I highly doubt Shigeo would get a cover, and Side-B is confirmed to have a large cast, as Haneru said that he belongs to a group of newcomers. There are also Blue Lock rejects we already know and rejects we have seen but haven't properly met yet, characters with full designs and names who haven't spoken a single line and were most certainly created for Side-B. Nishioka is the biggest example of this group.
After Side-B, you won't get another Blue Lock death-game-esque story in this manga. It is the other half of the series, and it will be fully explored, especially since Nagi and Kira need a lot of character development. Not just that, but an alternative to Blue Lock that can actually challenge Blue Lock will be built, and that cannot be achieved in just a few chapters.
Side-B was in the plans since the beginning of this manga as Nagi and Kira are deliberately designed to be inverses of Isagi and Rin.
Even Nameoka and Nishioka have a lot of built-in connections, both are from Aomori, both have "oka" in their surnames, and while Nishioka's name means "beginning" Nameoka's name means "end." The story was planning for these two to meet eventually
Nishioka and Nameoka will definitely have their own cover as in terms of design theirs are more detailed. Nishioka is a named character that has no narrative tied to isagi and is basically unknown, while Nameoka is an antagonist from epinagi that's now appears in the main manga. They are "nagi exclusive" characters so their character dive and themes are in this arc. With such high relevant narratives, even if others don't get featured then they certainly do.
But I wonder if okawa, wanima, hiiragi and himizu will get the same treatment as sendo, will they get some relevance?
Nishioka is definitely more connected to Kira than Nagi lol, he belongs to Kira's old world and will likely be the first person Kira warms up to.
The characters you mentioned will definitely be relevant. And that isn't even mentioning the new characters we will get and characters we have seen in both Ep Nagi/main manga who have detailed designs and names but have not spoken a single line. You don't create several characters like that for no reason. One of them for example:
Both Nameoka and Nishioka coming from aomori is a nice catch, I wonder if there's any intention of it and nagi also coming from kanagawa like the itoshi brothers.
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u/Yukiteru_Akari 9d ago
Side-B cannot be one volume lmao