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Male

17

August 12

185 cm

B

Purple

Purple

Student

Blue lock

Hakuho High School

Manshine City (Starter)[9] Japan U-20[10]

Center-back Defensive Midfielder Center Midfielder Attacking Midfielder Forward

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Reo Mikage (御影みかげ 玲王れお, 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.

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.

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

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.Reo is very serious about his football career, as he uses all the resources available to study and become as refined at football as possible. He is careful and observant, analyzing every player's strengths and weaknesses and showing a very wide and tactical mind.

The Blue Lock Project (青い監獄ブルーロックプロジェクト, Burū Rokku Purojekuto?), or Player Improvement Project, is a special soccer project created by Jinpachi Ego and funded by the Japan Football Union with the intention of developing not only the best striker in the world, but a solitary hero for Japan that would lead the nation into finally winning the World Cup using Ego's extreme training regimens and coaching. Additionally, anyone who loses at Blue Lock would forever lose the right to play for Japan.

Reo was committed to his dream of winning the World Cup, but after getting the soccer club’s team together and preparing everything, he realized he was missing something- another him. More accurately, he was missing the soccer genius necessary to make the team work. Reo realized that while he couldn’t win on his own with the team he had, with just two- or even one- other person who could match him on the field, his dream would get even closer to being a reality.

The two of them met in high school when Reo accidentally bumped into Nagi who was sitting on the stairs playing a game on his phone. Reo was searching for his soccer genius while Nagi wanted to just play games on his break. Nagi's phone slipped out of his hands and Reo was immediately taken aback when Nagi saved his phone by jumping off the stairs without stumbling and resumed playing his game. When Reo found out that Nagi has never played football, he was surprised and wanted to encourage him to play with him, and that they even might become pros. He has realized that the man in front of him was the one he needed, the chosen one. However, Nagi was reluctant to play and put effort in practicing, wanting to live a lazy and carefree life. This only made Reo want him even more (parallel to his desire to want something he cannot easily obtain). Reo knew he had natural talent, being the first in Nagi’s life to realize his well of potential, and tried to convince him to play with him on the team. Nagi eventually gave in and they eventually ended up playing together.They first began playing together in the Hakuho High School soccer club, their first match being against Aomori Dadada High School. This team was known for regularly competing in nationals. The practice match was set up by Reo’s father, which only fueled his desire to win. He asked Nagi to lend him his talent, and Nagi doesn’t give a clear answer but they do play together in the match.

There Reo demonstrates his genius plays and ability, passing the ball to Nagi. Prior to the match, Reo made one rule- be where you can score. Nagi finds this to be a self-centered strategy but Reo disregards this. In the match, Nagi runs towards the goal and Reo passes to him, but the opponent’s team captain puts him in a bad position. However, Nagi questions what the problem was with this position and does a scorpion trap into a roulette volley. This match is what eventually leads to their invitation to Blue Lock. After this match, we’re told that their record remained perfect with no losses.Upon being in Blue Lock, Nagi is unmotivated whereas this is the perfect place for Reo. When all the other invitees run inside, Nagi and Reo are the only ones left standing outside the door. This is when Reo convinces him to give it a try, claiming he’ll show him a life more interesting than any snacks or video games. They both head inside the building, making a promise to stay together to achieve their dream. In the tag match. Nagi and Reo seem to be the only ones to realize what the goal of this test was. When they talk about how the room is the size of the penalty area and the time limit representing the time a striker is meant to have the ball, the opponents seem surprised at this revelation. During the match they were targeted by the Aomori Dadada Captain, and while they continuously dodged Zantetsu Tsurugi ended up taking the bal (under the impression it would win him the game). After Reo and Nagi laugh at this, Zantetsu sends a curve shot seemingly at Reo, though it ends up actually being targeted at Nagi. After being hit, Nagi calls it a drag but asks Reo if everyone was fair game to get. However, Nagi instead leaves the ball and sits down, saying that he’ll just stay “it” and get sent home.

Reo tells him to stop fucking around and takes the ball, becoming the new “it”. Nagi says that he knew Reo would do that. Reo quickly plans out a strategy, seemingly missing his shot at the opponents. However, it turns out that it was according to plan because it grouped everyone in a corner making it an easy shot. Reo shoots at them, hitting Zantetsu. Nagi says that it was expected of Reo to do that. However, Zantetsu quickly recovers and shoots the ball at the wall, which bounces off and heads right at Reo. Nagi intercepts this, saying that if Reo was gone, he’d be in trouble. He shoots the ball at a line of other players, and it ends up hitting the Aomori Dadada captain. Despite being saved, Reo jumps onto Nagi’s back and lectured him for purposely trying to lose. Nagi realizes that he had been caught and said that that was what he was trying to do. Reo thanks him, but Nagi asks for what, so he just says never-mind.Throughout the first selection, Nagi remains unmotivated but continues on due to Reo. In the first match against Team Y, while Reo continually scores goals, Nagi hangs back as goalkeeper and does not try. This leads to Reo worrying that if Nagi doesn’t show his worth, he will be dropped. To convince him to work hard, Reo says that if he scores 3 goals he’ll be able to get his phone back and slack off. This motivates Nagi enough to score some goals. Reo describes the strategy as him turning the “0” into “1”, while Nagi turns that “1” into “100”. The first goal Nagu scores (trapping the ball on his chest then going for a bicycle shot) results in Reo calling him an ultra genius. After, he then scores 2 more goals, the match ending in 8 to 0, a win for Team V.