Reiji Hiiragi

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Reiji Hiiragi
Japanese	柊 零次
Rōmaji	Hiiragi Reiji
Biological Information
Gender	Male
Age	18
Birthday	July 10
Height	184 cm (6')
Blood Type	B
Hair Color	Black
Eye Color	White
Professional Information
Occupation	Student
Affiliation	Side-B
Former affiliation(s)	Blue Lock
Blue Lock rank	29 28 26 22
Former team(s)	Manshine City (Starter) Blue Lock Eleven (Reserve) Team B (4th Game) Team Blue Lock (4th Clear Team) Team White
Jersey Number(s)	17 (Manshine City) 18 (Blue Lock Eleven) 22 (Second and Third Selection)
Position	Forward
Weapon	Trapping Predictions
Debut
Manga	Chapter 93
Anime	Episode 24

Reiji Hiiragi (柊 (ひいらぎ) 零 (れい) 次 (じ) , Hiiragi Reiji^?) is a former contender of the Blue Lock Project, who was a member of England's Manshine City during the Neo Egoist League.

Having taken 29th place at the end of the 5th round of the Neo Egoist League, he was excluded from the project. However, he later returned to participate in Side-B, along with other eliminated participants of the original Blue Lock Project.

Quick Answers

What is the significance of Reiji Hiiragi's jersey number in the Blue Lock Project?

In the Blue Lock Project, Reiji Hiiragi is assigned the jersey number 22 during the Second and Third Selection. His position on the field is a forward, and he excels in TrappingPredictions. Hiiragi is presently part of England's Manshine City team in the Neo Egoist League.

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How does Reiji Hiiragi's interest in fortune telling influence his character in Blue Lock?

Reiji Hiiragi, a participant in the Blue Lock Project, leverages his fortune telling interest as a strategic asset in his forward position. His predictive ability, termed his 'weapon', allows him to foresee game dynamics and make impactful decisions. This skill also shapes his interactions, notably his astonishment at Isagi's strategic skill during the Japanese Representative Match.

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What role does Reiji Hiiragi play in England's Manshine City during the Neo Egoist League?

Reiji Hiiragi, a contender in the Blue Lock Project, is part of England's Manshine City team in the Neo Egoist League. Here, global club owners and sponsors assess players' values, and they vie for prominence. Hiiragi, identifiable by his long white hair, is a key player in this competition.

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Appearance

Hiiragi is a tall young man with long black hair tied into a bun and all-white iris with twin moles below each eye.

During the Second and Third Selections, he wore the #22 on his jersey.

Blue Lock player icon

Team White

Blue Lock Eleven uniform

Personality

Hiiragi is an open person who is very into fortunetelling since, as soon as he meets with Nagi, Chigiri and Baro, he proposes to tell them their fortune via tarot cards with an application on his phone. He gets excited when his predictions turn out to be true, seems to be quite confident in his skills in both fortunetelling and soccer, and often likes to taunt and boast about both to his opponents. He is very logical and analytical, heavily relying on statistics and rationality to read and outplay his opponents.

Hiiragi tends to get very frustrated when things don't go the way his data predicted they would and can easily get ticked off when someone calls him names.

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.

• Tactical Director: Tactical directors are people who use carefully planned strategies in order to achieve a specific end. They deeply analyze industry trends and market forces, trying to anticipate the moves of their competitors. They try to beat them to the punch before they even know they are in a fight. They are usually the figurehead in the majority of the plays; whether they are the leading actor or not, their ideas usually inspire their plans.
  
  Hiiragi is able to use his existing data on other players to create a goal scoring formula based around his data gathered on their previous gameplay. Nagi has described his playstyle as a hybrid between his and Yoichi Isagi's. The biggest flaw in his playing style is that the information Hiiragi strictly follows can be outdated mid-match, as pointed out by Nagi.

Skills

• Big Data Soccer: Hiiragi's obsession with fortune telling allows for him to fixate on causation and playmaking. Using his analysis of players personalities, thoughts, and movement pattern data, he's able to predict how they will act during a game. This allows him to create a formula designed to crush them in individual situations as well as group situations. An example of this is when Hiiragi could easily predict the plays of both Nagi and Baro simply by understanding their playstyle and personalities, allowing him to easily get past both players. However, the weakness of this whenever 'change' occurs between his opponents, such as Barou wiling to pass to his teammates. As Hiiragi can't predict their play and would insist keeping using the old play.

• Trapping: While his trapping in some situations can rival even Nagi's, Hiiragi's trapping is more used when he's in motion rather than being stationary. This weapon was put on full display when he was able to perform a running trap without losing speed against Nagi, as well as perform a trap while rotating to score a goal.

