Ikki Niko

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“	Using my eyes, I realized something with that play just now.... how fun it is to play defense and crush the forwards.	”
	— Niko to Isagi

Ikki Niko
Japanese	二子 一揮
Rōmaji	Niko Ikki
Biological Information
Gender	Male
Age	15 (Chapter 1-Chapter 100) 16 (Chapter 100-present)
Birthday	February 5
Height	173 cm (5'8")
Blood Type	O
Hair Color	Black
Eye Color	Teal
Relatives	Unnamed Father Unnamed Mother
Professional Information
Occupation	Student
Affiliation	Blue Lock
Blue Lock rank	11 14 63 255
Team	Ubers (Starter)
Former team(s)	Blue Lock Eleven (Starter) Team B (3rd Game) Team Blue Lock (5th Clear Team) Team Red Team Y
Jersey Number(s)	7 (First Selection) 63 (Second & Third Selection) 3 (Blue Lock Eleven) 25 (Ubers)
Position	Forward Center-Back Defensive Midfielder Offensive Midfielder
Weapon	Spatial Awareness Ball Stealing Metavision
Debut
Manga	Chapter 1
Anime	Episode 4
Portrayal
Japanese Voice	Natsuki Hanae
English Voice	David Matranga Landon McDonald (Episode 24)

Ikki Niko (二 (に) 子 (こ) 一 (い) 揮 (っき) , Niko Ikki^?) is a contender of Blue Lock.

When first arriving at Blue Lock, he was a member of Team Y during the First Selection, and he was determined on surviving Blue Lock with the skills he already had, but after losing to Yoichi Isagi in the First Selection, he decided to stop being afraid and change to get better so that he could survive Blue Lock.

He started as a center-back for the Blue Lock Eleven against the Japan U-20 and is currently a defensive midfielder for the Ubers during the Neo-Egoist League.

Quick Answers

What position does Ikki Niko play in the Blue Lock Eleven team?

Ikki Niko, a contender in Blue Lock and initially part of Team Y, holds multiple positions in the Blue Lock Eleven team. These include roles as a Forward, Center-Back, Defensive Midfielder, and Offensive Midfielder. Niko's key skills are Spatial Awareness and Ball Stealing. During the match against Japan U-20, he dons the official Blue Lock player uniform, bearing the number 3.

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How did Ikki Niko's attitude towards Blue Lock change after losing to Yoichi Isagi?

Ikki Niko's perspective on Blue Lock evolved after his defeat by Yoichi Isagi. Observing Isagi's scoring strategy, Niko adapted his gameplay, focusing on personal goal-setting. Niko credited his continued presence in Blue Lock to Isagi's goal, vowing not to lose in their next encounter. This experience spurred Niko to further his development within Blue Lock.

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What team was Ikki Niko a part of during the First Selection at Blue Lock?

Ikki Niko was part of Team Y in the First Selection at Blue Lock. The team was recognized for its coordination and adherence to Niko's leadership. Although Team Y was eliminated at the end of the First Selection, Niko was not.

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What led Ikki Niko to decide to change and improve his skills in Blue Lock?

Ikki Niko, a contender in Blue Lock, chose to enhance his skills after acknowledging his limitations and unique strengths. He recognized his accuracy, despite not being the fastest or most muscular. He couldn't surpass Okawa in shooting, prompting him to rethink his strategy. Niko was also influenced by Isagi's self-confidence and instinctive play, becoming Team Y's secret leader and maintaining their stability. He decided to stop limiting himself and passing to others, adopting a more active role.

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Who was the player that defeated Ikki Niko in the First Selection at Blue Lock?

Ikki Niko was defeated by Yoichi Isagi during the First Selection at Blue Lock. Post-match, Niko recognized his survival in Blue Lock was due to Isagi's goal and issued a challenge for their next encounter.

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Appearance

Niko has a lean body with short, slightly spiky black hair that covers both his eyes. Niko is of average build and size, so he does not appear to be a strong player. His hair covers his eyes, but he is still able to see through them enough to play high-level football.

At Blue Lock, Niko wears the standard-issued body suit (black with gray stripes) and tracksuit. During the First Selection, he wore Team Y's red with vertical black stripes and #7 jersey, and during Second Selection, wore Team Red's #63 jersey. During the Third Selection, he wore Team B's white #63 jersey. During the match against the Japan U-20, Niko dons an official Blue Lock player uniform with the #3.

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Blue Lock Tracksuit (Manga)

Team Y Uniform (Anime)

Blue Lock Eleven Uniform (Manga)

Blue Lock player icon

Team B Uniform

Blue Lock Eleven Uniform (Anime)

Personality

Off the field, Niko is very reserved due to his introverted nature and otaku upbringing. He seldom talks to others, preferring to stay within his own bubble, and tends to do things by himself. When he does talk, however, he speaks with relative respect to others and handles himself accordingly.

