Meguru Bachira

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**Meguru Bachira** (蜂 (ばち) 楽 (ら)  廻 (めぐる) , *Bachira Meguru*?) is a contender of Blue Lock who currently plays as a center forward for Spain's FC Barcha in the Neo Egoist League.

Bachira is a whimsical forward who plays following his instincts. He was a member of Team Z during the First Selection. His main goal was to find soccer rivals who also have a "monster" inside of them, but his goal later changes to becoming the best striker in the world when he overcomes his childhood trauma.

## Appearance

Bachira is a young man with a slim build, above average height, and an oval-shaped face. He has bright yellow eyes and a bob-cut hair that reach up to his chin and is black with golden under-lights (when Bachira was younger, his hair was only ear length). When he was in a junior football league, he wore the jersey #8. During the Chiba Prefecture Tournament, Bachira wore the #8 jersey for Namikaze High, which had a special bird design in the center.

At Blue Lock, Bachira wears the standard-issued body suit (black with gray stripes) and tracksuit. During the First Selection, he wore Team Z's blue #8 jersey, and during Second Selection, wore Team White's #16 jersey later switched to red. During the Third Selection he switched between the Team A's black #7 and Team C's white and blue #7 jersey and he wears Team Z's gray-capped cleats.

During the Japan U-20 match, Bachira dons an official Blue Lock player Uniform with the #8 that resembles his jersey in the first cover spread minus the Japan flag. Bachira wears the FC Barcha uniform when competing for them.

Volume Cover 2Young BachiraNamikaze High Football KitTeam Red uniformBlue Lock Eleven uniformBlue Lock player icon
## Personality

Bachira has a rather eccentric demeanor and personality. He is usually very energetic, cheerful, and enthusiastic during matches, rarely losing his cool and will to play, describing soccer as something fun to play with others. Bachira immediately relates to Lavinho, who is also eccentric and energetic, and is inspired by his way of playing football. He has a tendency to sleep in unexpected moments, such as when he was sleeping during the tag test. He mostly oversleeps and ends up relying on Isagi or Kuon to wake him up, and then falls asleep during their team meetings; he's also been known to fall asleep during meals. He also tends to show up completely naked after every training and soccer matches. When the Neo Egoist League starts, Bachira takes his football training more seriously in an effort to become the world-class egoist he imagines himself to be and edge closer to becoming the best in the world. Bachira now actively weight trains and mediates.

During his childhood, he was actively bullied because of his eccentric personality and exceptional skill in football, which made him terrified of being alone. This trauma causes Bachira to create an imaginary friend who is a "monster," more specifically a football monster because it motivates Bachira and his plays in the game. Only after he comes to Blue Lock does Bachira start facing his trauma for he finds people he is similar to and can call a friend, like Yoichi Isagi. Bachira can be seen casually befriending all sorts of people despite his somewhat strange demeanor including Isagi, Rin, Chigiri, and Kunigami.

After the rematch between Isagi's Team White and Rin's Team Red, Bachira has moved past his previous trauma and has decided to be more confident and dominant on the field. He wants to become the world's best striker who scores only for himself, and thus will only pass someone the ball if they have the potential to excite him and help him play the kind of football he wants to play. Bachira has also steeled his resolve for moving forward in Blue Lock; no matter the challenge Bachira looks optimistically at the situation resolving to get stronger and reach the peak of each trial ahead of him.

## Abilities

### Archetype

* **Dribbler**: Dribblers are players known for their close ball control ability that is used to go past defenders by sudden change of direction and acceleration sometimes combined with great pace. The skill is used to create opportunities for other attackers or to score themselves having broken through the opposition's defense using what is sometimes referred to as "trickery". One of the great spectator sights in football is a player going on a "mazy run" with the ball, twisting and turning to avoid opposition tackles, beating a number of players.

Bachira's dribbling technique allows him to break through most defenses with only high-level players being able to stop him but it is very rare to see the ball stolen from him. Team Z heavily relied on his dribbling ability to get the ball down the field during First Selection. His dribbling is rivaled by only a handful of players in Blue Lock and mixed with his key passing skill he has proven to be a much-needed asset on any team. After the initial training of the Neo Egoist League, Bachira has evolved his dribbling by moving away from proactive dribbling to more counteractive dribbling, preferring to read his opponent's movements first, maturing in the way he moves down the field.

