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Blue Lock Chapter 351: Isagi Talks Rin Down After Getting Benched

ブルーロック351話 潔が凛を諭す回 日本のファンの反応

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Blue Lock Chapter 351: Isagi Talks Rin Down After Getting Benched
“Isagi's aftercare is so insanely good that every single guy he's ever "devoured" ends up obsessed with him. Counting the way he mass-produces stalkers, the man has genuine No.1 host talent.”

潔はアフターケア抜群過ぎていままで食ったやつ全員虜にしてる ストーカー量産してるのも含めNo.1ホストの才能がある

— @kotobuki544

In Blue Lock Chapter 351, the fallout from Rin Itoshi being benched lands on Yoichi Isagi — who walks straight up to the furious, rejected Rin, gets rejected himself at first, and somehow talks him all the way back. Japanese fans didn't read it as a fight; they read it as a glow-up. The most-liked reaction crowned Isagi a "No.1 host" whose aftercare is so good he turns every rival he's ever beaten into a devoted stalker. From there the thread became a love letter to how much Isagi has matured: fans were genuinely surprised that he and Rin now talk like equals, credited the temple-training arc for finally giving the "adaptation genius" the communication skills to hold a normal conversation with the worst communicator in Blue Lock, and noted that the boy who once radiated pure dread to Isagi now looks like more of an older brother to Rin than Sae ever was. Mixed in: the "frenemy" framing (a friend pretending to be a rival — or a rival pretending to be a friend), Rin's grade-schooler-level insult vocabulary being weirdly adorable, Ego Jinpachi deciding the real problem is Karasu and not Isagi's interference shot, and the long-awaited return of Michael Kaiser and Alexis Ness.

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Japanese fans react to Blue Lock Chapter 351, where Isagi wins over the benched, furious Rin and the two finally talk as equals. （YouTube · 【ブルーロック反応集】日本サッカー連合）

Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 172)

  • When your younger favorite is getting chewed out, of course you want to go comfort him. New respect for Isagi.

    年下のお気に入りが怒られてたら慰めたくなるよな 潔見直したわ

    — @agtgogm44 likes

  • Isagi… you've grown up, huh.

    潔…大人になったね。

    — @三浦俊介-i3i15 likes

  • Isagi walks up to the benched, absolutely livid Rin, gets shut down at first, and still manages to get him to a place where they can actually talk it out — his ability to put the problem into words is way too good.

    外されてブチ切れてる凛と話しに行って最初は拒絶されてるのに最終的にはちゃんと話ができる状態まで持って行ける潔は問題点の言語化が上手すぎる

    — @takeda-x1b30 likes

  • He's holding a totally normal conversation with Isagi, so maybe that temple-training arc actually paid off after all?

    潔と普通に話せてるから意外と寺修行効果あったんかね

    — @ようでん104 likes

  • That's our adaptation genius — he can even hold a natural conversation with the single worst communicator in Blue Lock.

    さすが適応力の天才、コミュ力ワースト1位とも自然に会話ができる

    — @siotsuki_moon55 likes

  • I love that Isagi and Rin are talking on equal footing like this. Like, say what you want, they're actually kind of close — they're clearly going to keep growing into proper brothers-in-arms.

    潔と凛こう対等に会話してるの良いな つかなんやかんや仲良い 今後どんどん戦友みたいになって行くんだろうな

    — @柴犬-h2v24 likes

  • It's nice that Isagi and Rin look way more genuinely friendly with each other than I expected.

    思ったより普通に潔と凛が仲良さそうで良かった

    — @ぐり-x2h98 likes

  • There's something great about them being unexpectedly close off the pitch, you know?

    コートの外では案外仲良いのってなんか良いよね

    — @nazonobuzin25 likes

  • "Frenemy" (a friend pretending to be your archrival) is the word that fits these two best. Though really they're rivals pretending to be friends.

    frenemy(友達のふりした宿敵)って言葉が一番しっくり来る関係だな。 実際は敵のふりした友達だが。

    — @ガトモンテス30 likes

  • Back when he'd just met Rin, Isagi was completely in awe of him — and now not only are they equals, somehow Isagi looks like the bigger man. It honestly moved me.

    凛に会ってまもない頃はあれだけ畏怖してたのに、今や対等どころか、なんだか潔が大きく見えて感動した。

    — @デクのぼー30 likes

  • This was the chapter that really made me realize how big a presence Rin is to Isagi — and Isagi was being more of an older brother to him than Sae ever is, it made me laugh.

    潔の中で凛ってかなり大きい存在なんだなって改めて理解する回だった、冴よりもお兄さんしてて笑った

    — @プルプル雫ちゃん29 likes

  • I was bracing myself for Ego to absolutely tear Rin a new one, but it ended in a relatively gentle scolding. Also Rin acting like a little kid is adorable.

