Blue Lock Vol. 14: Blue Lock 14
- ISBN
- 9781646516711
- Publisher
- Kodansha
- English release
The Blue Lock Eleven finally face Japan's established youth team in a challenge to the program's ambitions. Returning readers get the match that the tryouts prepared, with a strong defense standing between the strikers and their claims. This begins the confrontation rather than replacing its setup. Keep the selection volumes in order if the lineup matters to you: the individual battles on this field carry relationships formed before kickoff.
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The match asks the project to make its favored skill work against a defensive unit. Blue Lock's side also begins without Shidou, its wild-card striker, so the team's available resources matter as much as its ideals. Isagi faces another player who thinks reflexively, while the Itoshi brothers bring an older rivalry onto the same field. Those separate pressures are the reason to follow the opening of this contest. The program cannot win by announcing that it values ego more strongly than its opponents do. Its players have to turn their individual advantages into an attack that actually gets through.
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