#the reonagi also has me crying

[daydreamingoncloud9]

OP YOU'RE SO GALAXY-BRAINED OH MY GOD????

I think you're on the right track here in your interpretation because if we look at the fan translation of this same scene, Reo doesn't say "Just keep waiting and looking down on me" but instead this.

And if we look at the fan translation as the more accurate translation (because scanlation teams usually work on projects that they are passionate about and therefore would be more incentivised to stay true to the original text's meaning) then it makes so much sense why Nagi doesn't think there was anything weird with Reo's wording and could walk away without protest.

Maybe this is also the reason why Nagi looked so shocked when Reo implied that Nagi was 'manipulating' him and that his feelings were 'ever-changing'.

Like he thought they were on the same page this entire time so the fact that Reo says this comes as a shock to him. And it then makes sense why he would try to correct Reo's misunderstanding by clarifying that all his actions so far have been for the sake of their promise.

That his feelings have never actually changed because he still values their promise together above all else. That he still values Reo.

And oh my god, it makes so much sense why instead of saying "Now that you (Reo) have crawled up", he says "Now that you and I (we) have crawled up" to Reo.

Nagi is basically taking a sledgehammer to Reo's belief that he's worthless now (to Nagi) and smashing it because he's subtly conveying to both Reo and the audience that he has never seen Reo as someone beneath him or someone that needed to chase after him.

In fact, it would have been easy to convey how Nagi thinks he's superior now because he's of a higher rank but actually, Nagi was shown to not care that much about the Blue Lock rankings as early as Chapter 44 of the main story. Notice how he doesn't even glance at his ranking while Bachira and Isagi do.

So why on earth would he believe that Reo of all people would be beneath him just because of a measly (and frankly arbitrary) number when he doesn't even care about his own ranking?

He doesn't think he's at the top (someone that Reo needs to chase after like Reo thinks) but someone who still needs to grow to get to the top alongside Reo. Which is why he interprets Reo's words of "You just keep waiting for me from above" as "Wait for me at the top once you get there because I'll be catching up soon".

So now, when he asked Reo to join him in beating Isagi (the person that scored the winning goal in the First Selection and caused them to lose and no longer be the strongest), it's because he believed that the two of them are now back to being the strongest, together.

I-I'm in shock right now actually.

Yk usually, stalking reonagi/nagireo twt is bad for my mental health bc everyone either hates Nagi or wants them to break up (again)

BUT NOT TODAY OMGGGG EPISODE NAGI CHAPTER 8 RAWS RELEASED N I ONLY FOUND OUT BC OF THE TWT TRANSLATORS AND!!!! GUYS!!!!!!

Spoilers for Episode: Nagi chapter 8!!!

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BAROU MADE REO FALL AND NAGI CAUGHT HIM!!!!! WITH ONE ARM!!!!!!!!

THE TRANSLATION IS NAGI SAYING "I'm not his slave, I'm reo's partner" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SCREAMING CRYING PUNCHING AIR THIS IS EVERYTHING I NEEDED THANK YOU MANGAKA TY TWT USER @/_mangaotaku 😭😭😭😭

[itoshi-s]

You cant tell me that shidou and sae fidnt have sex after bllk vs japan u20,, it was implied asf (give me ur number) (after i shower) then bllk has 2 weeks off after the match... excuse me while i froth at the mouth debating whose top and bottom bc both of them wont lose and be receiving if u get what i mean (i dont really like character x character but i have strong feelings for this one)

WOW ALRIGHT OKAY .. i am finally getting around answering this cuz nonnie beloved my mind was going CRAAAZYYYYYY each n every time i glanced at this kshfsalk SO !

i am not much of a shipper either but gawd damn i can and WILL appreciate the crumbs that are just too good to ignore omg. it's the same w reonagi for me tbh cuz as much as i don't ship them,, u cannot tell me they didn't experiment w each other at least once lol

now ryusae 😭 ohhh lawd. oh god have mercy. please the tension between these two made me want to scream. put down my phone for a solid minute bc ik it was a bit of a comedic relief as well but also .. u can't tell me they didn't hook up. they did. THEY DID !!!!!! and i can't make up my mind who topped who. like.. i see everyone thinkin sae's a bottom and i KINDA agree but.. i think he wouldn't just give it up that easily lol he'd be more of a power bottom kinda type u feel me ?? ryusei's such a horndog he doesn't rly mind doing anything. just lets sae order him around lol

also. sae gives CRAAZYYYYY good head. no matter what u have goin on between your legs,, he's so good it makes you cry. he's so good. oml STOOOP AKJSHDJDAIS this is insane 😭 i am down so bad my head is steaming

i want them both in me now this is crazy

[m1ckeyb3rry]

It’s unbelievable how much we are on the same wavelength LMAO YOUR HAIR GEL JOKES ALWAYS HIT I LOVE THEM Keep rambling on because it’s truly doing wonders blessing my feed!!

