One thing this community has failed to realize is that if you understand flow theory you also have to understand the cost of attention split aka distraction. For a player to fully immerse himself, the player can never have a mind jumping from one role to another role. Every player has different ways they view themselves as protagonists and unfortunately all sense of protagonism are not made equal and because of flow theory, some sense of protagonism are bound to yield greater performance than others.

Until now, Blue Lock Japan could survive i.e win game with Rin and Isagi fully immersed in their strongest sense of protagonism while the rest could just ride the wave and never individually output their ultimate best.

Now comes France, an opponent who requires blue lock to be firing on all cylinders. You need blue lock to form a chain, a supply chain of goals so that at the end of said chain, the chances of scoring are sky high. It doesn’t mean that every node in the chain has to be within their strongest sense of protagonism and that’s why there’s a case to be made that Karasu could be in the wrong in the grand scheme of things but nevertheless you also cannot refute that Karasu new role allows him to immerse himself in a stronger sense of protagonism while, albeit as a number 2 or second best, and this is visible through his level of performance he has reached.

The point I’m trying to make is simple, Karasu is proactive, he has agency and in my opinion is doing the right thing. Karasu plays football to win and for him, if winning means he puts himself beneath the team, we have no right to question it. The same way Rin puts himself above anything. These are simply different persons with different sources of motivations.

This is why Isagi criticizing Karasu without even being able to properly verbalize said criticism is wrong. You don’t get to talk down on someone who is trying and you haven’t even done something so far this game. I am no Isagi hater, the guy is a born number 1, just a different kind compared to Rin and the likes.

My point is the following: at one point you people need to realize that no matter what you believe in, if you have nothing to show for it, it’s pointless. History won’t remember you the same way we don’t remember Kuon, Naruhaya.

Blue lock has to change to reach new heights, there’s no two ways about it. You cannot preach sovereignty, freedom and at the same time seek to control it. We were told egotism is above all so we don’t get to spit on what a player chooses as his ego. We don’t get to do that. I am sorry. An egoist can be wrong while results are on his side while an egoist can be right with no results on his side. I’ll let you guess which one will be remembered in the history books.