#episode Nagi chapter 14

[chodzacaparodia]

One of them is fake

[chrollosnenfish]

NOOOOO

I need someone to tell him how beautiful he is, how special he is, how strong he is, how loved he is, and how much of a bbg he is. I love him. Nagi, how could you fumble this badly?

Also, loved the Kunigiri crumbs this chapter, I’m taking them as they trickle in.

Edit: HAPPY BIRTHDAY my beautiful boy (why in the world would the author make this chapter come out so close to Reo’s birthday? Makes me feel like Kaneshiro just absolutely despises Reo)

[moonsuke]

Blue Lock ep 13 and 14 (extremely Nagi biased)

I'm gonna miss Blue Lock weekends so much ;-;

Seeing that entire segment with the amazing animation is so painful, this would have been the entire season if things didn’t turn out the way they did... But it’s also so darn intense and hype I'm glad we got to see it 😭 I love how smoothly the techniques are animated? Like it’s the first time I can actually appreciate the precision control monster that Sae is! He really did so much cool stuff controlling the ball against Rin!

And that moment when the fucking horror music started playing, the puzzle pieces started falling, and Isagi started looking around the field and focusing on the Itoshi brothers? Damn was that moment intense. Like we know then our MC is gonna cook lol. They really did this moment so well showing us Isagi was the only one seeing what he was seeing and why only he could have scored the winning goal! I do think they overdid Isagi’s shot tho. It’s like just one or two repeats too long for both his direct shot and goal but that’s just me nitpicking.

I’m also glad Nagi got a scene for himself in this segment! His skillset and form is always so graceful. They even used his ball trapping momentum stopping sound effect :')

But my favorite moment is of course the Isagi/Nagi victory hug!! I’m glad they centered them and actually animated them approaching each other! They made it so cinematic I love it! In the manga Nagi’s almost buried but it’s still cute!!

Like, its so beautiful 😭😭😭😭😍😭

The way Nagi full on just hugged Isagi is just so cute 😭 It's like he's so in awe seeing his god 😭 Somehow the manga captured that better but I still like the anime one A LOT.

I’m sad they didn’t include this dramatic ass and extremely wrong looking panel of Isagi and Nagi (plus Bachira) staring at each other though. It’s so intense please they could have done it another angle and just have them staring and screaming at each other in celebration, our two leads deserve this 😭😭😭

I’m so curious what’s Nagi thinking while hugging and looking up at Isagi like that. I hope Episode Nagi dives into it please!! Nagi’s admiration and awe of Isagi is something I always enjoy seeing in him. Like how he sees him as the "final boss" yet they can also get along so well?

Since this U20 match, Nagi seems like he started wanting world recognition with his "Nice to meet you, Japan" and "Wait for me, world"? I wanna see his thoughts about Isagi getting the recognition instead!! I wonder will we get another "Isagi reflected in Nagi's eye" panel. I really like these for showing how impactful Isagi is for Nagi in soccer! Again, it really looks like he's seeing his god lmao. It's almost like such moments are being imprinted into him, imagine if he has photographic memory...

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I also like how it seems like Nagi has joined the main cast from season 1 lol aka Isagi’s friends (sorry Kunigami). They really focus on the 3 of them being with Isagi!

Even in the day off chapters these 4 were mainly hanging out together, it’s so cute. In the chapter, Nagi was also the only one besides Bachira and Chigiri that Isagi contacted which means they exchanged contact info :’) Chigiri and Kunigami didn’t even do that lmao

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And lastly of course I enjoy whenever babygirl Nagi (ft Bachira again) is on screen!! They really like making him pretty and cute af whenever he does this looking over his shoulder pose lol. There's quite a couple of these throughout the season.

