Blue Lock: Can Nagi continue playing football even after his elimination?

The Blue Lock manga is currently at the height of its popularity, and this is mainly due to the end of the Neo Egoist League and the approaching U-20 World Cup. While fans are eager with anticipation, they are also enveloped by sadness due to the shocking elimination of Seishirou Nagi.

Given the lazy prodigy’s removal from Project Blue Lock, the next natural question to ask would be whether he can continue playing football. Yes, Nagi can continue playing football even after his elimination from Project Blue Lock. However, chapter 302 of the manga revealed that he is not interested in pursuing other opportunities at this point.

Nagi had always been a standout player in Blue Lock, displaying impressive creativity and ball control that stunned his teammates as well as opponents. Unfortunately, he suffered from a lack of motivation and had to be manipulated by Reo to take part in Jinpachi Ego’s project.

While there, he had short bursts of passion, but it never persisted, causing him to fail in fully manifesting his egoism. This caused his eventual downfall in the Neo Egoist League, where foreign clubs sent representatives and took part in round-robin matches along with the main cast.

As part of Manshine City, Nagi showed initial promise, scoring a Five-Shot Revolver Fake Volley against Isagi’s Bastard Munchen, placing second with a value of 88 million yen in the Neo Egoist League Rankings. Unfortunately, having defeated the protagonist and playing in a comfortable environment with Reo, Nagi’s growth began to stagnate.

He had become satisfied himself, due to which the genius had no other noticeable contributions for the rest of the matches. By the end, Nagi was placed 24th in the rankings. Since only the Top 23 could be selected for Japan’s U-20 team, Nagi was eliminated and forced to go home.

At the very start of the project, Ego had established that those who were defeated at Blue Lock would be barred from Japan’s national team. As a result, fans may be under the misconception that Nagi, who had been beaten, would not be able to play football ever again.

How Nagi can play football after his elimination from Project Blue Lock

During the first half of the Neo Egoist League, when Nagi was able to fully display his outstanding skills, he received an offer from the main Manshine City club to join them after the tournament. A few readers were unsure if this offer still applied after he was “locked off” from Blue Lock, but chapter 302 of the manga confirmed that Nagi still had that option available.

When getting readjusted to normal life, Nagi’s schoolmates questioned him on whether he would go professional, while confirming that his contract with Manshine City was still good. Nagi never gave a proper answer to this, but since it was never stated that deals would be nullified upon elimination, most fans assume Nagi can still go through this path. Therefore, he can go abroad and play for foreign clubs if he desires, since Ego’s authority only extends up to the National Team.

While some were hoping for Ego to provide a separate training program just for Nagi, allowing him to make his way back to the U-20 team, the mentor was adamant in chapter 303 that he wouldn’t let the eliminated participants back.

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Nevertheless, should he desire, Nagi can continue playing football. This doesn’t necessarily have to be with Manshine City, as he captivated the entire world and is currently the topic of discussion on social media, even within the series. Hence, it is likely that he could get offers from other clubs and franchises too if he wants.

At the same time, Nagi has also expressed that he has no interest in playing football anymore, having had his heart broken. He is still in the process of picking up his broken pieces, and his reintroduction to the world of football will likely take some time.

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