Kenyu Yukimiya

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“	God only gives us trials that we can overcome.	”
	— Yukimiya to Bastard München

Kenyu Yukimiya
Japanese	雪宮 剣優
Rōmaji	Yukimiya Kenyū
Biological Information
Gender	Male
Age	18 (Chapter 1-Chapter 249) 19 (Chapter 249-present)
Birthday	April 28
Height	184 cm (6')
Blood Type	O
Hair Color	Brown
Eye Color	Orange
Relatives	Unnamed Mother Unnamed Father
Professional Information
Occupation	Student Model
Affiliation	Blue Lock
Blue Lock rank	14 9 5 23
Team	Bastard München (Sub)
Former team(s)	Blue Lock Eleven (Starter) Team C (Top 6) Team Blue Lock (3rd Clear Team) Team Red
Jersey Number(s)	23 (Second & Third Selection) 5 (Blue Lock Eleven) 15 (Bastard München) 9 (School)
Position	Offensive Midfielder Sideback Left Wing Forward
Weapon	Dribbling Speed Gyro Shot Sword Screw Flow State Predator Eye
Debut
Manga	Chapter 93
Anime	Episode 24
Portrayal
Japanese Voice	Takuya Eguchi
English Voice	Jim Foronda

Kenyu Yukimiya (雪 (ゆき) 宮 (みや) 剣 (けん) 優 (ゆう) , Yukimiya Kenyū^?) is a contender of the Blue Lock Project, who currently plays as a left offensive midfielder for Germany's Bastard München during the Neo-Egoist League.

Yukimiya, a stubborn and highly-driven forward who suffers from an eye condition known as optic neuropathy, is fighting with everything he has to become the best striker in the world before his time runs out. When first introduced, he was ranked #5 during the Third Selection and he later played as a left winger for the match between Blue Lock Eleven and the Japan U-20 team.

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What position does Kenyu Yukimiya play in the Blue Lock Project?

In the Blue Lock Project, Kenyu Yukimiya competes as a left-back for Germany's Bastard München in the Neo Egoist League. His gameplay is characterized by his forward position and the use of techniques like dribbling, the gyro shot, and the sword screw.

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Who does Kenyu Yukimiya play for in the Neo Egoist League?

In the Neo Egoist League, Kenyu Yukimiya serves as a forward. Despite battling optic neuropathy, he remains dedicated to becoming the world's top striker. He held the #5 rank during the Third Selection and played left wing in the match between Blue Lock Eleven and the Japan U-20 team.

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What is Kenyu Yukimiya's ultimate goal in his soccer career?

In his soccer career, Kenyu Yukimiya strives to master his distinct style, derived from street football, and achieve the perfect goal. He leverages his skills and his team's strengths to create goal-scoring opportunities. When faced with challenges, he resorts to the Flow State to guide him towards the next optimal goal.

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How does Kenyu Yukimiya's eye condition affect his performance on the field?

Kenyu Yukimiya, a self-proclaimed strongest player in Japan, manages his deteriorating vision by wearing specialized windproof glasses, or striker sunglasses, during games. These glasses likely safeguard his vision and could influence his on-field performance. He sported various jerseys during the Second and Third Selections, and donned the official Blue Lock uniform for the Japan National Representative Match.

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Appearance

Yukimiya is tall, with a slim and lightly toned build. He has orange eyes, and his hair is brown and stylized. When outside of a match, it is groomed and straight, whereas during a match, it is wilder and messier. He wears round spectacles in daily life but a pair of specialized windproof glasses when on the pitch to protect his deteriorating vision.

During Second Selection, he wore Team Red's #23 jersey, and during Third Selection, he wore Team C's #23 jersey. When the Japan National Representative Match begins, he dons the official Blue Lock uniform with jersey #5.

Volume 15 Cover

Team C uniform (Manga)

Blue Lock Eleven uniform

Blue Lock player icon

Team Red Uniform

Blue Lock Eleven Uniform (Anime)

Personality

Yukimiya is highly confident in his own abilities, declaring himself the strongest player in Japan when it comes to one-on-one battles. He is also a likable and charismatic personality, appearing to make friends easily, such as with Seishiro Nagi, Jyubei Aryu, and Tabito Karasu. In addition to this, Yukimiya likes to banter even with his opponents, indicating a playful element to his personality.

Yukimiya claims that he is a pacifist, which forms part of his ego, as he thinks the easiest and most peaceful way to score would be to do so himself. He is also highly inquisitive, often being the first to ask Jinpachi Ego questions about his selection criteria. At the same time, however, he is not afraid of confrontations, as seen when he questions Noel Noa, the current world No. 1, about his decision to sub in Yoichi Isagi instead of him during Bastard München vs. FC Barcha.

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.

• Mobile Striker: A striker that benefits from the space behind the opposing defensive line. Often reached with long balls from central defenders or defense splitting through balls from creative midfielders. The mobile striker is often a highly technical and dynamic player who distinguishes himself in one-on-one duels with a last-minute defender or goalkeeper. A mobile striker is often used to exploit the fast transition phases from defense to offense.
  
