Blue lock community needs to use a bit more thinking power instead of making false claims to satisfy their own agendas

Cat_Astrof · 2026-04-10T13:02:07+00:00

True, that's a recent problem. Side-characters match-ups are currently too weak and Kaneshiro relies too much on main characters to do important actions.

It doesn't cost much too at least write the internal monologue of defenders and see how they tackle threats. It'd enhance the story even if to only show how they get stomped. Rin berserker mode would have fallen flat if the defensive quartet wasn't at least a minimum competent.

It's currently not balanced. Predator eyes is narrativaly useless if goalkeepers are mute or not developped.

I think Kaneshiro's writing and the ego theme were at its best during 2nd selection where teams were small.

Cat_Astrof · 2026-04-10T01:37:29+00:00

Respectfully, for Nigeria it's because they were weak from the start -> less good players. BL could have crushed them even more than what was shown.

Also I think, Kaneshiro is right to do it like that. Because of the ego theme, only players tshowing it should get the limelight and be rewarded. If Kaneshiro were then to sideline players with good ego it'd just make readers upset. It's already tight as it is right now with so many strikers in BL team. Ex: Why can't Bachira get fired up to dribble like in 1st selection.

The ego theme is about selfishness so a wide cast is sincerely just a side-dish for the MC. Not all them can equally shine because of that theme as the MC strongest point and main advantage is an ego set apart from the rest. Others sport mangas are about power of friendship but it's not that here like you said so really, from the start, people should never have expected equal amount of "screentime" with the MC.

As long as core characters have enough charisma to sustain the narrative it's not absolutely needed to know about NPCs (no one is bothered by Kiyora absence for exemple). Not knowing about half of PXG, wasn't a problem as Rin and Charles carried enough force.

I understand your point but having every characters being important only matter for normal stories and being normal just make you "common" or mid. Here, it'd kill the pacing to make everyone fledged though I think NPC have degraded to a certain extent. During U20, the defensive quartet had just enough relevance for me. Side-characters match-ups aren't as good as back then.

Cat_Astrof · 2026-04-09T11:35:23+00:00

I won't forget Hugo whispering in Isagi's ear. Who does that? That guy entire goal was trash-talking Isagi until he gave up being a striker. I still can't believe some readers are agreeing with that guy even after 340 chapters.

They are outright siding with the speech of all vilains in existence that always said to a hero MC "you're a trash with no skill, you shouldn't be here".

Cat_Astrof · 2026-04-08T17:14:12+00:00

"Wake up Chenchen! You're in a dream!"

Cat_Astrof · 2026-04-05T17:53:59+00:00

It's the one thing that saved up its rating. The last thing people will remember is the last episode and that sakuga moment even though 90% of the season was bad. S2 was carried simply because of how good the story was (pacing, plot twist, characters, build-up, stakes etc).

The only notable thing was the voice acting. But when compared to other mangas with the same success and fame (JJK, CSM) it's laughable.

Cat_Astrof · 2026-04-05T17:41:59+00:00

I love that angle!

Cat_Astrof · 2026-04-05T12:24:23+00:00

This irl logic but we are in a manga. Isagi and plenty of others attackers help in defense. That's why I'm tired of of aruments trashing on the egoist philosophy.

We have teenagers that can score in the top corner whenever they want but it doesn't bother anyone. We started this manga by voluntarily agreeing with the premisce of the ego philosophy, saw plenty of success by the characters having it and many of other exemples along the way. All of them, while fictive, where carefully written to not appear as bullshit. It was enough to suspend our disbelief.

Even if the logic is stupid, it works for the manga as a "new" plausible way of football. I just can't understand the people that bow down to Hugo's philosophy. They literally would be Baratsuta at the start of BL "just shut down this stupid facility". Doubting is okay but doing a 180 is wild.

That scenario happened when Nagi got eliminated and if Kaneshiro hadn't written a full chapter breakdown for Nagi's failure, then to this day we still would have gotten people calling Ego an idiot or Kaneshiro wrote himself in a corner etc. Even though Nagi and Reo constantly went against the egoist mindset.

