Reo Mikage

"I want to have the power to become the best in the world on my own."
Reo

Reo Mikage is a candidate for Project Blue Lock, who played as a central midfielder for Manshine City in England during the Neo Egoist League.

Before joining Blue Lock, he was a student at an elite school, where he met his first long-time friend, Seishiro Nagi, who started playing soccer shortly after him due to Nagi's natural talent for the sport and Reo's desire to go further in soccer.

When he arrived at Blue Lock, Reo was a member of Team V and arguably the second-best player in his category. He played as a defender for Blue Lock Eleven against the Japan U-20 National Team. After the end of the 5th round of the Neo Egoist League, and being ranked 7th, Reo qualified to join the new Japan U-20 National Team, with 23 players. Currently, he plays as a right midfielder for the Japan U-20 National Team.

Appearance
Reo is a tall, lean, well-built young man. He has chin-length purple hair, tied back at the nape of his neck, with two asymmetrical strands framing his face. He has large, bright purple eyes with a black ring around them, and purple eyebrows.

At Blue Lock, Reo wears the standard jumpsuit (black with blue stripes) and tracksuit. During the First Selection, he wore the blue number 9 jersey of Team V and the gray-toed Team V cleats. During the Second Selection, he wore the number 10 jersey of Team Red, which was later changed to white. During the Third Selection, he wore the white and blue number 10 jersey of Team C. During the match against Japan U-20, Reo wears the official Blue Lock player uniform, in blue, with the number 14.

When Reo was in high school, he wore the short male uniform; he wore a white dress shirt with a black and white checkered pattern, his purple school bag with a Nagi keychain, white dress shoes, and matching white dress pants.

Personality
Reo is very charismatic, friendly, insightful, and ambitious. He is quite extroverted and was very popular in high school, to the point of having dozens of admirers. Being multi-talented, he excels in studies, sports, and interpersonal skills. Thanks to his excellent background as the heir to a multi-billion dollar company, Reo also demonstrates business skills that he uses for his own purposes. For example, he assembled his own soccer team at school in a matter of days, promising that they could meet handsome idols, or he started a food exchange market in the Blue Lock cafeteria to increase the unity of his teammates and gain their trust. Intelligence is a very notable characteristic, as he was not only the best student in his class, but also took on the role of strategist for Team V and was able to improvise new plans on the spot when facing stronger opponents. Reo can be a bit egocentric, as he tends to put his own goals above everything else, which resulted in him persuading Nagi, who initially had no interest in soccer, to play with him.

Although he welcomes new challenges and experiences, he becomes deeply upset when things don't go as planned, perhaps due to his privileged upbringing. Generally, he seems to feel all emotions intensely and is fully aware of his own flaws and limitations, which is evident in several moments of emotional crisis shown in the spin-off manga. Due to his high emotionality, he can even become violent when he loses his temper, as seen when he elbows Jingo Raichi after some provocation. Overall, Reo is a friendly and intelligent young man who knows what he wants from life and will pursue it until he feels satisfied.

Despite having a very privileged life, he found everything boring because of how easily he could get everything he wanted.

So, he decided to follow a path where he would have to fight for what he wanted and prove his worth. He found satisfaction in playing football to win the coveted World Cup and would do anything to win, such as paying and taking care of a football prodigy like Nagi so that he could progress even further in the sport.

At the end of the First Selection, Reo was confident his team would win another match, but when Team Z began to dominate and score points against Team V, Reo became overly aggressive and frustrated with a situation he didn't understand, to the point of committing a foul. Reo was visibly speechless when Team Z ended up winning the match and when Nagi decided to join Isagi's White Team at the start of the Second Selection. He stubbornly refused to accept that the prodigy, Nagi, his best friend for months and someone Reo considered "his treasure," would choose to play with someone else instead of him. He spent the second half of the Second Selection focused on "winning back" Nagi, only to lose the match deciding who would choose a player from the other team, almost losing Nagi as a friend. After surviving the hardships of the Second Selection, Reo abandons his stubbornness and acknowledges his weakness, vowing to become stronger to stay close to the people who are important to him and move towards his goal of winning the World Cup.
After finally breaking free from his possessive attachment to Nagi and realizing what he needed to do to be strong and stand by his friend, Reo vowed to become the best striker in the world, capable of dominating the field without needing anyone's help, alongside the best players of Blue Lock.

Reo takes his football career very seriously, using all available resources to study and improve himself as much as possible. He is cautious and observant, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of each player, and demonstrating a broad and tactical mind.