#isabachi

[fan-surs]

EVERYONE,

I've just received the @bachisagizine !!!

ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE EVERYONE!!

I love it so so much and I can't wait to read through it immediately!!!

#meguru bachira #isagi yoichi #bachisagi #isabachi #blue lock #bllk #fandom zine

[obcyss]

bachira's gift for his partner.

#meme to drawing #i love doing that #blue lock #bllk #isagi yoichi #bachira meguru #bachisagi #isabachi #anime #manga #fanart #meme #tiktok meme #art

[strawberymilkk]

#art #fanart #digital art #bllk #blue lock #csp #bachira #bachira meguru #meguru bachira #isagi #isagi yoichi #yoichi isagi #bachisagi #isbc #isabachi #bcis

[kurobachisagi]

bachisagi comic based on an interaction between me and my bff but only the first page actually happened i just like to make things up

#they make me ill i love bachisahg #posted a wip of this on twitter a while ago. mentioned the context. immediately forgot about it #and then said friend saw it a few days later bc i let him look at my twitter. since i had forgotten posting that #hashtag embarrassing #bllk #blue lock #blue lock fanart #bachisagi #isagi yoichi #bachira meguru #bcis #isabachi #bachiisa #isbc #bllk fanart #bllk bachira #bllk isagi #ney draws

[dash-asaren]

#fanart #blue lock #bllk #isbc #isabachi #bachira meguru #isagi yoichi

[wenbeez]

#artists on tumblr #bllk #bluelock #blue lock #bachira #bachira meguru #isagi #isagi yoichi #isabachi #isbc #bachisagi #my art

[officialmiintee]

bcis / aquarium date

#artists on tumblr #fanart #blue lock #blue lock fanart #bachira meguru #isagi yoichi #bachisagi #isabachi #mint archives ; art

[lan-tana]

Good morning ~

#bachisagi #isabachi #blue lock #bachira meguru #isagi yoichi #bllk #my art

[typical-ingrid]

finished a sketchbook recently! Most of the pages towards the end were Blue Lock doodles 😅

#blue lock #bllk #blue lock spoilers #isagi yoichi #bachira meguru #hiori yo #kurona ranze #isabachi

[bureikyun]

just a bunch of silly doodles

#blue lock #doodles #isagi yoichi #bachira meguru #mikage reo #nagi seishiro #itoshi sae #itoshi rin #chigiri hyoma #kunigami rensuke #nagireo #isabachi #bachisagi #kunigiri #itoshi brothers #my art

[moon-mpballz]

IM A STRIKERRRRR⁉️⁉️⁉️ bros asking us 😰😰

I’ve never watched nor read Blue lock but drawing art for these two despite that just because they’re the sort of character dynamic I like is funny 🤭🤭

#fanart #fandom #art #artwork #ship art #isagi yoichi #bachira meguru #anime #manga #blue lock #bachisagi #isabachi

[rirururu]

Why Bachira x Isagi (Blue Lock) is One of the Best Ships of All Time

WARNING: SPOILERS FOR UP TO CHAPTER 86 OF THE MANGA

I’ll be honest and say that while Isagi and Bachira’s dynamic in the first arc was cute, it wasn’t anything that stood out to me too much. It seemed like a very typical sports anime type relationship at first. The main character shoots. His friend is there for him and passes to him so he can shine. They have good chemistry. They achieve results together that would be un-imaginably amazing compared to when they were apart. We’ve seen it so many times before already. Kageyama and Hinata, Kuroko and Kagami, Mihashi and Abe; the list goes on.

That all stops when the second selection starts.

Bachira was forced to leave and suddenly Isagi has to fight on his own. He recognizes that up until now, he’s only been useful because of Bachira and in order to get him back, has to learn to fight without him. And, contrary to what we’re made to believe in the first selection that Isagi is better when with Bachira, the truth is that Isagi actually thrives without Bachira. In fact, he gets so powerful that even an outsider like Nagi who initially called him worthless without Bachira genuinely believed that Isagi would decide against stealing Bachira back by the end.

As for Bachira, he’s given a hard wake-up call when he finally sees Isagi again. He recognizes how much better Isagi is without him to the point of Isagi ignoring him on the field, and that sets the part of himself that can only feel alive when he’s with Isagi off. It’s only with this wake-up call that Bachira realizes everything he’s thought up until now was wrong. That’s when we get a parallel to what Isagi did for Bachira in learning to fight without him in order to get him back. In exchange for being able to stand on the same level as and not be left behind by Isagi, Bachira threw away his purpose of playing soccer as his way to connect with Isagi. He realized he shouldn’t do things for the sake of staying by Isagi’s side. He should be doing things for his own growth. Bachira did this fully believing and grieving that he was giving up on being with Isagi. So much so that in his head, Bachira says goodbye to him. And in a similar fashion to Isagi, that’s the moment we learn that Bachira is actually stronger without him. 

They both had to get stronger out of desperation to stay together, and consequently abandoned that part of themselves that depended on each other in the first place.

I want to pause right here and just applaud the author. I know Blue Lock has been praised as being a subversion of a ton of sports manga tropes and this is probably one of the most fantastic examples. We’re so used to the protagonist-and-partner combination being put on a pedestal. But here, it’s deconstructed right in front of us to show how it actually hinders both Isagi and Bachira as strikers and as people. And honestly? It felt like that would be it. I remember my heart dropping when I reached that point in the manga. Logically they would go their separate ways in a mutual break-up.