And this one is just cute how they animated him lifting his shoulder like that it was so babygirl 😭

[edelbleu]

me, two days ago:

episode nagi chapter 14, today *keep reading for panel*:

[blue-lock-rocky]

SPOILER: A Tentative Timeline for Blue Lock (2.2)

Many thanks to the wonderful @echarie, who has supplied the dates of the NEL matches, the E-4 meet-up before BM vs. Ubers, and ✨Barou Hair Day✨

2.2 Patch Note: Now includes recent events like the E-4 meet-up and ✨Barou Hair Day✨

This timeline is NOT spoiler-free.

Please proceed with caution.

GREEN: confirmed; RED: real world events; BLUE: deduced; PURPLE: unknown

July 2, 2018: 2018 FIFA World Cup Belgium v. Japan. The opening line makes a direct reference to the match (Ch 1).

Japan's loss led to Anri proposing the Blue Lock Project (Ch 1).

Nov 18, 2018: Saitama Prefectural Finals, in the evening Isagi receives an invitation to join a special training program (Ch 1).

Nov 20, 2018: Move-in Day, a Tuesday. Ego says it’s six months from the U-20 World Cup. The date is confirmed on Twitter. (Ch 2)

Nov 23, 2018: Team X VS. Team Z; Team V Vs. Team Y. Isagi says that it has been three days since the last chapter (Ch 3). Ego proceeds to tell Team Z that their next match is in two hours (Ch 5). After the first match, he tells Team V that they will go against Team Y in "just a few moments" (Episode Nagi Ch 5).

Team V VS. Team Z marked the end of The First Selection. Our Team Z boys undergo brutal training.

The Second Selection begins on the "tenth day" of training. Early morning, Ego makes his grande announcement. Isagi gets past the Blue Lock man, and teams up with Bachira and Nagi. They go against the Top 3 Team. (Ch 39)

Jan 28, 2019: Blue Lock v. U-20 (Ch 112-149)

Jan 29, 2019: The day after the U-20 match, start of their two-week break. (Ch 150)

Feb 12, 2019: Isagi meets Bastard Munchen. It's the first day back from break, Ego says they have 100 days til the U-20 World Cup. (Ch 153-157)

Feb 22, 2019: Bastard Munchen VS. FC Barcha; Paris X Gen VS. Ubers. Chapter 158 notes that the match takes place ten days after they met the team. (Ch 158-169)

March 4, 2019: Bastard Munchen VS. Manshine City; FC Barcha VS. Ubers. Ego says that the match would take place ten days after the previous. (Ch 170-203)

March 9, 2019: The Egoist-4 Reunion; Bachira and Chigiri came over to train with Kunigami and Isagi (Ch 213)

March 13, 2019: ✨Barou Hair Day✨; Aiku said that they put in the highlights on the day before the match. (Ch 210)

March 14, 2019: Bastard Munchen VS. Ubers (Ch 209-

May 23 - Jun 15, 2019: The 2019 U-20 World Cup

Note: Ch 3 of Episode Nagi makes a reference to Squid Game, but other scanlations (Chinese, French) don't mention Squid Game.

Appendix

The order of First Selection Matches:

Team X VS. Team Z

Team V VS. Team Y

Team W Vs. Team X

Team Y Vs. Team Z

Team V Vs. Team W

Team X Vs. Team Y

Team W Vs. Team Z

Team V Vs. Team X

Team W Vs. Team Y

Team V Vs. Team Z

We know matches 1 & 2 happened on the same day and matches 7 & 8 happened on the same day. We can safely assume that most of these matches probably came in pairs with the exception of matches 9 & 10. Apparently our boys got an entire day between these two matches (Ch 23-24) .

[shazzeaslightnovels]

Eris no Seihai 1

Official English Title: The Holy Grail of Eris

Author: Kujira Tokiwa

Illustrator: Yu-nagi

Label: GA Novel

Release Date: 14 November 2019

Art Notes: I was impressed with the art in this volume with how each illustration feels perfectly placed to convey the feeling of a scene. Yu-nagi’s art is really suited for this series.

