Football is taking over the world, not just through the FIFA World Cup, but in the anime world with BLUELOCK airing through the rest of 2022! I'm something of an "anime soccer aficionado" by basing my entire YouTube channel around the Inazuma Eleven series, so now is a great time to take the leap and check out another footie anime. Here's my thoughts on what I've seen of Blue Lock so far - the most recent episode to air at the time of recording was Episode 9 and I have not read the manga - in the form of the Top 10 characters in Team Z! All in my opinion of course, not a ranking of player skill, just purely how much I like 'em.

Sequel Video featuring every characters OTHER than Team Z (up to date for all of Season 1):
https://youtu.be/L0b_Sxk9PQY

Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:22 Number 10 (and 11)
4:52 Number 9
6:17 Number 8
7:54 Number 7
11:39 Number 6
13:48 Number 5
17:21 Number 4
19:35 Number 3
24:00 Number 2
29:00 Number 1
33:10 Outro

The characters being discussed, in alphabetical order, are Asahi Naruhaya, Gin Gagamaru, Gurimu Igarashi (Igaguri), Hyoma Chigiri, Jingo Raichi, Meguru Bachira, Okuhito Iemon, Rensuke Kunigami, Wataru Kuon, Yoichi Isagi and Yudai Imamura. None of the characters outside of Team Z such as Ego have been included.

Thank you to Tatsunami for inspiring me to make BLUELOCK content:
https://twitter.com/tatsunami_twt