Kanzen Hidaka/Synopsis

**Table of Contents**
History • Introduction Arc • First Selection Arc • Second Selection Arc

## History

Kanzen got to know football around the age of 8. And it didn't take long for him to become completely fanatic about it. While the other children were only concerned with catching the ball and running and kicking around, Kanzen tried to understand the strategies and movements of his friends and the players he saw on TV, being delighted with those who seemed more sober about what they were doing in field.

Unfortunately for Kanzen, very few players gave him that feeling. Most of the teams he watched play or played with seemed…imperfect. Not that he believed "team perfection" was possible, but football became an increasingly bitter experience for him. His mind was only focused on judging tactics and players, but he still felt his love for football and thus established his biggest dream: to lead the Japanese national team to victory in a world cup, as well as winning the Ballon D'or, along the way of perfection. He would dedicate himself every day to improving his accuracy, movement and spatial intelligence, to be the most efficient and aware player on the field.

Shortly thereafter, upon entering High School, he joined Yamamura High's soccer club. It was a school close to his house, and they had no tradition in football competitions. Although it bothered him that it would be a team far from perfection, he saw himself with the opportunity to lead them and perhaps change the history of the school's reputation. Unfortunately, once again, his plans were completely thwarted.

The team's main players had already played together since elementary school, and soon had a hostile behavior with him, forcing him to play in a more defensive role as he was a new player at the school. The feeling on the field was like that of watching Japan's games on television. A sense of constant disorder in the field and people acting like fish out of sea: illogical, wasteful, everything seemed wrong. And if the hostility on the field wasn't enough, with the players refusing to include him in their game and doing everything to disturb him, when Kanzen managed to score a goal or make a brilliant play, they waited for the end of the game and continued bullying, reaching the point of committing physical aggression against him in denial of their inability.

Kanzen felt dead inside, Those idiots had no willingness to change for *their* soccer. But what could he do? He couldn't see his life without the sport, and he couldn't afford to change schools...Not when he'd made this much progress. He should see some way to obverse that.. And so, he began to focus more on individual training, while at school he tried to create more intimacy with the field: analyzing plays more closely, it was the best training he could do. Even if it barely did anything, the effort surely couldn't be worth nothing.

### The Last Game

In the 3rd year, Yamamura High's club found itself in a critical situation. There was only one game left and if they lost: it would be their last game for the year. 0-1, then 0-2, Kanzen saw his team completely annihilated on the field, Would he really finish high school without having managed to show off *his* soccer? Imperfect, unacceptable, utterly pointless.. Until, amidst his mental confusion, and total procrastination: he found himself close to the midfield line, when his team tried to increase the pressure on the opposing team, In a moment of lucidity he saw the left wing empty. For that brief moment he was sure that if the ball landed there, none of his team would be there or the opposition for that matter. And so, he slowly phased into that position and lucky for him, the ball landed right by his foot. One chance, he just needed one chance. A single solid contact point. Kanzen performed a shaky, yet powerful finish, slamming the ball into the rear goal. 1-2, he only needed to score 2 more goals and he could continue playing. For whatever time he had left here, atleast.

On the next play, after the opposing ball went out as the product of a pass error, Kanzen saw one of Yamamura's attackers advance with the ball in his possession, in a desperate attempt to score the goal. He was sure without a shadow of a doubt that the chances of him losing the ball were near-guaranteed, and he positioned himself behind him, accompanying him from afar to seize the ball when the defender tackled him. Ideal converged: everything 'within expectations'. Without thinking twice, Kanzen projected a flawless shot in one impossibly tight angle, tying the match. 2-2 followed with a rush of dopamine, just one more to go. The opposing team gave the ball out and the referee whistled the end of the game. The match would go to penalties.

Kanzen didn't even have the opportunity to take the kick and saw his team eliminated before his eyes, a product of their own selfishness and idiocy. His parents discovered the fact that he was being bullied, and decided to move into central Tokyo to prevent future occurrences of the sort. This resulted in Kanzen quitting Soccer as a whole for 6 months, however; upon receiving an invitation showcased to him by his parents, to the facility known as 'Blue Lock', he couldn't help but enter the insane program in hopes of his passion being relit.