Note: BookWalker is currently running a promotion until the end of May where you can get a short story written by Fujino Omori (writer of Danmachi) as a bonus if you buy this volume. The story itself is a cross-over story where Freya has read this volume and advertises the series for 2 pages. It made me laugh but it’s so short that it’s probably not worth buying this volume just to read it, unless you’re a really hardcore Danmachi fan.

A pretty good start to a mystery story with two interesting female leads. The author did a great job at making the reader feel tension and unease when it was needed and I really enjoyed seeing the relationship between the leads grow over the course of the volume. I do think that it dragged a bit and that there were so many plotlines that it got confusing but it piqued my interest enough that I’ll be checking out volume 2. Recommended if you want to read a series with two female leads and/or a slow burn mystery series.

Story:

Genre: Mystery, Ghosts, Revenge

When Constance Grail was young she witnessed the famous villainess, Scarlet Castiel, being executed in public for the crime of attempting to poison her rival in love. Now Constance is 16 years old and her family has run into a bit of financial trouble. To help her family get out of debt, she becomes engaged to a young man. It’s far from the fairy tale romance that she dreamed of as a kid but he treats her well and she has hope that everything will turn out fine until she catches wind of a rumour that he is having an affair with Pamela. She soon gets caught in a trap laid by Pamela who accuses her of thievery. Hearing Constance’s desperate pleas, the ghost of Scarlet agrees to help, for a price. Now, Constance must assist Scarlet in finding the one who framed her for the crime that led to her demise and help her get revenge.

Content warnings: the prologue features a beheading and there are a few mentions of suicide. Also, I think this series may develop a m/f romance with a 10 year age gap (the girl is 16 and the man is 26). I’m not 100% certain that it will develop it but it does seem likely, based on some of the illustrations I’ve seen from volume 2.

My biggest issue with this volume is that there were a bit too many plotlines introduced for a first volume and I got confused after a while because I had trouble seeing how the plotlines were connected. It also felt overly long and definitely dragged a bit.

One thing that this novel does really well with is tension. There’s often this sense of unease whenever Connie interacting with someone of high class and it’s really effective. My favourite example of this happens early on when Pamela accuses Connie of thievery, Connie begs someone for help in her head and Scarlet possesses her body to help and then the POV switches to Pamela’s and the tension immediately goes up as all she can think initially is “this is not Constance Grail”. It’s incredibly effective and by the end of the scene, you can’t help but get the sense that there’s something more going on under the surface here. Scenes like that were all over the volume and were really well done. I found that the volume piqued my interest easily and it was hard to stop reading once the tension started to rise again. I also really enjoyed the relationship between Scarlet and Connie and seeing their relationship grow over the course of the volume was a treat.

Character:

The most interesting character in this novel is Scarlet Castiel, the villainess herself. What’s interesting is that, even though she’s the deuteragonist, she’s still quite evil in a petty kind of way. She may not have not poisoned anyone but she did threaten her rival’s family and she did spill wine all over her rival’s dress. So, yeah, she’s kind of dick and I love her for it. But she also has the soft side that she shows when she likes someone which I really enjoyed getting to see. Her relationship with Connie is definitely one of the highlights of the volume. As for Connie herself, I found her a bit too plain in the beginning and I don’t think she’s flawed enough to be truly interesting but she does have her moments that mostly shine through her interactions with Scarlet. The other characters vary a bit and some of them weren’t very memorable. It doesn’t help that there are quite a few side characters in this and it’s hard to keep track of them all. Thankfully, each chapters ends with a character information sheet for the characters that appeared in said chapter which helped a bit to keep track of everyone.

