Blue Lock — How Japanese Fans React

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

日光浴びさせないのは論外

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

Isagi straight up volunteers to bench himself — and then Rin is the only one actually ordered to the bench, sitting there stunned. The contrast is just brutal for him, isn't it.

潔さんが自分からベンチに行くなんて言ったらただ1人ベンチ送りを言い渡されてびっくりしてる凛ちゃんが惨めじゃないですか

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

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

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

Guess it's confirmed Rin is going to keep playing soccer until he's 59. lmao

凛が59歳になってもサッカーをやり続けることが確定したの草

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。

Is it, like… the Olympic sacred flame?

聖火かな？

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

Yeah, of course you're benched, Rin. You're the one who threw the game.

そりゃベンチ送りですよ凛さん あんたが戦犯だもの

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

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

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

The fandom is going WAY harder over this than they did when Nagi got eliminated. I'm cracking up.

凪脱落の何倍もキレてて笑った