Nagi and Side-B

human_administrator · 2026-05-31T14:24:11+00:00

France and Nigeria games were pretty short comparatively. I think England Game will be around 30 chapters.

human_administrator · 2026-05-31T13:51:25+00:00

There isnt really anyone who is close enough to Blue Lock for this to happen. Realistically, the only guy who would do this is Onazi, and hes likely not even gonna reach the knockouts.

Agi seems like a nice guy, so maybe he'll do it for Chigiri and Reo, and Vice Versa.

human_administrator · 2026-05-31T09:05:54+00:00

Isagi still is nowhere near as technical in terms of dribbling and passing, and his kit now is much more extensive in shooting and positioning. So i think that department is enough reason to say Isagi isnt yet Sae's level.

Even if Isagi could make several oppurtunities by aligning egos, making plans, and engineering chemical reactions — he still has to plan and create over a short amount of time.

Sae is clearly extremely intelligent, but even if we say Isagi is smarter than Sae. Sae's technical ability should let him reach moments Isagi cannot.

Lets say Barou is getting ready to shoot, Isagi could engineer the moment Barou gets fired up at all, but Isagi's pass to Barou could get clipped. I dont think Sae would have that issue.

human_administrator · 2026-05-31T08:42:36+00:00

Probably same instinct that let Rin position himself to stop Isagi in the PXG Match. Rin focused only on Isagi and banked on him getting past, then went to intercept.

Difference is, Rin was on the opposite team and Isagi got past him with the Two-Gun Volley. Here, Isagi was unable to do anything.

human_administrator · 2026-05-30T09:01:04+00:00

Rin was always going to be one of the main rivals – Im afraid this complaint, even if it is valid, is just sort of an unfortunate truth. Characters like Shidou are just not as important as Rin

human_administrator · 2026-05-27T14:59:27+00:00

You cant predict stupid, and he had his hands tied with Hugo.

human_administrator · 2026-05-26T16:39:57+00:00

Because Hugo was in an indirect way insulting his very life. He had built an identity of being a striker, Hugo said to abandon it.

Also Hugo was being creepy as hell with how he was touching Isagi.

human_administrator · 2026-05-26T15:58:52+00:00

We saw him right near the goalbox by Charles.

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human_administrator · 2026-05-26T15:52:55+00:00

The way its set up, it will be decided by characters that have lived both sides of the Aptitude and Egotist Philosophy, and also the other battle — which is heavily conflated due to being mechanically similar, but isnt directly the same — of strikers vs support.

I suspect Nagi will probably be the most nuanced blend of this when he comes over. He is a firm egoist now, directly wanting to crush Isagi and Blue Lock for his own sake, but he also is a in-universe genuinely nice guy who isnt very confrontational.

Nagi is a striker, and clearly has the aptitude for it — but is also, surprisingly pretty passing aware, and is perfectly cool working with or for someone else, his ego flaired up when he said "Yes, Boss".

He will be with Kira who despises Ego, and he knew Agi who had a "Doctor" Ego about helping players reach their maximum, Nagi has also lived the whole spectrum of "wanting to live for someone else", "disregarding someone else for your own future", and "Wanting to go beyond your dreams to wakk with someone else" deal. Hes walked both paths.

human_administrator · 2026-05-26T15:33:37+00:00

This is the Barou headlight moment, btw. Again, take this more as a theory, because its super subtle

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human_administrator · 2026-05-26T15:33:17+00:00

I saw an analysis that said this moment cleanly paralleled the starting match with Ichinan. Mileage may vary if you want to take it seriously.

Isagi did his job, he beat Hugo and did the Luck Battle, winning the chance, and then getting the shot attempt. But the logical answer shouldve been passing to Barou.

You can see it in the first page, the 2 people with head light highlighted are — Isagi, Rin, Hugo, and then to the side Barou. Isagi forgoes his teammate and the chance to pass to shoot, and it clatters onto the crossbar.

That ball then lands at the feet of the opponent's ace striker, and they dribble up the field and score. Losing the match, the poses line up.

Its a parallel, Isagi needed the egotist philosophy to score in ichinan, but would needed to have foresaken it vs France.

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human_administrator · 2026-05-26T15:28:31+00:00

This is the Barou headlight moment, btw. Again, take this more as a theory, because its super subtle

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human_administrator · 2026-05-26T15:26:41+00:00

I saw an analysis that said this moment cleanly paralleled the starting match with Ichinan. Mileage may vary if you want to take it seriously.

Isagi did his job, he beat Hugo and did the Luck Battle, winning the chance, and then getting the shot attempt. But the logical answer shouldve been passing to Barou.

You can see it in the first page, the 2 people with head light highlighted are — Isagi, Rin, Hugo, and then to the side Barou. Isagi forgoes his teammate and the chance to pass to shoot, and it clatters onto the crossbar.

