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My Pink Bug is coming back next week. He's really coming back. I'm crying. My love!!!!

SHIDOU RYUUSEIIIII 😭😭😭😭

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Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

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BLLK 285 SPOILERS

HE SMILED HE'S SMILING HE IS SMILING HE SMILEEES

ARE YOU SEEING THIS AAGAHSGSBXUBXUBDHXBDUCBDUXNDJDBDHDHDNDJDNDISNATSHDJ

I'm coming back to life I FEEL ALIVE

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chapter 285 is like … the first time Kaiser and Isagi have had a civil conversation between each other

Only took 120 chapters. But you know … we all start somewhere

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Itoshi Rin - Blue lock S2E8

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girl the fuck you mean "sexy"

Reading a short story for my literature class and this part made me laugh askldfjal

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Reading a short story for my literature class and this part made me laugh askldfjal

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I agree that Kaiser's ego has kind of been left up in the air with this decision which is why I said I don't know what is going on Kaneshiro's head. But rereading those chapters, I don't think he left Ness just because of his coordination with him or the options he gave him with his passing. I think this "restriction" a matter of leaving what was comfortable and going towards a challenge.

He has grown comfortable at the spot he had as the center of the BM team, with a system that revolved around him. When he reduced himself back to "zero," he threw away this system and his title as the "emperor" which involved throwing away his relationship with Ness.

Funnily enough, when he did this, he expanded his options to passing with the blue lock players (cue Kaiser's "please" towards Raichi....). In fact, his plays started to link up with Isagi's when he did this. As Hiori states, their "destructive power was starting to resonate."

When he left Ness, he was throwing away the freedom of being unchallenged and embracing the restrictive and challenging nature of this team.

The part I am unsure about is with Kaiser's rivalry with Isagi and how that is being sidelined. But if I had to guess, this is being replaced by the threat that Rin now poses to BM. Kaiser's "restriction" involves his environment more than his actions, aka he fights for freedom when faced with restriction. Before, it was Isagi taking everything away from him. Now, it was BM losing control of the field to PXG because of Rin's development. The rivalry won't be thrown away, but it will change in response to the changing state of the field. But once again, I'm just trying to guess the author's intent with this decision since it's not really clear. I guess we'll see with the next chapter once the "contract" is laid out.

As for the reonagi parallel, idk i still find it interesting 😭. But I can see why it can feel repetitive. HOWEVER, just because it's similar now doesn't mean it can't deviate later. Fingers crossed. This would be a great opportunity to put Kainess on a different path and make the two ships are foils of each other, especially with the Manshine vs Barcha match coming soon.

hyped for the next chapter because this will be the first time kaiser and isagi actually talk civilly to each other 😭

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@miyamiwu funny how you bring up ness because i was just thinking of how this all looks from his perspective.

kaiser had just cut ties with him a few chapters ago after his goal. then, ness tries to get his attention again by pressing rin, aka trying to impress him. But this doesn't work as kaiser continues to dismiss him. Meanwhile, Isagi continues to link up with Kaiser and now, Ness is going to witness the two of them team up.

it brings me back to these panels from ch 207:

From Ness's perspective, Isagi had stolen Kaiser from him.

Up until this point, Kaiser grew with the help of Ness passing to him. However, this was not enough to beat Isagi. Isagi provided a new challenge for Kaiser to overcome and his solution to this was to drop Ness and embrace "restriction." Quite literally, none of this would have happened if Isagi wasn't presented as a threat to the status quo of Kaiser being the star player.

Doesn't that sound a little... familiar?

Reo and Nagi were unbeatable before the team V vs Team Z match. But when they lost to Isagi, Nagi parted ways for Reo (temporarily but Reo didn't know that) for the sake of his growth. Instead he teamed up with Isagi.

It's not exactly the same but the two situations parallel each other from Reo/Ness's perspective and considering ch 207 was titled "two pair," I don't think this is a coincidence.

To be honest, I think you can make a whole separate post about the parallels between these two, but I digress.

The point is that Reo and Ness parallel each other. Maybe this is just my wishful thinking, but just like how Reo experienced despair and learned to build himself back up from it, the same will happen with Ness. Kaiser and Isagi's team up can do so much more for Ness's development than if we had gotten the Ness and Isagi team-up like some had hoped/theorized

hyped for the next chapter because this will be the first time kaiser and isagi actually talk civilly to each other 😭

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I’m still very much fucked up over ch 284… in a good way and in a bad way. I have a lot of contradictory feelings and thoughts regarding Isagi x Kaiser.

Bc on one hand: I’ve always wanted to see a team-up between them. It has been teased for a looong time, them being extremely similar to one another has been stated by multiple characters, and it has been the focal point of the NEL arc in general. And we KNOW just how well Isagi can work with someone who thinks in a similar way and who gets his plans (Isagi x Rin in U20, Isagi x Hiori in Ubers, Isagi x Noa in Manshine).

