#bllk 347

[ghostapop]

THATS MY BBG <3 hes so silly here

[cryptic-cryptoons]

They’re so cute when they’re loosing together, I can’t wait to see them kill each other in locker rooms.

[bruh18377372]

It is a fucking AWFUL time to be a rin fan

[reapkusho]

The blue lock leaks are insane but I'm prepared to defend Rin Itoshi with my life on the line. Don't play

[kainessies]

I can hear Sae laughing in his heart right now

[aninipanin1]

SPOILERS FOR BLLK MANGA (CHAP 347 and 348)

CHAPTER 347

I'M LATE BUT LMAOOO THE GOAL JUST MADE ME LAUGH RATHER THAN GET MAD

I dont really blame anyone for the goal being a failure (yes, even Ego stfu Ego haters). It was really just 'bad luck' in a sense of two players having seen the same opportunity to score their goals.

The Rin slander is pretty funny, but like I dont blame the guy that much (He still did something wrong yes, but its not lile he murdered someone kinda like how the slander make him out to be). Although, I would argue that in the play, he did NOT follow Ego's philosophy unlike how many people push it, he made a mistake which is pretty normal for football players.

AND NO his character development does not suck. He is still a developing character and developing characters make mistakes. He has to or else he will be a flat and perfect character, something an author should always avoid in which Kaneshiro did.

The one thing I blame Rin for in this match is his obsession. Now alot of people are saying that he followed Ego's spiel and philosophy, which my answer is NO. HE DID NOT.

The reason this goal failed is because Rin focused too much on his obsession with Isagi. Remember how he got so pissed that Isagi left him in the dust? Yeah, that obsession. One that mirrors his obsession with Sae.

He probably viewed it like how he views his feud with Sae. Becoming better than him and leaving him in the dust which made him lash out. And this was something Ego told him TO LET GO OF.

In his 14 day training, didnt Ego tell him to get rid of his obsession with Sae and Isagi? Yet he still has not and I do NOT blame him for that. Something like that takes time to unlearn, and him getting over it within a few weeks is bullcrap and unrealistic.

I hope that goal failure will be a wake up call to Rin that his obsession with Isaginand Sae would actually drag him down rather than pull him up. And this is probably the problem Sae has been seeing on Rin ever since he was young.

Rin is someone who wants the status quo. He wanted his brother to have the same dream as they did when they were younger, even though dreams changing as one grows older is normal (doesnt mean Sae is in the right here btw). Same thing with Isagi, it feels like Rin wants the status quo of them remaining as tie so he can have some form of rival in Isagi, which is not healthy because people grow and change and you cannot demand them to stay the way they are just because you want it.

Rin is still afraid of change. It is something he picked up from his fight with Sae. And in order to be the best player in the world, he has to accept change not just for himself but also for others and adapt.

That is also the difference between Barou stealing goals and Rin stealing that one goal. Barou acknowledges Isagi's changes, acknowledges his adaptability and adapts to Isagi's rising skill levels hence, he scores and succeeds. Meanwhile, Rin doesn't, hence he failed.

Hopefully though, Rin would learn this in the match since his character development is looking pretty interesting! Can't wait to see him rise up from these attachments and truly fight for himself, as well as accept change.

CHAPTER 348

I actually think that Kira is not the biggest hater of Blue Lock and that its Shindo instead lol. His words in the chapter about Kira's bad luck and dismissal of Blue Lock's skills are what made me start theorizing about it.

The parallels are kind of there, with him hitting Nagi with the ball twice with Nagi being a previous Blue Lock participant and oen who actually topped the ranks once back then. Additionally, we know that Nagi may have accepted Buratsuta's offer, but he is still submerged in the Blue Lock mentality if it isnt obvious with him saying "I am back Blue Lock" or him disagreeing with Buratsuta in that one chapter before the U20 WC.

With this, it felt like a direct attack on Blue Lock's philosophy (Nagi representing such) and Shindo saying that Kira just had bad luck made it more apparent. Luck has always been a crucial theme of Blue Lock and Isagi, hence him jotting it down to luck is both an ignorant observation as well as a disingenuous attack on the Blue Lock philosophy.

