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| Hana hitting back at Nozomi's remarks about Aoi, but seeing that he coincidentally eavesdropped on their conversation, all he ever cared for is her lunch box made specially for Fukuda, and the support given from her to his mom. Hana's reason? Aoi resembles a lot like a certain player whom she adores and is of utmost importance to her, but Aoi is just munching on her lunch unknowingly all the way. The 7-vs-7 intrasquad where Coach "Stone Face" Nozomi will be overlooking the 30-minute new player match, this is everyone's time to shine for appeal and earn a spot in the A Team, and Aoi's doing the same to prove Nozomi wrong. For a defender to trace his paths to walk and score a goal, that was a technique that no one could've ever anticipated of Aoi. Everyone has their game faces on, and Aoi is not having it easy either from the rest of his own selection teammates, playing by different rules. Asari always breaks Aoi's counter when he knows it, and that might've shown his fatal flaw: playing by individual tactics, the theory supported by Anri Kaido, the daughter of the president of Tokyo Esperion's sponsor Kaido Electric. The Red vs. Black team of defender Aoi vs. forwarder Asari, the game of instinct vs. tactics have the latter completely taken over, and Aoi is subsequently ignored by his own teammates for not knowing what's going on on the pitch: situational awareness at the most immediate. I think it's easy to pin the blame on Nozomi Date because he just didn't understand Aoi's line of fire when it comes to instinct play, as opposed to the multiple generations of players being the easiest to grow exponentially for both physical and intellect. In a word, Haikyuu!'s Tooru Oikawa's most famous quite sums this best: “Talent is something you make bloom, instinct is something you polish.” |
KANLen09May 21, 2022 5:35 AM
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| "I wasn't eavesdropping, just listening to y'all talking without your knowledge." - Aoi Understandable why he would lack situational awareness. He has been playing in a team where his teammates nearly always pass the ball to him and allow him to score. Their play completely revolved around Aoi. It doesn't help that the opponents he came across weren't on the same level as those he finds in this club. |
RioFSMay 21, 2022 7:06 AM
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| Damn, Ashito got exposed. |
| I liked the episode. I liked that they showcased something like situational awareness, adjusting their style of play and the impact of having or not having that ability. This is awesome. And it was somewhat nice to see Aoi constantly failing because he has no clue about it. It does justify a bit that he was particularly stupid and arrogant in this episode. But I still think the story needs polishing. Like how strange the sponsor's daughter was introduced and so on. |
| The look on Hana's face was precious when she realised that Aoi had been listening in on their conversation and when he asked for the bento lol Another episode where Hana-chan reminds us why she's the best girl of this show Everyone (at least everyone on Aoi's team) was being somewhat rash and selfish which is expected when you wanna get into the A-Team. But it's disrupting the main aspect of soccer i.e. 'team sport' What does Togashi have against the junior youth guys like Kuroda? The promoted players are more well versed in the tactics and techniques than in having the raw potential to become a good player. Aoi surely is behind in comparison to a lot of players since he never really had any formal training that a lot of the other players had. Coach Date might be strict and all but he sure spits some facts. All of his thoughts on Aoi are actually spot on and show his flaws and problems pretty well. Togashi sure plays rough. Also, Asari is one hell of a defender and Kuroda sure has some skills. Great episode! |
DeonXMay 21, 2022 8:13 AM
 ◑ ━━━━━ ▣ ━━━━━ ◐ "Everything I've witnessed... This whole system you have built has always rejected me. Now I'm ready to reject it. That's why I destroy. That's why I took this power for myself. Simple enough, yeah? I don't care if you don't understand... That's what makes us... Heroes and Villains." ◑ ━━━━━ ▣ ━━━━━ ◐ |
| Seems like we're more into drama than sport in the serie, should have noticed it sooner. Anyway, Aoi's unable to keep up with the rest of the players which is understandable. He only knows how to play for himself, curious on how he'll develop this kind of skill. |
   “You yourself have to change first, or nothing will change for you!” ' |
| Another great episode, yup I think the coach and the president's daughter are correct, Aoi should devise a strategy similar to what he did when he first met Tatsuya Fukada when Aoi took the wallet and spread the coins and explained that it was all part of his plan and how he remembered the entire field and position. I believe he let his pride get in the way, and he can't only rely on his talents while zoning out; he also has to focus and plan a strategy. |