But ALSO OMG YEAH THE EPINAGI PINKIE THING HAD ME ROLLING LMAOOO Tbh I’m also not much of a reonagi shipper so I feel you! Movie def felt a bit rushed though I’m glad they added in some cool Nagi scenes!! His aura in the movie was sooo pretty I loved how they did that but YEAH MY DISAPPOINTMENT WHEN WE DIDNT GET CRUMBS OF THEIR MATCH AGAINST KARASU AND OTOYA??? I guess it was pretty recent in the epinagi chapters but I was fr hoping for more scenes with them T-T I was actually kinda just comparing it to the recent spy x family movie too and you can definitely notice some of the less refined moments in parts of the animation haha….overall I like how they explored a bit more of Nagi fs but it kinda makes me want another installment of the movie that’s less rushed and includes more of the actual epinagi content instead of only the parts that overall with the main series…I mean as a Nagi fan too I’m not really complaining much bc hey, more Nagi screen time! Considering the speed in which they got this out I won’t complain too much about the quality though I still think it was a good watch for Nagi and BLLK fans in general lolll

Ok but I think they chose Karasu’s va sooooo well like it fits him perfectly which I’m really happy about but THAT ADDITIONAL TIME CLIP I feel like the art is always a bit crunchy for those I kinda died at the close up on Karasu’s face there but ykw I’ll take it it’s Karasu so…

I LIVE FOR WEIRD LITTLE FREAK CHILD HIORI OMG that epinagi scene where he looks like that balled up watery eyed hamster meme thing (I hope you get the ref bc I’m not sure how else to explain LOL) I loved the light novel references in remember going crazy when that chapter released with the whole stalking thing LOLL

LMAOOO 1 CM TALLER YUKIMIYA IM CRYING THATS GENIUS I completely forgot about that fact you thought this out so well!! Imagine he puts in extra hair gel or styles his hair a little differently to add even more height or something

KARASU LOOKS SO GOOD IN THE EPINAGI MANGA!!!! I know exactly which panel you’re talking about and it’s permanently living in my camera roll! I think the next chapter should be coming out relatively soon?? But I’m also so happy that we get to see more action from Karasu and Otoya!!! And ofc their interactions with Chigiri and Nagi too! (Actually when I first got into BLLK nagi was my fav HAHA it’s changed around a little bit but he still holds a special place in my heart so I feel that) The Chigiri Barou dynamic lately is also something I’ve been loving lately they’re so goofy as a rival duo it’s hilarious

LMAOOO I COULD HEAR JUSTIN BIEBER SAYING THOSE WORDS AS I READ THEM but THANK YOU AGAIN!!! I’ll happily eat up whatever work you throw out even if it’s not Karasu because there’s just something about your writing style that’s just so nice to read (Ngl I kinda stalked your page and read through your other works like Cherry Tree, Peregrine, White Butterfly, Pathways, etc. and honestly your writing has been just invading my brain throughout the day your work is just amazing (I almost cried reading White Butterfly too)) but also don’t forget to take care of yourself!! No rush at all I hope you enjoy yourself while writing everything!!! You never fail to deliver and I’m glad to have given an opportunity for you to write about Karasu!

- Karasu anon :)

P. S. That Rin art you reblogged jumpscared me so bad LMAOOO almost died laughing and nearly peeing my pants LOL Also sorry these are always so long I just noticed the last reply you sent needed to have the “keep reading” button in order to respond to everything I said oops lmk if you’d prefer I be more concise HAHA

omg YAYYAY i love that we agree!! the hair gel jokes are necessary unfortunately…the one manga panel in the pxg vs bm game where we see him from above and his hair forms a ninety degree angle HAUNTS me. how long does bro spent sculpting that 😭

