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Just read Blue Lock Chapter 302 and I am so furious that I have to go for a walk.

This is a completely unreasonable reaction to seeing a cartoon soccer player cry. My logical brain knows Nagi will be fine and will honestly probably be better off for this.

Still can't get the rage to leave my body like I'm shaking and yelling at my medical notes this is ridiculous

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Blue Lock 302

FINALLY!!!! FINALLY WE GET THE NAGI TEARS AFTER ALL THESE CHAPTERS!! Its cathartic af but also 😭😭😭😭😭 The way it gets progressively worst once it finally hits man like I died and cried like Nagi 😭😭😭😭😭

Initially, I thought Nagi's gonna cry right after Manshine lost their final match just cause of how scared he looked before, and tbh I was also quite annoyed that Reo got to cry in chapter 300 yet not Nagi, but I'm really glad it turned out the way it did now.

I really like how this chapter progressed cause it shows us Nagi’s the kind of character who takes a while before his emotions and the reality of the situation hits him. Pretty in character considering how new he is to experiencing emotions, set backs, and anything really.

It was so sad seeing him think that everything's fine and that he’s okay with going back to the life he once had because it shows he’s not even aware how affected he is. We see him living through his daily routine again like at the start of epinagi (very cute), yet every little moment just keeps reminding him of another life he’s lived. With each moment, it’s just getting harder and harder for him to hang on to the façade that “it’s fine”.

It was especially heartbreaking when he was sitting alone at his desk surrounded by classmates and thinking "its fine" "its fine" yet no one actually spoked to him at all throughout the day. Even at the end of the day when everyone has left, he's still just sitting there alone with no one bothering to check up on him. It really hammers in how ALONE Nagi is outside of Blue Lock and how well-loved he is in there with so many cute interactions with so many people. And this is before we even get to his backstory too btw which oh man, I’m sure that’s gonna be another painful experience, child neglect and all.

This boy was okay (comparatively) with having zero friends before Blue Lock but now that’s he’s changed (for good lol…), he just can’t go back to life the way it used to be at all. Not after experiencing friendship and various bonds… the loneliness would hit hard…

I love how his breaking point was seeing his schoolmates playing soccer though (I mean, it’s a soccer manga). That, along with everything before, finally triggered his realization of how miserable he actually is. All his emotions that he was unaware of and subconsciously trying to repress finally hit, and when the dam breaks… The entire sea of regret, longing and sense of loss just overflows. In the end, Nagi really did grow to enjoy soccer for all the heat, fire and excitement it brought him, for allowing him to feel alive and be born from his previously “dead” existence. I just really like this point, that soccer and Blue Lock both mattered to him.

Him reflecting how these feelings were so new to him that he wasn’t aware of them until this moment also broke me, cuz it’s really hammering in how this is the FIRST time he’s experiencing all these emotion. Yet, he has to experience and deal with all these ALONE with no one around him to comfort him at all. Really making me wonder how many things he’d to deal with alone before…

The way he makes himself so small, the way he holds himself while crying all alone in that classroom is really heartbreaking... This page really shows how much of a child he really is, baby chick in everything and all. He even looks so small when he's 190cm… Every page is really just more pain stack on top of more pain. I usually don't like to put manga panels in my rambles just cause I wanna keep the stream of word vomit going but this chapter man... Too many panels that just hits harder and harder as we go along...

How he went from trying to forget everything at the beginning of the chapter to “I’ll never forget it (Blue Lock) as long as I live” feels like a reference to “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” since he’s finally choosing to remember rather than forget even if that brings with it all the pain of loss, regret and tears. Which reminds me I need to watch that movie before the next epinagi chapter, since its titled “Eternal Sunset”…

I wonder if knsr will continue to make links between both series cuz he did it again with the latest epinagi chapter too...with Nagi realizing he's scared "that this fire will disappear", “I wanna stay inside this fire forever", “I wanna stay excited forever", “I wanna never wake up from this dream" all these are like a prelude to this chapter lol. As I said, knsr must really be having fun linking the series for Nagi and hammering in the pain of his downfall. Its like his pen just flows writing all these parallels... Truly his fav.

