#blue lock ch 216

[bachirasbodyguard]

I can not actually deal with this mf, lord help me 😭😭😭😭

Nomura what kind of shit are you smoking nowadays 😭😭

[nenekobasu]

notes on amateur weather forecast and assuming it turns out correct because that's way more fun:

what holds the whole post up is that blue lock loves recycling and repeating things for new contexts and uses this to build story so even if the list turns out to be bunk i think there will still be cool ways the chapters will be mirrored and connected. the whole pattern though is consistent with the idea of act 3 as a broad repeat of act 2 where barou’s shot is blocked in the opening chapter then succeeds in a later chapter except barou is kaiser (and kaiser is also mick meaning etc etc)

cool that this makes it so that ch.212 isagi overcomes ness and shoots while the corresponding isagi goal fails even with hiori’s help, “humans grow/benefit more from obstacles than from help” a kaneshiro classic

pretty sure it’s ch.214 when isagi thinks “i can hunt them! I can see everything!” then immediately we see aiku’s reaction the manga already foreshadowing the aiku hard counter. that’s key the fact isagi can “see” everything but vision doesn’t mean anything when that’s all you have, potential for ch.236 to emphasize this

ch.215 where snuffy presents barou with the questions that haunt the game lines up with ch.237 isagi existential crisis forecast. snuffy did some groundwork for this by explicitly marking isagi as a “talent” and by drawing a connection between isagi-barou, now isagi may have to face the questions snuffy originally asked barou— did isagi think his talent (vision/intellect) makes him better than everyone? doesn’t he look down on people who don’t have his talent (i.e. can’t share his imagination)? has isagi forgotten that he’s still just a regular person underneath it all? the other thing about ch.237 is that in this scenario (and this is pure cruelty) lorenzo would be mick. the idea of suicide as a form of escape that was posited through mick can be applied to hiori who may kill lorenzo in an act of symbolic escapist suicide-murder, so really hiori-lorenzo together become mick

ch.238 being raichi pog hour is because ch.216 is where barou-lorenzo talk and bond and the basmün equivalent of them is kaiser-raichi so it would be cool if this chapter was where raichi defeats lorenzo. if the mirroring holds the chapter can also be about stuff like “achieving ones dreams” ch.216 was about lorenzo’s dream and the equivalent would be the blue rose

i think noa-kaiser is a lot like snuffy-barou (i have EVIDENCE) but calling it still feels like hopium, i want it though so i’ll put it in to try and call it into being (so in reality the post is just a wishlist)

the “restart” panel of ch.217 where isagi rushes forward that was repeated with kaiser in ch.231 would end up in forced association to the very last chapter: the key to victory lay in duels, after all. since isagi getting niko-fouled is what lost him his protagonist slot to kaiser, here niko is needed to foul kaiser and restore balance— kaiser getting crushed allows isagi to become the protagonist for the next game