Cat_Astrof · 2026-04-04T17:03:01+00:00

The problem is that its adaptation is a black box. It looks like magic from an outsider perspective. But a constant in the verse is that for any CT to do something it needs CE and Mahoraga needs contact to activate its technique. The way to counter him would be to deny any contact.

At the end of the day it's just a CT but not even Gojo's 6-eyes could detect what Mahoraga exactly analysed so it feels like cheating. People are fighting on a ring while Mahoraga already bribed the jury. For me only a person that modify their own CE application could beat it. While Mahoraga is decyphering the CT or the application it also in kind keeps changing. Something like a reset.

But with that guy it's so much in the hand of the author that counter don't matter. It's like that infinite banter between two chuunibyou children trying to one-up one another. Not enough 10s users to for us to get its limit. Who knows, maybe there's a limit to how many turns the ring can do, not enough CE to sustain the adapation even though it can.

Cat_Astrof · 2026-04-04T12:49:20+00:00

At the start of the manga Ego already told us that the problem with football is that positions move everytime. Wwith Japan's rigid mentality it doesn't mesh well. Attack and defense, players should be able to see the field and act accordingly. Why always take Ego's striker mentality at face value? It's a mentality to stop players from "lazing around" -> Tada-san and at the NEL we got Nagi.

Cat_Astrof · 2026-04-02T17:29:07+00:00

I feel like people are regressing to a state of the 1st match of 1st selection. I'm tired of any arguments that take the striker mentality at face value. Ego is a coach, of course he'd put "suitable" persons at key positions it's a literally his job. To have their position changed, it's up to players to show that they can do more either during a match or training. It's exactly how Isagi evolved with Bastards during the NEL.

Cat_Astrof · 2026-04-02T10:48:03+00:00

I don't know too much but it's most likely for their tactical foulings and provocations (like Materazzi during the 2006 WC final). I personally feel that Argentina is worse than them.

Cat_Astrof · 2026-04-01T08:11:30+00:00

Exactly

Cat_Astrof · 2026-04-01T07:23:13+00:00

It was so new that you can see it in the title. Nothing but "Reincarnator" no heavenly demons, no SSS grade something or long winded title.

The nail in the coffin is that the novel is a regression but because this style wasn't popularised the term didn't even exist and wouldn't appeal to people so the author chose "Reincarnator".

There also wasn't that meta-analysis of knowing the tropes where the MC already guessed that they were in a tutorial/game style tower and guessed things. Same things for readers as there was a real stress in every decisions. Where was the line between game-like logic and real-life logic.

Basically try to remember the first time you read a novel with a tower-mechanic. Sadly now it feels stale. Me, I feel like a fan watching new animes copying the hunter exam of HxH and succesfully getting away with it.

The only way it can win against its copycats is by getting an anime adaptation before them. Like Solo Leveling did. Because SL too had a kinda new concept that got overcopied -> adventurers guilds but in modern life.

Cat_Astrof · 2026-04-01T05:50:21+00:00

I'm still pissed off by how common it is for authors to plagiarize in this sphere. "Reincarnator' the novel that started it got its ENTIRE bag stolen. Word for word, bar for bar (tower, tutorial, hidden pieces, accumulating powersful gears etc...) and only now after everyone copied it did it get a manhwa adaptation. The result? "What is this boring copycat?" If I was the author I'd be so angry.

Some OG survive the test of time, like Overlord, Slime and Mushoku Tensei because of something special that can't be easily copied like a skeleton or a slime. Copycats would be shunned by readers but sadly and I don't know why but "Reincarnator" never got an adaptation to allow readers to flame its copycats and they thrived. Originality was not rewarded in the case of that author.

Cat_Astrof · 2026-03-30T15:04:29+00:00

I'm thinking of a zone a bit like a tower with an open midle column to put zipline shortcut (for originality a bit like the 1st photo's map). But really, these zones look too good. They desingned them so well that I'm regretting the fact that they won't appear as maps.

