Blue Lock, Vol. 12

ブルーロック [Blue Lock] #12

by Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura (Illustrator)

WOULD YOU LEAVE IT ALL ON THE FIELD?

After making it through the grueling Second Selection, Isagi and the remaining thirty-four strikers prepare for their next challenge, a match against the current U-20 Japan team. At stake: a chance to represent Japan on the world stage as part of the U-20 team. However, with only eleven spots available on the Blue Lock team, Isagi must first clear tryouts if he is to keep his dreams alive. Can he assert his place among the best of the best?!

Genres: Manga, Sports, Fiction, Shonen, Comics, Graphic Novels, Young Adult

208 pages, Paperback

First published December 17, 2020

About the author

Muneyuki Kaneshiro (金城宗幸, Kaneshiro Muneyuki) is a Japanese mangaka.

Reviews

[Freefall (super inactive rn sorry)]

that pose on the cover definitely does freakshidou justice.

THIS WAS ABSOLUTELY INSANE I CAN'T EVEN CALL IT PEAK BECAUSE I ALREADY KNOW IT GETS EVEN FUCKIN BETTER?! KANESHIRO YOU GENIUS ASS

it's really funny, being reintroduced to these characters in canon. i forget how genuinely talented they all are, all treating soccer like their entire lives, when fanfiction primarily embraces their less serious sides. i love every single character. shidou was so fucking hot (so was karasu omogmg i love karasu) like i don't even know how i feel about him anymore. such fun, complex characters.

the side connections are immensely loveable, too: the actually-healthy and cute dynamic of isagi, nanase, and my fave femboy hiori; and shidou and his future brother-in-law rin beefing; TABIEITA BEST SHIP EVER; and poor aryu. imagine being the one of the only glam people in a sea of super unglam chopped stinky soccer players.

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[Althea ☾]

I think that the charm of this series is that it takes on a very different approach to teamwork and its other themes than other sports manga. The core of its themes revolve around how you need to better yourself first and that by pulling each other forward can you improve in ways that you might not have imagined before.

[hope]

ISAGI POPPED OFF 🔥🔥🔥🔥
what a king 👑

[aleksandra]

4.25/5

Isagi really is the MAIN character.

[Lauren Lanz]

Shido is going to be interesting, isn’t he? I’ve seen so many crazy panels of him circulating online before I started Blue Lock, so I’m kind of excited now that he’s been officially introduced. He already seems so intense, going head-to-head with a monster (Rin) and keeping up no problem!

[Ali]

حس انیمه رو نمیده و هیجان داستان زیاد حس نمیشه ولی مسیر جالبی رو پیش گرفته. یه سری تئوری تو ذهنم هست و اگه تا آخرین چپتر داستان که تا الان اومده، اتفاق افتاده باشه چیز جالبی میشه.

[Bianca]

THAT FUCKING LAST CHAPTER WAS TRULY AMAZING. Isagi is by far my favorite character.

[clea]

i really love nanase such a breath of fresh air :’) also shidou appreciating every goal even though its a goal from the opponent is so touching to me! kingshit

[(straw)mary ♡]

*3.5 stars

i didn't feel as much adrenaline until the last chapter

but that main character moment >>>

[Lucy (the invisible life of a reader)]

this stress is not good for my heart

[marilynn]

isagi overthinks more than i do and that's saying something

[Munsaka]

Isagi Yoichi you have set foot on the path to the equation to create mircales!!!!
My man just keeps getting better and better😌

[★ngeles]

Yo definitivamente tengo algo con los que tienen nombre de cuervo

[jay]

not as exciting for me as the others, but still an enjoyable read. like always, can't wait for the next volume!!

[Courtney K]

I prefer the anime. I wanted to know what happens next, but I think I'll just wait for the next season.

[zennie ♡]

i can't express how much I love the details in the eyes! it's one of the things I look forward to while reading blue lock!