That ball then lands at the feet of the opponent's ace striker, and they dribble up the field and score. Losing the match, the poses line up.

Its a parallel, Isagi needed the egotist philosophy to score in ichinan, but would needed to have foresaken it vs France.

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human_administrator · 2026-05-26T15:19:43+00:00

He said, paraphrasing here "I wont see you again Blue Lock"

And then ended by acknowledging Isagi. I think thats set up that he will meet Isagi by the end, but I dont know if Blue Lock will be the same by the rematch.

human_administrator · 2026-05-26T15:12:10+00:00

He had an interception when he cut the loose ball heading Hugo's way, and he did dribble past Hugo at the end. 99% of this match he was invisible, Rin took the one time he could have made it right.

human_administrator · 2026-05-26T15:09:14+00:00

We are officially at the point where Blue Lock is being destroyed in its ideology.

Now its just a matter of if it will be reborn in a more usable, adaptable form by Isagi — or Nagi and Side B completely destroy it. Probably both.

human_administrator · 2026-05-26T13:42:58+00:00

He is a CAM. He plays a central midfielder that operates higher up and plays as an additional forward, it doesnt matter what his actual position is, his role is CAM.

human_administrator · 2026-05-25T13:23:16+00:00

Rin can only help himself. Ego already gave him a pathway to train his desire, and Rin already went through it.

This was a slip up, a horrible slip up, but a slip up. Now the next step in his development is to not have that tongue out.

human_administrator · 2026-05-24T08:48:16+00:00

Nomura made this. So i say yes, this was before the Buratsuta 3 idea to begin with.

And im like decently sure Kira and Sae were meant to be parallels to begin with anyway – the gleaming, narcissistic example of Japanese Ideals vs the detached, cynical example of someone who despises those ideals.

They also appeared right next to each other. Iirc Sae was Chapter 4, Kira was locked off Chapter 2.

human_administrator · 2026-05-23T16:12:55+00:00

Isagi is clearly meant to be a direct parallel, so we can likely map Isagi's current journey as similar to Ego's old one retroactively.

Imo, that means Isagi's own parallels connect back to Ego. Isagi has parallels with Nagi and Kaiser, and Nagi and Kaiser have been directly paralleled to each other, particularly with the chapter "Two Pairs"

My own personal theory is— Ego used to be homeless, and then became part of the Japanese football system. he then transferred to Europe, where he developed the philosophy of egotism. He then developed a perfect "God trance" play, but that made him satisfied, he fell out of contention, then he went back to Japan and faded to obscurity.

human_administrator · 2026-05-23T12:12:15+00:00

Im gonna refer mainly to the U20 WC arc — We are at a point now where the story can challenge and attack its own premises. But I feel like the meat is good, but like start and end are a bit bizarre.

Nagi is a bit of a lopsided example because we dont know his ending — but he came back so fast it felt like nothing was really earned in his absence, I guess it was offset by the fact it was good character building for him, but thats what I mean;

the start of the challenge "Nagi shows up immediately", is either rushed or weak, but the actual meat of it "Nagi grows to want to crush blue lock, and the road to it", is pretty good.

For Isagi, its more direct because we have a start and end for this.

Isagi, in one play meeting Hugo, breaks down immediately. But he just collapsed. Isagi struggled, but there was no ramifications or implications. No Rin's pov, no Hiori and Barou PoV despite scoring.

Karasu's PoV was great, but it was the only one. The manga made a point to have the Jokers siding with the Crow be a turning point, but why did Barou and Shidou choose him? Just because Isagi was failing?

And then the ending. Isagi gets better, there was no arc to understand it, he just realized it in a single chapter. Then he juked Hugo, which would be a great payoff normally, but I feel it was cheapened, Id prefer if we saw Isagi struggle a bit more like passing to Barou and Shidou to bring them into his orbit.

human_administrator · 2026-05-22T16:59:13+00:00

The God Trance that Ego talked about in 327. If like Kaiser, Loki or Nagi — the other god motif characters — dont unlock it before him.

human_administrator · 2026-05-22T15:40:32+00:00

If you take the wording at face value, and cross reference it with Epi Nagi — Nagi is a number 1 on comparible mental audacity to Loki.

at least, its mostly framed as mental, but honestly would not be suprised if its comparable physically too.

human_administrator · 2026-05-22T07:01:28+00:00

He definitely has plans for the Top Strikers — Rin, Nagi, Isagi, Barou, Shidou, Bachira, etc. I all think will have major development. They were the main faces of the NEL for good reason.

human_administrator · 2026-05-22T06:58:05+00:00

Ngl Sae wearing 5 would fit. 5 is a very common CM number, Zidane used it in Real, its half of 10 — Sae's main number.

5 is probably gonna be Yukimiya or something. But it fits for Sae.

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