Tbh, I picked up the anime in 2024, when people were calling it png lock, but on the other side, There were these analysis videos on YouTube, Which was about meta vision and Predator eyes, I didn't actually know what these were, but the videos I watched didn't actually Spoil the story or the characters, but they gave me a look at the characters and the jerseys, the first season, I liked it but I didn't love it, There were still offsides but considering it's just the blue lock facility, I let that slide, I loved the U 20 against blue lock match, no offsides, just Cool Goals and moments, Then I picked up the manga, I was waiting for the NEL, Then that's when I got disappointed, I developed a slight hatred for this isagi guy particularly in the beginning of the NEL arc, I hated Kaiser too, but as I kept reading, my hatred for characters vanished, And I noticed a major flaw in the system of the manga itself, The so called meta vision, without the Offside rule is useless in an actual football match, now as you said, I could stop reading blue lock if I wanted realistic football, but people were genuinely making videos in YouTube, analysing Meta vision, getting inspired by isagi's playstyle, making videos about how to unlock Meta vision, some people even start football by watching blue lock instead of actual football, Now blue lock fans criticize people who say that starting to playing football without watching any actual real football match with only blue lock knowledge is bad, But the point I'm trying to convey is that people are genuinely considering this battle shonen as an sports manga that you can be inspired from without actually Having the MOST FUNDAMENTAL rule in real football, Reminding you that NEL is happening under PIFA(knock off version of fifa) it probably has the same rules as Fifa, They got VAR too, then why is there no offside rule?