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ブルーロック [Blue Lock] #9
Blue Lock, Vol. 9
After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan's team struggles to regroup. But what's missing? An absolute Ace Striker, who can guide them to the win. The Football Association is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, and who can be the decisive instrument in turning around a losing match... and to do so, they've gathered 300 of Japan's best and brightest youth players. Who will emerge to lead the team... and will they be able to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in their way?
Thanks to Barou's awakening, Isagi's team manages to defeat the trio of Kunigami, Chigiri, and Reo. And the one that Isagi chooses to steal is... The new four-man team sets out for a rematch against the Top Three and Bachira. Will the "monster" that fuels Isagi's ego be enough to take down the prodigy striker Rin Itoshi?!
Thanks to Barou's awakening, Isagi's team manages to defeat the trio of Kunigami, Chigiri, and Reo. And the one that Isagi chooses to steal is... The new four-man team sets out for a rematch against the Top Three and Bachira. Will the "monster" that fuels Isagi's ego be enough to take down the prodigy striker Rin Itoshi?!
192 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 15, 2020
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Muneyuki Kaneshiro
276 books253 followersMuneyuki Kaneshiro (金城宗幸, Kaneshiro Muneyuki) is a Japanese mangaka.
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November 30, 2024
4.5/5
These matches are making me go INSANEEEEE.
These matches are making me go INSANEEEEE.
August 16, 2023
Who doesn’t love Bachira?? He’s the best. Finally getting his backstory in this volume made me adore him even more than I already do <3
These matches are getting intense, with new teammates joining Isagi and old faces returning as rivals with even more strength. I loved the mix of good soccer and humour this time around (the roommate situation and Aryu’s hair complex are so funny)!
These matches are getting intense, with new teammates joining Isagi and old faces returning as rivals with even more strength. I loved the mix of good soccer and humour this time around (the roommate situation and Aryu’s hair complex are so funny)!
April 9, 2022
Another favourite cover. I love Aryu and his hair lol.
On another note, I would die for Bachira. That's my baby and that backstory killed me.
On another note, I would die for Bachira. That's my baby and that backstory killed me.
September 16, 2024
my second fav volume yet (after volume 6). i did realize they both heavily include rin so that may say something about me idk........ he makes me go a little insane 🤭 i just love his character so much.
bachira telling rin "haha...they got you rin-chan..." i died of laughter 🤣🤣 not bachira throwing that in his own teammates face. but he knew nagi and isagi got him good and plus we all know bachira is really cheering them on. 🥺
there was so many great moments in this volume:
- bachira's backstory 😭
- how important isagi is to bachira
- nagi realizing how much he loves and enjoys soccer
- "i'm sorry reo..." WHEN I TELL YOU I WAS ON THE VERGE OF CRYING. i'm feeling so anxious about these two. i just need them to work out their shit or i don't think i will ever be okay.
- rin's first time getting a little unsettled 🤭
- aryu asking chigiri what conditioner he uses for his hair. what an iconic moment 😂
bachira telling rin "haha...they got you rin-chan..." i died of laughter 🤣🤣 not bachira throwing that in his own teammates face. but he knew nagi and isagi got him good and plus we all know bachira is really cheering them on. 🥺
there was so many great moments in this volume:
- bachira's backstory 😭
- how important isagi is to bachira
- nagi realizing how much he loves and enjoys soccer
- "i'm sorry reo..." WHEN I TELL YOU I WAS ON THE VERGE OF CRYING. i'm feeling so anxious about these two. i just need them to work out their shit or i don't think i will ever be okay.
- rin's first time getting a little unsettled 🤭
- aryu asking chigiri what conditioner he uses for his hair. what an iconic moment 😂
January 22, 2023
why is this so stressful 😭
and bachira's past was the best part of this volume for sure. fave character right there
and bachira's past was the best part of this volume for sure. fave character right there
November 19, 2025
(1) I realized the manga-ka has been doing such a good job, for someone like me who (1) knows nothing about football and (2) not interested in football to just keep reading anyway.
(2) interesting teamwork!
(3) interesting character's backstory!
(2) interesting teamwork!
(3) interesting character's backstory!
