Reo is the heir of the Mikage Corporation, with his total assets valued at about 705.8 billion yen or $5.3 billion USD. Prior to entering Blue Lock, he was a student at an elite high school, where he met his first long-term friend, Seishiro Nagi, who started playing soccer shortly after him due to Nagi's natural talent in the sport and Reo's craving to go further in football. Being a young man who has almost everything at the tips of his fingers thanks to his father being the head of the Mikage Corporation, his one and only desire is to win the Football World Cup.
When he first arrived at Blue Lock, Reo was a member of Team V and arguably the second-best player in his designated stratum. He played as a center-back for the Blue Lock Eleven against the Japan U-20.
What is the significance of Reo Mikage in the Blue Lock Project?
Reo Mikage, a contender in the Blue Lock Project, is a crucial character. He plays as a center midfielder for Manshine City in the Neo Egoist League. As the Mikage Corporation's heir, his assets are valued at about 705.8 billion yen or $5.3 billion USD. Before Blue Lock, he attended an elite high school and befriended Seishiro Nagi. At Blue Lock, he was part of Team V and was deemed the second-best player in his stratum. He also played as a center-back for the Blue Lock Eleven against Japan U-20.
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How did Reo Mikage's friendship with Seishiro Nagi influence his soccer career?
Reo Mikage was influenced by Seishiro Nagi's natural talent and determination in soccer. Nagi's drive to improve, particularly after a loss to Yoichi Isagi, inspired Reo. However, their friendship faced challenges as Nagi developed a harsher stance with Reo, believing that Reo's style of soccer wasn't sufficient for his aspirations. This led to a divergence in their paths, impacting Reo's soccer career.
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What is the role of Reo Mikage in England's Manshine City team?
Reo Mikage serves as a center midfielder for Manshine City, a top-tier professional football team in England as featured in the Blue Lock manga. His unique playing style, developed through his experience with Japan U-20 and Manshine City, makes him a versatile player capable of initiating and concluding any play. His skill set and adaptability have made him an integral part of the team.
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How does Reo Mikage's wealth impact his soccer career?
Reo Mikage, heir to the Mikage Corporation, used his wealth to fuel his soccer career. Destined for the family business, he instead developed a passion for soccer, aiming for the Football World Cup. His affluence facilitated his entry into Blue Lock and Team V. However, he realized that wealth couldn't guarantee soccer success, prompting him to hone his skills and chase his ambition.
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What is the relationship between Reo Mikage and the Mikage Corporation?
Born as the heir to the Mikage Corporation, Reo Mikage was nurtured with the idea of inheriting the family business. His upbringing was characterized by luxury, with him receiving anything he wanted. Despite this, he expressed a sense of boredom with his easy life.
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Appearance
Reo is a tall young man with a lean build. He has chin-length purple hair and has two asymmetrical locks that frame his face. He has big, bright purple eyes.
At Blue Lock, Reo wears the standard-issued body suit (black with blue stripes) and tracksuit. During the First Selection, he wore Team V's blue #9 jersey and Team V's gray-capped cleats. During Second Selection, he wore Team Red's #10 jersey, which later switched to white. During Third Selection, he wore Team C's white and blue #10 jersey. During the match against the Japan U-20, Reo dons an official, blue-colored Blue Lock player uniform with the #14.
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High school Uniform
Team V uniform
Team Red Uniform
Blue Lock Eleven Uniform (Manga)
Blue Lock Player Icon
Young Reo
Nagi and Reo meeting for the first time
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Team C Uniform
Blue Lock Eleven Uniform (Anime)
Personality
Reo is very charismatic, friendly, sharp-witted, and ambitious. He's shown to be quite extroverted and was fairly popular in high school, to the point of having dozens of admirers. Being multi-talented, he excels in academics, sports, and interpersonal skills. Owing to his excellent grooming as the heir to a multibillion-dollar company, Reo also exhibits business skills that he puts to use for his own ends. Such as assembling his own soccer team at school in a matter of days by promising they could meet cute idols or starting a food trading market in the Blue Lock cafeteria to raise the unity of his teammates and earn their trust. Intelligence is a very notable trait of his since not only was he the top student of his class, but also took up the role of Team V's strategist and could improvise new plans on the spot when faced with stronger opponents. Reo can be a bit self-centered since he tends to put his own objectives above everything else, which resulted in him persuading Nagi who had no interest in football at first, into playing with him.
Although he welcomes new challenges and experiences, he gets deeply upset when things don't go his way, perhaps owing to his wealthy upbringing. Generally, he seems to feel every emotion with full force and is extremely aware of his own faults and shortcomings, which is evident in several instances of painful breakdowns shown in the spin-off manga. Due to his high emotionality, he can even get violent when he loses his temper, as seen when he elbows Jingo Raichi after some taunting. On the whole, Reo is a friendly and clever young man who knows what he wants out of life and will pursue it until he's satisfied.
Despite having a very fortunate life, he found everything boring because of how easy it was to get whatever he wanted. So he decided to carve a path where he would have to fight for what he wanted and prove his existence. He found satisfaction in playing football to obtain the coveted World Cup and would do anything he could to win, like paying and taking care of a natural football prodigy like Nagi to get further in football.