  Yukimiya's reputation as the "One-on-One Emperor" makes it impossible to defeat him in a situation where he is in possession of the ball. His street dribbling style revolves around him shifting his opponents center of gravity in order to allow him to drag the ball around them before rushing past them with the use of his incredible speed.

Skills

• 1-on-1 Emperor Style: Yukimiya's core style involves bringing a confrontation to the individual level, where he can use his rigid dribbling to get past his opponents in succession.
  He has shown that he can overcome Rin and then Shido whilst doing this, proclaiming that he is confident there is no one better than him in a 1-on-1 in Japan. Reo mentioned that Yukimiya was a hardcore infighter, with his physique being key to his dribbling ability. It is suggested that, at least within Blue Lock, there is no player he cannot dribble past. However, simply bringing the encounter back to a 2-on-1 can counter this style, as shown when Rin used Igarashi to overcome Yukimiya's dribbling.
  • Drag Scissors: Yukimiya performs a scissor feint to shift his opponent's center of gravity before using his explosive speed to break past them.
  • La Boba: A feint that uses the sole of the foot. He pulls the ball backwards before tapping it to the side and rushing in the same direction as the ball.

• Immense Speed: Yukimiya has immense speed, being able to get past the speedster defender Neru as well as beat him in the Bastard München obstacle course. Additionally, Yukimiya crossed from one side of the field to the other to defend against Chigiri, who can run 50 meters in 5.77 seconds, before he could reach his golden zone.

• Gyro Shot: A high shot with an incredible spin that at first looks like it will be a miss-kick, but it will then curve left or right to the goal at a very sudden moment.
  When using this shot in the Third Selection, it would have scored if not for Nagi trapping it and then scoring himself. Based on what Reo said, its range is at least 30 meters. What makes this shot different from the traditional curved shot is that the ball itself is actually rotating, as opposed to the ball's arc. Providing rotation to the ball itself does allow it to curve; however, the ball's curvature is very sudden and drastic, as opposed to something like Rin's Trivela Shot.

• Flow State: Flow, as Ego describes it, 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.
  Yukimiya entered the Flow state while resorting to his street dribbling during the U-20 match, enabling him to break through their defense and launch a gyro shot, quickly changing his aim at the last second. The other time was against Manshine City, where his Flow state allowed him to not only dribble through five professional club defenders but also awaken a new shooting technique.
  • Street Football Style: In contrast to his usual 1-on-1 style, when Yukimiya accesses the Flow state, he can dribble with more precise movements, cutting into the spaces between both friends and foe. Through focus and analysis, Yukimiya can determine the best route to take in order to penetrate the defense, yet still adapt his decision-making, running through people as if dodging obstacles in the street.
    • La Croqueta: A feint that knocks the ball one way with one foot, then the other way with the other. This can be used to feint going outside before cutting, or vice versa.
      Yukimiya can use this technique multiple times in succession while at full speed.
  • Sword Screw: Unlike Yukimiya's Gyro Shot, which has a horizontal rotation, this shot provides the ball with a vertical rotation that causes it to drop drastically towards the ground before shooting directly into the top corner of the goal after making contact. Chris Prince's knuckle shot inspired this shot.
• Predator Eye: Described as the complete opposite of Metavision, instead of expanding his vision, Yukimiya drastically narrows its range down, focusing solely on the goalkeeper, and waiting patiently for the opponent to drop his guard and score a goal. With this, he is able to shoot goals in tight spaces. Yukimiya managed to gain the predator eye during the final minutes in the match against PXG, only to be met with the misfortune of his shot being blocked by Charles Chevalier.

Manga Appearances

Third Selection Arc
93. Gathering	Debut
94. Time has Come	Appears
95. Tryouts	Appears
96. Chosen Path	Appears
97. Last Ticket
98. Villain
99. The Assassin and the Ninja
100. Optimal X Supreme - Worst
101. New Relation
102. The World of Feeling
103. Total Sensory Experience
104. Trance	Appears
105. 5 X 6	Appears
106. Chameleon	Appears
107. All Matches Over	Appears & Cover
108. Top 11	Appears

U-20 Arc
109. Battle Group	Appears
110. Newcomer
111. FLOW	Appears
112. Grand Stage	Appears
113. Cops and Robbers
114. Quartet	Appears
115. Sae Itoshi
116. Revenger	Appears
117. Nice to Meet You	Appears
118. Warped	Appears
119. Third Arrow
120. Blue Genes	Appears
121. 1st HALF	Appears
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	Appears
130. The World Doesn't Know Me Yet
131. What You Taught Us	Appears
132. Dictator	Appears
133. Extreme Focus	Appears
134. Flowers	Appears & Cover
135. Shachihoko	Appears
136. Culmination
137. Last Step
138. One Mind in Two Bodies	Appears
139. Synchronize	Appears
140. Essence	Appears
141. Monster Trance
142. World Standard	Appears
143. Not Alone	Appears
144. Disposition
145. Born Slippy
146. Final Match-up
147. Last Attack	Appears
148. Declaration	Appears
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	Absent
5. To Be Reborn	Absent
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	Screen
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	Absent
22. Voice	Absent
23. Luck	Absent
24. The Time Has Come	Debut

