#blue lock ch 216

[bachirasbodyguard]

I can not actually deal with this mf, lord help me 😭😭😭😭

Nomura what kind of shit are you smoking nowadays 😭😭

[butterfirefly]

Not to be overdramatic or anything but I would die for Snuffy actually.

[teriri-sayes]

Reactions to the Lone Flame's Chapter 216

TL;DR - Village chief returns to the village. CH figures out how to properly use his aura. Lock meets Koukan.

Snow Archduchy is Russian-Inspired With all the new names being thrown around, I'm slowly being convinced that Russia is the inspiration for this place. First off, the names.

Yensky - revealed to be the village chief's name. The '-sky' in 'Yensky' is pronounced as 'ski' (the skiing equipment) and not 'sky' (heaven). Yensky is an actual place in Russia.

Wins Village - Russians do not have a 'w', but they have a 'v', so in Russian, this is called "Vins"... which is an actual Russian surname.

Erghe Mountains - From "Ulan Erge", another real-life Russian place.

Koukan - I'm a bit unsure of this one. There's a Russian surname called "Kokhanova", but in this case, the author might have been inspired by the Japanese word "koukan."

Gonia Free City - This isn't a part of the Snow Archduchy, but "Gonya" is a Russian surname. "Gonia" is more Polish in origin.

The only weird one is the Snow surname itself because its origin is England and not Russia. My guess is the author got it from Game of Thrones.

Area Domination Village chief Yensky returned to the village to explain to the villagers about the black castle. CH, CJS, and Mila accompanied him as guards, and while on their way, CH was pondering on a solution for the aura restriction on this world.

And he did come up with a solution. By using his aura to "dominate" the area. If you recall, CH's power-up in his fight against Blood Demon was that his aura became similar to Cale's Dominating Aura. So when he used his aura to "dominate" the area around him, the restrictions on his aura usage loosened.

CH also made a comparison with the dragon's Dragon Fear, and even thought that this was the reason why the Aipotu dragons were not affected by the power restrictions in this world. Dragon Fear was not just something to scare or oppress other living creatures. It was actually a power that dominates the area, causing other creatures to be afraid of this power.

Thus, CH thought that if the dragons fought while using Dragon Fear, they would not greatly suffer from the power restrictions of this world.

I'm quite surprised that it was CH who first figured out a solution. A quarter of the chapter was spent on CH's perspective. I also like that he and CJS get along well now and are not as awkward as before.

Blue Wolf and Berserk Transformation Lock and Koukan finally meet, and Koukan was revealed to still have wolf ears despite having a human form. The given reason was that 'humanization' had recently became unstable.

They were also having problems with Berserk Transformation. It was because the being who served as their support in their first berserk transformation ritual had disappeared. And who was that being? Their god, the Blue Wolf.

Upon hearing that, Hong immediately exclaimed that Lock here was a Blue Wolf. Shy Lock could only smile awkwardly when everyone's attention turned to him. But it was so cute when Hong attached the 'hyung' word to Lock. 🥰

Ending Remarks The focus on CH today was quite nice. More character development for him! So I'm looking forward to Raon's and Lock's character development in this Aipotu arc. And of course, the spread of Caleism in Aipotu. 😂

[nenekobasu]

notes on amateur weather forecast and assuming it turns out correct because that's way more fun:

what holds the whole post up is that blue lock loves recycling and repeating things for new contexts and uses this to build story so even if the list turns out to be bunk i think there will still be cool ways the chapters will be mirrored and connected. the whole pattern though is consistent with the idea of act 3 as a broad repeat of act 2 where barou’s shot is blocked in the opening chapter then succeeds in a later chapter except barou is kaiser (and kaiser is also mick meaning etc etc)

cool that this makes it so that ch.212 isagi overcomes ness and shoots while the corresponding isagi goal fails even with hiori’s help, “humans grow/benefit more from obstacles than from help” a kaneshiro classic

pretty sure it’s ch.214 when isagi thinks “i can hunt them! I can see everything!” then immediately we see aiku’s reaction the manga already foreshadowing the aiku hard counter. that’s key the fact isagi can “see” everything but vision doesn’t mean anything when that’s all you have, potential for ch.236 to emphasize this

ch.215 where snuffy presents barou with the questions that haunt the game lines up with ch.237 isagi existential crisis forecast. snuffy did some groundwork for this by explicitly marking isagi as a “talent” and by drawing a connection between isagi-barou, now isagi may have to face the questions snuffy originally asked barou— did isagi think his talent (vision/intellect) makes him better than everyone? doesn’t he look down on people who don’t have his talent (i.e. can’t share his imagination)? has isagi forgotten that he’s still just a regular person underneath it all? the other thing about ch.237 is that in this scenario (and this is pure cruelty) lorenzo would be mick. the idea of suicide as a form of escape that was posited through mick can be applied to hiori who may kill lorenzo in an act of symbolic escapist suicide-murder, so really hiori-lorenzo together become mick

ch.238 being raichi pog hour is because ch.216 is where barou-lorenzo talk and bond and the basmün equivalent of them is kaiser-raichi so it would be cool if this chapter was where raichi defeats lorenzo. if the mirroring holds the chapter can also be about stuff like “achieving ones dreams” ch.216 was about lorenzo’s dream and the equivalent would be the blue rose

i think noa-kaiser is a lot like snuffy-barou (i have EVIDENCE) but calling it still feels like hopium, i want it though so i’ll put it in to try and call it into being (so in reality the post is just a wishlist)

the “restart” panel of ch.217 where isagi rushes forward that was repeated with kaiser in ch.231 would end up in forced association to the very last chapter: the key to victory lay in duels, after all. since isagi getting niko-fouled is what lost him his protagonist slot to kaiser, here niko is needed to foul kaiser and restore balance— kaiser getting crushed allows isagi to become the protagonist for the next game