Akamori Fujikata

**Akamori Fujikata** (赤森藤方 , *Fujikata Akamori*) is a professional football player who currently plays as midfielder for Montmartre FC and the Japan National team.

## Appearance

Fujikata has round, golden-colored eyes and short spiky white-grey hair with black streaks; certain sections of it are done up as if to vaguely conform to that of an animal, strongly amplifying the uncanny resemblance he bears to a horned owl. He has a solid and muscular build.

When playing for Montmartre, Fujikata wears the #6 dark red Montmartre FC uniform.

## Personality

He has a playful, friendly, bombastic, and child-like personality and is described by his team as having "mood swings". Because of this, he is at times described as being 'simple minded'. Fujikata often makes jokes about everything and acting rather dramatically about his plays, wanting attention or affirmation from his teammates.

Despite his general silly behaviour, there are moments when Fujikata exhibits something akin to a wise form of intelligence, his words inspiring his teammates in Montmartre's game against PXG. He has also been shown to have become a mentor figure toward Tatsuki, despite only a two year age gap, and has given him numerous pieces of advice and showed him new tricks.

As a key midfielder of a powerhouse team, Fujikata takes great pride in his position and is both admired and feared by his own team and opponents for his impressive skill and vision. However, Fujikata is well known to suffer mood swings that can affect his performance during games and can sometimes take a while or need something grand in order to return to peak form.

## Abilities

**Archetype**

* **Creative Midfielder:** Creative midfielders are midfield players that are able to create goal-scoring opportunities for the team often in situations where nothing seems likely. They usually have good ball control, passing ability and movement and will be blessed with vision and on-the-ball intelligence.

With Fujikata's, expert ball control, flexible movements, and technical ability he is able to breathe life into even the most difficult or hopeless plays.

**Skills**

**Expert Ball Control:** Fujikata has some of the best ball-keeping sense on his team, due to his spatial and tactical awareness and his unique ability to control space with his creativity. By gauging the distance between himself and his opponent, Fujikata uses his dribbling and passing to control space break away from his opponents with ease.

**Elastic Dribbling:** Fujikata's dribbling style relies on his supreme ball control and creativity to get through other player's defenses. His dribbling ability is so advanced that some players have noted before that it would be impossible for him to outright steal the ball in a one-on-one.

* **Hyperspeed Scissors:** Fujikata performs a scissor feint at incredible speed, making it hard to follow.
* **Marseille Turn:** In order to get around an opponent, Fujikata performs a roulette, almost immediately after his scissor feints.
* **Midair Elastico:** Fujikata can perform the complex elastico dribble, while the ball is in the air, drawing in his opponents to try to steal the ball, before breaking past them.
* **Rabona:** Fujikata kicks the ball where his kicking leg is crossed behind the back of his standing leg. He has managed to kick the ball over an incoming defender while doing this.
* **Double Touch Feint:** Fujikata performs hyper speed scissors and flows into a one-two touch feint.
* **Aerial Rush Turn:** Coming off of a double touch feint, Fujikata moves towards the opponent and while maintaining top speed turns on the ball and rotates around the defender easily breaking through their defense.

**Key Passing:** Fujikata is also a very talented passer, enabling him to assist many different goals. He has, on multiple occasions, gotten an assist by crossing from the wings, as well as passing from the midfield. He also has demonstrated a range of passing techniques.

* **High Speed Ground Pass:** A quick pass with incredible top spin, that bounces across the ground.
* **No-Look Pass:** Fujikata uses the Rabona technique to pass, without looking.
* **Long-Range Backspin Pass:** Fujikata can perform a long range pass, travelling nearly 60 meters, with backspin, allowing the ball to hug the ground whilst rising up. This pass is best used in a chemical reaction with a tall player, who can intercept the ball in its flight path, rather than on the ground.
* **Quick Cross:** Using the movements of another player as a precursor, Fujikata fires a quick cross into the box which can only be met at great speed.
* **Heel Lift Pass:** While running with the ball in tow and into defenders who begin pressing him, Fujikata quickly lifts the ball with his back heel over their heads swiftly passing it to a teammate to avoid the press.
* **Bee Shot:** After swiftly passing the ball to his teammates and running through defenders, Fujikata receives the ball again and makes a close free form shot that is too quick to react to.