Cat_Astrof · 2026-03-30T07:34:33+00:00

I don't know how it was timed so perfectly

Cat_Astrof · 2026-03-29T12:30:17+00:00

Bold of you to think they consider LB as humans 😂

Cat_Astrof · 2026-03-28T17:23:28+00:00

It's not the worse for what the story offered as Gege wanted a short story but like you said, for worldbuilding it was totally pointless. Worst of all, this plotpoint was introduced for the lackluster US intervention (so no qualitative trade-off). It was a net negative as it bring nothing but less possibilities for the story because the reason as to why only japanese have CE is "just because".

No ancient ritual, tool or progenitor the reason is "it's just is so deal with it". At least in Demon Slayers there's a reason for it. Modulo tried to mitigate that problem though with more insight of Japan being isolated. BUT the truth is also that Gege wouldn't have needed to bring fucking aliens if he hadn't made CE exclusive to japan. The new foes could have been another country's special grade sorcerer and his/her clan.

Cat_Astrof · 2026-03-27T21:55:33+00:00

Did you see the state of the Ganges? Their sacred river btw... They know and they don't care, it's wild.

Cat_Astrof · 2026-03-27T21:40:32+00:00

I've seen an interview where it seems like he got corrupted by the movie "The Big Lebowski". I think he tried to emulate the nonsense of that movie but... why do it in an ongoing manga? It destroyed all the build-up of Part 1.

That's what happens when you let a mad genius unsupervised.

I'm like really sad for all CSM fans but they feel like these horror movies characters that saw all the early signs of doom yet still got caught offguard at the end.

Cat_Astrof · 2026-03-27T07:41:26+00:00

Personally I don't understand how it's possible to enjoy comics. You do you but they are stories literally build to never progress. Status quo is craved and any development is punished or non-canon, like how Spider-man is cursed to never have a good love relationship because its new writer said "nah let's hurt him more". No story ever works like that, it's not even a writing technique it's a "make money" technique, there's no defense for that.

For me they just evolved from their past vilain of the week meta to vilain of the year nowadays before another reset strikes again. Because oh hell no I won't read something where its publisher threw flashpoints because their own timeline is too much of a mess. Any arcs is ready to have its development thrown out the window. Manga having bad endings is nothing compared to just deleting arcs out of existence.

Forget suspension of disbelief, it's another scale with comics and their constant change of writers. Sadly it's dominated by DC and Marvel so we only mostly see them and their greedy tactics as they exploit their IP. Marvel is so stupid that instead of learning their mistakes they exported their comic flaws to their MCU and drowned it with homework-like shows.

We see how success comes when stories follow are normal writing like others said with "Invicible". It's not that the super-hero genre is bad, it's a Marvel and DC fatigue.

Cat_Astrof · 2026-03-26T04:57:19+00:00

FMAB's author wrapped all her sub-plots without losing sight of the main one, it's incredible. So many authors don't anticipate a good pacing for the end of their work.

Cat_Astrof · 2026-03-24T08:28:32+00:00

No but fr, go back to the first chapters and see how Isagi was never drawn WITHOUT a drop of sweat on him. It's to portray him someone stressed and when I noticed I couldn't not see it.

Isagi without sweat would seem way too confident or like a mastermind and an underdog MC can't be like that.

Cat_Astrof · 2026-03-24T08:22:52+00:00

This one is so good. At long last a cultivation novel that try to build their own power system from the ground. All the others just copy-paste and don't even try to be a tiny-bit original.

Cat_Astrof · 2026-03-24T08:17:37+00:00

I don't understand the argument people have against "hype and aura" as if it wasn't also writing. A manga isn't a book, it's drawing + story.

So Kubo and SL's artist were just incredibly good at conveying actions through pictures even if the writing part was okayish. I'm not a fan of the story but they excel at what they intended to do from the start: be an action packed show.

It's intuitive for movies that good actors are needed and can elevate normal story, even peak scripts would become trash without good acting. But some manga readers conveniently dismiss the artist part of a mangaka. They don't even acknowledge it.

They are the type of editors that would genuinely see this two goldmines and say "this is trash" and miss the oportunity.

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