| Ah yes another splendid interaction coming up from Hana and Aoi. Its a bit sad though, with Hana flat reaction when he called her cute. I thought there's some cute blushing face again from her, but she's so serious back then. Though, what a minute, what's your dream is about, Hana? You'll do what? Marry him? Lol xd... Alright, the match has began, and Aoi already showed his pen ultimate move surprising all the people already. Unfortunately it's too fast to make everyone proud of him. Since the time still kicking, the opponent finally manage to shut him down, and the own team suddenly changed the play style without Aoi even realizing that and get alienated. Poor boy lack of awareness... But don't worry, there's a training time for you in a next episode later. So, yeah, get an experience you need from those match and learn to be a better, boy! |
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| Aoi has to step up his game, you can't go with the brainless football |
| When you realize you're the only scorer of the game and still your teammates ghosting you... Though getting down here will only result in rejection, hope Aoi gets himself up from the rut. |
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| It didn't take long for Aoi to get exposed in his first youth match. Sure he scored that opening goal, but Aoi got shut down completely when Asari started guarding him. Now Aoi has become more of a liability and his team has adjusted their game plan by not giving the ball to him. It seems that Coach Nozomi's was right on the money about Aoi's ability and I agree with him that Aoi at his current level doesn't know the fundamentals of the game and his lack of situational awareness make him look like a deer in the headlights and out of sync with the rest of the players who are just as good or better than him. This one of the many learning curves that Aoi has to overcome which will be addressed by additional training in the next couple of episodes. I'm writing this while I'm wearing a soccer t-shirt representing Jamaica. |
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| I'll never get tired of Ashito's weird expressions xD Glad that they're pointing out his flaws early though. The sooner they acknowledge the problem, the sooner they can start working on it. |
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MickDH said: we going to ignore the goal was offside? He came from behind and broke the defensive line. Maybe the choice of camera angles wasn't the best to show the play properly, but it is a common goal: the centre back lose him in just one second. |
| I'm finding the terminology confusing. Apparently Aoi is good at team tactics and intuition but not at individual tactics. By which they mean adapting to the team and quickly understanding what they're doing. You know, I probably would have called that team tactics and intuition if anything... The words aren't the point, though. The silliest bit of this is the teacher instantly asserting that because the new guys don't have the same teamwork skills as the ones that have been learning together for years they can't have them. Seems like a real bad attitude for a teacher. |
| Aoi and Hana have good chemistry together and their relationship isn’t too generic. Aoi’s first goal was clever. Animation still in’t great but it gets the job done. Might be the best episode so far. |
Bio said: I'm finding the terminology confusing. Apparently Aoi is good at team tactics and intuition but not at individual tactics. By which they mean adapting to the team and quickly understanding what they're doing. You know, I probably would have called that team tactics and intuition if anything... The words aren't the point, though. The silliest bit of this is the teacher instantly asserting that because the new guys don't have the same teamwork skills as the ones that have been learning together for years they can't have them. Seems like a real bad attitude for a teacher. The teacher comparing Aoi to the other new recruits who were quickly adapted to the change of tactics. Aoi barely keep up with that. It's pretty reasonable for me. I think it's necessary to give a harsh remark like that in education, especially in pro football, to speed up their development. |
| “You should enjoy the little detours to the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want.” |
Peepsqueeker said: I know it's part of his personality but he sounds waaaaaay too arrogant, the way he blurts out things that he's going to do makes him look even worse when he doesn't pull it off. People like this would never be included in their plays if he keeps trying to go at it alone, heck if I were his teammate I would rather play the ball back or wide than give him the ball in an attacking position. He wants to go pro but he's going at it like it's a bunch of friends playing on a random field in the summer. No, that arrogantness is necessary for attacker. It's not uncommon to see a team rely on one player to beat their opponent 1 on 1. The problem with Aoi is his ball skills are still pretty poor and he can't beat Asari 1 on 1. His teammates realize that and stop giving Aoi the ball. |
