Ok but like. Why is Kaiser so interesting. He was already interesting before this chapter, but this makes it so much cooler. And the parallels with Isagi are so much more profound now.
The blue roses. The torn football under Kaiser's shoe and the perfectly new football next to Isagi. Almost as if one of them had to claw their way up from misery and the other had a blank slate of a life to begin with. One born from abuse and the other support.
The lavishness surrounding Kaiser-- all things he's put his blood, sweat and tears into bringing for himself. The practical equipment behind Isagi-- nothing extravagant, but everything that enhances what he already has within himself. Kaiser's looking at Isagi, but Isagi is only looking at the path ahead.
The blue rose motif. We already knew about it, of course, but it's so much more profound and bittersweet now. Everything he wants to attain, but also everything his mother symbolises to him. The torn blue petals at his feet are almost poetic, in that sense.
God damn. What a fascinating character. If Rin was Isagi's foil in terms of their playstyle and personality, then Kaiser is his foil in terms of their positions mentally, upbringing and circumstances.
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Michael Kaiser
(manga spoilers)
To begin with, chapter 260 was horrifying to read. "oH bUT iT's JuST a mANga!!!!" I don't care, that shit was fucked up.
Is Kaiser's behaviour understandable? Yes. That's it, understandable.
It's still unacceptable and inexusable, but to be fair, no one would end up okay after that. Everyone deals with trauma differently and Kaiser found his way.
(what he needed was twenty therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, all the ists)
Tiny moments like this,
kinda get new meanings now. His self choking thing is . . . *shudders*
I still hate the way he treats and handles Ness. Does Kaiser know any better? No, he doesn't. He needed help. Football was good for him, yes, but did the people around him help him heal mentally? It doesn't really look like it.
Speaking of Ness, I believe they're truly friends and that Kaiser cares for him in his own traumatized, fucked up way.
They are friends. I just wish Kaiser knew how to be kinder. He doesn't know how to be kind, he didn't receive any love or affection as a child, it's alien to him.
Does Ness know the full extent of the abuse Kaiser suffered? Honestly, I don't think so. Maybe bits and pieces, if even that. Maybe Kaiser once said something along the lines of, "My old man wasn't a good person." and left it at that with Ness not prying any further.
If we'd gotten Kaiser's backstory a lot earlier I would've expected him to be even more unhinged and messed up.
Okay, Mr "World Football Association, PIFA Licensed Agent" Ray Dark, did you get the kid some mental help?
Football was all he had and he cried from pure fury when he thought his father was about to cut his football open.
Someone get this boy some mental help please.
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in the recent light of Blue Lock 260 I have decided that I have adopted baby Kaiser as my own son, I'll be the dad he deserves to have!!!!!!!
the second one i drew in like 3 mins I just had to draw him happy and smiling
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SO. I was rereading Chapter 260. I was curious about what Kaiser's shirt reads.
Using this panel, we can roughly read out what it says:
"Glückliche Familie"
WHAT THE HELL. THAT'S JUST CRUEL, NOW, KANESHIRO AND NOMURA WERE ON FIRE WITH THIS ONE.
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I just wanna thank you
I just wanna thank you
For beating me down, for messing me up
For making me feel I'm not enough
For running your mouth, for showing no love
For setting me off like a loaded gun
Thank you for making me
Stronger than I thought I could ever be
Thank you for hating me
Citizen Soldier - "Thank You for Hating Me"
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