He has 11 build so none of my units could rescue him. I hate when fire emblem wastes an hour of your life, I just don’t feel like playing the game anymore. It’s dumb how he has 3 talk convos but you can’t just recruit him on the map.
Because of the results of the France game, Egos relationship with the team has become far more complicated. Many of the players stated that they think hes a bit crazy and that they have to keep him at an arms length. Isagi has stated that Egos soccer isnt enough for him and disagrees about with him benching Rin. The team is currently trying to evaluate their future as a team and how they want to play soccer.
Ironically enough, Nagi will be the one who stays truest to Egos philosophy. Its likely that he will end up betraying Shigeo in order to advance in side-b. He is returning to Blue Lock with the knowledge that his success could lead to the end of the program or Ego being the coach.
Buratsuta wants him to play a type of soccer that goes against Egos philosophy, but I don't think that this is going to happen. I don't think Nagis suddenly going to settle with being a midfielder or focusing on playing less selfishly. Nagis addicted to feeling like a god with his plays, which is him scoring goals. This may piss off Buratsuta, but we've seen Buratsuta concede when there's no other options. In the U-20 match, he got pissed off at the idea of the U-20 team using Shidou, but conceded since he wanted Blue Lock to lose. If Nagi can produce results, he will concede and let Nagi do whatever he wants. (This is why I still think that the chances of Nagi playing in England aren't nonzero, although I think its extremely unlikely given the last two chapters.)
Nagi will end up using everyone as a stepping stone to chase his pleasure. Blue Lock, his friends, Ego, Shigeo and Buratsuta. I am curious to see how he feels by the end of it.
The constant “fraud” and “slander” jokes are getting old. 90% of the time people don’t even actually hate the characters or series they’re making jokes they’re just doing it because it’s “the thing” to do. It’s hard to find regular discussions, regular memes or just other things in fandoms because people just wanna be funny or play some bit.
Three examples when this stuff comes to mind is the major “situations” that happened to Nagi, Rin and Megumi. Instead of people discussing what led up to it, what the future of the characters will look up, how the moments made them feel, etc, it’s just constant and (usually unfunny) slander jokes. Most of the time the joke isn’t even accurate. The worse thing is that most people unironically do believe in the slander jokes(don’t let them gaslight you about this) which just makes discussions harder since people are just believing blatantly untrue things about something.
You can also see this with how people treat authors. An author can release an ending that people don’t like and then suddenly the entire series sucks, all the characters suck, everything was pointless, it has the worst ending in all of fiction. Also everyone feels the need to have to repeat this everywhere, even in unrelated discussions. The biggest examples of this recently is MHA, JJK and CSM.
I love this new Nagi.
This is the first time we’ve seen Nagi work with someone weaker than him. It looks like he’s leaning more into being a player who pushes his teammates to adapt to his plans rather than him adapting to his teammates and playing more passively.
It’s not like Nagi has never had any strategic abilities at all nor attempted to take a more dominant role, but it was always with someone who was equal to or above him. First he had Reo and Isagi who helped him breathe life into his plays. Even after both were gone he had Chigiri, Agi, and Barou, who had equal importance to Nagi on their teams. Now he’s in a situation where he alone is going to be the main determining factor of whether or not he wins and survives.
Even in the U-20 match where Nagi, Isagi and Rin were the main 3 attackers, Isagi and Rin were clearly leading their team in a way that Nagi couldn’t. Now, he is moving towards being a player of that caliber that can properly lead Japan to a World Cup victory.
Also no Barou nor Shidou can lead Japan in the way that these three can.
I'm not even finished the arc and its already better than Marineford, Water 7, Alabasta and others
Fishman Island was a weak arc IMO and Punk Hazards middle was rough but Dressrosa has been consistent and the writing quality of the cast has improved. Oda also doesn't feel the need to force every Straw Hat into the story, sometimes you sit on the sideline for others to shine. Theres some bloat with the amount of characters introduced but the writing quality for the cast has definitely improved post TS.
The only arcs(as a whole) that I enjoyed as much as Dressrosa is Lougetown, Jaya, Whiskey Peak, Post-Enies Lobby and Amazon Lily, and mostly because of entertainment, Dressrosa still has better writing. I can already tell Zou, Whole Cake, will be good, and Wano and Egghead will clear pre-timeskip one piece in writing and also entertainment
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