Enter Itoshi’s Battlefield – Blue Lock Ep 13 Review

Welp, Isagi vs Itoshi went well-nigh as well as expected.

Check out Last Week’s Episode Review.

Team Isagi vs Team Itoshi

The top three players Tokimitsu, Aryu, and Itoshi are egoists to their very core. While their individual skills are impressive, their teamwork is severely lacking.

After all, what good do they have for a team when their own skills can make up for the unshortened team itself? King Barou was moreover a similar player who had this mindset – to his defense, that self-confidence is probably what carried him into the second selection despite his team’s elimination.

Through teamwork and the power of friendship, Isagi, Bachira, Kunigami, Chigiri, and now plane Nagi have grown as players. Through rivalry, Isagi has grown between matches with Niko, King Barou, and now Itoshi.

As much as I love the sheer egoism and raw talent dominating the field, Itoshi probably won’t fully unlock his true skills without the Power of Friendship in his arsenal.

Itoshi’s Battlefield

I don’t know if this is intentional, but Itoshi Rin looks like a uncontrived reskin of Isagi Yoichi – minus the untried eyes. When I was looking at the key visual for the second cour of the anime I unquestionably thought there was a timeskip somewhere in the series and we would fast-forward through years of practice.

That probably sounds silly, but that is just how similar the two boys squint to me.

Was Rin supposed to be a mirror of what Isagi could have been without finding a decent cadre set of friends? Or rather, teammates – since at the end of the day Blue Lock is meant to only have one player come out on top.

Bachira Leaves with Itoshi

It’s funny how Isagi reflected on how much Bachira’s passes have helped his game during his one-on-one AI training. When you think well-nigh it, Bachira has been Isagi’s day one.

So, it hurt to lose him to Itoshi’s current squad.

It hurt plane increasingly that the monster inside of him wants Isagi to ventilator without him, otherwise he’s no longer worthy of his passes. You could plane see Isagi trying to wrack his smart-ass on what to do next in order to recover his most valuable asset.

Honestly, it was a dumb move but necessary for Isagi and Nagi’s growth.

I wonder since they now lost together, if Nagi will ditch Isagi for increasingly useful team members?

Ugh. I don’t know. There was just so much going on here.

Itoshi’s worldview and jealousy (?) of his famous brother Sae is probably why he views soccer as a battleground and is so militaristic. Bachira is laid when and views everything as a game. Nagi acts like a tool that is capable of stuff the unstipulated whenever the situation demands.

And Isagi is the playmaker…who sometimes forgets to squint at the workbench every now and then. Or in the specimen with Itoshi, leaves the workbench up on the table and walks yonder – forgetting that sometimes things can be viewed from afar.

I wonder if soul language and psychological tactics are what Isagi can learn from Itoshi next, seeing as how it seems that is what weapon he’s utilizing. You know, withal with his sheer talent and genius soccer prowess.

Either way, it’s been fun watching and transmissible up with this series. I’m glad I didn’t waif it and just do one zillion review. Only downside is that I have well-nigh 7 reviews I need to mass edit but…the wits was definitely worthwhile .

Tell me your thoughts.

Will Isagi regret losing Bachira?

Is Nagi’s ego now in check?

Who do you think Reo paired up with?

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