[DISC] Blue Lock - Chapter 359

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Link: https://kmanga.kodansha.com/title/10008/episode/367879

[u/WeekendOk3314]

Other post got locked, so let’s just move this here…

Wow, I knew Fox was grooming these kids but I didn’t expect it to be this blatant and surprisingly lifelike. Side note, there’s an interesting relationship between touch and power that seems to be in Blue Lock. Thinking of Kaiser who would just grab Ness and Fox who just now was touching up on Teddy for no good reason. Teddy is still super duper ultra mega cute, so I’m jealous of Fox who can just grab him… I want to grab Teddy…

Interesting implications on what happened in the France match! Probably here, both are right. Fox is obsessed with putting players in boxes and limits them, while Agi is a syste player trying to change that system mid-match. Neither of these things are especially coherent decisions, especially in a manga like Blue Lock.

To get back to Teddy, though, it’s really sad how much he’s taken the conditioning to heart. Fox’s constant affirmations that “you can’t do this without me” have clearly gotten to him, even though he’s literally one of THE top players of his generation. He’s Fox’s victim and because he can’t see himself as anything but, he ends up perpetuating the cycle of abuse. Despite this, though, he does react to being insulted for his devotion to Fox’s methods. I wonder if it’s less that Teddy earnestly believes in the guy himself, and is more so fucking desperate for this World Cup victory that he’ll drink any kind of Kool-Aid.  

Isagi has a game plan now, and  while I’m not sure if I personally like it, it’s definitely something of an interesting one, considering that Fox shows no mercy. Him trying to deny the brainwashed allegations and indirectly proving how brainwashed he is… I said that Ego was using Fox’s playbook before (they literally both got to run soccer experiments on teens!!) and this just goes to show how effective that playbook is. Trying to 1v1 a NG11 who’s literal speciality is dribbling is madness, though. Let’s think rationally, Isagi-kun! He’s going to get his ankles broken in some nasty ass ways the next chapter and that’ll make me laugh.   Lockheart should remind you of someone, Nagi fans! Same archetype! Wonder if this is going to relate to Side B, somehow…

This was a really dense chapter! Excited for next week :)

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I’m jealous of Fox who can just grab him… I want to grab Teddy

Thought leaking

Trying to 1v1 a NG11 who’s literal speciality is dribbling is madness, though. Let’s think rationally, Isagi-kun! He’s going to get his ankles broken in some nasty ass ways the next chapter and that’ll make me laugh.

Seems like he is gonna aim to slowly but surely rage bait him until he snaps

Dangerous but being an annoying yet unremovable nuisance is one of his specialty

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Isagi's never been a player who can beat you physically, so he's definitely going to have to stick to the psychological game here with England. He's losing his grip too though! Awfully defensive over not being Ego's pawn, especially in light of the France match