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Blue Lock Chapter 351: Isagi Calms Down a Furious, Benched Rin — What Japan Said
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.
174 comments7/2/26, 9:00 AM
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Blue Lock: Ego's Real-Player Jab at Kawashima Reignites Amid the World Cup
Blue Lock's coach Ego Jinpachi is at the center of a fresh firestorm among Japanese fans: the manga doesn't just have him trash-talk pros, it drops real Japan national-team goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima's actual name into a mocking line — and it reignited hard right as a real World Cup was trending. The comment section split down the middle: one side insisting "it's just fiction," the other snapping back "then don't drag a real, living person for laughs." From there fans marveled that Blue Lock "catches fire once every four years" whenever soccer trends, needled its other absurdities (players living on rice and pickles, never seeing sunlight), and read the whole thing as proof of the author's personality. The running punchline: comparing it to an Olympic flame that keeps relighting itself.
2116 comments7/2/26, 9:00 AM
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Blue Lock Chapter 351: Isagi Talks Rin Down After Getting Benched
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.
172 comments6/26/26, 10:10 AM
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Blue Lock Chapter 350: Coach Ego Benches Rin, the Team's Untouchable No. 1
Blue Lock's latest chapter (350) had coach Jinpachi Ego go fully unhinged again — benching Itoshi Rin, the series' perennial No. 1, right after Japan's loss to France, while Isagi volunteered for the bench himself. The most-liked Japanese reactions split three ways: a genuine re-reading of Ego's philosophy (the top comment realizes his "if you doubt me" line isn't "if you can't follow my theory" but "if you don't believe Blue Lock can make you the world's best"); a wave of dark glee at the untouchable Rin finally getting dropped; and a flood of in-jokes only Japanese readers catch — most of all the panel parodying "The one who's cut is Kaz, Kazu Miura," the coach's infamous real-life line dropping the national-team king from the 1998 World Cup squad. The recurring theme was relief: after months of "this had turned into a normal soccer manga," fans felt Blue Lock remember it was always supposed to be an insane death game, and it lands on the kind of one-line verdict that only a Japanese fan refreshing the chapter at midnight would write.
480 comments6/25/26, 7:30 AM

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

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

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

Blue Lock Chapter 350: Coach Ego Benches Rin, the Team's Untouchable No. 1