Shower thoughts be like: what happened to Kunigami in the Wild card room to change his personality so drastically? in this essay i will-
[major manga spoilers ahead]
Okay, Kunigami is slightly trickier for me, so feel free to add your opinions.
When we were first introduced to Kunigami, he was someone with an upright image, someone who also hungers to score goals too, yes, but he'd rather do it "the right way", no tricks involved.
He was also someone who looked after his teammates in his own ways, like when he scored thanks to Isagi and repaid him with food bought with the Blue Lock points he earned from the goal.
But the Wild Card room took his personality and sharpened his hunger for goals and threw the other softer aspects of his personality away.
(it gave me serious whiplash, to be honest)
His expression itself here also shows just how much he has changed from his Team Z days: its colder, more piercing and...entirely different from the "old" Kunigami.
But what made him change so drastically?
Was it the same thing that Isagi realised? That him advancing in Blue Lock essentially means that he has to eliminate other players? crush their hopes and dreams?
I mean, ultimately Isagi learnt how to thrive off defeating others, but it seems to have affected Kunigami differently.
Maybe having to crush the others (in the Wild Card room) in order to climb up and survive drastically warped some part of him, made him realise that his way of doing things "fair and square" won't help him get far in Blue Lock. But that isn't anything different from what he was doing during the First selection arc. Is it the pressure of having to single-handedly defeat the others?
Or was the change in his personality to perfectly emulate Noel Noa? in order to fit into the Bastard Munchen's logical and rational team dynamic? to better understand Noel Noa's playstyle?
Because. It doesn't seem as if Kunigami is meshing well with Bastard Munchen, is it?
At this point, we still don't really know what role he's supposed to play, other than being a copy of Noel Noa, and supposedly to 'guide' Isagi in these matches.
I'm really hoping that we'll get to see him play a bigger role in the current arc, and hopefully see more of this new Kunigami fleshed out, because he feels quite flat as a character to me now.
Also, slight deviation, but: in my opinion, if Kunigami had survived up till now, he would have chosen Manshine City as well. I see Chigiri and Kunigami as pretty similar players in the sense that both Chigiri and his playstyles both rely on their physique: Chigiri with his speed and Kunigami with his strength.
(which is also probably why they get along well and work together well, but thats another essay for another day.)
tl;dr props to Kunigami for surviving the wild card room, but did it really produce the best results? what with Kunigami's former personality being crushed by his current cold and harsh exterior, and he doesn't seem to be meshing well with the Bastard Munchen team either.
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