ch198 thoughts

sora May 16, 2025 8:28 pm

Nagi's last goal was a fluke because it's only a miracle that happens once in a lifetime, a one-hit wonder.
Nagi has already achieved his primary objective, which was to defeat Isagi. Becoming the best striker is not part of Nagi's personal goal since he was only influenced by Reo to participate in Blue Lock.
Now, Reo's main focus is to support and help Nagi to become the world's best striker. In doing so, Reo gave up his personal motive of being the best striker—which contradicts Blue Lock's core philosophy.
As a result, since both of their motive misaligned (Nagi losing his motive to continue playing ≠ Reo discarding his motive to become a support), chem reaction is impossible and scoring a goal is no more a realistic outcome.
The main reason why Nagi is a one-hit wonder is because he attained success above his talent. He got ahead of himself and thought he finally surpassed Isagi. It was only thanks to Reo's support that Nagi was able to pull off a world-class play.
Even if they try to replicate the same top-tier chemical reaction, it wouldn't have the same effect because it's repetitive and predictable, and can be an advantage to the enemy team—especially for isagi, who was rapidly evolving during BM vs Manshine.
Nagi achieved his main goal = he loses his egocentrism = he got locked off/eliminated.

Reo honestly should've listened to Agi. Agi warned Reo not to use Nagi to fulfill his own ideas because Nagi won't flourish by doing so(c188). Yet, he did not even give a single f because all he wanted was to be with Nagi until the end. In my own perspective, I think Reo subconsciously outperformed Nagi, which eventually contributed to Nagi's downfall.

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