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[dark-manga-stuff]

Manga: Jagaaaaaan

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[seishireos]

analysis : the similarities between nagi seishiro and jagasaki shintaro . . . and the relevance of reo's character to nagi's arc in relation to all of this

kaneshiro muneyuki’s usual mcs are troubled with their boring lives and boring futures, and the overall theme of their arcs seem to be finding something to live for. and who sounds like that in blue lock?

not isagi but nagi, who, interestingly is isagi’s foil and a protagonist in his own regard, if we count the spinoff. and out of the kaneshiro mcs, i find the most similarities between nagi and jagasaki from jagaaaaaan.

keep in mind the main psychological theme of blue lock has to do with ‘ego,’ and jagaaaaaan ‘desire,’ but first i’ll talk about ‘dreams’ because it corresponds with ‘desire’ better.

disclaimer: this analysis is for fun, as a fan of kaneshiro’s works i find his distinct writing style interesting and couldn’t help but notice the patterns across his manga –  warning for blue lock and jagaaaaaan spoilers ahead!

if you don’t mind jagaaaaaan spoilers or aren’t planning to read it, here’s a quick intro for the characters mentioned in this analysis:

fractured humans - individuals infected by ‘frenzied frogs’ that turn them into monsters that are manifestations of their 'deepest desires'

jagasaki - our protagonist, also a fractured human but with maintained sanity and self-control, he can transform his hand/arm into a gun which represents his ‘desire’ to ‘shoot’ away his boring life

yuriko - jagasaki’s girlfriend at the start of the manga, turns into a fractured human and jagasaki kills her in self-defence, she can be revived if jagasaki kills every fractured human including himself

belle - jagasaki’s coworker, and future girlfriend

jagasaki doesn’t want his “lame” future and later even said he’s accepted that he has a 'bad ending' to his life, and nagi just settled for a “slow and comfortable” (though boring) life and says it’s his only ‘dream’ for the future. this is the first thing we know about them reading jagaaaaaan and either episode nagi or the light novel (and this attitude towards life is an integral part of their character like other kaneshiro mcs.)

then, jagasaki ended up fighting fractured humans and nagi with football and blue lock; and both of them did it out of feeling indebted to someone: jagasaki to yuriko, because she’s his girlfriend and he didn’t mean to kill her; and nagi to reo, because reo was the first to be interested in him.

so, jagasaki's initial ‘desire’ and purpose for living was to revive yuriko and die, until he acknowledged his ‘desire’ to be with belle, then he wanted to live. and even though i previously compared reo to yuriko, he’s actually both yuriko and belle to nagi.

jagasaki's actual ‘desire’ isn't reviving yuriko, experiencing the thrill of killing, nor [being with] belle. belle can be included in it but she’s not the ‘desire’ itself – from the start his deepest ‘desire’ was to simply kill his boring future, and i expect that nagi's real ‘dream’ will be something similar.

so let’s say nagi does have a ‘dream’ of his own other than their shared ‘dream’ of winning the world cup, reo can still be his ‘ego’ the same way belle is called jagasaki's ‘trigger’ even if she isn’t his ‘desire.’

their arcs basically go like this:

not wanting to live anymore or being tired of life

doing something they don’t really want to for reo / yuriko and it becomes their purpose

start enjoying it because of the thrill from winning / killing

get into a slump because they need bigger dreams / desires, which in this context are not their actual ‘dreams’ and ‘desires’ but increasingly bigger (but still smaller than their end goals: winning the world cup + killing all fractured humans and later saving the world) challenges to motivate them

now the order is different though for the moment they realised they have something to fight/live for.

for jagasaki, it was 100+ chapters in after the ddl arc, he realised he didn't want to die reviving yuriko [to have a future with belle] after seeing mikazuchi revive his son. for nagi, the novel says it was the moment he met reo. it could also be when team z fought back and “he first felt curiosity” but team z nor isagi is not his ‘trigger,’ though he did help in the awakening of his ‘ego’ just like barou. nagi got pissed when barou [not only pushed reo but also] said football is a sport that should be played alone to which nagi responded he doesn’t want to play barou’s kind of football + nagi was okay with losing at first until reo said if they lose it means they’re not the strongest. either way, reo is his real ‘trigger.’ 

jagasaki's ‘desire’ is to live a life worth living or a have ‘good ending’ / future [with belle], and his ‘trigger’ is belle. and if i'm correct, nagi's ‘dream’ is the same (in which reo is included as well, as nagi makes reo promise to stay with him till the end and wants to be “spoiled for the rest of his life”), his ‘ego’ is [being the best for] reo, plus they have that ‘promise’ of winning the world cup together.

the reason reo can be both nagi’s yuriko and belle in the narrative is because jagasaki’s goal of reviving yuriko cannot coexist with his true ‘desire’ of living happily [with belle], as he has to die to bring her back and even if he doesn’t have to, he also can’t be in relationships with them both. nagi on the other hand, can have an unbothersome and interesting life [with reo], be the best striker and win the world cup all at the same time. nagi and reo get to have that ‘promise’ and share reo’s ‘dream’ because it complements his own ‘dream’ and ‘ego.’

#analysis #blue lock #jagaaaaaan #nagi seishiro #mikage reo #nagireo #jagasaki shintarou

[so-homo]

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[sanjixmom]

Jagaaan edit - bloom

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[mangachi]

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[coloredmanga]

#colored manga #manga cap #jagaaaaaan

[siomaomao]

Jagaaaaaan: Chapter 57

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[acidd-attack]

Jagaaaaaan

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[dandy-space-cowboy]

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[norsko]

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[bluecamellias]

reblog or like if you save, don't repost it please <3

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[bienbuenobuen]

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[shutupvestler]

I have a theory about nature of Mikazuchi's power. Since fractured humans get their powers according to the deepest desire of person, I have an suggestion that in "previous" life this guy had a tendency to take everything too personally, but due to his personality and his behaviour which makes hard to imagine that he was this kind of person I may assume again that he gained this "hardening" power of his due to reall tragegy which may included those he loved and cared about. In order to move on, his strongest desire was to become stronger, invulnerable, and this desire of him manifested in this way

#jagaaaaaan #takemitsumikazuchi #takemitsu mikazuchi

[sensaina-ran]

Take all your desires and go...

#jagaaaaaan #my posts #horror manga #muneyuki kaneshiro #nishida kensuke #i'm obsessed with this arc tbh #i think i'm just glad to be away from the airi drama. was getting boring #now THIS is what i signed up for #psychological #mystery #update: i spoke too soon bc the next ch is back to romance drama. WHY

[mangaconnoisseur]

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