Blue Lock's Failed Egoists

The Neo Egoist League Arc is setting up Seishirou Nagi and Reo Mikage for a massive fall: despite their seeming growth over the course of the course of the story, they ultimately turned their backs on Blue Lock's philosophy of egoism in the match between Manchester and Bayern München. This is an analysis of how Nagi and Mikage serve as long-term foils for Blue Lock's protagonist Yoichi Isagi, and how their negative character arc tells the story of two talented players who will fail to become true egoist strikers.
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Chapters
0.00 Introduction
0.46 Thematic foils: Kira
3.39 Mikage and Nagi: unlikely egoists
6.09 Nagi's growth
7.03 Insurmountable walls
11.26 Renouncing egoism
14.27 Formulas and miracles
16.49 Mikage's shortcomings
18.49 Conclusion