October 11, 2022
*4.5 stars
bachira's backstory >>>
bachira's backstory >>>
May 11, 2021
Loving these character designs, they're not stereotypical and feel very three dimensional.
December 30, 2025
My favourite character is jyubei aryu “what kind of conditioner do you use"😂
October 27, 2021
The monsters are coming out to play INDEED
June 2, 2023
This series is so ridiculous
November 27, 2021
He sufrido por Reo. 😔
October 28, 2023
2nd read
... there is absolutely no rhyme or reason for me to already reread this except for "i miss rinsagi and their insanely homoerotic rivalry"
1st read
the inherent homoeroticism of wanting so bad to devour your rival aka the person you also want to be, that the monsters are coming out to play.
... there is absolutely no rhyme or reason for me to already reread this except for "i miss rinsagi and their insanely homoerotic rivalry"
1st read
the inherent homoeroticism of wanting so bad to devour your rival aka the person you also want to be, that the monsters are coming out to play.
August 26, 2024
reread 8.26.24
original review stands. Nagi vs Rin is still really exciting, and Aryu/Toki/Barou had me in tears of laughter.
original review
Aryu cracks me up, Bachira is precious, and Nagi and Rin turn up the drama.
original review stands. Nagi vs Rin is still really exciting, and Aryu/Toki/Barou had me in tears of laughter.
original review
Aryu cracks me up, Bachira is precious, and Nagi and Rin turn up the drama.
June 8, 2025
You know, when I think about how lonely I’ve been…this place, where soccer is played with such intensity, is paradise.
i will always think about when i told a coworker that i was starting this series and she predicted so accurately that bachira would be my favorite :’)
at least, he’s one of my favorites, next to rin & hiori!
and this volume really nailed it in the coffin for me. something i love with stories about competitive sports is not just all the action on the court, and not what’s going through these characters’ heads in the game—but also learning about what this game means to them.
for kunigami, the soccer players he admires are like superheroes come to life. for nagi, it’s the first thing to really make him break out of his comfort zone and want to learn more. and for bachira, he just loves how unpredictable the game can be—all the different ways you can play to get the winning goal. and he also finds kinship with isagi, unlike what he experienced back home.
before, he was always lonely and stuck in his own head with his “monster”. but now he’s surrounded by a bunch of different monsters who are chasing their dreams to become the next striker. it’s so intense to read, and i love it!
the 4v4 match just started and already has me on edge, despite knowing how it ends from the anime :’) i really enjoyed the build-up to it and seeing how these two teams mesh with each other—it adds some fun to the story before things become very cutthroat.
and barou was especially entertaining!! really looking forward to reading the next volume <3
i will always think about when i told a coworker that i was starting this series and she predicted so accurately that bachira would be my favorite :’)
at least, he’s one of my favorites, next to rin & hiori!
and this volume really nailed it in the coffin for me. something i love with stories about competitive sports is not just all the action on the court, and not what’s going through these characters’ heads in the game—but also learning about what this game means to them.
for kunigami, the soccer players he admires are like superheroes come to life. for nagi, it’s the first thing to really make him break out of his comfort zone and want to learn more. and for bachira, he just loves how unpredictable the game can be—all the different ways you can play to get the winning goal. and he also finds kinship with isagi, unlike what he experienced back home.
before, he was always lonely and stuck in his own head with his “monster”. but now he’s surrounded by a bunch of different monsters who are chasing their dreams to become the next striker. it’s so intense to read, and i love it!
the 4v4 match just started and already has me on edge, despite knowing how it ends from the anime :’) i really enjoyed the build-up to it and seeing how these two teams mesh with each other—it adds some fun to the story before things become very cutthroat.
and barou was especially entertaining!! really looking forward to reading the next volume <3
September 14, 2024
Best volume yet?
We got a 4 vs 4, and it's fucking INTENSE!
I really liked Isagi here as he has to go all out with his team. Using Chigiri and King and Nagi to do their own team they make a choatic as hell all our striker team. Leaving the other team to have to go all out with teamwork, balacing the game in a crazy opposite way from the first time Isagi verse Rin. Leaving Rin to finally have to take off the kid gloves and play serious by the end.
The over the top shonen style level up attacks and grit, mixed with the sweet sweet cursing, make this one a hell of a lot of fun. If like any sports Manga, this is easily top 5. Check it out!
