Blue Lock Season 2 Animation Quality Controversy

Overview

Blue Lock Season 2 Animation Quality Controversy refers to memes and jokes about the perceived drastic drop in the animation quality in the second season of the Blue Lock anime football series. Fans noticed the purported decrease in quality in the series produced by Studio Eight Bit after a trailer was released in mid-September 2024 showing a lack of fluid animation and abundant usage of static shots. After the anime premiered in October of that year, the poor graphics, among other criticisms related to the anime's production, inspired several X / Twitter users to post memes and jokes mocking the animation, as well as TikTok users creating comedy skit videos mimicking Blue Lock's characters moving.

Background

On September 17th, 2024, a second trailer for Blue Lock VS. U-20 JAPAN, also known as Blue Lock season two, was posted on YouTube.^[1] The trailer showed new scenes from the upcoming season (seen below), amassing more than 101,000 views and 2,200 likes in a month.

Shortly after the trailer dropped, many fans began sharing that they noticed a decrease in the animation quality in the series, which started a debate and possible theories of why this happened. For example, on September 17th, X^[2] user @NotSterling7 posted a clip of Blue Lock's first episode, writing about the bad animation featured in the new season trailer (seen below). The tweet received roughly 80,000 views and 1,600 likes in a month.

Developments

Blue Lock Season 2 Animation

Discussion about Blue Lock's season two animation became a viral topic on the internet after the anime's second season premiered in early October 2024. For instance, on October 12th, 2024, X^[3] user @Pekuga_Pr uploaded a scene from episode 2 of the second season, which featured stale animated panels and a lack of character movement, writing "Key Animation: 😧🗑️." The tweet (seen below) amassed more than 146,000 views and 1,000 likes in a week.

Online Reactions

As discourse surrounding Blue Lock's season two animation quality continued to appear online in October 2024, various X users posted numerous clips from the shows to mock the drastic drop in fluidity and movement in the scenes.

For example, on October 19th, 2024, X^[4] user @m3lvnn posted a video parody making fun of the anime's quality, writing "Blue Lock is so peak." The tweet (seen below) received over 1 million views and 33,000 likes in two days.

Also on October 19th, TikTok^[5] user @danielisms posted a skit video mocking Blue Lock's animation (seen below), which garnered over 1.4 million plays and 129,000 likes in two days.

On October 16th, 2024, YouTube^[6] user @kazuhh posted a short essay video commenting on the drop in quality in Blue Lock season two. The video (seen below) received roughly 5,000 views and 210 likes in five days.

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