#Jagaaaaaan

[dark-manga-stuff]

Manga: Jagaaaaaan

[tenteador]

[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.’

[coloredmanga]

[sanjixmom]

Jagaaan edit - bloom

[mangachi]

[siomaomao]

Jagaaaaaan: Chapter 57

[bluecamellias]

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

[norsko]

[mortemappetens]

That fucking Ui Ui.

If he can soul swap, why didn’t he swap Sukuna out of Yuuji and into an ant or a fruitfly or something and then get the Raid out?!

Then only half of this shit would’ve happened.

I’m two chapters away from rage-quitting JJK and living a fantasy where Gege ended the series once the Goodwill Event ended.

Believe me, I’ve quit other manga for less. I still haven’t recovered from Gugu’s death in To Your Eternity, and I haven’t revisited Jagaaaaaan after Motomu Robahata became a fractured human.

Gege when I catch you Gege

[r3dnk]

Jagaaaaaan

[lichenhaunt]

Idk if anyone here has read Jagaaaaan! But I'm hcing Robachan as trans and that's why he's scared to talk to girls and has such a loser complex

[hxlcyon]

[coloredmanga]

[quino7]

125 Celebration Part 4-Overrated

1-Tokyo Revengers

For the other sections I stated that they weren't in any particular order, that is very much not the case here. I hate Tokyo Revengers deeply, how something with as little quality as it had becomes known as the big series of the genre is something I will never know, but It just has so many problems and yet it's so hyped. First off before I have higher level complaints, Tokyo Rev is just fucking boring, nothing else about it. Well, there's much more about it actually, it's a disgrace to the genre, one with so many amazing stories will forever be tainted by one of it's worst products, of course there's the masterpieces like Bakuon Rettou and, both of Morita's long form works, but even ones that take themselves less seriously like most of Takahashi Hiroshi's works. And by far Tokyo Revengers' worst sin is how it lacks the maturity to tell the story it yearns to tell, there were parts where I almost felt it was going somewhere, but it just didn't. Plain and simple, this series just sucks and I don't know how or why it got so popular.

2-Jagaaaaaan

God this series has way too much hype for the epitome of mediocrity it is story wise. It’s got pretty good art I’ll give it that, but it seems like it’s perfectly tailored for a series that lacks any substance or a cohesive plot or themes or anything. Jagaaaaaan isn’t offensively bad it’s just kinda mediocre and it shouldn’t have so much hype.

3-Naruto

A bit of a controversial pick I know, Naruto has some genuinely incredible moments, it’s such a shame then that it’s surrounded by 600 and a bit chapters of a really fucking boring manga. I mean the main problem with it being overrated is just the sheer amount of hype it gets, Naruto’s just kinda average so it’s bad in comparison to what I expected of it

4-Gantz

Gantz Gantz Gantz, this series had some great stuff going for it in the beginning that it just gave up at some point. I was reading some really interesting stuff on the nature of god and stuff like that. And the sexualization was uncomfortable but I could read past it, but like all of the hype I see for it even after it’s done, like. This series shot itself in the foot, it got rid of everything it had going for it. It’s just. I’m mad about it honestly I wish it didn’t go that way.

5-Battle Royale

I’ve already written a review on this blog for it so I won’t get too deep for it, but I didn’t expect a cult series to have this many glaring problems, like it got bad to the point with really badly handled sexuality that I was close to dropping it, I can see why it’s popular with the violence though. Please look at my actual review if you want further thoughts on it

[r-18g]

i'm almost finished reading jagaaaaaan and jesus christ, the evolution of the art is fucking wild. i should post some screenshots because there's a really goddamn stark difference when you compare the beginning chapters to the later ones.