We got a 4 vs 4, and it's fucking INTENSE!
I really liked Isagi here as he has to go all out with his team. Using Chigiri and King and Nagi to do their own team they make a choatic as hell all our striker team. Leaving the other team to have to go all out with teamwork, balacing the game in a crazy opposite way from the first time Isagi verse Rin. Leaving Rin to finally have to take off the kid gloves and play serious by the end.
The over the top shonen style level up attacks and grit, mixed with the sweet sweet cursing, make this one a hell of a lot of fun. If like any sports Manga, this is easily top 5. Check it out!
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December 28, 2022Dude. in this wide wide world im the only one who can save me
August 2, 2024
So styl🥵🥵🥰😍
July 27, 2025
i love bachira, he’s the best. also it’s becoming very clear that kaneshiro has a thing for friendship/love triangles and this arc is yet more proof.
November 5, 2022
How does this series keep getting better and better?
August 7, 2021
I feel like I can't breathe when reading this series hshshshshs there's a lot of action, intense moment that make my heart pumping really fast! And we are at the final match for second selection. The players are no joke for both team and they keep evolving, getting better and better.
Also, the art style URGHHH IT'S SO AMAZING! The characters' eyes when they have the monster inside of them is so exciting!! And the puzzle pieces, the movement, everything is so refreshing! My heart is racing hahahaha I'm on to the next volume!
Also, the art style URGHHH IT'S SO AMAZING! The characters' eyes when they have the monster inside of them is so exciting!! And the puzzle pieces, the movement, everything is so refreshing! My heart is racing hahahaha I'm on to the next volume!
March 16, 2024
I'm here for my boy Bachira so that's an instant 4, and Nagi is excellent with Isagi, but the match has not popped off at all despite the cast of characters involved. We'll see what will happen next, but in this volume the manga felt really lost in its own language.
August 12, 2021
everyone is sooo good i’m excited to see how the boys will surprise and evolve
November 23, 2021
Testosterone is flying as the boys of Blue Lock pound on each other for another series of matches. Isagi’s power lead the field last time, but if he meets somebody else who’s got his skills, but better, what chance does he have?
Another volume, another four hundred uses of the words ‘devour’ and ‘chemical reaction’. If you took those out of the writer’s word processor the book would be 25% shorter. At least the devour concept will give the doujinshi writers something to work with.
I will give that the moment when Isagi’s team picks its fourth member is especially good because one of the losers has a real collapse and the advice they’re given - don’t be the one who isn’t picked, be the one doing the picking - is actually a fairly decent line.
At any rate, this is all leading up to the moment where Isagi has come to rescue Bachira from his other team in a way that is 100% heteronormative and can’t be read with any other interpretation. Cough.
We get Bachira’s backstory and while it introduces more visual absurdity into a story already stuffed to the gills with it (hello again, jigsaw puzzle metaphor!), it does a good job reconciling his very bizarre first appearances with his current personality. It feels like a bit of a retcon, but not a bad one.
Isagi and Bachira want to be on the same team, but right now they’re not, and that means Isagi has to rise to the occasion and figure out a way past his opponents and that turns out to be harder than expected. Especially when the match really starts to cook and Bachira can’t help but come at Isagi full strength.
It’s unfortunate that this team is made up of the goofy guy who can’t pronounce style properly and the neurotic mess who seems to play well but sounds like a pathetic blubbering wimp all the time, although everybody gets their moments.
Look, it’s Blue Lock, you’ll have a good time and people will yell and eventually chemically devour or whatever and then turn the tide and win. I just praised another book for daring to be about failure - this one seeds much less doubt about most of its outcomes.
Still, I’ll never deny that the action here is fun enough and there is a certain satisfaction to watching these puzzles get overcome with ludicrous posturing and zany maneuvers, all while people have entire internal soliloquies about what’s going on during the match in about a split second of real time.
3 stars - utterly preposterous, yet never a dull read, and pretty enjoyable, even if I have a very good time dunking on its excesses. It’s got its issues, but I never regret reading a volume.
Another volume, another four hundred uses of the words ‘devour’ and ‘chemical reaction’. If you took those out of the writer’s word processor the book would be 25% shorter. At least the devour concept will give the doujinshi writers something to work with.
