Reo Mikage

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**Reo Mikage** (御 (み) 影 (かげ)  玲 (れ) 王 (お) , *Mikage Reo*?) is a contender for the Blue Lock Project, who currently plays as a center midfielder for England's Manshine City during the Neo Egoist League.

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.

## Appearance

Reo Mikage is a tall young man with a lean and strong build. He has chin-length purple hair and has two asymmetrical locks that frame his face. He has big bright purple eyes. He's Nagi's lover who taught him soccer, and he's the son of the Mikage company.

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 wears Team V's gray-capped cleats. During Second Selection, he wore Team Red's #10 jersey that 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.

Volume Cover 8High school UniformTeam V uniformTeam Red UniformBlue Lock Eleven UniformBlue Lock Player IconYoung ReoNagi and Reo meeting for the first time
## 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 Raichi Jingo 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 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 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 refined at football as fast as possible. He is careful and observant, analyzing every player's strengths and weaknesses, showing a very wide and tactical mind.

## Abilities

### Archetype

* **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 oppositions biggest threat (as seen with Reo shutting down Ryusei Shido using Oliver Aiku's defensive techniques), Reo is full 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 make 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 as 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 (カメレオン) , *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 of his skills only reaching 99% at maximum power, and cannot match up to the originals when compared.
	+ **Long Pass**: Copied from Meguru Bachira.
	+ **Gyro Shot**: Copied from Kenyu Yukimiya.

* **Chameleon Defense**: To "stop Shidou", 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 Shidou. During the match Reo also use the trapping ability of Nagi to save the ball from a second shot by the U-20 players.
	+ **Total Defence**: Copied from Oliver Aiku.
	+ **Physical Pressure**: Copied from Kazuma Nio.
	+ **Trap Shot (Pass)**: Copied from Seishiro Nagi.

* **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.
	+ **Cross Elastico Nutmeg**: Copied from Sae Itoshi.
	+ **Trivela (Shot)**: Copied from Rin Itoshi.
	+ **Oppressive Pass**: Copied from Rin Itoshi.
	+ **Hyperspeed Scissors**: Copied from Sae Itoshi.
	+ **Direct Shot (Pass):** Copied from Yoichi Isagi.

* **Metavision (超越視界 (メタ・ビジョン) , *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.

## Etymology

* His given name, **Reo** (玲 (れ) 王 (お) , *****Reo*****?), means "king of jewels."
	+ **Re** (玲 (れ) , *****Re*****?) means "sound of jewels," referring to his rich background.
	+ **O** (王 (お) , *****O*****?) means "king, ruler, magnate."
* His surname, **Mikage** (御 (み) 影 (かげ) , *****Mikage*****?), means "divine spirit, spirit of the dead."
	+ **Mi** (御 (み) , *****Mi*****?) is an archaic honorific suffix added to refer to things of divine importance or to indicate godlike respect.
	+ **Kage** (影 (かげ) , *****Kage*****?) means "shadow, silhouette, phantom," referring to him being often considered Nagi's shadow.
* His name can thus be interpreted as "divine king of jewels."
	+ Phonetically, his name can be derived from **Chameleon** (カメレオン, *Kamereon*?), referring to his alias.

## Quotes

* (To Nagi) *I'm going to prove to the world that you're the best there is. So all you have to do… is play football, while only trusting me.*
* (To Nagi) *I'll do all the groundwork and help change this "Zero" into a "One", your job is to change that "One" into a "100".*
* (To everyone) *I'm a super elite, Mikage Reo. Remember that from now on, you lowly people!*
* (To Kunigami and Chigiri, Chapter 57) *As long as I can win against Nagi, I don't care about anything else... I **will** make him say that he needs me.*
* (To Isagi) *Nagi is the treasure that **I** found! And in this match… I'll steal him back!*
* (With Nagi) *The local train is leaving the station, via the Reo-Nagi station… Next stop: the goal. Strikers, assemble at the venue!*

## Trivia

* Majority of this information is from the official Egoist Bible.
	+ He prefers bamboo shoots over mushrooms.
	+ The first person to ever confess to Reo was his elementary school teacher. This might have just been because of his money, or so he thinks.
	+ He is attracted to older, more mature women, such as Hisako Manda.
	+ He impulsively buys business books and lunch packs at the convenience store.
	+ His favorite food is *ichibo* steak. His disliked food is dried and sliced sweet potato.
	+ His favorite soccer player is Cristiano Ronaldo.
	+ He got 48 Valentines gifts on Valentine's Day.
	+ His motto is: "Get everything you want."
	+ If he received 100 million yen, he would invest in the stock market.
	+ His favorite manga are Kaiji and Ushijima the Loan Shark.
	+ His favorite animal is the lion.
* Reo ranked 9th in the first popularity poll with 624 votes.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Character profile from *Egoist Bible*
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 246.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 240.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 204.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 59.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 22.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 3 (Episode Nagi).
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 173.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 128.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 104.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 93.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 58.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 22.
*Blue Lock* Manga: Chapter 57.