[mikaela (spinebreaker)]

Reread 9.2.24
See below (though 11 is still a better volume overall)

SHIDOU AND RIN YELLING AT EACH OTHER >>>>>>>>>


Original review
This one actually had my heart racing!!! Maybe that's because I was running away from Shidou's attempts to steal it? His perfect reverse eyeliner really steals the show here. Fresh team dynamics keep the match interesting and everyone keeps making strides. Shidou and Rin's rivalry dynamic is chef's kiss. i literally cannot wait to see this match animated

[Danielle's Books]

I think this was my favorite volume so far. The last chapter was real nice because Isagi finally got to show actual potential. I used to find it annoying how analytical he was because it felt like it was getting in the way, but he has finally made progress towards becoming even better.

[Demian]

Isagi hot

[fulcrum]

the cover!

i fear they’ll never stop saying weird shit to each other during matches.
“look at me karasu… don’t you want these legs?!” chigiri my guy what are you even saying.

[yousra]

ISAGI LE GOAT QUE TU ES

[⛅ Sunny (sunnysidereviews) ⛅]

okay new characters, I see you.

[Mark]

In a critical moment for both child welfare services and the national debt, Blue Lock is in danger of being shut down if its testosterone-fueled sociopaths can’t beat the U-20 Japanese team. Of course, they have to make a team first. Oh, could that involve even more matches, mayhap?

Proving its point almost too well, when we see the team breakdowns for this latest micro-tournament and Isagi is paired with two new characters who seem genuinely nice, it’s a such big change from the parade of jerks that the story even comments on it.

But if this series has taught us anything, it’s that self-serving assholes are what will save the day. Therefore these poor stars-in-the-making get the shaft in favour of introducing a villain and having everybody be general butts to one another.

You can’t fault the story for sticking to its guns, anyway, as it’s never faltered from championing its viewpoint and eschewing anything that isn’t full-tilt football action. There’s nothing nuanced here and the way we used to get backstory for the players being eliminated? No time for that now!

So we see Isagi struggle on the pitch, although I do laud the story for actually pointing out a problem inherent in his think-y ability that I had been noticing for several volumes and wondering whether anybody would address it. They actually do! And it makes him worse!

Or better, as the story would have it, as Isagi desperately tries to fight off an obnoxious player on the opposing team and learns to explode with the raw hatred of all humanity that you need to succeed as a sporting figure. Still, it’s remarkably clever that they took a criticism and revealed that it was valid and expanded upon it.

The art remains excellent and the action solid. They’re basically down to at least one player being a ninja, so that’s a thing. I just don’t have the mindset for this ‘there can be only one’ Highlander-style destruction that seeks to prove only one can be the best, while ignoring all the destroyed dreams and broken young adults left in its wake, but you can’t say it isn’t easily digestible content.

3 stars - it’s as pure a bread and circuses manga as I’ve ever seen, where the appeal is the spectacle and the spectacle is the appeal. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy it even as I goof on it, but I’d equally be lying if I said that my primary draw to it at this point wasn’t morbid curiosity.

[Sheepy]

LETS GO! this volume was great from page one! And that final moment has me buzzing for the next one!

[Ana]

3 stars *may change
stopped reading for 2 days only to come back to isagi being an idiot

[laura]

according to my calculations

∆ = b² - 4 a c
x1,2 = -b± √∆ / 2a
= i love shidou ryusei

[ash !]

➛ vol. 12 ★★★★★

“𝙞’𝙢 𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙖 𝙧𝙪𝙗 𝙨𝙤 𝙢𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙨𝙖𝙡𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙, 𝙞𝙩’𝙡𝙡 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙮𝙤𝙪, 𝙙𝙪𝙢𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙨.”

i really have been enjoying getting to know some of the players we have yet to be introduced to. it makes it feel less daunting if that makes sense?? at first i thought there was gonna be so many characters at this point that i wouldn’t keep up. but i am! and at the same time as being so clear that isagi is the main character?? the authors have done an amazing job at that

[Kaitlynne]

Some of the things that come out of the mouths of these characters, like the names that the call each other or the insults that they like to hurl is just so unhinged an hilarious to me. Makes me go yep this is a shonen. 🤣🤣

[sarah]

n pq a joyce me prometeu empatia e ate agora nada pelo rin

[Jay]

3.5 ⭐

L'ultimo capitolo e il "flusso" dell'evoluzione di Isagi valgono tutto il volume