Kumogawa Zen'Yuu

Kumogawa Zen'Yuu ( 蜘蛛川 善友) is a professional football player who currently plays as a Winger for Berserk Dortmund and the Japanese National Team.

He started playing soccer at an early age and was always on the Mirai Hyoga school team. His team advanced to the nationals, and due to his good performance in the attacking sector, he was invited to be part of the Blue Lock Project, where he initially became a member of Team Z-2 (the Team Z of the 2nd Stratum).

During the Neo Egoist League, he joined FC Barcha from the Spanish Stratum, where he played as an Offensive Midfielder, until he received a proposal from Berserk Dortmund, where he still plays as a Winger.

He doesn't have a very defined goal, but says he would like to become a legend for any club he goes to.

## Appearance

Zen'Yuu is a player of short stature and strong physique. He has dark eyes with large irises and usually wears a green contact lens. His skin is slightly tanned and his hair is messy, curly, medium length, and has a streak of white.

At Blue Lock, Zen'Yuu wears the standard-issued body suit (black with blue-gray stripes) and tracksuit. Throughout his career in football, he wore the #7 jersey for Mirai Hyoga, the #16 in the First Selection for Team Z-2, the #116 in the Second Selection for Team Red, and the #7 his main uniform which he was able to wear in Neo Egoist League at FC Barcha, and currently for Berserk Dortmund and the Japanese National Team.

## Personality

Zen'Yuu is a guy who is constantly humming along to some tune, while exuding a happy and reliable energy. He is a very empathetic person, with difficulties saying no, and who will do everything to keep the environment pleasant, even if he has no idea how to do it. He is extremely curious, and can be very procastinatory when it comes to himself. But although he prefers to let life guide him, he can be extremely anxious about the situations he gets himself into.

## Abilities

### Archetype

* **Shadow Striker:** Shadow strikers operate as one of the team's main goalscoring threats. Usually coupled with another forward, they aggressively push up into goalscoring positions as the ball moves into the final third and look to press opposing defenders when out of possession.

Zen'Yuu is an offensive player with a lot of tactical intelligence, fulfilling the role of an inside forward, playing in intermediate zones and arriving late in the area for mid-range shots.

* Blue Lock
* Currently

### Skills

**Professional Football Technique:** Zen'Yuu is a versatile player who plays in the offensive positions of the last third of the field. He is a player who likes to carry the ball in the offensive zone, forcing fouls so that he has the opportunity to free kick. With his acceleration, charging, malice and free-kicks, he has become one of the most promising youngsters of his generation playing in European Leagues.

**Agility & Balance:** Despite his small stature, Zen'Yuu possesses a strong physique and exceptional balance that makes it very difficult to completely overthrow him. Even in situations where he is displaced, he is able to quickly recover on the throw, using his hand on the ground for a quick rebalance.

**Off the Ball Movements:** When without the ball, Zen'Yuu is a player who puts pressure on the opposing team and also helps to rebuild the midfield. He is a helpful and moving player. In offensive transition stages, he usually receives the ball with his back to the attack, in a more centralized position, until he carries the ball to the wings.

**Charging Skill:** Zen'Yuu likes to run at speed carrying the ball towards the opponent's defense to create scoring chances for his team.

* **Dive to Win:** In his sprints with the ball, Zen'Yuu developed the malice to simulate fouls without being noticed. It's a type of play he's optimized to maximize the chance of using his free-kick weapon.

* **Skilled Bridge:** A signature feint from Zen'Yuu where he rolls the ball diagonally, but cuts it off with a cross tap using his other foot.

* **Agile Dribbling:** Zen'Yuu does a quick sequence with the step over feint, throwing the ball from one foot to the other to perform a cut to the right

* **Marseille Turn**: To get around an opponent, Zen'Yuu performs a roulette, using his body to force contact.

* **Nutmeg:** Among the nutmegs performed by Zen'Yuu, the one that uses the Skilled Bridge stands out.

**Devastating Free Kick**: Zen'Yuu is an excellent free-kick taker, especially medium and long distance ones. He positions himself well away from the ball and does an intense run using a space just above his toes for contact with the ball, making it go without a lot of spin, but with a lot of intensity and accuracy.

**Emergency Volley**: As a player of short stature and late positioning in the area, Zen'Yuu often ends up involved in rebound finishes, which implies that the ball comes too high for him. With that he optimized his acrobatic kicks, managing to make emergency volleys by reflex.

**Flow State (Complete):** 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.

Zen'Yuu describes his Flow state as a perfect song, where he manages to show his intensity by cutting through some defenders and firing a powerful shot from outside the penalty area and into the angle.

## Etymology

* The name **Kumo** ( 蜘蛛) means "Spider".
* The name **Gawa** (川) means "River".
* The name **Zen'** (善) means "Good" and **Yuu** (友) means "Friend"
* **Kumogawa Zen'Yuu** can therefore be interpreted as **"The neighborhood friend"**. In reference to Spider-Man, his favorite hero and the region where he grew up.

## Trivia

* His favorite hero is spiderman.
* He started playing football at the age of 5.
* His zodiac sign is Gemini.
* His hometown is Kobe (Hyogo Prefecture).
* His favorite color is Dark Forest Green.
* His character color is Green.
* His foot size is 27.5 cm.
* His dominant leg is his right foot.
* His blood type is O+.
* His favorite players are W. Sneijder and C. Fàbregas.
* His favorite food is Crab and Korean Food
* His favorite thing to do is listen to music.
* His favorite animal is the Moose. He's not sure why, but he saw a video about them recently.
* His favorite season is Autumn.
* His favorite school subjects are History and Politics and his least favorite subjects are Chemistry.
* He spends his holidays riding a bike looking for things to photograph.
* In addition to football, he is interested in photography and academic career.
* If he ever got 100 million yen (~$739,000) he would travel to study abroad.
* On his last day on Earth he would listen to his favorite album at full volume
* His favorite movie is The Breakfast Club
* He doesn't like manga, but his favorite comics are Spider-Man.
* He considers his strengths to be his adaptability. While your weakness is inconsistency.

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