Season 2
25. Tryouts	Appears
26. The Assassin and the Ninja	Appears
27. The World of Feeling	Appears
28. Chameleon	Appears
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	Appears
37. You're Not Alone	Appears
38. Last Attack	Appears

Etymology

• His given name, Kenyu (剣 (けん) 優 (ゆう) , Kenyu^?), means "an excellent sword," "graceful sword," or "gentle sword."
  • Ken (剣 (けん) , Ken^?) means "a sword" or "blade," in particular, "long, double-bladed swords."
  • Yu (優 (ゆう) , Yu^?) contains a variety of meanings, such as "excellence," "gentleness," "cordiality," "elegance," and "skillfulness."
    • His given name should not be confused with Kenya, an East African country.

• His surname, Yukimiya (雪 (ゆき) 宮 (みや) , Yukimiya^?), means "a snow shrine."

• His name can thus be interpreted as "a gentle sword of the snow shrine."

Quotes

• (To Shido) "Football's most basic form is the 1-on-1. If I can drag the situation on, then I can say for certain that I'm the strongest in Japan."

• (To Reo) "Nah, no way. I'll be more peaceful If I just score by myself."

Trivia

• The majority of this information is from the official Egoist Bible.
  • Kenyu is not only a football player but also a model in his private life.
  • He was former teammates with Tabito Karasu (ranked 3^rd) and Eita Otoya (ranked 4^th) during the Second Selection.
  • His best time for a 50-meter race is 5.91 seconds.
  • His favorite animal is the penguin. He likes the contrast between their adorable waddling on land and their incredible speed in the water.
  • His favorite football player is Edgar Davids.
  • His strength, according to himself, is self-discipline and a world-class competitive mindset. His weaknesses, according to himself, are being his own worst enemy and a lack of interest in the lives of others.
  • His favorite song is "不死鳥" (Fushichou/Phoenix) by Sekai no Owari (the lyrics refer to God and discuss mortality and human limitations).
  • His favorite celebrity is Yō Yoshida ("Handsome women are somehow cool").
  • His favorite brand is Oakley, the brand of his goggles.
  • His favorite food is blueberries because they're good for the eyes. His least favorite food is garlic because he suspects that it turns his vision yellow.
  • His favorite food to have with rice is shirasu ("Pickled egg together with scallion-fried shirasu is terrific; would you like to try some yourself?").
  • If he'd been given 100 million yen, he wouldn't know what to do with it because he's not interested in money.
  • His favorite manga is Oyasumi Punpun (Good Night, Punpun) (a dark coming-of-age story with overt religious themes, written and illustrated by Inio Asano. The protagonist is often depicted as a bird in it).
  • His favorite movies are the Evangelion movies ("The old series. Asuka's death scene in The End of Evangelion (1997) is good.") (Yukimiya refers to the scene as "burial-by-bird").
  • He does not know the exact number of chocolates he got during Valentine's Day, but he ate a lot. The chocolates were sent to his agency (probably his modelling agency office).
  • Yukimiya was the first Blue Lock player to get into Flow State during the U-20 match.
  • He is from Miyazaki prefecture.
  • He seems to understand German since he was the only one who understood Noa's instructions in Chapter 156.
  • His motto is "to put forth every moment in that moment," otherwise interpreted as "to give one's all in every moment."
  • Yukimiya started playing soccer at the age of 7. It was his mother who introduced him to the sport.
  • He played for Soranin High School Soccer Club before entering Blue Lock.
  • His hobby is modeling.
  • He likes spring because of the ephemerality of cherry blossoms.
  • His favorite TV show is FOOT x Brain, a TV show about soccer.
  • His favorite subjects are Science, Japanese literature, and PE. His worst subject is Arts because it strains his eyes.
  • He likes ephemeral things such as sakura blossoms and sparkler fireworks (Senko Hanabi) (see also: Mono no Aware).
  • He feels happy when someone cheers for him warmly and sad when someone beats him in a 1-on-1 match.
  • His type is someone who laughs a lot and will always watch over him.
  • The first time he fell in love was with his friend's 16-year-old sister when he was 10. He also received a forehead kiss from her, which made him so embarrassed that he ran away.
  • On the question "Who is the best gentleman?" Yukimiya takes first place in the "Three Best" list.
  • Yukimiya sleeps for 8 hours a day.
  • On the last time he cried, "There's no way I would answer that, is there? It's too embarrassing."
  • If it were his last day on Earth, Yukimiya would tell his parents, "Thank you for giving birth to me."
  • He spends his day off reading and likes reading about the lives of important people.
  • At a minimarket, he would buy a hot eye mask because it warms his eyes.