BLUE LOCK VS HAIKYUU

Haikyuu Vs. Blue Lock – Which Anime is Better?

Updated January 20, 2023 by Mayra Rifat

While the concepts of these two anime might be highly different, we’re still going to compare and find out which anime is overpowered! (actually, when you think of it, both of them are!)

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Haikyuu has its own charms when it comes to the concepts of achieving your dreams and working hard for them. On the other hand, Blue Lock is a bit realistic as it gives out the message of a cruel world and the selfish people living in it. 

Both of these anime are sports anime with many interesting characters along with intense battles in their respective sports! 

Anyways, it’s finally time to talk about these two anime in detail! So, Without further ado, let’s jump right into it! 

HAIKYUU VS. BLUE LOCK! 

Haikyuu!!

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Haikyuu!! Literally means “Volleyball” in Japanese, this anime was illustrated by Haruchi Furudate and premiered in September 2014. This anime tells us the story of Shoyo Hinata who’s a short yet determined boy! He dreams big of becoming a great volleyball player! 

No one can ever deny that this anime existed long before Blue Lock, and no wonder it has such a huge fanbase. There’s just something very addictive about this anime. Haikyuu is an intense anime that will get your heart pumping with each of its volleyball matches. You can never predict what’s going to happen during a match since each player is fighting a battle aside from the court, there are also individual challenges that they face. 

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Speaking of the plot, let me take you back to the good old days! The plot revolves around Shoyo Hinata who gets obsessed with the idea of volleyball right after seeing the players of Karasuno High playing on a television. Hinata gets quite intrigued after hearing the nickname of Karasuno High’s little wing spiker “The Little Giant”. 

Although Hinata is inexperienced, he’s very athletic and thinks of joining his school’s volleyball club! Hinata is literally one of the BEST anime characters with orange hair! His personality will win anyone’s heart and it goes really well with his appearance!

As he joined the club, he was forced to make other players,which are also his friends, learn about volleyball and practice with him every time they did have some spare time. Since Hinata tried to persuade everyone, he came off as one of the most annoying members of the club. But our boy had other plans and dreamt of becoming the very best player. And he is so lucky to have very supportive friends. 

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When it was finally time to play their official match, Hinata got defeated by the “King of the Court” who was none other than Kageyama.  Kageyama was a prodigy setter who had an experience when playing volleyball in a known middle school in their prefecture, it was that time when Hinata became determined to defeat him in high school! Eventually, he became one of the BEST players in Haikyuu!

Thus Hinata started playing volleyball and studied hard too. Later on, he was accepted in Karasuno High School but was shocked to see Tobio Kageyama there too! As a result, a whole new journey starts! Together, they learn to push their limits and work hard for everyone’s sake and their own dreams as well! So, just like that, they take on too many challenges and defeat many teams on their way as well! 

Haikyuu is an interesting anime that teaches us about teamwork rather than the development of characters on an individual level! It has a beautiful message of sheer determination and winning together instead of selfish purposes in life. So, fans absolutely love Haikyuu for these things! 

If you’re into volleyball and want to watch other anime like this, check out: TOP Anime Like Haikyuu!

Blue Lock

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Blue Lock is one of the latest sports anime that premiered in October 2022. Fans are going crazy over how cool the characters are and how the plot is so intense! This anime tells us about Japan’s crushing defeat in Football and now the Union wants to regroup the Japanese football team in order to win the World Cup in the future! 

The Japanese Football Union gathers a total of 300 players in a project called “Blue Lock Project” where the main goal is to lead the football team of Japan and make it better! They also want to raise the best striker in the whole world. Those who fail in this project will never be able to participate in any of the Japanese Football Teams! So, it’s do-or-die for them! 

Curious to find out which character is the strongest in Blue Lock? Check Out: STRONGEST Blue Lock Players By Position!

Blue Lock

The concept of Blue Lock is more focused on surviving! It’s not about teamwork as much as Haikyuu. Sure, we can see some of the players doing great teamwork but they’ll eventually have to stomp on each other to go all the way up and become the best striker in the world! 

