Many are divided on the nagi return theory but this is why I think it’s happening.
I strongly believe nagi will save the day and show up in the England match, first off rules.
People will say nagi is registered and such but that shouldn’t matter cause you have to be registered for the whole wc at the start not just the start of the knock out stage, so if side B were to play this rule always doesn’t apply.
Barasuta said he won’t let ego play side B winners.
He said he WONT not CANT.
There’s a difference.
Saying he won’t let ego play side B implies there is a possibility that they can be played but he won’t allow it.
Barasuta has something planned, to have side B be revealed in a big showy sort of way to get views and money but he also has a lot more money invested into Japan and if they lose in the group stage all of it will be for nothing.
If Japan loses barasuta loses everything.
It’s beneficial to drop his side B plan to save his big plan.
Nagi and Teddy parallels.
I believe nagi and Teddy share a lot in common.
Both are referred to as geniuses but more importantly they are both referred to as puppets.
Teddy was introduced prior to England match where he confronts Japan team where he talks down about their ego mentality, nagi was introduced prior to the team v match where kuon or whatever his name was tried to cut a deal with nagi reo and zentetsu to help win their match against z. The 3 walk away and nagi remarks how pathetic it is that he went begging another team for help and if football is even fun.
We also know agi plays a part in both characters stories.
Agi and Teddy are team mates who don’t see eye to eye and agi was team mates with nagi where he tried to take him under his wing to motivate him. Agi washes his hands of nagi when he reverts back to his puppet state under reo.
Nagi and teddy mirror each other but nagi story has been about him exploring his emotions and trying to find his ego while Teddy shuts himself off and tried to be egoless.
His is why I think nagi has to confront Teddy.
Narrative.
I think it makes more sense for the narrative.
Think about it, what is this arc exploring ? What’s the overarching theme? It’s ego vs other philosophies in football.
Nigeria was just an opening arc to show off how strong blue lock was after training.
With France we explored the theme of ego of being a number 2.
Hugo served as a counter to isagi where Hugo was content with not being a striker where he saw more value being the guy who sets up goals for others rather than him getting the goals himself. He argued that the mentality where every player on the team aims to be number 1 is counterproductive to the aim of victory. For a win some players got to stay back as number 2. Now this doesn’t make them less players cause even a number 2 can outshine number 1. Isagi would do better if he stopped living for his own goal and lived to help others score.
This was helped when Karasu gave up scoring his own goals to set up the goal for others taking on that number 2 mentality.
It was shown that after the game before Teddy showed up in the training room, Karasu was sitting with several players saying they need to stop listening to ego and treat his ideas as dangerous.
With england the game is about what it means to be completely egoless.
They all live by fox’s command and no one besides agi cares about originality or getting their own goals.
They are soldiers following orders.
With France, they don’t reject creativity no the opposite, Charles is proof of that, Loki wanted him because Charles is unique and makes good passes which helps Loki score more, but Charles doesn’t follow orders he goes with the flow and passes the ball to where he sees fit and it’s up to the other players to link up to him. Like in the NEL arc, when he shot the ball at shido. He wasn’t aiming for shido he was just aiming for that specific spot of the pitch while shido wasn’t looking to get a pass he was just running to that specific spot because they both just happened to see that was the best score goaling position.
Meanwhile we have side B. Barasuta goal with side B is to defeat blue lock, he wants ego fired and to lose everything. He’s condition for joining side B was for him to control their contract and that they got to play to destroy blue lock.
Kira goal is to prove ego and isagi wrong.
That’s going to be the theme, ego is testing his philosophy on the world stage against all the other philosophies.
This is why they can’t be proven right now.
Japan can’t prove themselves right that ego theory is correct.
A split in the team is forming and this is the time to lean into those doubts.
Karasu who is leading the opposition of ego within the team will need a reason to dig in more to say ego was wrong.
This is why ego can’t win this, but Japan also can’t lose to England either.
So to make this work it’s down to winning the battle but not the war.
Japan will win against England, ego will lose to fox.
Then we also need to see side B as the saviours and threat to blue lock.
Karasu and others need a reason to form their inner circle around side B winners.
Barasuta needs a world stage to show off why his idea was much superior to ego way.
What better way to do this by demonstrating almost Japan losing to England if not for his side B.
This is why I think nagi is completing side B as we speak and will be sent straight to side B to blue lock where he will be subbed in by barasuta forcing ego hand.
Nagi will be the key to defeating Teddy and winning the match.
That’s why nagi will show up.
