Jollyne7 said:@certifiedbinger
In my opinion, if his character manifests itself as 'I don't like your style of play and I don't like everyone for no reason', then he is a very poorly written character. You can create an interesting character that is supposed to fit the 'antagonist' theme in the arc, but it doesn't work here.
And yes, he insults people for no reason. Everyone who watches or plays football knows that before one team scores a goal, sooner or later there are a lot of actions in which a player passes a little worse, misses a shot, or his shot is saved by the goalkeeper. These are completely normal situations and no one reacts like Sae after something like this. His teammate shot on goal and Gagamaru saved. Sae's reaction? ''You're trash.'' Wtf. Even if he has a grudge, you can say it politely and not like a total asshole. The pitch and the match are not the time and place for such calls to someone from your team. He clearly had his eye on this red-haired player. Even after the situation in which Aiku couldn't stop Rin and apologized to his friends, and his friends said it was nothing, Sae approached red dude again after this action and started trash talking to him. I wonder how this narcissist would react to a situation in which he messes up. He would probably think it wasn't his fault XD
And he strongly influences the decisions of these, I don't know, U-20 ''managers''. ''If I can't take this player, I won't play,'' so they do everything not to offend him. An 18-year-old kid rules over adults xD
I find it hard to believe I'm discussing a story as surface level and straightforward as Blue Lock, but here we go.
Sae's character is established as an antagonist who after exposure to the world's modern ideologies, views his domestic conventional thought process as outdated and third-rate. He then joins an antagonistic conventional faction to test and observe the birth of modern ideologies within the established domestic sphere. He's put in a unique position to call out his more conventional peers, which in this case is the U20 team, on their ideology.
That's the actual gist of his character.
'Shit happens on the field' isn't an excuse for Sendou. If anyone really watches or plays football, the GK loses 1v1s against good strikers most of the time. Sae is also sending perfect passes to the strikers. From Sae's perspective, a striker needs to respond to a calculated pass, and score a perfect goal. Sendou and the other two strikers are incapable of doing that because they aren't skilled enough to match Sae's plays. Gagamaru being unnaturally talented isn't an argument either, Sae scored off a wild angle already.
I honestly can't take your point seriously simply because it's based on 'politeness', and this is Blue Lock. We've witnessed way worse trash talk before, and we'll hear even worse after. Personally, if I was this bothered by insults, I would've quit watching this show a long time ago lol