Adaptation Notes:

The manga adaptation is ongoing with 2 volumes currently released and features art by Hinase Momoyama, notable for being the artist of the manga versions of Danmachi Familia Chronicle Episode Lyu, Higurashi Minagoroshi-hen (Massacre Arc) and Umineko Episode 6. Momoyama was an excellent choice as an artist for this manga because there are so many opportunities for good and creepy faces that Momoyama excels at, as well as some cute scenes which they do well at as well. There are a couple of lines that are cut but it’s largely the same as the light lovel and, like with the adaptation of Episode Lyu, there are cute 1-page recaps at the start of each chapter. Plus, Momoyama has excellent taste in dresses and I love the evening dress that Scarlet picks out for Constance to wear at Emilia’s party. Momoyama’s art is so good that I may prefer the manga over the light novel in this case. Definitely recommended.

Recommended for:

If you like series with two female leads, you’ll probably get some enjoyment out of this. If you like mystery, this may scratch your itch but it does seem to be a slow burn mystery where the answers are slowly revealed over time instead of being a bunch of different smaller mysteries.

I definitely am interesting in reading volume 2 but I may not get to it for a while, since these volumes are more expensive than my usual reads and I may have to wait for it to go on sale.

[recentanimenews]

Memorial Exhibition for "Kannagi" Manga's Conclusion Opens This Summer

The final chapter of Eri Takenashi's romantic comedy manga series Kannagi is scheduled to be published in the September 2017 issue of Ichijinsha's Comix REX to be released on July 27. The manga's final 12th tankobon volume also including the final chapter will be available on the same day. The manga began serialization in the January 2006 issue of the magazine, but had to take an over two-year hiatus between 2009 and 2011 due to the author's illness (subarachnoid hemorrhage).  

  In commemoration of the conclusion, GoFa (Gallery of Fantastic art) in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, will hold a special exhibition dedicated to the author's work from July 29 to September 3. "Eri Takenashi 'Kannagi' Conclusion Memorial Exhibition ~Oharai Festival of The Summer~" will display color illustrations, manga scene panels, newly drawn arts for the event, and the author's drawing VTR. The first half of the period will feature the manga story's climax has been told since 2013, then the

second half will introduce various works, including selected color illustrations and original drawings,

from the beginning to the end.

  In addition, "Saigo no Love Letter (The Last Love Letter)" performed by Haruka Tomatsu for the bonus

CD to be included in the special edition of the 12th volume will be broadcasted in the venue.

  Poster visual for the exhibition

    The special edition of the 12th volume comes with a newly-recorded drama CD on a script by the manga

author herself. All of the main voice cast from the 14-episode 2008 TV anime are confirmed to reprise their

roles. The "spoiler" CD tells what happen after the manga's final chapter. 

  Manga 12th volume cover illustration

  Confirmed voice cast of the drama CD

 Nagi: Haruka Tomatsu

 Jin Mikuriya: Hiro Shimono

 Tsugumi Aoba: Miyuki Sawashiro

 Zange: Kana Hanazawa

 Daitetsu Hibiki: Takanori Hoshino

 Meguru Akiba: Tetsuya Kakihara

 Takako Kimura: Risa Hayamizu

 Shino Oukouchi: Mai Nakahara

    Source: Mat press release

  © Eri Takenashi/Ichijinsha

  By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

[blue-lock-rocky]

SPOILER: A Tentative Timeline for Blue Lock (1.1)

Bringing this back because I'm a nerd.

Still haven't had the time to reread the manga, but I did find a new source that confirmed a date that I was speculating.

This timeline is NOT spoiler-free.

Please proceed with caution.

July 2, 2018: 2018 FIFA World Cup Belgium v. Japan. The opening line makes a direct reference to the match. (Ch 1)

Japan's loss led to Anri proposing the Blue Lock Project. (Ch 1)

The U-20 World Cup is a bi-annual event. Following the 2018 World Cup, the U-20 World Cup was scheduled to take place in 2019 & 2021 but the latter event was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Assuming we're not getting a Covid arc, our U-20 World Cup has to be the one held in 2019.

