was an undeniable leap in quality from the first to the second season of Blue Lock, to the point that the animators even joined the conversation on the subject, which U20 Arc The story was enough to make this season a success despite its shortcomings.
Blue Lock Episode 7 Finally Introduced Japan’s Under-20 Team Properly
The episode revealed each Japanese player’s distinctive strengths that they will use to end the blue lock
The seventh episode was the first of the season, focusing entirely on the U20 match, pitting Japan’s best against the rising talent recruited by Jinpachi Ego for the Blue Lock. The episode established the clashes between Japan’s under-20 team and the Blue Lock team, giving each player an opponent to fight until defeated during the game. At the end of episode 6, Isagi realized that Oliver Aiku was his enemy on the Japanese national team and the player who would force him to find his “flow”. Other players like Miroku Darai and Otoya Eita and Teppei Neru and Kenyu Yukimiya faced each other in the same way.
These scenes did a phenomenal job, finally introducing the U20 team to the public. In the episode, the genius strategy of the U-20 team, called the “Iron Wall Quartet”, was revealedhelping Sae Itoshi score the first goal of the game. The Japanese national team has been consistently enthusiastic throughout the first and second seasons, so getting to know these players’ personalities and playing styles has shed light on who they are, as well as the threat they pose to the Blue Lock team. One of episode 7’s biggest strengths was how well it introduced the audience to this nearly unbeatable, star-studded Japanese team.
Sae Itoshi proved that he is the biggest egoist and leader of the Japanese team
In the same scene, Isagi and Blue Lock were surprised to realize that the public was against them.
Japan national team player Sae Itoshi was not shy about expressing his frustration with his teammates. Although he scored an unexpected side goal from a difficult angle, he berated his teammates for letting him down. Sae has no respect for anyone on her teamor anyone else in the football world, telling their fellow players that they are “losers”, “monkeys” and “trash”. While adding Sae to the team was certainly an advantage in terms of football skill, his tough and arrogant attitude continues to irritate his teammates as he freely insults them.
The episode also did an excellent job defining the atmosphere of the game and capturing the audience’s reactions watching anxiously in the stands. When Sae scored, the audience erupted into a chorus of cheers of joy, horrifying Isagi when he suddenly realized that everyone in the arena was rooting against him and his Blue Lock teammates. Isagi’s sense of visceral horror and disappointment was very well expressed through the animation, voice acting and his dialogue, making this one of the high points of the episode, although it represented a sad and disheartening moment for the Blue Lock team.
Nagi and Sae’s goals were the highlights of the episode, featuring notable visuals
The animation is steadily improving in Blue Lock season 2, evidenced by stellar moments in episode 7
As far as animation goes, episode 7 was still, unfortunately, not on the same level as some of the best sequences from the first season. However, the quality is undeniably improving when compared to the episodes at the beginning of the second season. Some of the scenes in this episode are the best of the season so far. One of those highlights was Nagi Seishiro’s magnificent footwork, shot and eventual goal for the Blue Lock team. Moments like these prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is exceptional talent within the Blue Lock animation teamand we hope more stellar scenes are on the way.
It would make sense for Eight Bit to save the best animation of the season for the U20 match, because this game is the peak of the season and the busiest part of the arc. As the match continues over the next few episodes, ideally the animation will continue to update with this progress. There were a handful of scenes with lackluster animation in the episode, no doubt, but sequences like Nagi and Sae Itoshi’s goals boasted some of the most fluid and beautiful animation in the second season, causing many fans to consider this the best episode of the season.
Nagi Seishiro’s best moment in Blue Lock history occurred in episode 7
Scoring an unexpected goal for his team, Nagi completely changed the public’s perception of Blue Lock
What made episode 7 arguably the best of Blue Lock season 2 was one scene in particular that stunned viewers into silence. After Sae Itoshi’s goal, Blue Lock fought to gain an advantage over the opposing team. When all hope seemed like loss, Nagi Seishiro made a completely unexpected move and scoredalthough it was surrounded and far from the goal. From Nagi’s quick reactions to the several seconds of silence from the crowd and players after his goal, this moment can only be described as cinematic, putting the Blue Lock team back on top.
This scene established Nagi’s progress as a playerin addition to gaining public respect. Although Blue Lock are technically the visiting team in this match, the spectators cheered for them with the same joy they did after Sae’s goal when Nagi scored. Blue Lock Episode 7 deserves to be considered the best episode of the second season by far at this point alone, but it also stood out in its improved animation, the introduction of Japan’s under-20 national team, the depiction of Sae’s enormous ego, and the soundtrack and dubbing that built an exciting atmosphere for this fierce match that will decide the future of football.