Blue Lock: Ego's Real-Player Jab at Kawashima Reignites Amid the World Cup

Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 2116)

• "Come on, it's fiction." ⬆ "Then don't drag a real person for laughs."

  いやいやフィクションじゃん ⬆じゃあ現実の人物を揶揄すんなよ

  — @innoce_7n2,577 likes

• I mean, the whole story is literally about unhinged people who scream "you're trash who's produced nothing" at even Honda- and Kagawa-tier players — so it feels like more than just simple mockery to me.

  そもそも、「本田香川クラスですら『結果出してないゴミ』と罵倒する頭おかしい人たち」を描いた物語なわけで、シンプルな揶揄とは違う気もするけどな

  — @roadn3035115 likes

• But when Gintama took the piss out of Renho, everyone was cracking up, though.

  でも銀魂で蓮舫を揶揄してるのにはみんな爆笑してたんだよなあ

  — @kizuka3go23 likes

• Gintama at least apologized and dealt with it — pulled episodes, blacked out scenes, actually took action.

  @kizuka3go 謝罪をしてる＆放送中止や黒塗りで修正したり対応はしてるだろ

  — @678kakaka564 likes

• Even Gintama, which pulled all kinds of risky stunts, still changed the names to dodge using the real ones — but this one just prints the actual name as-is.

  色々と危ない事やった銀魂ですら、名前を変えて出して本名回避したのにこれはそのまま出しちゃってるからねぇ。

  — @時神零67 likes

• Using a real person's actual name straight up is not okay. Why the hell didn't they just change it?

  実際の人物の名前そのまま出してるのアカンやろ なんで名前変えなかったんだよ

  — @mjrgugdhs-n7g814 likes

• For the shock value, obviously.

  インパクトが出るからに決まってるやん

  — @なつ-ki727 likes

• "Don't go and Kawashima it" — with "Kawashima" written to be read as "screw up." The moment I saw that I decided the manga wasn't for me and dropped it. There was zero need to slap that reading on it.

  川島(ミス)んなよ これ見た時に合わんなって見切りつけたよ こんなルビ振る必然もないもの

  — @see-book431 likes

• And they even politely went and added the furigana reading on top of it…

  ご丁寧にルビまで振ってる…

  — @ヤマモトタ36 likes

• That "don't go and Kawashima it, yeah~?" line just radiates how nasty the author's personality is.

  川島すんなよー？はシンプルに作者の性格の悪さを感じた

  — @Grmpmp549 likes

• If this is for real, Kawashima could honestly maybe sue for defamation lol

  これマジならわんちゃん名誉毀損で訴えれる気するけどw

  — @あいうえおさん-y1h3 likes

• Never read it, but that's rough. Even if it's meant to be some jerk character talking in-story.

  読んだことないけどそれはひでぇな 例え作中の嫌なキャラの表現だとしても

  — @rumand1988100 likes

• Look at the stuff the author writes on the back covers of the volumes — dude being a creep is 100% real 😂

  コミックの裏表紙とか見ると作者が気持ち悪いのはガチ😂

  — @ごりらごりら-g2h49 likes

• This is exactly it. The human drama is handled with care, and as an over-the-top hyper-dimensional soccer manga it's genuinely fun — but it just has zero class. A simple "even they never won a World Cup" would've done the job, but it always insists on this cocky, smug way of phrasing things. It's got that try-hard edgelord cringe. And "don't go and Kawashima it"? Yeah, no need to even explain that one. When I saw it on Twitter I was genuinely put off.

  これなんだよな。人間ドラマ的には丁寧だし、超次元サッカー漫画としても面白いけど、とにかく品がない 「彼らでさえW杯は獲れていない」くらいで良いものを、わざわざイキったセリフ回しにしてくる感じ、突き抜け漫画(※打ち切り学会参照)っぽいダサさがある 「川島すんなよ」なんかもうね、説明するまでもない。Twitterで見た時ドン引きしたよ

  — @Minty_HAL93 likes

• Since Moriyasu turned out to be a legit brilliant manager in real life, it's pretty funny how it ends up making Sae Itoshi look like the clueless, off-base incompetent one instead.

