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SUBARU HOSHINA

EPISODE 6: 大嫌い / 大好き Self-Loathing / I Love You!

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薫る花は凛と咲く ED - 汐れいら / 『ハレの日に』

Kaoru Hana ED - "On a Special Day" by Ushio Reira.

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archiving this blog. i will be here from now on.

#starting new #it's official #still didn't get any reply from staff 🙃#shouganai...

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Isamu & Nyanko-sensei.

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How Isagi uses his empathy

One of the things I enjoy about Isagi as a character is his empathetic nature. There’s a weird take I’ve seen floating around that Isagi allegedly lacks empathy because he spends time a lot of time rationalizing, i.e., trying to understand the behavior of others. This is not true. Some of the most rational people can also be some of the most empathetic. In fact, cognitive empathy, which is a type of empathy, involves being able to accurately understand another person’s mental state from their point of view, and respond accordingly. Bothering to perceive where another person’s head is at requires empathy. We’ve seen Isagi do this while playing soccer multiple times.

He did it with Bachira automatically:

Isagi perceived Bachira’s desire to go to the goal on his own during the 4v4

He did it again with Rin, also automatically:

Isagi intuited Rin’s desire to prevail over Itoshi Sae in a 1v1 during the U-20 game

More recently, Isagi has become conscious of considering every player’s POV when he plays:

Isagi considers everyone’s views in his field of play

Mind you, Isagi is the only one with egocentric meta vision, which is quite literally an ability to understand another footballer’s play from their point of view so that it may be incorporated into Isagi’s play predictions. So by this point, Isagi has actually taken his empathy, operationalized it (made the unknown, known and the unconscious, conscious), and infused it into his play style, in accordance with his adaptability genius.

Now I also want to talk about is Isagi’s personality off the field, because there is another piece (lol) to all this. Something else that is captivating about Isagi is the duality of his character, or to put it more broadly, the complexities and contradictions in his personality. Obviously, while on the field and fully immersed in his ego, Isagi becomes quite ruthless, to the point where even his empathy may become another tool to win. Not only does Isagi use egocentrism to his advantage, but earlier on when Isagi unlocked meta vision he even thinks of himself as “merely data,” i.e., a piece of the puzzle to GOAL. However, when he is out of his ego persona, he can again become friendly, prosocial, and indeed, compassionate.

To clarify, having compassion is displaying empathy. The word compassion comes from Latin, and means, “to suffer together.” Understanding other’s from their point of view is not the entirety of empathy; instead, it also involves an emotional component, called affective empathy. Affective empathy is the ability to share an emotional experience with someone else, or having compassion for someone else. So we can see how the pointed cliché of “putting yourself in another person’s shoes,” evokes the idea of “suffering together,” feeling how another is feeling, thinking how another is thinking, seeing how another is seeing, and indeed, empathy.

Isagi “suffering together,” in shared emotion, and empathizing with his teammates:

Isagi sits with how Igaguri is feeling before the Team V matchup

Isagi feels the same as Reo prior to the 3rd selection matches

Isagi declares to Ego his and the Blue Lock 11’s shared feelings and desire to beat the U-20 squad

Isagi is generally shown to be aware of the feelings of others. He has a desire to help and is cooperative, precisely because he is empathetic, i.e., he considers how other’s might feel in a given situation and can feel alongside them. Isagi’s gift is awareness, which fits right in with his ability to see and feel how others see and feel.

It is because Isagi naturally has a kind and compassionate personality outside of competition that the contrast between his normal temperament and his ruthless ego while in flow becomes all the more jarring. In addition to his empathy, Isagi is also a very, very pragmatic and motivated person, to the point where he is capable of becoming ruthless in football to achieve his dream. In summation, Isagi is a true competitor. He will use anything at his disposal to win at soccer, even his considerable empathy. (Of course, Isagi is not alone in that reality. Everyone who plays under Ego tries to do the same; they all will exploit and be exploited. It is Blue Lock, after all.) Isagi’s attitude is not something I pathologize, rather, I see it as truly interesting.

Lastly, I want to say as a side note, I don’t believe that empathy is reserved for a select few. It is instead a part of our make up as human beings. It is simply a muscle which must be used, or else it will atrophy. It is not necessarily, “I must either have empathy or I don’t,” but we can grow our feelings of empathy, through patience and experience, if we want to do so.

{Tagging @swordmaidenfuyu who made the astute observation about Isagi’s ruthlessness. Also tagging @aesterblaster, whose opinion I respect… but I had to present a differing view.}

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I definitely think that this moment is all of the little moments where Isagi zeroed in on just defeating one person and trying to become the best piling up to his ego becoming pure hubris. Like before it was just Isagi slowly becoming more and more like a machine who works towards a goal, but I fear he has fully embraced his role as an analyzer of the field, to the point where he's abandoning the thing that really made him standout as an analyst to begin with:

His empathy. I read a post a while ago from someone who talked about how it's actually because Isagi is so empathetic that he's able to read so much about his opponents. And I really agree with that, because Isagi Yoichi is the most empathetic person the field. Or at least he used to be before he became enamored with making goals and scoring. Then he only cared about trying to score because he brought into the Blue Lock philosophy hook, line, and sinker.

I think this moment is a result of Isagi abandoning the things that he felt were holding him back from becoming a "genius" like the others, and that thing was literally his ability to understand another person by thinking about what it must be like to be them, essentially. He's only thinking about how they can fulfill their actions on the field, and not why and that was a huge core of early Isagi's mindset. Thinking about others isn't a selfish act, and is the least egotistical thing you can do. But it's what got Isagi ahead for the most part, and a key part about being an egoist isn't getting rid of the parts that make you unique, it's turning those things about you into weapons for you to use to your advantage.

It's a little ironic that he'd turn to Kaiser in the end for help defeating the "neo egoist league" all together, because Kaiser JUST learned the whole "I need to be more empathetic and caring of others to truly learn the value of myself" lesson, he had this whole inner monologue where he truly realized that using other people like cogs in a machine wasn't what made him a great striker. Or even a great player, and that his detachment to other people was the thing that was secretly holding him back, not the other way around.

And here is Isagi, becoming just like Kaiser, abandoning the thing that made him special as a striker for what he thinks he "needs" and not what is actually beneficial to him.

In a weird way, its almost like Kaiser and Isagi have swapped places. Isagi is the unfeeling antagonist who wants to use this all feeling "side character" to get ahead, and I think he's going to fail because he doesn't realize that he's falling behind in the wrong places. Early Isagi from before this arc would have whole moments where he'd talk to his teammates and even learn about how they think specifically, and even their past achievements, the things weighing them down etc.

But this Isagi has not once done that, and that's what has led us here. To an Isagi who is wholly addicted to the feeling of making goals that he has forgotten to consider the other part of what makes a striker great.

A part of me is still also thinking about Bachira in all this, and how we haven't seen in literally a year at this point. And I am wondering if when we do see them, it will be like two sides of the same coin (because if I remember correctly Bachira's team hasn't won a single game for some reason, even though Bachira's scored the most)

I can definitely see Isagi becoming full on "Logos" in his ideas, while Bachira is completely "Pathos" and is honing too much in on his creativity and not enough on how to make that translate into a victory. (i also just miss bachira in the story </3)

#blue lock #isagi yoichi #there's couple of reports from recent bllk fansign #knshr kinda confirm that bcr; kngm; other char. (sorry i forgot who)#will have bigger role in the future #blue lock spoilers #blue lock meta #i miss bachira too :(