| “You should enjoy the little detours to the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want.” |
| So basically Ashito is too "dumb" and self-centered to understand simple game tactics and also seems to struggle a lot when it comes to sudden changes in play-styles and stuff. Understandable given his humble origins but man was it frustrating to see. Still a pretty solid episode tho. Now on a side note, it seemed to me that Ashito was offside when he scored that goal. I mean, the camera angle they chose was horrible and Yuuma's pass looked like it occurred way too late. |
dylelouch said: MickDH said: we going to ignore the goal was offside? He came from behind and broke the defensive line. Maybe the choice of camera angles wasn't the best to show the play properly, but it is a common goal: the centre back lose him in just one second. yeah, the camera was bad in the anime. In the manga, they used a birds eye view so it's more clear it's not offside. Here's the manga pic for that Red is Masako Blue is Aoi movement Green is previous offside line from Asari Masako just broke th defense line so bad, he moves forward the other defender.  |
| Well, this is much better than the last. Wouldn't take back the fact that the coach was wrong for spilling like that. There's always a chance of improving. If he put it this way in the last episode I'd not be half as mad as I was. It's manga/anime and Aoi is the main character so obviously, he's going to beat this obstacle somehow just wish we could see it immediately. Definitely getting on with the manga once this season ends. |
| I don't care if he is tactically more clueless than ole at the wheel, I'll make Ao the captain of FC Tokyo if it means a date with his mom.... I'll sell out my team for a date. |
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| main phrase of this episode: "A player who can't think for himself will never advance." It doesn't matter how good are you individually when attacking/scoring if without teamwork strategy, you lose. 5/5. |
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| aoi is just a dumb wild monkey with a bit talent .. |
| decent ep, not crazy about the junior youth guys or the scouted guy yet, but I like the other two from his try outs. we've seen Aoi's work ethic already so seems stupid to write him off for any short comings, he's obviously gonna train like hell. I guess at least the main manager guy sees that. |
JVskunkapeMay 25, 2022 11:31 AM
| I have a third testicle that gives me psychic powers |
| Asari Jun is really a good defender, also Kuroda is a midfielder who can quite understand the state of the game. |
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| anime started strong but gradually becomes worse and worse |
| He can overcome this, he's the protagonist after all. |
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| In real life player like Aoi wouldnt get anywhere near a youth team he just dont know how to play in a team lol |
| Once again our MC's selfish playing style rears its ugly head. I cannot stress how much defenders love to go up against these kinds of players, those who try to take the opposition on head first, refuse to pass, and fail to listen to their team mates. These forwards are easy pickings and same with our boy here. They also happen to be a nightmare to deal with when they're on your team. I can't blame his team mate for giving him the cold shoulder...I ain't proud to admit that I have yelled at fellow players during games for doing such things too. At least he got Hana rootin for him tho! |
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| Well this was where i dropped the show, personally for me at least the way they go about the various football aspects of this show it just comes of as stupid, ridicules and rather laughable over the top with common sense clearly thrown hard out the window and into another galaxy. I really tried liking this show but it's just so frustrating to watch because it makes so little sense, to the point it gets annoying. Need to take with a truck load of salt to enjoy, to much for me.. 4/10 dropped |
| It was hilarious to see Togashi casually eavesdropping on Aoi and Hana. I'm still getting used to Aoi's constant yelling, like dude is always yelling. Wearing headphones while watching this anime is excruciating because of Aoi lmao. And I don't like how Aoi is talking to Toogashi or how he isn't passing the ball to his teammates much, he's being selfish and self-centred there. Of course, this episode is a wake-up call for Aoi. It's his first match, so I'll give him some slack, I'm sure he'll learn from it. |
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| I don't know why but He's the same as me when playing soccer ball. I don't understand all that tactics on soccer ball :( |
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