When in a match, although he talks to his teammates and peers with respect, he is quite snarky to his opponents, usually tossing out various subtly mean-spirited or sarcastic comments when faced up against someone. He's incredibly confident in his brain and ability to read the field, pointing out that him and Isagi were the same upon their first match, and even going further and saying that he was superior to Isagi in that same sense.

However, Niko has also shown that he is willing to adapt his mindset and playing style if it means evolving further. After losing to Isagi, he began focusing on his own goals and staying in the spotlight. During the U-20 match, he also grew to enjoy playing as a defender, where he used his eyes to crush the forwards on the U-20 team. This demonstrates Niko's willingness to change both his style and his role for the sake of his ego, without issue.

Abilities

Archetypes

• Forwards: also known as strikers, have the main objective of scoring goals. They are often the players who get the most attention since their role is designed to be in a scoring position. They also take part in penalty kicks and corner kicks when the opposing team kicks the ball out of bounds. They are normally the players in charge of starting off the game at the start and halftime.

• Ball-winning Center-Back: A ball-winning defender typically relies on their intelligence as opposed to their brawn. Where a stopper seeks to become involved in duels, a ball-winning defender will attempt to eliminate the need for such situations by stopping the ball at the source. That means reading the game well to make interceptions.
  
  A true young prodigy in the making, Niko's vision and ability to read the entire state of the field make him a formidable defender and midfielder. He can take in most parameters of the field, as well as factors like the style of pass and off-the-ball movements of other players, to determine where the greatest danger is and exterminate it. Niko, as one of the most intelligent players in Blue Lock, has a spatial awareness that can rival Isagi's and can keep up with the combined forces of Sae and Shido, even at the cost of an injury. In the Neo-Egoist League, his abilities have been honed even further, being able to intercept and steal the ball from Isagi and other high-level players on multiple occasions.

Skills

• Spatial Awareness: Niko analyzes the entire field, taking account of both his allies and opponent's weapons, positions, and actions to be able to determine the next play and respond accordingly. Niko's ability to read rivals can even surpass Isagi's, who is himself one of the most tactically aware players in Blue Lock. Isagi himself has been impressed with the sheer scope of Niko's vision and ability to read the state of play. With his tactical ability, Niko organized Team Y's defensive playstyle, as well as their offensive strategy, acting as the core of the team, breaking up the opponent's attacks, and initiating his own teams attacks. Niko has also demonstrated that he can read the way a pass was made and its flight path to determine the best way to intercept it.

• Watchtower Soccer: By focusing his vision not on the player who has the ball but rather on the players around them, Niko is able to act as a watchtower in the defensive line, determining the most dangerous threat to his team's goal and the likely path they will take. After determining what path they will take, he can move in to exterminate the threat. With this style of defending, Niko has managed to overcome Sae's assault, intercepting his pass twice (first to Shuto Sendo and second to Shido), something nobody else but Rin Itoshi has been able to do.

• 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, Niko constantly collects data on every player, every play they make, and their positions on the field. During the Neo-Egoist League match against Bastard München, Niko was able to awaken this ability, allowing him to scan the field at an alarmingly fast rate. However, his Metavision is still under development compared to others, because he isn't including the head rotation or peripheral input that normal meta vision users have to do. The result of this was that when he was so focused on stealing the ball from Rensuke Kunigami, he failed to notice that Jingo Raichi had sneaked up on him from his blind spot.

Manga Appearances

World's Best Arc
87. Luck
88. World All-Stars
89. Demon
90. Third Selection
91. Divine Speed
92. The Closest

U-20 Arc
109. Battle Group
110. Newcomer
111. FLOW
112. Grand Stage	Appears
113. Cops and Robbers	Appears
114. Quartet
115. Sae Itoshi	Appears
116. Revenger	Appears
117. Nice to Meet You
118. Warped
119. Third Arrow	Appears
120. Blue Genes
121. 1st HALF
122. Headliner
123. World's Best	Appears
124. Night Snow
125. Ruin
126. 2nd HALF	Appears
127. Dragon Drive	Appears
128. Dramatic Exchange	Appears
129. Cool Head and Chameleon
130. The World Doesn't Know Me Yet
131. What You Taught Us	Appears
132. Dictator
133. Extreme Focus
134. Flowers
135. Shachihoko
136. Culmination
137. Last Step
138. One Mind in Two Bodies
139. Synchronize
140. Essence
141. Monster Trance
142. World Standard
143. Not Alone
144. Disposition
145. Born Slippy
146. Final Match-up
147. Last Attack
148. Declaration
149. Complete	Appears
150. Holiday
151. Changing World