And finally... the money shot... 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Its borderline bizarre but also so real and impactful seeing its NAGI, our usually expressionless and nonchalant genius, crying so hard like this (Still so pretty tho even when ugly crying with snot 😭😭😭😭😭). Every time I look at this panel I tear up, but that happens for the other ones too… I think the panel and moment that hits me the hardest is still the one when he first realized "why am I so miserable?" cause that's when shit went downhill fast....

Here, he says he wants to “go back to how I used to be but I can’t” which is again, so painful to read. He wants to feel that fire with everyone and feel alive again so bad but he knows his daily existence just couldn’t do that for him. Not after finally realising how empty his existence was his whole life before something better showed up, but now having to go back to it again. I know this is a manga about Blue Lock and soccer but seeing this, I really hope Nagi manages to find a way to feel fired up again even outside Blue Lock. I feel like him thinking like this means he still has a lot of growth to do because life really is more than Blue Lock. There’s others ways that can allow him to go back to how he used to be (cue accepting his offer?).

Plus he’s still seeing Blue Lock as some youthful place where he got to gain all these new experiences and personal growth when it’s actually a prison for them to fight to the “death” to become the best in the world. I wonder if this is just another sign he needs to grow more and out of this naive mentality. I know it’s what resulted in his lock off and it’s what was criticised but I just have to say I do really like this youthful, pure, naive side to him, it makes him so precious…but it’ll probably be gone eventually right? 😭 (Unless?? 👀👀)

So yea… I’m really looking forward to how his rebirth's handled and I wonder if we’ll get his backstory? Please knsr, treat it with as much care and love as you've doing for his death PLEASE 😭😭😭😭😭 You showed us baby Nagi for a reason right???

Now for some light hearted things lol

I'm so giddy over this panel since I'm pretty sure knsr included this as a dig at Reo fangirls/shippers lol. I wonder if he's as annoyed at them as me cause damn they be ruining my fandom experience fr making EVERYTHING about ships and Reo like leave my babygirl "alone"!!! Maybe knsr got exceptionally fed up with the fandom's response to Nagi's death or something? Lol. Cuz it’s supposed to be Nagi centric!!!

This also reminds me of that panel of Himizu from epinagi. Pretty sure the same group of people are the ones making Nagi out to be some manipulative psychological harasser or something, and pretty sure knsr included that to call them out too lol. Glad to see him always having Nagi's back, he's the biggest Nagi fan fr :p

I really do like that Nagi's relationship with Reo took a backseat this chapter. I feel like after 300, everything is wrapped up nicely for them, Nagi even doubled down on their duo being detrimental for both of them right before he left, so we can move on to a new stage/arc for both of them. I do wonder if Nagi’s kinda repressing his memories of Reo or not this chapter though but either way, I'm reaaaaaally hoping to see individual developments for both of them now. I'm not here to dismiss their bond (I'm a casual ReoNagi shipper after all) but please, no more draggy melodramatic moments... Epinagi be teasing us with how hype they both are on their own so I'm hoping we can see that in bllk too. (I’ve so much to rant about how different bllk second selection Nagi and epinagi’s are but that’s a whole other rant).

Speaking of epinagi, that baby nagi art... I wanna ramble about it (and epinagi 34) separately but its so funny how I've been saying knsr is going for the "Nagi is baby" agenda but now he really is baby 😭 I love how its released on his birthday (and children's day) and right before his tears too... I wonder if its a prelude to his backstory coming in the main series or something...

And I swear... knsr please don't let this be the last we see of Nagi for a while... Like ending it here would just be CRUEL. I don't mind if he disappeared for a while later BUT I NEED TO SEE THIS CRYING SESSION RESOLVED FIRST PLEASE. Imma go with more IsaNagi parallels, that after this low point, Nagi's gonna receive some news from Buratsuta (or Ray Dark lol), or maybe he's gonna accept his offer from the club. I’m so curious who gave that offer, for everyone else’s offers too actually. My delulu ass wants Nagi’s to be from Re Al lolllll 🤡

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