Manga Appearances

U-20 Arc
109. Battle Group	Appears
110. Newcomer	Appears
111. FLOW	Appears
112. Grand Stage
113. Cops and Robbers
114. Quartet
115. Sae Itoshi
116. Revenger
117. Nice to Meet You
118. Warped
119. Third Arrow
120. Blue Genes
121. 1st HALF
122. Headliner
123. World's Best
124. Night Snow
125. Ruin
126. 2nd HALF
127. Dragon Drive
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

U-20 World Cup Arc
303. Blue Lock Japan
304. Benefactor of my Dream
305. ✖ 23
306. Hello
307. Bunny
308. Pride Chicken
309. Reunion
310. Give It Up
311. Side-B
312. U-20 World Cup
313. Opening Warriors
314. Core
315. What the Hell?!
316. I'm Here
317. I've Got This on Lock
318. I Want to Win
319. The Fanaticism Formula
320. Hero or Death
321. Insatiable
322. Myself
323. Shining Hope
324. Afterglow
325. The Student Becomes the Master
326. Cola
327. Birdcage	Appears
328. God
329. Don't Run Away
330. Favorite to Win
331. Logic

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	Absent
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	Absent
28. Chameleon	Absent
29. Flow	Appears
30. Grand Stage	Appears
31. Sae Itoshi	Appears
32. Blue Genes	Appears
33. Night Snow	Absent
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, Reiji (零 (れい) 次 (じ) , Reiji^?), means "a zero sequence".

• His surname, Hiiragi (柊 (ひいらぎ) , Hiiragi^?), means "holly olive", a flowering plant native to southern Japan.

• His name can thus be interpreted as "a zero-sequential holly olive".

Quotes

• (To Nagi) "You are... The Death itself".

Trivia

• The majority of this information is from the official Egoist Bible.
  • His hometown is in Gunma Prefecture.
  • His shoe size is 28 cm.
  • His vision is 1.5.
  • He previously played for Hoshizuku High School Soccer Club.
  • His dominant foot is his right.
  • His favorite soccer player is Alvaro Morata.
  • He started playing soccer at the age of eight because the lucky item in his fortune that day was a soccer ball.
  • His motto is "Big data doesn't lie".
  • He thinks his strengths are being able to calmly analyse people and make accurate judgements. He thinks his weakness is not being able to deal with people who aren't within his data.
  • His favorite food is Tempura donburi set with a small box of soba noodles, since he likes to eat two main dishes. His least favorite foods tofu which he thinks it flavourless.
  • His favorite toppings on rice is Tempura sauce.
  • His hobby is playing data analysis.
  • His favorite season is autumn.
  • His favorite TV programs are all dramas.
  • His type of music is healing music that carries energy of the universe across one's body.
  • His favorite movie is It.
  • His favorite manga is The Scum of Good and Evil.
  • His character color is Pastel Vermillion.
  • His favorite animal is the Whale.
  • His favorite subject is Modern Literature, Philosophy, & PE. He doesn't have any subjects he dislikes.
  • He has a fetish for physiognomy, where he likes to learn of his partner's personality, way of life, face condition.
  • What makes him happy is when he is considered big not only in body but also in heart. What makes him sad is when he is considered narrow-minded.
  • His ideal type is someone with looks, personality and specs that are compatible with his own data.
  • He gets happy when he is praised for his judgement and things outside his range of data make him sad.
  • He received 6 Valentine's chocolate last year.
  • He had his first love at ten years old, with a cute classmate who was badly compatible with him according to his fortune telling. He confessed but was rejected, and he thinks it's due to them not getting along.
  • He sleeps for 7 hours at night.
  • He cleanses his mind to look back on each day.
  • He buys fortune telling books first from a convenience store.
  • He prefers bamboo shoots over mushrooms.
  • The last time he cried was when he watched the drama, "Silent".
  • He stopped believing in Santa Claus at 12 years old.
  • He asked Santa Claus for a book on the Four Pillars of Destiny.
  • If it were the last day on Earth, he would think of the meaning of destiny and return it to the energy of the universe.
  • If he received 100 million yen, he would buy stocks that are strong for the long term.
  • If he didn't play soccer, he would have been an investor or doing fortune telling.
  • His favorite historical figure is Thomas Piketty.
  • If he could bring one thing to a deserted island, it would be a survival knife.
  • If he had a time machine, he would travel to the future to learn which companies get big, which countries have national power, what kind of people are supported.

• By the end of the Neo Egoist League, Hiiragi got a ¥11,000,000 offer from "Kawasaki Breakerz" (川崎ブレイカーズ, Kawasaki Bureikāzu^?) . Kawasaki Breakerz is based on Kawasaki Frontale.