### Skills

* **Elastic Dribbling**: Bachira's dribbling style relies on his supreme technique and creativity to get through other players' defenses. His dribbling ability is so advanced that Isagi has noted before that it would be impossible for him to outright steal the ball in a one-on-one.
	+ **Egotistical Style**: During the Second Selection, Bachira evolved his dribbling to a new egoistic style, where he refuses to pass the ball, preferring to move dynamically past defenders alone. If his team will not challenge his expectations, then he does not care to have them in his plays. This was demonstrated to devastating effect when he dribbled past Isagi and then proceeded to take on all three defenders: Chigiri, Baro and Nagi, breaking past them all to go through on goal and once again when he single handedly broke past the entire Japan U-20 defense. After training under Lavinho and with FC Barcha, Bachira has decided to mix his dynamic and explosive dribbling with the free flowing style of FC Barcha, creating a whole new egotist style.
	+ **Hyperspeed Scissors**: Bachira performs a scissor feint at incredible speed, making it hard to follow.
	+ **Marseille Turn**: In order to get around an opponent, Bachira performs a roulette, almost immediately after his scissor feints.
	+ **Midair Elastico**: Bachira 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**: Bachira 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.
	+ **Nutmeg**: During the Second Selection, Bachira was able to perform a triple nutmeg on Isagi, Chigiri and Baro, all in succession, demonstrating his technical ability.
	+ **Double Touch Feint**: Bachira performs hyperspeed scissors and flows into a one-two touch feint.
	+ **Aerial Rush Turn**: Coming off of a double touch feint, Bachira 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**: Bachira 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**: Bachira uses the Rabona technique to pass without looking.
	+ **Long-Range Backspin Pass**: Bachira 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, Bachira fires a quick cross into the box which can only be met at great speed. He used this to assist Rin's goal against the Team World Five.
	+ **Heel Lift Pass**: While running with the ball in tow and into defenders who begin pressing him, Bachira 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, Bachira receives the ball again and makes a close free form shot that is too quick to react to.

* **Flow State**: Flow, as described by Ego, is the state of "total immersion" or "being in the zone". It is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.
Bachira has unintentionally and intentionally entered Flow State numerous times during Blue Lock, as early as the First Selection. In this state, he has performed a triple nutmeg on some of the best players in Blue Lock and has broken through their defense with ease almost scoring all by himself if not for the confidence and respect his opponent had in his skill which caused them to intercept him.

* **Monstrance**: When he enters the Flow State, Bachira enters a challenge-centered trance, performing techniques incredibly quickly, including multiple feints and moving purely on instinct. Since he moves without conscious thought, it is incredibly difficult to predict and stop for the defenders. In this state, Bachira was able to easily overcome the U20 defenders and even Oliver Aiku. Bachira has evolved this further by being able to go into Monstrance at will and even combining his explosive style with the free and flowing Ginga style of Lavinho being able to produce even more explosively creative plays.
	+ **Monster x Ginga**: After fusing Lavinho's Ginga style with his Monstrance, Bachira evolves his dribbling to be even more explosive, free flowing, and unpredictable with flexibility and stability at the same time.
		- **Trick Break**: After waiting and reading his opponent Bachira lunges towards a defender, performing a chop dribble between his legs while hugging the defender using their posture to limit their response and push himself forward with the ball. When the defender attempts to respond, Bachira is able to push off the defender with ease while still following the ball and counteracting any further stops.
	+ **Monster Lift**: Bachira is able to perform an audacious lift by first lifting the ball and moving into a shooting motion, before kicking the ball downwards with force and topspin. Upon bouncing, the ball spins over the head of the defender for Bachira to chase down. Bachira used this to great effect against Aiku.

## Etymology

* His given name, **Meguru** (廻 (めぐる) , *****Meguru*****?), means "round, go around, revolve."
* His surname, **Bachira** (蜂 (ばち) 楽 (ら) , *****Bachira*****?), means "happy bee," referring to both his personality and appearance.
* His name can thus be interpreted as "a revolving, happy bee."