So we could only imagine how well someone who is a perfect mirror to Isagi (regarding playmaking, positioning, play style, comprehension of the field, psychological skills, … ) would play together with him. I think what a good Kaisagi team-up would look like is a continuous “no-look-chemical-reaction” as we’d seen with Isagi x Hiori. (But the requirements of a chemical reaction are not met just yet… and i’ll get back to this)

Both Kaiser and Isagi had learned to understand each others’ abilities and mirrored their own evolution off of them (Isagi with metavision + throwing his pride away for the sake of winning, Kaiser learning not to settle + offering up everything to improve) so now they are even more similar thanks to observing each other…

And in previous games there had been problems bc of the similarities: how they were always at the same place at the same time, resulting in dire mistakes by getting in each other’s way intentionally or unintentionally. But now, as they actually respect each other, they can use one another as “an additional me” on the field.

They understand themselves just as well as they understand each other bc of their similarities, so they could (hypothetically) visualize a play constructed around this. They could rely on each others abilities, thought processes and playmaking because they’re both capable of visualizing the same thing.

What i’m trying to get at is this: nobody knows your thoughts better than yourself. But now, there are 2 Isagis or 2 Kaisers on the field, for them to use as objects for their plans, relying on shared image and understanding, leaving no room for mistakes.

However. A chemical reaction requires their protagonistic goals to align. And there is no way in hell that either of them would give up their desire to score… that would be horrible writing for Kaiser at least, as he’s just found his true originality (to score for love), so he can’t compromise this development that quick… it doesn’t make sense narratively.

And regarding Isagi’s “new discovery” abt how he wants to just… win. We could interpret it as he wants to win no matter what he has to sacrifice, but I think he’d still want to be the one scoring at the end.

So, with the next ch name “Contract” it’s possible that it will be about Kaiser and Isagi establishing a contract that benefits them both: they will work together to get to the penalty area/get through the defense, and from then on they’ll both try to position themselves to score without the other interfering (or something like this… still competing in their own way to score, but helping each other until the last steps). This would make a “temporary-goal-in-common”, which could suffice the basis of a chemical reaction.

But…

On the other hand… it would be sooooooo good to see Kaiser reject Isagi’s offer. And not just bc “woo plottwist!!”, but because it would actually make sense for Kaiser to do that. Right now he is dead set on “living in restriction” so i don’t know if he’d be willing to team-up with Isagi to make things easier for himself.

And also, based on his reactions (or lack there of) this chapter, it’s clear that he wasn’t considering a team-up until Isagi had requested it. He looks surprised by it, in fact.

Additionally, his reaction to being used by Noa was to rebel against it: he does not want to stay in BM to dethrone Noa, he wants to forge his own path instead. And in this chapter, we could see that his reaction to Isagi saying he “exploited” or “used” Kaiser to his plans… well, he certainly isn’t thrilled by this either imo. To my understanding, he’s always been in a “use and/or be used” situation: with his father, Ray Dark, Ness, Noa… So it would make total sense for him to reject Isagi’s offer to team-up and use each other, as he’s quite possibly sick and tired of this.

So well… i don’t know. I REALLY, TRULY, GENUINELY want to see Isagi and Kaiser team-up.

Eventually.

But I feel like right now is just not the perfect time for it (mainly bc of Isagi’s weird character writing tbh).

But since this is the last match they’re playing on the same team… I doubt that we’d get a Football Club arc before the World cup, so even if they sign with the same club, it’s unlikely that we’d see them play together after the NEL… bc cmon, there are already 284 chapters, there is no way Kaneshiro would stretch the story out even more. The World cup arc’ll be long enough anyways.

So yeah. It’s basically now or never for a Kaisagi team-up.

Which is kinda unfortunate.

And while I’m hyped for it bc i LOVE THEM, the circumstances are unsatisfying, which is the thing that annoys me lol

Jfc this got so long

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hyped for the next chapter because this will be the first time kaiser and isagi actually talk civilly to each other 😭

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I chipped my tooth what if this is my last straw

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now he's talking about how Google is biased towards left-leaning sources rather than conservative ones because they prioritize accuracy, so they should make it more equal instead oh my God are you hearing yourself

i feel insane, tell me why my ethics professor is requiring us to write a report on climate change videos by entirely right-wing extremists that claim it doesn't exist/isn't a issue, i'm-

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i feel insane, tell me why my ethics professor is requiring us to write a report on climate change videos by entirely right-wing extremists that claim it doesn't exist/isn't a issue, i'm-

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IM GONNA EAT DRYWALL. THIS IS INSANE. HELLO. OH MY GOD. SAY WHAT U WANT ABT ISAGI BUT HE HAS SOME INSANE ONE LINERS.

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