THE PINKY THING WAS SO FUNNY PLEASE i cannot get over it like why did they add that in LMAOAO i feel like reonagi is one of those ships that i acknowledge is probably closer to canon than most but i just do not care about it. honestly i don’t really have any ships in bllk (except kunigiri a bit??) that i’m super into just because them being weirdos abt soccer is so much funnier than anything!! i’ve also never really been a big shipper in general w any show i watch so that could also be why. like i recognize they exist and idc what other people ship but me personally you’ll never see me pressed or championing one ship or another. for me romance is more of a route to character exploration than a be-all end-all which is why on the RARE occasions i read a ship fic it’s almost always for the most random rare pair — you have to understand characters super well to convincingly write them together when they’ve met MAYBE once on screen so those types of fics always end up being more interesting to me. overall though if i like a character i’m going to write my own stories abt them and i’m not abt to write them w someone else when i could write abt them being in love with me 🙄 HAHA

i love nagi’s whole sparkly death aura i think it’s super cool!! and the little vacuum sound effect whenever he touches the ball hehe they definitely made it so pretty in the movie. i wasn’t expecting karasu and otoya to pull up just because of how recently it happened in the manga but i was still sad because they just made the second selection a montage (although when rin pulled up with his dramatic ass theme i laughed tbh) 😔 like ik we see it in the show already but LET ME SEE IT AGAINNNN!! i think w bllk the good animation is REALLY good and the bad is…well it’s certainly smth!! but i agree it was a fun movie and watch if you already like bllk…i hope they eventually do release another one or maybe an ova or smth w the rest of the second selection from nagi’s pov i would love to see it on screen.

the additional times either have majestic animation (the aryu vs rin glam battle was like. oddly well animated i feel??) or they’re super crunchy and i fear tabieitaken got the short end of the stick this time around…hoping they don’t do them dirty in season two because those are two of the most handsome boys in the manga (plus otoya) so i will be heartbroken if they aren’t given justice. karasu’s voice actor is super good though!! i actually do think bllk (at least the sub, i haven’t watched dub so can’t comment on that) has hit the mark with va’s every time. they all sound exactly how i would expect them too so far and i can’t wait for more scenes w the newer characters!!

YESS IK WHICH HAMSTER YOU MEAN that’s exactly what he looks like!! i don’t feel too bad about slandering hiori in the fwtkac series because i wrote white butterfly where he’s the main interest so obviously i don’t hate him…plus fwtkac y/n is hiori’s biggest (and probably only atm) defender so it balances out (and technically all of his nonsense is literally canon KHLFJSJD his light novel is so funny!! why does he literally stalk karasu (me fr though)!! i feel like in the manga it seems like karasu’s interest in hiori is v one-sided but then you read the ln and you’re like oh…this guy (meaning hiori) is actually a little bit Not Normal…in the words of y/n “he was definitely a freak.”) his light novel goes the most into depth about karasu’s character (it’s almost as much abt karasu as it is about hiori) so i did a reread before starting fwtkac and that’s what made me include little references to it!!

I JUST CHECKED THEIR WIKI PAGES BEFORE WRITING THAT TO MAKE SURE IT WAS TRUE i honestly forgot which one was taller between the two of them but i had a sense it was yuki AND IT WAS DSLFKJ especially the fact that it’s only by one cm you KNOW that is karasu’s roman empire…tbf i don’t think that it includes hair because according to the wiki nagi is taller than barou but w the hair included i think they end up being about the same height?? though nagi does slouch a bit so that much contribute to it…imagine the hairstyle y/n makes fun of in the series is actually a different one than we’re used to and he only pulls up w the crow hairstyle while in bllk so he can feel like he’s taller than yukimiya HAHAHA

oh that panel will forever be famous in the hearts of all karasu stans…plus the ones of him in the latest chapter AHHHH that is one pretty boyyy. chigiri and barou are so unserious together i honestly love how chigiri is characterized in epinagi!! he’s so much sillier than he is in the main manga. omg so i actually started the show because of rin and then when i first started watching i really liked kunigami?? i was pretty lukewarm on nagi during his first appearance and then i noticed myself rewatching his scenes in the team v vs team z match and i was like oh no…then he was in the second selection and it went downhill from there and now he’s my stupid dumb squishy boyfriend who i love sm 🥹 omg who are your favs now?? besides karasu ofc 😏