    凛ちゃん、絵心さんからガチ怒られるとひやひやしてたら比較的優しい叱責で終わったな あと歳下しててかわいい

    — @PSYCHIC-e8t24 likes

  • Rin's surprisingly level-headed here — old Rin would've turned this into a straight-up fistfight.

    意外と冷静だな凛　昔ならこのまま殴り合いだろ

    — @なつ-ki7214 likes

  • Rin's insult vocabulary being on a grade-schooler's level is adorable. And honestly, Isagi has always actively tried to communicate and understand the other person no matter the situation — that's exactly why so many characters end up fixated on him and liking him.

    凛の悪口語彙力が小学生でかわいい てか潔って昔からどんな状況でも積極的にコミュニケーション取って相手を理解しようとするの本当に良いわ だからこそ色んなキャラから意識されるし好かれるんだろうね

    — @fuela38 likes

  • Rin always looks permanently prickly, but he quietly holds proper conversations with everyone. When Nanase begged to be his apprentice, he actually watched his training and even spotted and taught him to be two-footed; back then and now he'll chat about all sorts of stuff while doing yoga. His obsession with one person is just way too strong — otherwise he's a pretty normal, slightly socially-awkward high school boy.

    凜ってずっと尖ってる様に見えるけど地味にみんなとちゃんと会話してるよな 七星に弟子入り志願された時もちゃんとトレーニング見てあげたり両利きの発見して教えてあげたり 今回も昔もヨガしながらあれこれ語ってくれたり 誰かへの執着が強すぎるだけで案外普通の会話ベタな男子高校生だわ

    — @AllonsY10026 likes

  • Same as with Hiori, Barou and Yukimiya — the way he shows up to comfort people when they're down makes him such a charmer. Then again, he's the one who knocked most of them down in the first place lol

    氷織、馬狼、雪宮に対してもだけど落ち込んだ時に慰めに来てくれるのほんと人たらし まぁ落とした大半が潔だけど

    — @佐倉里奈-t9f23 likes

  • Rin is opening up honestly — yeah, Isagi really is the demon king. (Also, Ego benching a star like that feels like an homage to real-life manager Okada dropping Kazu Miura.)

    凛ちゃんが素直に話してる、やっぱ魔王だわ潔 絵心さん岡田監督の外れるのは三浦カズをオマージュしてるね

    — @Yuu-ep8hm23 likes

  • That's the Isagi who was running master-class coaching back in the Neo Egoist League for you.

    流石ネオエゴでマスタークラスの指導をしてた潔だ

    — @あか-e5t7w113 likes

  • The one who actually raised the German squad wasn't Noa — it was Isagi…

    ドイツ勢を育てたのはノアじゃなくて潔…

    — @murasakiiro-q1u20 likes

  • Barou cutting Isagi off the instant Isagi stagnated is just so on-brand — it feels like a deliberate contrast with Rin. Curious how Rin evolves before Sae joins up.

    潔が停滞した瞬間に潔切り捨てた馬狼が流石すぎる、凛と明確に違いを描いてそう､冴合流前に凛がどう進化するか気になる

    — @Fuuさん62 likes

  • I figured the interference shot would get him in trouble, but that wasn't the issue at all. From Ego's point of view, Karasu is by far the bigger problem, huh.

    妨害シュートのお咎めあると思ってたけど問題なのはそこじゃなかったのね。絵心からしたら烏の方が余程問題なのか

    — @ああ-m6u2d43 likes

  • So can we take this as Isagi's whole "protagonist aura" getting absorbed into his ego trait?

    これ主人公感はエゴ特性に包含されたって事でいいんかな

    — @人間合格-q8o17 likes

  • So basically: don't be a baby bird sitting around waiting to be fed (by Isagi) — you fail as an egoist unless you can drag everyone, Isagi included, along with you… is that the read?

    要は餌（潔）もらえるまで待ってる雛鳥じゃなくて、潔含め全員引っ張っていけるくらいじゃなきゃエゴイストとして失格 …ってこと？

    — @サクサクぽてと19 likes

  • I'm really curious about Ness, who hasn't been shown at all since the Neo Egoist League. If we get a match against Germany later, what kind of evolution will Ness have gone through?

    ネオエゴ後一切描写されないネスが気になるな。今後もしドイツと対戦するとして、ネスはどんな進化を遂げてるんだろうか

    — @mizutamari-of8wt23 likes

  • He's probably broken out of being Kaiser's little lapdog by now.

    カイザーの腰巾着から脱してるやろな

    — @ライト-c6s2 likes

  • The fact that "rebel" and "demon king" are written in different fonts slowly cracked me up.

    反逆者と魔王のフォント違うところでジワった

    — @太鼓の浪人27 likes

  • Between last week and this week, overseas fans on X were seriously worried Rin might off himself — but he seems totally fine, thank god.

    先週から今週の間で海外ファンがXでめちゃくちゃ凛の自ﾀﾋ心配してたけど大丈夫そうやな

    — @PSYCHIC-e8t22 likes
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