#bllk manga panel

[boinin]

Team V -vs- Team Z Blue Lock and Episode Nagi comparison (1/?)

Kunigami being everybody's hypeman but Igaguri's in this match is pure dopamine. And Chigiri hypes him🧡💗

[inns4ei]

"nii-chan... is really amazing..."

"i wanna be strong and cool... just like him..."

coloring by me!

icon set by @its-so-lukewarm

[sasha042]

Reo Mikage

[muffin-0]

[shinriha]

Itoshi Rin , the guy that will give the MC side character syndrome in his own manga

[anjelit]

BLLK CHAPTER 124 SPOILER WARNING❗

For the Sae haters:

Maturing is realizing that Rin was overreacting. I know it's totally fine for getting upset or mad when you were dreaming about being the Top 2 best strikers with your big bro, I love them both so much but Rin is acting like Sae ended his football career.

Sae knows that he wont be able to surpass others and he knows that he isnt perfect for being the best striker.

IMO Sae had hope in Rin. But icl Sae annoyed me so much when he said that Isagi would change Japan's football to Rin after the Japan U20 vs BLLK 11 match.

I honestly cried so hard to chapter 124, and like literally after 1 year i realized that i didn't read the manga speech that i circled in red.

[saexy]

what i drew

[doodless]

Has this been done before?

[the-rini-rush]

redrawing this!

*sound affects*

[emmie-writes-stuff]

Ship of the century right here-

[boinin]

🍓-v-🍣 inspired by this tweet. original.

[rosie-moon]

蛇

[seishiroses]

I love Nagi being a "I didn't sign up for this crap but fml the crap is starting to feel interesting and move me in mysterious ways" protagonist. Like:

And while that's common with the lazy genius trope, where it actually gets super interesting is when Nagi starts to really ask himself why he is feeling this way, and what is it that he even wants:

This panel below is really cool, not just because it definitively marks Nagi's transformation from a passive to an active character in his own story, but also art-wise I love the grey and black smoky tendrils curling around him. It creates an aura of something really dangerous, like poison gas, like he's not human (a bit like Venom in Spiderman?)

Dark smoky auras are not new in manga but I particularly like the way Blue Lock does them. And how it uses effects like these to depict a character's overall mood or the perception they give to others. Like look at Isagi's face here he looks like he's watching a scorpion shed it's skin.

I think effects like these are especially useful for a character like Nagi since his facial expressions are designed to hide more than they reveal. But I also like that they are used sparingly. We don't see the smoky darkness or skull aura all that often, at least early on. Because unlike other characters, Nagi feels his main character energy quite inconsistently, in between a lot of very "bored/tired/it's a pain/I don't wanna" moments. So those sudden bursts of pride or determination feel all the more impactful.

I think Nagi in the current timeline needs a hard reset back to the line of questioning and soul searching we see in the panels above. He kind of is getting there (post-match conversations with Rin and Barou) but the danger is that the stakes are too high now and will not allow him all the time in the world to figure it out.

The problem is very relatable especially if you're someone who cannot settle on what to do with your life and why, while everyone around you seems to be laser focused and driven and knowing exactly what they want. And sometimes even though certain moments can stir your soul, they don't necessarily help you magically find motivation in the long term. But time is running out and you'll get left behind if you don't figure it out soon.

In moments I do feel like the slow-burn existential crisis which defines a lot of Nagi's journey is frustrating, but then I realise that shit is even more frustrating IN LIFE, and so this is actually more realistic than I thought. 😔

[sasha042]

Eternal Blizzard.

[Blue Lock x Inazuma Eleven]

[muffin-0]

when this is animated its over for the anime onlys

[jujutsustraycats]

BABY KARASU BABY KARASU BABY KARASU BABY KARASU I MIGHT CRY

This hurt my heart

Sweets I love you so much

Also this panel gives me deja vu cause remember that one Kaiser panel?

Yeah.