The story overall revolves around Yoichi Isagi who’s an unknown high school football player who isn’t sure of his own playing style and joins the Blue Lock Project in order to know about his style as well as to become the best egotistical striker in the whole world! 

There are tons of interesting characters in this anime and all of them have their own playing styles. For instance, some players have a hidden monster in them while others have fast reflexes. So, in the field of football, such skills are highly required! With each football match, your heart is going to race more & more. Both of the anime are so good that it’s becoming hard to compare them! Well, we have to do what we have to do! So, let’s compare them now! 

Can Blue Lock Replace Haikyuu? 

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I know this discussion is going to start a war between the fans of Haikyuu and Blue Lock. Haikyuu is a good anime at its place and the same goes for Blue Lock! Both are quite good and have their own concepts when it comes to their respective sports! 

Haikyuu is an amazing sports anime because of various reasons like slice-of-life concepts, some romance, and comedic scenes as well. So, it’s a perfect blend of almost every genre! While Blue Lock solely focuses on football and how to be the best striker in the world, the comedy is really light in it. Blue Lock is a serious anime with diverse characters and of course, intense football matchesl! It would be unfair to compare both of these anime because the sports that they play are completely different from one another and their views about their sports are different as well. But overall, both of the anime are fire! 

Animation Styles

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For Haikyuu, Sentai Filmworks did a really good job at animating the smooth action during the intense volleyball matches to the extent of giving you a real-time experience! It’s definitely important for sports anime to have a top-tier animation that expresses their action, right? So, Sentai Filmworks along with other studios did a great job! Haikyuu’s characters have two types of features, they have crackhead animation whenever the anime is in comedic mode and the other one has handsome features. 

For Blue Lock’s animation, 8bit was responsible and it surely did an awesome job too! From the artistic point of view as well as the flowy animation! The characters are handsome and their individual features are super cool, they’re almost like idols at this point, right? 

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Overall, both of the series are animated well and their action gets expressed perfectly through the smooth animation. Most sports anime are known to have good animation, for instance, we have Haikyuu, Blue Lock, Free, Sk8 The Infinity, etc. 

Since Blue Lock is a new anime, we still don’t know where it will go in the future or about its true potential. Its animation might get better and better! So, let’s see what happens in the future! 

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Haikyuu is a sports anime revolving around volleyball sport and it has been relevant for so long that anime beginners can easily binge-watch this anime and fall in love with it. This anime is considered one of the best sports anime because of its story, characters, OSTs, and animation! 

The characters are very wholesome in Haikyuu as well. For instance, our Main Character, Shoyo Hinata is precious for aiming too high despite having a small stature, his never-giving-up attitude motivates everyone to work harder and push through their own limits. Then, we have Kageyama who’s completely the opposite of Hinata and isn’t very expressive. Together, both of them look so cute and their partnership has inspired a lot of Volleyball players and friends around the world. This is the impact this anime has on the world! 

Blue Lock

Blue Lock is known for its intense manga but as soon as its anime arrived, it got even more hyped up! Blue Lock tells us the concept of egotistical strikers and players whose only focus is to win. There isn’t much teamwork or the concept of friendship in Blue Lock as much as in Haikyuu but it does its job perfectly at serving as a sports anime! 

Blue Lock tells us the story of a mastermind named Jinpachi Ego who’s manipulating 300 players and raising them as the best strikers to eventually make Japan win the World Cup after intense defeats! So, the players are always under pressure, their careers and lives depend on the Blue Lock Project! But these are the things that make this anime stand out from the rest of the sports anime. Of course, teamwork and the power of friendship alongside regular National Matches are appreciated but Blue Lock brings us something completely different from your typical sports anime. That is the reason why Blue Lock is so popular these days! 

Conclusion

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That concludes our topic Haikyuu Vs. Blue Lock. I hope you guys enjoyed reading the blog! Haikyuu and Blue Lock are truly considered one of the best sports anime! Do let us know your thoughts about the respective anime in the comments down below! So share this blog with the fans of Haikyuu as well as Blue Lock and ask people their points of view as well! 

Stay tuned for more fun content! 

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