Fraybury - Kari

I’m not following Orion right now, heck I didn’t even finish Ares yet, but seeing so many posts on characters analysist and the thing makes me so happy!

And because I’m a noisy dumb gremlin I will hop on the analysist cart and do something I’ve always dreamed of doing…

Kageyama Reiji: why is he so bad? - an analysis

This is gonna be a long post, so I’m gonna continue it under the cut.

Aaaaaaaaaaah, Kageyama Reiji… The first villain, the big bad wolf, the one who traumatized the children.

But why he’s like that? Well, that’s simple, he’s a traumatized child himself! Let me explain.

We know that he attended the Raimon and was part of the original Inazuma Eleven 40 year prior to the first series event.

And the Raimon is a middle school, that means that he was between 13!yo and 15!yo at the time. But we can’t stop here.

We need to talk about Kageyama’s father. We know he was kicked out of the national team and then he started to lose every match he played. I think he had some sort of writer block, but for soccer. And fans started to hate him.

We know this from what Onigawara says in episode 22. But I want to point out something he says before all these things…

“It started 50 years ago.”

This means that Kageyama was between 3 and 5 years old when this all started. Basically his first memories were of people mad at his dad on a fucking game. We even get a shot on him as a kid watching as the people around him throws shit and insults his dad.

Pretty traumatizing, uh? But that’s not all! We also know that his father left the family, his mother died from illness and he was left alone.

And the fact that he “was left all by himself” bothers me. It’s oddly specific. This is just a theory of mine, but maybe that’s linked to the fact that many minors in Japan are abandoned by their caretaker.

And this all happened before he joined the Raimon, that means that this happened before he was 13 years old.

But we’re not done yet, oh no.

I think Kageyama developed a phobia of losing after all of this. Because not only his methods are extreme, he cheats even when he doesn’t need to! And in the games we know that even as a teen he would do anything to win, it’s not a trait he develops as an adult. And in the end his fears are in some ways confirmed when the Zeus loses to the Raimon. He had a pretty nice job, a good reputation, enough money to have a chauffeur, and then a bunch of kids shows up and he loses everything. He even gets arrested and had to fleed the country after he evades. I’m not saying he didn’t deserve it, but that must have been really bad for his mental health.

And then there’s Garshield… We know really little about him. We don’t know how much he’s old or where is he from, but we know one thing

Garshield helped Kageyama with the sabotage of the Inazuma Eleven’s bus. Remember that Kageyama was between 13 and 15 years old at the time, he was a child. A problematic child with behavior problems and with no one watching over him. And Garshield took advantage of him and groomed him to do his dirty work. Even after 40 years Kageyama still worked for Garshield, he was always his puppet.

That obliviously doesn’t justify all the evil deed he has done, he harmed children in many ways, but he’s not so different from Fudou or Tsurugi and the others “bad” children in this anime. The difference between then and Kageyama is that Reiji was helped by the wrong person, a person that wanted to use him.

Yeah I don’t know how to end this… I just love Kageyama as a character, he’s something more than the “bad guy” we usually see and I explained why.

Thanks for the attention, byeeee

Apparently I haven’t posted this old doodle here, gotta change that.

Gonna add another cute observation some time and it’s how endou doesn’t mind and still enjoys his food salty and it’s very likely because he’s used to Natsumi’s very salty onigiris. He loves her so much

My favorite game vs anime difference of S3 so far is how Kidou is the one beefing against Fudou and everyone has to stop him before he punch Fudou's face

Bonus: This scene below happens after Kidou scolds Fudou for making fun of Toramaru saying he can't sleep if not at his home. Hiroto's response is sweet and funny

some of you think ‘nuanced’ only means ‘morally grey’ and I’m here to tell you that actually straight up good characters can still be nuanced and unapologetically evil characters can still be nuanced. the character doesn’t have to be an anti hero or morally dubious to have depth. they don’t even have to feel sorry about their crimes to have depth.

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EnNatsu | The Whole Journey

I see a lot of people saying that EnNatsu came out of nowhere. As one of the biggest shipper pf this fic, I decided to compile the standout EnNatsu moments and see exactly how much they developed through out all the three seasons of the OG series.

The first episode introduces both characters and their dynamic effectivey. Natsumi threatens to disband the soccer club if they don't win against Teikoku Gakuen in their first ever match, which obviously makes Endou angry — so much so that he's fuming even when talking to the team.

This scene sets the tone for most of their initial interactions going forward: they bicker and push each other's buttons even as they slowly start to strive for the same goal. Natsumi is condescending at times but she also helps the team in her own way, and Endou is generally a happy person, but no one can annoy him like Natsumi can.

It's subtle but as Natsumi slowly becomes integrated into the team, they start having some more friendlier interactions even aside from Natsumi informing them about the matches and stuff.

Slowly, they become friends.

Their bickering also becomes more friendly instead of being just about Natsumi threatening to disband the club or about Natsumi picking at Endou's passion for soccer.

Like at the end of episode 16 when Endou and Aki visit Natsumi and her father in the hospital.

Natsumi immediately notices Endou's injury and is genuinely happy to hear that the team won their match, two things she never would have done in the start of the season.

The argument that comes after it is about Endou misunderstanding Natsumi's words, and it's more laid-back than their arguments in the start of the season when Natsumi would threaten to disband the club or pick at Endou's overenthusiastic passion for soccer. It's nothing but friendly bickering between friends, showing how far they've come in their friendship since the beginning even if they are very much still the same people.

Then we have this scene in episode 19.

Natsumi, who's visiting her father in the hospital and feeling melancholic because it's a hospital and her father is admitted in it, sees the tower near which Endou always practices and goes there on a whim. And when she gets there, she automatically envisions Endou practicing as usual.

When Endou sees her there, he can tell at first glance that something's btohering her, even if she says that things are getting better. And what does he do? He takes her to his favorite spot and reminds her that she isn't alone.

I believe this is the moment where Natsumi really developed her crush. Before this, their whole dynamic was "enemies to friends" and now they're moving on to the "friends to lovers" bit.

Endou, of course, doesn't see it that way just yet, and I doubt even Natsumi sees her crush as a crush, but this is the moment where it actually starts.

(Reblogging to continue because I can't add more pictures)

Batch of birthday arts I posted on Twitter

Flower explanation under read more

Stargazer lily: Made in 1978 by cross-pollinating Asiatic and Oriental lilies, it was named "stargazer" as a nod to how the flowers are pointed toward the sky, like they're looking at the stars. Flower meaning: hope, persistence, success

Green hellebore: The scientific name is Helleborus viridis. The flower's meanings are good fortune, prosperity, health, and rebirth. I went with red stargazer lily for Hiroto's birthday, so I gave Midorikawa a green flower

Baby's breath: Flower meanings are sincerity, purity, and love. Though the only reason I chose the flower for Tachimukai was just because it has the word "baby" in the name

Christmas rose: A type of hellebore often used to symbolize Jesus and Mary. It also symbolizes purity and is carved on churches' confessional booths (though I chose this flower for Fubuki just because it's white and Christmas related)

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