Anime Appearances

Season 1
1. Dream	Absent
2. Monster	Absent
3. Soccer's "Zero"	Absent
4. Premonition and Intuition	Debut
5. To Be Reborn	Appears
6. I'm Sorry	Absent
7. Rush	Absent
8. The Formula for Goals	Absent
9. Awakening	Absent
10. Just the Way It Is	Absent
11. The Final Piece	Appears
12. The Second Selection	Absent
13. TOP3	Absent
14. The Geniuses and the Average Joes	Absent
15. Devour	Absent
16. Tri-Fusion	Absent
17. Donkey	Absent
18. The Stage for the Lead	Absent
19. Dancing Boy	Absent
20. Super Link-Up Play	Absent
21. I'm Not There	Appears
22. Voice	Absent
23. Luck	Absent
24. The Time Has Come	Appears

Season 2
25. Tryouts	Appears
26. The Assassin and the Ninja	Appears
27. The World of Feeling	Absent
28. Chameleon	Absent
29. Flow	Appears
30. Grand Stage	Appears
31. Sae Itoshi	Appears
32. Blue Genes	Appears
33. Night Snow	Appears
34. Dramatic Exchange	Appears
35. What You Taught Us	Appears
36. Flowers	Absent
37. You're Not Alone	Absent
38. Last Attack	Appears

Etymology

• His given name, Ikki (一 (い) 揮 (っき) , Ikki^?), means "a wave."

• His surname, Niko (二 (に) 子 (こ) , Niko^?), means "twins."
  • Phonetically, it can refer to Ni (二 (に) , Ni^?) and Ko (五 (こ) , Ko^?), meaning "two" and "five," respectively, referring to his birthday, February 5^th.

• His name can thus be interpreted as "the wave twins."

Quotes

• (To Isagi) "You and I have the very same eyes; you cannot win against me."

• (To Isagi) "Your eyes and brains really are amazing, and mine are the same as yours."

• (To Shido) "Oh, sorry I stepped on you. I mistook you for a bug."

• (To Ness) "You're the chitty one. Are you really looking?"

Trivia

• The majority of this information is from the official Egoist Bible.
  • He doesn't like washing his forehead in front of people.
  • His hometown is Nagano prefecture, Karuizawa.
  • His favorite animal is ferret.
  • The team he played for (before Blue Lock) is Wasurenagusa Gakuen Soccer Club.
  • He was bullied for his bangs when he was younger; people told him his eyes were intense and scary when he passionately talked about his interests. In his light novel (1^st and 2^nd year of junior high), his bully ripped up his Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, and Niko challenged him to a soccer match, in which Niko beat him 13-0. Prior to this, Niko had no experience with soccer.
  • His dominant foot is his right foot.
  • His 50-meter dash personal record is 5.91 seconds.
  • His favorite soccer player is Luka Modrić.
  • His motto is "Eyes are the representation of a person" (which is why he covers his own).
  • His strength is his cautiousness. His weakness is his cowardice.
  • His favorite food is Kappa Ebisen. His least favorite food is grapefruit.
  • His favorite companion with rice is Korean seaweed.
  • His hobby is watching anime.
  • His favorite season is spring.
  • His favorite football team is Independiente.
  • Unlike the 300 other boys who joined the Blue Lock program (who were initially all strikers), Niko was a midfielder before he was invited to Blue Lock.
  • His favorite TV show is the drama Chernobyl.
  • His favorite music is Only My Railgun.
  • His favorite movie is the entire Puella Magi Madoka Magica series.
  • His favorite manga is Banana Fish.
  • His favorite color is sky gray.
  • His favorite subjects are Music and Science. His least favorite subject is PE.
  • He has an eye fetish.
  • Something that makes him happy is to surrender in a Yu-Gi-Oh! match (when someone gives up). Something that makes him sad is being looked at on the forehead (his eyes and forehead are his delicate zones).
  • His favorite type is someone who he can be with like a friend. Prefers staying indoors. If possible, like anime.
  • He sleeps for 7 hours.
  • In the bathroom, he starts by washing his forehead and finishes with his forehead again.
  • He recently cried when he lost to Isagi-kun.
  • He still receives presents from Santa. He's not sure whether it's bad or not. To the question, "What present did you ask Santa for?" he answered, "Probably a PS5".
  • If it were his last day on Earth, he'd become bald and feel refreshed.
  • On his day off, he is binge-watching anime.
  • If he had 100 million yen, he'd buy the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" 20^th Anniversary Gold Edition Yu-Gi-Oh! Card.

• He is often associated with the number 25.
  • His surname can refer to the number 25 [Ni (二, Ni^?) means two and Ko (五, Ko^?) means five].
  • His birthday is on February 5^th (02/05).
  • His Ubers jersey number is 25.
  • He is on the cover of the 25^th volume of Blue Lock. His jersey number also appears to be 25.

• Niko (Episode 24) shared his English voice actor with Seishiro Nagi (Episode 11).

• Niko ranked 19^th in the first popularity poll with 96 votes.