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Blue Lock Chapter 351: Isagi Calms Down a Furious, Benched Rin — What Japan Said

ブルーロック351話 日本の反応 — 潔＆凛まさかの仲良し「No.1ホストの才能」

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Blue Lock Chapter 351: Isagi Calms Down a Furious, Benched Rin — What Japan Said
“Isagi's aftercare is so ridiculously good he's got every single guy he's ever devoured completely hooked on him. Mass-producing stalkers included — the man has the talent of a No.1 host.”

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

Blue Lock Chapter 351 puts Isagi Yoichi face-to-face with a benched, furious Rin Itoshi — and instead of the fistfight longtime readers braced for, the two talk it out and end up weirdly, genuinely friendly. Japanese fans couldn't get over it. The most-liked comments circled a few threads: sheer relief that Rin and Isagi are on good terms now ("the old Rin would've turned this straight into a fistfight"); awe at how mature and senpai-like Isagi has become, with many crediting his temple-training arc; and a running gag that Isagi is secretly a "No.1 host" and full-blown demon lord who charms every rival he beats into a devoted fan. Add Kaiser and Ness resurfacing, and the fandom's verdict on the Isagi–Rin dynamic landed on one perfect, backwards word.

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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 174)

  • Isagi and Rin looking way more casually friendly than I expected — I'm just glad.

    思ったより普通に潔と凛が仲良さそうで良かった

    — @ぐり-x2h101 likes

  • Genuinely shocked Rin is having a proper, calm conversation with Isagi. Old Rin would've brushed off anything Isagi said and barely even answered.

    凛ちゃんが潔と真っ当に落ち着いて会話してる事に驚いた。 以前の凛ちゃんなら潔が何言っても邪険に扱ったり碌に返事もしなかったと思う。

    — @昆布豆妻楊枝36 likes

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

    意外と冷静だな凛　昔ならこのまま殴り合いだろ

    — @なつ-ki7216 likes

  • Isagi and Rin talking as equals like this is so good. Like, say what you want, they're actually close. They're only going to keep growing into full-on brothers-in-arms from here.

    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-h2v25 likes

  • I was bracing for Rin to get seriously torn apart by Ego, but it ended in a pretty gentle telling-off. Also him actually acting his age for once 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-e8t27 likes

  • Rin's insult vocabulary is on an elementary-schooler level and it's adorable. Also, Isagi has always thrown himself into communicating and trying to understand people no matter the situation — I love that about him. That's exactly why so many characters end up fixated on him and fond of 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

    — @fuela39 likes

  • Rin always looks like he's got his spikes out, but he quietly holds real conversations with everyone. When Nanase begged to be his apprentice, he actually watched the kid's training, noticed he was ambidextrous and taught him about it. Both now and back then he'd chat away about all kinds of stuff while doing yoga. He just has a monstrous fixation problem — otherwise he's a pretty ordinary high-school boy who happens to be bad at talking.

    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

    — @AllonsY10027 likes

  • He can talk to Isagi like a normal person now, so maybe that temple-training arc actually paid off?

    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107 likes

  • You say that like he couldn't talk before — a lot has happened, you know. "I'll kill Isagi," "I'll crush Isagi," the whole catalogue.

    まるで今までが話せてないみたいな、いろいろあったろ潔殺すとか潔潰すとか

    — @コアラ先輩15 likes

  • Back when he'd just met Rin, Isagi was terrified of him — and now they're not just equals, somehow Isagi looks like the bigger man. Got me a little emotional.

    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32 likes

  • Isagi... you've really grown up, huh.

    潔…大人になったね。

    — @三浦俊介-i3i17 likes

  • This chapter really drove home how big a presence Rin is to Isagi — Isagi's out here being more of a big brother to him than Sae is, lol.

    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32 likes

  • Isagi handling Rin's mental care felt way more senpai — more grown-up than usual — and honestly my heart skipped a beat... you're looking real ripe there, Yoichi...

    凛ちゃんのメンタルケアにあたる潔さんが普段より先輩感というか大人っぽくてちょっとドキドキしちゃった、、食べ頃だなぁ世一ぃ、、

    — @リドル-l8x66 likes

  • RUN, Isagi!!

    逃げろ潔！

    — @Apophis-z8e9 likes

  • This one's giving off an even more dangerous vibe than Kaiser.

    カイザーより危ない匂いがする

    — @さおなぬ20 likes

  • Walking up to a benched, absolutely furious Rin, getting shut down at first, and still steering it to a place where they can actually talk it out — Isagi is just too good at putting problems into words.

    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-x1b33 likes

  • That's our genius of adaptability for you — he can hold a natural conversation even 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_moon59 likes

  • Same with Hiori, Barou and Yukimiya — he shows up to comfort you the moment you're down. The man's a natural charmer. Though, to be fair, he's the one who knocked most of them down in the first place.

    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-t9f24 likes

  • Exactly what you'd expect from the Isagi who was out there giving master-class coaching back in the Neo Egoist League.

    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-e5t7w117 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-q1u23 likes

  • It'd be hilarious if the reason Kaiser is fuming turns out to be something like "he's on the same Asian team as Yoichi and their faces look alike."

    カイザーがブチギレてる理由が世一と同じアジアのチームで顔が似てるとかだったら面白い

    — @ジョンソン山田-l7v181 likes

  • I really want to know what's up with Ness — we haven't seen a single panel of him since Neo Egoist. If we end up facing Germany again, what kind of evolution has Ness 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-of8wt24 likes

  • Rin's talking to him this openly — yeah, Isagi really is the demon lord.

    凛ちゃんが素直に話してる、やっぱ魔王だわ潔

    — @Yuu-ep8hm25 likes

  • ...Though, y'know, Isagi's the one everyone keeps calling a demon lord 😅

    潔、魔王呼ばわりされてるけどね😅

    — @ベレッタちゃんねる11 likes

  • "Frenemy" — an archenemy pretending to be a friend — is the word that fits these two best. Except in their case it's the other way around: friends pretending to be enemies.

    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31 likes
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