Nov 18, 2018: Saitama Prefectural Finals, in the evening Isagi receives an invitation to join a special training program. (Ch 1)

Nov 20, 2018: Move-in Day, a Tuesday. Ego says it’s six months from the U-20 World Cup. (Ch 2)

Ego's line gives us two possible dates: Nov 20 & Nov 27. They're both about six months away from the U-20 World Cup (May 23, 2019).

In the English scanlation, Kira thanks Isagi "for the match the other day". The Chinese scanlation on Bilibili has a similar take as Kira says "前几天的比赛辛苦了", suggesting that little time has passed between their match and the start of the Blue Lock Project. Nov 20 sounds like the better option.

Nov 20 is confirmed as the date of the move-in day. (Twitter)

Nov 23, 2018: The First Selection begins, Isagi says it’s been three days since the last chapter

Dec 30, 2018 – Jan 14, 2019: Nationals, irrelevant to the story.

Jan 28, 2019: Blue Lock v. U-20 (Ch 112-149)

Jan 29, 2019: The day after the U-20 match, start of their two-week break. (Ch 150)

Feb 12, 2019: First day back from break, Ego says they have 100 days til the U-20 World Cup. (Ch 153)

May 23 - Jun 15, 2019: The 2019 U-20 World Cup

June 30, 2019: Oliver Aiku turns 20 :D

P. S. Ch 3 of Episode Nagi makes a reference to Squid Game which came out in 2021, but I'm pretty sure that's just the English scanlation having a bit of fun. Neither the Chinese nor the French scanlations mention Squid Game.

The only thing that doesn’t agree with this timeline is Sae’s birthday, which is on the tenth of October. We know for a fact that he’s 17 in Ch 4 and 18 in Ch 94, so he must have turned 18 sometime during the Blue Lock project.

Or maybe we're working with a non-linear timeline. In that case, I-- 🤡

[recentanimenews]

"Kannagi" Anime Voice Cast Reunite for Manga Final 12th Volume's Drama CD

The official Twitter for Ichijinsha's Monthly Comic Rex confirmed today that the special edition of the final 12th volume of Eri Takenashi's fantasy manga series Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens will come with a newly-recorded drama CD on a script by the manga author herself. All of the main voice cast from the 14-episode 2008 TV anime are confirmed to reprise their roles.

  The "spoiler" CD will tell what happen after the manga's final chapter to be published in the upcoming September 2017 issue of the magazine. The issue will be released on the same day as the 12th tankobon, July 27.

  In addition to the drama part, the CD will also include a new song "Saigo no Love Letter (The Last Love Letter)" performed by Haruka Tomatsu, which is inspired by a song sung by her character Nagi in the manga story. The manga author Takenashi wrote the lyrics and co-composed the music with Satoru Kousaki

(MONACA), who worked on the OP/ED theme songs, insert songs, and soundtrack music for the 2008 anime. 

  Confirmed voice cast of the drama CD

 Nagi: Haruka Tomatsu

 Jin Mikuriya: Hiro Shimono

 Tsugumi Aoba: Miyuki Sawashiro

 Zange: Kana Hanazawa

 Daitetsu Hibiki: Takanori Hoshino

 Meguru Akiba: Tetsuya Kakihara

 Takako Kimura: Risa Hayamizu

 Shino Oukouchi: Mai Nakahara

  【最新情報解禁☆】7/27発売のかんなぎ12巻特装版にて、ナギの新曲＆ネタバレドラマCDが収録！！キャストは戸松遥さん、下野紘さん、沢城みゆきさん、花澤香菜さん、星野貴紀さん、柿原徹也さん、早水リサさん、中原麻衣さんと超豪華キャストでお届けします！新曲作曲は武梨先生と神前暁さん☆ http://pic.twitter.com/2ogt9jvSNr

— REX編集部@最新7月号本日27日発売 (@Re_REX) 2017年5月26日

  Manga 1st and 11th volume covers

    Source: Monthly Comic Rex official Twitter

  © Eri Takenashi/Ichijinsha

  By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com