113 - Reo Mikage

{[(Character("Reo Mikage")Gender("Male")Age("17")Birthday("August 12")Height('185 cm")Blood-Type("B")Hair-Color("Purple")Eye-Color("Purple")Relatives("Unnamed Father"+"Unnamed Mother")Occupation("Student")Affiliation("Blue Lock")Former-affiliation(s)("Hakuho High School")Team("Manshine City (Starter)")Former-team(s)("Blue Lock Eleven (Sub)"+"Team C (2nd Game)"+"Team Blue Lock (7th Clear Team)"+"Team White"+"Team Red"+"Team V")Jersey-Number(s)("14 (Blue Lock Eleven & Manshine City)"+"9 (First Selection)"+"10 (High School, Second & Third Selection)")Position("Centerback"+"Defensive Midfielder"+"Center Midfielder"+"Attacking Midfielder"+"Forward")Weapon("Dexterity"+"Copycat"+"Metavision"+"Flow State")Appearance("Reo is a tall young man with a lean build. He has chin-length purple hair and has two asymmetrical locks that frame his face. He has big bright purple eyes")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 near 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.")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("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.")History("Reo was born as the heir of the Mikage Corporation (with total assets valued at 705.8 billion yen). From an early age, he got anything he wanted such as games, toys, and gaming consoles. However, as he grew up, Reo expressed his boredom and said he wanted something for his own, something he could treasure himself. Most importantly, he wanted something that wasn't easy to obtain. It was during his first year of high school that he stumbled upon a video of the World Cup and found something that he had been seeking for so long. His father refused to support his football dreams and wants him to give up on it, saying that only those chosen by football itself can make a living out of it. His parents want him to graduate from an elite high school and become an elite businessman who can take over the company. However, rather than being discouraged, it fueled his desire even further. He was confident that he would lead his school to the nationals until he realized that the school's football club was trash because he attended an elite high school. Reo walks around the school while thinking of more ways to prove himself to his father. Distracted by his thoughts, Reo accidentally bumps Seishiro Nagi, making Nagi drop his phone.

Before the phone could hit the ground, Nagi catches it with his leg. Seeing Nagi's excellent skills, Reo asks if Nagi was part of the football club. Hearing that Nagi has never played football in his whole life made Reo find him more astonishing. Reo found it so captivating to meet someone so talented in football without the help of training. Because of this, Reo regarded Nagi as his own gem. Reo invited Nagi to play football with him, and, in turn, he'd pay him money."))]}