Blue Lock Animator Reveals Why Season 2 Looks So 'Bad': 'We Did Our Best'

An animator who cooperated Blue Lock Season 2 provided insight into the animation problems.

In a new TikTok video, Martin Reyes – who says he worked on five episodes of the football anime – has revealed his account of the behind-the-scenes turmoil surrounding the project. There have been fans since its release less than satisfied with the fluidity of Blue Lock’s football scenes – with the infamous dip in the second episode even being compared to a ‘PowerPoint presentation’.

“I worked on the second episode of Blue Lock and I can tell you why the animation is so bad,” Reyes began in the video, which you can see below in the original Spanish (H/T to ComicBook.com for translation). “Months ago I started working on season two of Blue Lock, where I worked on not just one episode… not even two or three, but rather five episodes. I started working on episode two and had to go from my early to late twenties making episodes.”

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That intense workload, much of which Reyes said was “ultimately not released,” was the result of a “short turnaround.”

Reyes added: “We did our best. A lot of my animations were (cut) in the final edit. Basically all the movement was eliminated. I don’t blame the person who worked on my animations after me. probably everything did what they could with the time they were given.”

“When I finished working on episode two, I decided to leave, and the final result was a disaster – as I expected. I’m unable to be proud of the work that was uploaded.”

The controversy surrounding Blue Lock’s animation comes on the heels of the horror anime adaptation of Junji Ito’s Uzumaki roundly criticized due to its own poor quality animation. That led to executive producer Jason DeMarco discussing the situation in a series of now-deleted posts on social media platform Bluesky.

“It’s fine, we knew this would happen. I can’t talk about what happened but we were screwed and the options were: A) Don’t finish it and air nothing and call it a loss, B) Just finish it and air episode 1 and leave it incomplete or C) Feed them all four out, warts and all. Out of respect for the hard work, we chose C,” DeMarco said.

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