resident cornplater

Hey, hiiiii. Yes, this is Gayuma again.

I know we have like so many blogs but I decided to throw our cornplating of the anime in a separate blog because I neither want to spam the main tag or the @soccerpunching blog.

This is something I started posting in bsky but stopped. I'll continue here without promise of consistency.

Feel free to block this account! Our interactive account is @soccerpunching so if you want to throw an ask, throw it there!!

This blog is 16+ since I would unlikely talk about imagines and fanfics in here.

By cornplating we mean:

#cinematic cornplate - frame/lighting/sfx details and analysis

#literary cornplate - character/action/choices details and analysis

#nothingburger plate - observation that has no story or art significance that I just want to point out (may be nothingburgers that I have fun pointing out)

the most heartbreaking scene that i always notice when i rewatch is this part especially in episode 2. because haruna/celia was watching kidou/jude leave and look back BUT HE DID NOT LOOK HER WAY AT ALL. HE WAS LOOKING AT ENDOU/MARK

at the start of this scene, people in the bench focused in teikoku/royal so haruna has started watching since the time kidou walked out the school (or even before)

that's when kidou looks back and had a brief speech about endou who was directly opposite where he stands.

the blue circle on the 2nd image is where endou was while haruna is at the red circle

the lingering look she had his way, way longer than aki's/silvia's gaze, probably waiting if he so much as acknowledges her. what if she thinks he doesn't remember her anymore. i know she was waiting for him to look at her just even once. this is heartbreaking.

Even better shown in the third screenshot where she would look like a framed picture of a principal in their office, or in her case, the chairperson's.

Which is amazing because they framed her like that while saying her words are just like the chairman's. So the viewers should also consider her like the school's chairperson... right when they're showing how she would look visually.

And they in fact had those frames in this office btw. Look at the far left of this last image...

Funny thing about the endou/mark and gouenji/axel first meeting is that had gouenji not stop in his walk to watch them play he wouldn't have been able to see what was going to happen and they wouldn't have met before he was introduced in the class.

They also made it so that gouenji heard about teikoku/royal directly from endou so he probably wouldn't also bother watching the practice match had endou not been trying to recruit him around after he saw his kick in the first place. Which then could have ended raimon right after that match.

Which means that this entire ride started because gouenji was yearning soccer and was watching kids and endou train/play.

I love how the shot of them seeming to be uninterested with playing soccer is the one where 4 out of 6 of them are in fact wearing the kit. Not even 3, 4! And I'll understand if it's just the first years because you can say they're just abiding by politeness culture. But nope... Someoka/Kevin, Shourin/Tim, Shishido/Sam, and Kurimatsu/Tod all are wearing theirs already!!

And then someoka (already in gear) brought that up specifically then we learned that they were currently in fact waiting for the field to be available. Someoka specially was hoping they can at least play today. I know the first movie have more on this but this alone is just so 🥹 (someoka fake idgafer i saw you wearing the kit!!!!)

That's why endou/mark knew 😌

But also duh. That's why they all panicked when the club could possibly be banned

Literally episode 1:

On the subject of destroying schools after a soccer club was disbanded:

Although i did say that I didn't like how they were trying to cut down ray's / kageyama's crimes in the series after the first trilogy (especially retconning it in everyday+), I still fully believe that kageyama only challenges/accept challenges from schools that couldn't even make teikoku sweat in practice or friendly matches. Like, if you manage to make them run a little you're safe. That or if your team has a spy working for him.

Another on that end. It still bewildered me how when it comes to spies, kidokawa / kirkwood seemed to be untouchable??? Like. Also in the inago series they also didn't have a seed (although they did have aphrodi there which means they can deploy coaches there whenever but they did not have a seed). What about this school that makes it untouchable to the dark soccer forces

Edit: sousuke may have been a seed in kidokawa. although his dialogues become more convincing if he wasn't. i may need to watch that episode again if I can ☝️ (likely not soon since im finishing watching s1-s3 first)

I'm never not thinking about this shot of Kidou / Jude in front of the teikoku bus? Van? Truck i guess. that immediately made me think of kageyama / ray because of the two white lines. Which speaks of the destruction and cruelty that the truck did all being him. And the rising shot from kidou to show kageyama's actual face. Like this show is so violently on your face with their messages and of what's going on in the most amazing way possible. This isn't even subtle.

And kageyama laugh over the haunting theme?? chef's kiss

[Video description: Kidou, wearing the teikoku kit, stands in front of the Teikoku truck that is emitting strong white headlights that showed kidou in darkness against the light on his back. He has his arms folded on his chest. The shot rises to show the white lines in front of the truck are getting thicker. After the shot passes kidou's person, it shows how gargantuan and intimidating the teikoku truck is. With the teikoku flag beside it. Kageyama's face overlaps the shot. He shows a sinister grin. His round glasses reflects light. The shot fades to black as kageyama laughs evilly. End of video description.]

I really love how they showed kidou in the first OP song right when they mentioned the worn-out samurai dialogue. Because old samurai stories were usually about a gray character who wouldn't hesitate in killing or have a history in killing and violence who is now a person bettering himself. They were action shows that were stories of self reflection and redemption. A journey to become the hero that they were always meant to be. So putting kidou here in the opening song really was an amazing way to show us what to expect about the character.

Not to mention, the way his cape billows on the wind personally has like a hero pose to me much like superman. So, that's even more awesome.