It shows that Shindo is someone who represents the masses collective thoughts, believing in luck being a blessing rather than something one must make. It even reminded me of Isagi's friend who said that his goal against the U20 team was lucky when we all know that is bs.

Shindo's comments about Blue Lock's skill also cement this. That he views them as those with skill, yes, but also those blessed with enough luck to survive the competition.

Maybe there would even come a time in the future where he would upfrontly tell Nagi that he is just lucky, seeing as from afar, it seems lile Nagi is one if not the luckiest football player in all the facility.

Starting football at 17, and becoming one of the top players in the facility where most if not all the players have been playing since they were toddlers. Truly, he is as skilled and as lucky to be blessed by God or genetics with a skilled body and mind.

I feel like Shindo would be the big bad not just for Nagi, but also for Kira in this. Seeing as Kira, in all the hatred he has in his heart for the project, probably still respect the players' skills just from his quiet reaction to Shindo's words.

Kira would not be working hard for revenge if he thinks Blue Lock players dont have the skills.

I also love Nagi's detachment to the attack Shindo did to him. It not only shows his personality of being passive due to his laziness, but also with his now new mentality of not attaching himself to anything lest it is chasing to become the best.

He already did that mistake with Isagi, attaching himself to Isagi to try and beat him and lool where that got him. So, its good that he seemed to have learned his lesson (hopefully).

This could even connect to the past chapter with Rin, and that if he doesnt learn to let go, he might crash the same way Nagi did. They are both geniuses, were dominating over their fellow players until, Nagi's attachments made him stagnant and ignore the fact that he had to change and pivot his attention to something more than being with Reo or beating someone like Isagi.

Anyways, the France game was really good other than the pacing, the whole battle of philosophies were actually so good! I cant wait to see what happens in the England game. Hopefully, the Hugo philosophy either get brought up again in the match with an even worse infighting between those who agrees with Hugo and those who agree with Ego, or it totally fizzles out due to some realizations or new lessons from Ego or from the game against the English team.

Either way, I think both would be very interesting.

[busytrailblazing]

Wtf was he expecting lmao

Rin is looking all shocked like someone physically pushed him to kick the ball with Isagi. Also, what even was that line up bro, Aiku was actually selling, Aryu didn't do shit, and Otoya was subbed on instead of keeping Reo, like what was Ego even thinking would happen?

The lineup had the top 3 most uncouperative ppl working together, and Ego somehow didn't expect shit to go downhill, the same Rin and Shidou who were on a team with Loki and still lost to bastard Muchen Vro. Rin and his obsession with Isagi is the main reason PXG sold their game with BM over this fucking rivalry. You wanna fuck ur rival? Then GO PLAY HOCKEY. I SWEAR EGO JINPATCHI IF I don't see RIN's ass on that BENCH

[barbiegirldream]

This scene in 347 where Isagi and Rin's joint kick fucks up, misses, and loses them the game is a core part of Blue Lock's philosophy. Working together will never get you anywhere. Be a solo egoist.

We see this happen where Nagi gets locked off because he relies too heavily on Reo and doesn't preform enough on his own despite having the talent for it.

Bachira and Isagi way back when get separated and teach us right away no team up is safe or sacred here.

And yet. WHY were Isagi and Kasier rewarded for working together and winning the match back in Neo Egoist League. It fundamentally contradicts the systems set up by the narrative. Isagi needed both Michael Kaiser and Alexis Ness to score a goal on Rin. (Kaiser's strength to match Rin and Ness's talent to pass the ball) Which you'd have THOUGHT would have shown Isagi a full team IS needed to play soccer.

But all he thought was that because he made a goal it was somehow all him. And now that Blue Lock has lost to France in the World League with everyone trying to be striker they're lost, befuddled, SHOCKED like this theory hasn't been presented and tested in their faces. I am so confused by the writing I truly am. Not because these aren't things that should come up in the story. But because they already have... multiple times. Yet nobody has learned a damn thing???