PEOPLE KEEP SAYING THEY ALMOST CRIED TO WHITE BUTTERFLY IS IT REALLY THAT SAD??? i had fun writing that one though it felt very whimsical and dreamy which fit hiori imo…omg peregrine i need to get back to working on it hehe i love nagi and reo in that fic!! the boys of all time fr 💖 thank you so much though you’re too kind 🫶🏻 i do enjoy writing a lot!! i’ve been pretty bored this summer so i’m glad that my milestone event could line up with me having sm free time…although honestly just by doing requests i’ve gotten so many new followers that i might have to do another event soon 😭 i actually really like having them open though!! i think i’ll probably leave them closed for a bit while i finish up the existing ones and work on some of my own ideas but i might open them up just for bllk again in the future because everyone’s ideas are sm fun and i love meeting new people through them!! plus i get to try writing for new characters…like realistically i never would’ve written for sae hiori or even isagi and kaiser without people requesting for them but some of those requests ended up becoming my fav fics i’ve written so far!! we will see though hehe no promises atm but like i said i’m always open to thoughts and if inspiration strikes then i won’t say no 🤩

PLSSSS THAT RIN FANART HAD ME DYING that’s who rin is to me!! he is an emotionally unavailable little weirdo SKLDJFLKJS i think a big reason why i don’t really like rin that much is because his fanon characterization is so different from the type of character i like that i’m just meh abt him. actual canon rin is one of my favs though he’s sooo funny and such a loser but i CANNOT engage with 90% of media abt him because i’m just sitting there like He Would Not Say That. ofc characters are open to interpretation though so i will never slander someone for writing him how they want to but i am afraid that the rin who exists to me and the rin who exists to the world are very diff characters entirely

NOOO dw i love getting long asks!! i add the ‘read more’ so that people who want to lurk on my blog don’t have to scroll through a bunch of my nonsense chattering to get to things like my writing/the majestic fan art that i reblog but long asks are like my fav thing ever so please don’t restrain yourself!! i will respond to each and every thing you say with pleasure 🤞🏻

[daydreamingoncloud9]

OH MY GOD YOU GET ME YOU GET MEEEE

I've genuinely never been as insane over a pairing as I am over reonagi/nagireo and I believe most of it has to do with, like you said, how soft and tender they are towards each other. (NAGI CONSTANTLY REASSURING REO EVEN THOUGH HE HATES DOING ANYTHING TROUBLESOME BECAUSE REO IS WORTH IT WHILE ALSO GETTING HIS OWN REASSURANCE THAT REO (still) ACCEPTS HIM AS HE IS, LAZINESS AND ALL😭😭😭😭 IT'S NO WONDER HIS VOICE TURNED SO SOFT AT THE END I'M CRYING)

Like I can't place it exactly what makes them feel so different to me compared to the other ships I obsessed over in the past.

Is it because they are a friends to lovers situation rather than a rivals/enemies to lovers situation like with my previous ships/other similar ships in shounen (thinking bakudeku, narusasu, kagehina, rinharu, etc)? Is it because even if they fought and said mean things to each other, it never escalated to anything physical? Is it because even when they are physical, it's them showing their affection and being loving rather than being violent and aggressive towards each other (head pats, piggybacks, carrying with one arm, hair drying, etc)? Is it because right after that big fight and even while they were awkward, they still approached each other and spoke words of encouragement and belief? Is it because their fight stemmed from how attached they are to each other and how much they love each other?

Is it because Blue Lock's more individualistic philosophy makes it so that their insistence on always staying together and being a duo stand out?? Is it because unlike other yaoibait, they only ever really look at each other and were evidently made for each other (both in canon and on a meta standpoint)??? Is it because they are each other's first real friend and this makes it so that they are each other's most important person (read: home)? Is it because it's so evident that they love each other so much and are willing to change in order to be better for each other? Is it because they literally tick off so many of my favourite shoujo romcom/fanfic tropes when I wasn't expecting it?

Maybe it's all of the above and more. I don't know. But either way, they just make so soft and I love them dearly

So recently, there was this blue lock exhibition where you could be accompanied by either an E4 (isagi/bachira/kunigami/chigiri) or a reonagi/nagireo voice guide. (Full translation for the former here and the latter (+ the actual audio) here)

And the reonagi/nagireo one makes me very :) sane :) actually :)

And the fact that this script was supervised by Kaneshiro-sensei himself and thus makes all of this canon...

It's not like I was finally getting over my obsession or anything. This didn't drag me back into reonagi/nagireo hell at all! :)

I also haven't been obsessing over the other stuff that came with the exhibition either. Nope. Nope.

I'm completely chill guys. My life hasn't been ruined and I'm not in shambles at all. I am A-OK.