  森保がマジの名将だったから糸師冴の方が的外れな無能に見えるの結構おもろい

  — @モバゲーミクシィ514 likes

• He genuinely is incompetent, though — he lost the ball trying to show off, and that's literally what set up the winning goal against his team.

  イキってボールロストしたのが逆転弾に繋がってるからガチの無能だぞ

  — @田中たかお-m7y31 likes

• Worse than the first thing: dropping a character clearly modeled on manager Moriyasu into a fictional work just to trash him is really not okay.

  最初の奴よりもフィクションの作品に森保監督のモデルのキャラ出て貶すのがほんとに良くない

  — @バベルボブル-z3g348 likes

• The scary part is Blue Lock started serialization in 2018, so at that point in time even Messi was getting branded as trash by it (and honestly it's just as wild for Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and the rest too).

  恐ろしいのがブルーロックが連載したのが2018年だから当時だとメッシでもカス認定されてることなんだよな(クリロナやネイマール他諸々でも恐ろしいけど)

  — @太郎丸-i6n369 likes

• That's actually addressed in the manga, to be fair. One of the Blue Lock players literally says, "Messi hasn't won it either, so I don't buy Ego's words 100%."

  そこは一応作中でも言及されてるよ。ブルーロック参加者の一人が「メッシだって優勝してないし、絵心の言葉を100％は信じてない」って言ってる

  — @デクのぼー55 likes

• Mushroom-head (Ego): "Honda and Kagawa never won a World Cup so they're trash. Cantona? Oh, he's one of the No. 1 strikers." ← way too clueless

  キノコ「本田と香川はw杯獲ってないからカス。カントナ？彼はNO.1ストライカーの一人」←無能すぎる

  — @もるもまりも16 likes

• For the record, four years ago it was Ego going "Messi and Ronaldo never won anything lmao" ← uh, Messi has literally won it since then — and that blew up too. Good times.

  一応四年前に、 絵心「メシロナ優勝してないやんwww」←いやメッシ優勝しましたけど って炎上してたな 懐かしい

  — @PotetHead7 likes

• This line is one thing, but the fact that the players' meals in Blue Lock are also a disaster is what really gets me. The nutritional balance is completely nonexistent lol

  ブルロこの発言もそうだけど選手の飯も終わってるのがおもろい。栄養バランス皆無すぎる

  — @ナイン21,211 likes

• Ranking system or not, having them eat literally just rice and takuan (pickled radish) in the early arc made me go "yeah, this is pure fiction." I guess maybe they chug protein off-panel or something, but still.

  ランクがあるとはいえ序盤の米+沢庵だけってので創作やなぁってなっちゃった。描かれてないだけでプロテインとか飲んでるのかもしれんけどさ。

  — @ししまる5656193 likes

• It reads like it was written by someone who's never actually played a sport. Reminds me of old-school PL Gakuen — a lot of players who came out of there were physically underdeveloped and got hurt constantly.

  スポーツやったことない人の描写って感じよな 昔のPLみたい PL出身の選手は身体未成熟で怪我すること多いし

  — @scorerk002112 likes

• Not letting them get any sunlight is straight-up indefensible.

  日光浴びさせないのは論外

  — @めんやー-p4e369 likes

• It literally just burned itself out a little while ago, and now it's spontaneously caught fire all over again lol

  ちょっと前に燃え尽きたのに今回で勝手に飛び火してて草

  — @オオサンショウウオ-l6m1,597 likes

• It's going to keep catching fire every single time soccer starts trending.

  サッカーが話題になるたびに燃え続けるだろうな

  — @織-x4o1,210 likes

• They chose outrage-marketing as their strategy, so getting burned themselves is only natural.

  @678kakaka5炎上商法を選んだのだから、自分が燃えるのも当然

  — @ほりおじ83 likes

• Is it, like… the Olympic sacred flame?

  聖火かな？

  — @everyday914201 likes

• A sacred flame that just relights itself all on its own, apparently.

  @everyday914なんか勝手に燃える聖火

  — @アトラス-h4f53 likes

• A soccer manga that's hated by soccer fans — you really don't see that every day lol

  サッカー好きに嫌われるサッカー漫画って珍しいよな笑

  — @やさぐれペンギンギン6 likes

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