Season 1 is pretty good for a sport anime. I really like it. Sure the middle and latter half have some weird and inconsistent animation + low budget CGI but it's fine.
Blue Lock became my top 1 soccer/football anime surpassing Ao Ashi.
Hope season 2 will have a better/more consistent animation and really hype for Blue Lock 11 vs U-20. Looking forward to Sae Itoshi.
As for my characters list:
As for favorite characters:
1. Kunigami aka Ichigo (real homie)
2. Bachira (fruity homie)
3. King Barou
4. Isagi
5. Kira (still pissed that he got kicked out)
6. Chigiri (his backstory is alright, I liked his speed as a weapon)
7. Niko (Gigachad)
8. Kuon (can't blame this man, he's trying his best to survive in BL after getting betrayed (I think?) by his teammates in his school before joining BL)
9. Ego (man's a menace)
10. Gagamaru (love this caveman lol)
It changed quite a lot actually.
1. King Barou (top 1 dawg)
2. Rin Itoshi (love him, very serious yet goofy, the ideal egoist)
3. Bachira/Nagi (I like both of them equally, so I will put them tied as number 3)
4. Kunigami (cool blud, too bad he got replaced by fucking Shidou, I don't think Kunigami is finished yet, he will be back at some point surely)
5. Isagi (Himsagi)
6. Osha/Glam Aryu (man is too funny lol)
7. Niko (pretty cool and chill, he got good potential)
8. Chigiri (he's alright)
9. Reo (he's also alright)
10. Naruhaya (kinda sad that he's gone, but oh well)
I don't hate the Wanima brothers anymore, in fact, the alligator eyebrows dude is starting to grow on me lol, his interaction with Gagamaru and Raichi is hilarious as hell.
But the only character I hate currently is Ryusei Shidou. If he were to say that to me and try to kick me, I would be like Bachira, "Square up boi, we're gonna take it outside!" and beat his ass up to death. Hope Isagi or Rin humbles his ass.