But they don’t. In the final scene of the soccer match, we see that everyone hadn’t believed in Bachira’s ego since long ago while Isagi had never stopped believing in him. Isagi caught Bachira’s winning goal. I thought that was a perfect parallel to their first meeting when Bachira passed the ball to the monster and then Isagi became the monster. This time Bachira abandoned the monster. There was no monster anymore because Bachira left it behind but even when the monster was gone, Isagi was still there. It's symbolic of how he doesn't see Isagi as just a monster anymore. He sees Isagi as Isagi, signaling a new era in their relationship.

And that’s also when Bachira realizes that just because he’s grown away from needing Isagi, just because he doesn’t live to make Isagi stronger anymore, just because he’s embracing that part of him that plays soccer solitarily for himself, doesn’t mean Isagi won’t still be there with him and believing in him. Bachira could change as much as he wants and the other won’t leave. They don’t need each other anymore, but that’s exactly what allows them to realize that being together makes them so happy, makes soccer so much fun, that they want to stick together until the very end anyway. 

(Or the official translation / scans)

This direction for their relationship seems bittersweet but I think that’s what makes it realistic. Relationships are multi-faceted and they change over time. Isagi and Bachira had to say goodbye to one aspect of their relationship but they also gained a new one. They both used to rely on each other a lot to be their very best. That mutualistic symbiotic relationship they had in soccer, that is the crutch in so many sports anime, is gone now. Bachira and Isagi aren’t necessary to each other in soccer anymore. Personally though, I think this new dynamic actually makes them closer than they were before.

To Bachira, Isagi used to be a person he needed to pass to because he’s a monster and someone who staved off his loneliness. To Isagi, Bachira used to be someone who made good passes to help him function in soccer. I think the fact that Bachira was so easily swayed to making Rin his new “monster” made it evident. As they continue to grow as strikers, they’ll be cycling through teammates most suited to their skillset. Teammates come and go. What Isagi and Bachira are to each other evolved past that, beyond the soccer field, and became something that would stay with them their entire lives. There is no “I’m with Isagi because if I can’t play soccer with him, I would die from loneliness” or “I’m with Bachira because he lets me be invincible on the field” anymore. They’re together because they want to be and because they love each other (platonically or romantically). That’s all.

(Manga panel taken from an AMV on youtube)

And I think that’s beautiful. It’s beautiful because this is what true unconditional love looks like. I know what the manga did to them might not be the “popular” thing. Ships that are super dependent on each other and need each other to live are the ones that get views because it’s seen as romantic. But Bachisagi / Isabachi abandoned that to instead become one of the healthiest relationships you could possibly get not just in a sports anime but in general. 

I mean, wow. I wish I had someone who wanted to be with me and had the emotional capacity to always believe in me no matter how much I changed, disappointed, and grew away from centering my world around them. I wish I had someone who could say that they don’t need me anymore but that’s exactly why they can say in full confidence that they still want me with all their heart. Bachisagi is seriously #relationshipgoals more than most married couples. 

In conclusion, Bachira/Isagi deserves way more recognition and I will happily scream into the void with the other 6 of you out there who ship them /j

#bachisagi #isabachi #blue lock #bachira meguru #isagi yoichi #bllk #abbreviating blue lock as BLLK to avoid calling it BL is hilarious #blue lock manga #meta #discourse #manga #manga spoilers

[lizzieonka]

Pairs in Blue Lock that are practically canon

BachiSagi = Bachira looking fondly at Isagi in that one panel and him saying “I love you/aishiteru” to Isagi in his head

NagiReo = these two have their own shoujo manga

RyuSae = the whole u-20 arc is them flirting with each other

And the latest pair to the list, KaiNess = Ness being the one who did Kaiser’s hair and calling the dye a beautiful blue (similar to how “The moon is beautiful, isn’t it?/Tsuki ga kirei desu ne?” is a poetic way of saying “I love you” in Japanese)

Blue Lock’s acronym is literally BL. This should be a shounen ai

#bachisagi #isabachi #nagireo #reonagi #ryusae #kainess #blue lock #blue lock manga #blue lock spoilers #miyamiwu.src #miyamiwu.tol

[strawberymilkk]

#art #fanart #digital art #fan art #bllk #blue lock #csp #bachira #bachira meguru #meguru bachira #isagi #yoichi isagi #isagi yoichi #bachisagi #isbc #bcis #isabachi

[kurobachisagi]

hold on cut the cameras they’re supposed to be playing soccer

#me and my disease called evrry time something gay happens between me and my bff partner bestie bestfriend i have to draw it as bachisagi #also. said bff who does not even like blue lock .started reading bachisagi fics???? andthey remind him of us ……. #mutual projection onto bachisagi goes crazy #anyways #bllk #bachisagi #blue lock #isagi yoichi #bachira meguru #bcis #isabachi #bllk fanart #blue lock fanart #isbc #ney draws

[dash-asaren]

#blue lock #bllk #fanart #isbc #isabachi #bachira meguru #isagi yoichi