Rematch's budding community is a real melting pot of cultures: you have Rocket League players, football fans, five-a-side players, and perhaps the most dreaded people of all... Blue Lock fans.
For those unaware, Blue Lock is a shonen sports manga (later adapted into an anime) about finding Japan's next star striker. The titular Blue Lock programme is a brutal competition where those who are eliminated are barred from ever representing Japan at an international level.
The anime has all the tropes and trappings of a shonen series, which may be off-putting to football fans, but Blue Lock has grown very popular among anime fans.
So, how does this relate to Rematch? Well, Blue Lock-inspired names and custom characters are a regular sight on the solo queue ladder. It's especially common to see characters resembling Meguru Bachira, identifiable by his signature long black hair with yellow highlights.
Unfortunately for other Rematch players, the philosophy behind the aforementioned Blue Lock programme is to build the "ultimate egoist" striker, essentially the most selfish and ruthless forward in the world. This obviously isn't viable in real-life football, but nobody told these players that.
An unknowing Reddit user named Fat-Cloud...