At the near end of First Selection, Reo was confident in his team winning yet another game, but when Team Z started shutting down and scoring on Team V, Reo became overly aggressive and frustrated at a situation he did not understand, going as far as to foul somebody. Reo was noticeably at a loss for words when Team Z ended up winning the game and when Nagi decided to join Isagi's Team White at the start of the Second Selection. He stubbornly refused to accept that the prodigy, Nagi, his best friend for months and someone Reo regarded as "his treasure," would choose to play with someone else over him. He spent the second half of Second Selection focused on "winning" Nagi back, only to lose the match deciding who would pick a player from the other team, almost losing Nagi as a friend as a result. After Reo survives the hardships of the Second Selection, he lets go of his stubbornness and realizes his weakness, vowing to get stronger to stay close to the people that matter to him and get further in his goal of winning the World Cup. After finally letting go of his possessive attachment to Nagi and finally realizing what he needs to do to be strong and stay with his friend, Reo vowed to become the best striker in the world who can dominate the field without needing anyone’s help, along with the top players in Blue Lock.
Reo is very serious about his football career, as he uses all the resources available to study and become as refined at football as possible. He is careful and observant, analyzing every player's strengths and weaknesses and showing a very wide and tactical mind.
Abilities
Archetypes
Forwards: also known as strikers, have the main objective of scoring goals. They are often the players who get the most attention since their role is designed to be in a scoring position. They also take part in penalty kicks and corner kicks when the opposing team kicks the ball out of bounds. They are normally the players in charge of starting off the game at the start and halftime.
Utility Player: Capable of playing any role that his team needs, Reo is incredibly versatile. Able to cover ground, create for his teammates (using his own Metavision to deliver a pinpoint pass to Seishiro Nagi), score using techniques adopted from his teammates (as seen when he scored using Kenyu Yukimiya's gyro shot), and defend the opposition's biggest threat (as seen with Reo shutting down Ryusei Shido using Oliver Aiku's defensive techniques), Reo is fully capable of doing it all for his team, no matter what they need.
After playing the Japan U-20 and training with England's Manshine City, Reo has incorporated all the skills he has learned from the positions he has played into a singular style that makes him a strong and variable player who can start and finish off any kind of play.
Skills
Dexterity: Despite not being involved in soccer from a very young age, Reo is very skilled at all aspects of the sport. He has excellent passing, shooting, dribbling, and ball control capabilities (among other skills). He also has high physical capabilities, with good stamina and speed. He is a well-rounded and excellent player, being considered a "Jack-of-All-Trades." On many occasions, it has been stated that if most people in Blue Lock have low skill levels in some of their stats and extremely high skill levels in other areas, then Reo has nearly perfect stats across the board, making him able to play most positions in soccer.
The Chameleon (複写変化,Kamereon?): Using his all-rounder skills, excellent soccer abilities and sense, and his 99/100 stats across all his various skills, Reo is able to emulate the abilities that other players have demonstrated. Reo uses his nearly perfect skills to be able to understand how others, who are specialized in certain areas, are able to produce certain abilities. Using this understanding, he is able to recreate these abilities on his own. The only downside of this ability is that Reo can only copy skills and abilities that are within his physical capability and not natural physical talent, such as Ryusei Shido's extreme physical moves or Hyoma Chigiri's insane speeds. The abilities he copies, however, are weaker than the original because his skills only reach 99% at maximum power and cannot match up to the originals when compared.
Chameleon Defense: To "stop Shido," Ego places Reo in the defense position in the Blue Lock vs. U-20 match, telling him that he needs to observe all the U-20 defenders (Oliver Aiku, Kazuma Nio, Miroku Darai, and Teppei Neru) so that he can copy his movements and use that power to kill Ryusei Shido. During the match, Reo also used the trapping ability of Nagi to save the ball from a second shot by the U-20 players.
Total Defense: Copied from Oliver Aiku.
Physical Pressure: Copied from Kazuma Nio.
Off-the-Ball Movements: (Presumably) Copied from Miroku Darai.
Neo Chameleon Strike Mode: Taking his Chameleon Style one step further, Reo uses his nearly perfect skills to copy high-level plays that allow Reo to move as a striker and score his own goals. He flawlessly steals the ball, breaks through the defense of Bastard München, and almost scores a goal using this new style in the Neo-Egoist League in the first minutes of a game.
Metavision (超越視界,Meta Bijon?, Transcendence Sight): A term used to describe a player's evolved vision that gives them an omnipotent perspective of the field. Using his eyes to constantly take in information from his central and peripheral vision, Reo constantly collects data on every player, every play they make, and their positions on the field. Reo uses it subconsciously, the first instance being during the Bastard München vs. Manshine City match.
His morning routine consists of Ba-ya (his personal assistant) waking him up, having breakfast (eggs Benedict with an enzyme smoothie), having a morning sauna, checking the day's financial news, and going to school in his limousine with a morning glass of nonalcoholic champagne.[15]
When Reo asked what he does for luck before a showdown, he said, "Get a new tie for my hair (so that I'll be looking forward instead of into the past)."[15]
Reo ranked 9th in the first popularity poll with 624 votes.