I will give that the moment when Isagi’s team picks its fourth member is especially good because one of the losers has a real collapse and the advice they’re given - don’t be the one who isn’t picked, be the one doing the picking - is actually a fairly decent line.
At any rate, this is all leading up to the moment where Isagi has come to rescue Bachira from his other team in a way that is 100% heteronormative and can’t be read with any other interpretation. Cough.
We get Bachira’s backstory and while it introduces more visual absurdity into a story already stuffed to the gills with it (hello again, jigsaw puzzle metaphor!), it does a good job reconciling his very bizarre first appearances with his current personality. It feels like a bit of a retcon, but not a bad one.
Isagi and Bachira want to be on the same team, but right now they’re not, and that means Isagi has to rise to the occasion and figure out a way past his opponents and that turns out to be harder than expected. Especially when the match really starts to cook and Bachira can’t help but come at Isagi full strength.
It’s unfortunate that this team is made up of the goofy guy who can’t pronounce style properly and the neurotic mess who seems to play well but sounds like a pathetic blubbering wimp all the time, although everybody gets their moments.
Look, it’s Blue Lock, you’ll have a good time and people will yell and eventually chemically devour or whatever and then turn the tide and win. I just praised another book for daring to be about failure - this one seeds much less doubt about most of its outcomes.
Still, I’ll never deny that the action here is fun enough and there is a certain satisfaction to watching these puzzles get overcome with ludicrous posturing and zany maneuvers, all while people have entire internal soliloquies about what’s going on during the match in about a split second of real time.
3 stars - utterly preposterous, yet never a dull read, and pretty enjoyable, even if I have a very good time dunking on its excesses. It’s got its issues, but I never regret reading a volume.
September 18, 2023
"Lo que yo quiero, es un amigo de verdad con el que pueda pasarlo bien jugando al fútbol"
El 4 VS 4 es la última prueba que nuestros egoístas están a punto de enfrentar.
Y es que no solo están por descubrir quién es el mejor, si no que lo que se viene más adelante será decisivo para el proyecto de Blue Lock.
Así que solo descubrir quién ganará en este partido y a quien se robaran del equipo perdedor.
Es una apuesta grande, pero el partido será uno de los mejores 💪
El 4 VS 4 es la última prueba que nuestros egoístas están a punto de enfrentar.
Y es que no solo están por descubrir quién es el mejor, si no que lo que se viene más adelante será decisivo para el proyecto de Blue Lock.
Así que solo descubrir quién ganará en este partido y a quien se robaran del equipo perdedor.
Es una apuesta grande, pero el partido será uno de los mejores 💪
August 3, 2025
➛ vol. 9 ★★★★★
“𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙛, 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙢𝙚? 𝙞𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚, 𝙞’𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙨𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙞 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙜𝙤 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚… 𝙞 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙𝙣’𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩!!”
seeing bachira’s backstory made me so sad :( what do you mean nobody wanted to play with him?!?!?! what do you mean everyone called him mean names :( he’s just a cutie :( ugh but seeing him literally shine as soon as he realized isagi is just like him made me so happy !
“𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙛, 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙢𝙚? 𝙞𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚, 𝙞’𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙨𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙞 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙜𝙤 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚… 𝙞 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙𝙣’𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩!!”
seeing bachira’s backstory made me so sad :( what do you mean nobody wanted to play with him?!?!?! what do you mean everyone called him mean names :( he’s just a cutie :( ugh but seeing him literally shine as soon as he realized isagi is just like him made me so happy !
November 28, 2022
So far I am absolutely love this manga and the anime. The charterers are so good and they don't over explane there back story which is over don a lot. Also the theme of ego and being selfish to reach ones goals hits, and is one that makes me thing, because if isagi didn't have he's ego he couldn't get to where he is today.
March 25, 2021
4 stars *may change
i’m sorry but i cringe every single time bachira brings up “the monster” that lives inside him 😭
i’m sorry but i cringe every single time bachira brings up “the monster” that lives inside him 😭
August 29, 2021
Omg bachiras backstory so good I like how it shows form his point of view too in this volume!! And I’m so excited to see how isagi beats rin in the next volume
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