## Trivia

* Majority of this information is from the official Egoist Bible.
	+ His zodiac sign is Leo.
	+ His hometown is Chiba.
	+ His foot size is 27.5cm.
	+ His vision is 1.0.
	+ His blood type is AB.
	+ His dominant leg is his right side.
	+ He doesn't have a single favorite football player. He just likes all of the awesome ones.
	+ He started playing football at the age of 6.
	+ He thinks his strong point is being optimistic and being able to have fun in any situation. He thinks that his weak point is not worrying about things enough.
	+ His favorite food is canned pineapple. His disliked food is *mozuku* because it's like eating snot.
	+ He thinks the best thing to have with rice is a raw egg and soy sauce.
	+ His favorite season is summer because it gets him excited.
	+ His favorite song is "*Yume Ippai*", the opening song for *Chibi Maruko-chan*.
	+ His favorite movie is *Crayon Shin-chan*: Great Adventure in Henderland. He says it was so funny it'll make you bald.
	+ His favorite manga is Ping Pong. It made him cry.
	+ His character color is yellow.
	+ His favorite animal is the dolphin because they look like fun.
	+ He doesn't have a favorite subject because he doesn't study. His worst subject is Social Studies because he can't remember any of it.
	+ He has a fetish for eyes. He thinks that they are where you can see a person's heart the clearest.
	+ He likes when he is given gifts, no matter what they are. He doesn't like when his freedom is taken away.
	+ He received a total of zero Valentine's chocolates in the previous year.
	+ He gets 7.5 hours of sleep each night.
	+ The first place he washes when in the bath is behind his ears.
	+ He always finds himself buying soda water whenever he's at the convenience store.
	+ He can't remember the reason for the last time he cried since he cries a lot, so he forgot.
	+ He never received any presents from Santa on Christmas. But in place of Santa, his mother would make him pancakes. They were really yummy.
	+ If it were his last day on Earth, he would dribble a football as far as he could go.
	+ If he received 100 million yen (~$739,000), he would either scatter the bills from a rooftop or lay in a bathtub full of them.
	+ He spends his days off doing whatever he feels like doing on that specific day.
* Bachira ranked 3rd in the first popularity poll with 2,184 votes.

## Quotes

* (To Team Z) *My greatest weapon is my dribbling.*
* (To Team Z) *Great! Real great! Finally, something fun to do.*
* (To Team Z) *You see, all of us came to Blue Lock to become the best strikers in the world... So we must trample over Team V; that's what it takes to be a striker.*
* (To Isagi) *Isagi... I won't be waiting. If you want me, come and steal me. I'll follow the will of my inner monster.*
* (To himself, about Isagi and Rin) *They're trading blows on an unbelievable level on this field right now. There are two monsters! I knew it! They're both monsters! I don't even care which one… At long last, I'm not alone anymore.*
* (To himself) *I'm gonna win if it kills me!! Since coming to Blue Lock... I don't want to lose everything that I've found here! I really would have been happy just being able to keep playing soccer with Isagi by my side. I don't want to lose the first friend I've ever made. I don't want to go back to those days of being alone!! That's why I've been seeking someone else's voice instead of mine. Win even if it kills me, and steal back Isagi! That's what my voice is telling me!!*
* (To himself) *Back when becoming one with the ball was all that mattered. Back when that was the only reason I needed to play soccer!! For me there is nothing in this world that's more fun than this!! Fight lose yourself!! That fire is within me!! I will become the monster even if there's nobody else waiting for me!!*
* (To Kunigami) *Muscles alone aren't enough to be my dance partner.*
* (To Kaiser) *As expected, the world is full of nasty egos. You're the best, Kaiser. I'll crush you~*
* (To Isagi and Kaiser) *Say no to violence!*

## References

*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 154.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Character profile from *Egoist Bible*
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 246.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 240.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 204.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 170.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 95.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 44.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 24.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 15.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 11.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 2.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 159.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 108.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 107.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 90.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 49.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 45.
19. ↑ https://jisho.org/search/廻
20. ↑ https://jisho.org/search/蜂楽
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 9.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 27.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 28.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 79.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 83.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 84.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 161.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 163.