Shoei Baro

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“	On the field, there is already one true king.	”
	— Baro to Isagi

Shoei Baro
Japanese	馬狼 照英
Rōmaji	Barō Shōei
Alias(es)	"King"
Biological Information
Gender	Male
Age	18
Birthday	June 27
Height	187 cm (6'2")
Blood Type	A
Hair Color	Dark Brown
Eye Color	Red (orangey)
Relatives	Unnamed Mother Unnamed Father Two unnamed younger sisters
Professional Information
Occupation	Student
Affiliation	Blue Lock
Former affiliation(s)	Akudo Academy
Blue Lock rank	2 3 1 5 18 250
Team	Ubers (Starter)
Former team(s)	Blue Lock Eleven (Sub) Team B (4th Game) Team Blue Lock (2nd Clear Team) Team White Team Red Team X
Jersey Number(s)	13 (Blue Lock Eleven & Ubers) 10 (School & First Selection) 18 (Second & Third Selection)
Position	Forward Right Wing
Weapon	Physique Charging Skill Middle Shot Chop Feints Predator Eye Flow State
Debut
Manga	Chapter 5
Anime	Episode 1
Portrayal
Japanese Voice	Junichi Suwabe Shizuka Ishigami (Young)
English Voice	Matthew David Rudd Kiba Walker (Young)

Shoei "King" Baro (馬狼 (ばろう) 照英 (しょうえい) , Barō Shōei^?) is a contender of Blue Lock, who currently plays as a striker for Italy's Ubers during the Neo Egoist League.

Baro is a very selfish and arrogant type of forward whose main goal is to be the star of the field at all times while he strives to become the world's best striker. When first arriving at Blue Lock, he was a member of Team X during First Selection and tied for top scorer in his designated stratum. After the Blue Lock Eleven played against the Japan U-20 team, Baro ranked as one of the top players in the project.

Quick Answers

What is Shoei Baro's main goal as a forward in the game?

Shoei Baro, a center forward for Italy's Ubers, aims to be the field's star and the world's best striker. He's a top scorer, with a record of 10 goals. Baro is willing to adopt a 'villain' role to maintain his prominence on the field. His scoring techniques include the Middle Shot Baro Shoei Technique and the Predator Eye Baro Shoei Cognitive.

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What team was Baro a member of during the First Selection at Blue Lock?

In the First Selection at Blue Lock, Shoei Baro represented Team X, donning their white #10 jersey and gray-capped cleats. His prowess was evident as he tied for the top scorer in his stratum.

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What is the significance of Baro's hair crown in Blue Lock?

Shoei Baro, a prominent figure in the Blue Lock Project, is recognized for his unique 'hair crown'. His hair, long and black, is typically styled spikily. When not styled, it cascades down to his neck. This distinctive hairstyle contributes to his character's visual identity in the series.

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How does Baro's height compare to other players in Blue Lock?

Shoei Baro, a forward in Blue Lock, is characterized as tall. His height, along with his robust physique, provides him an edge on the field. His physical attributes are notably recognized by fellow player, Isagi. Nonetheless, a specific comparison of Baro's height with other players is not detailed.

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What position does Baro play for Italy's Ubers during the Neo Egoist League?

Shoei Baro serves as a center forward for the Ubers, an Italian team in the Neo Egoist League. Known for his selfish and arrogant style, Baro aims to be the world's top striker. His exceptional skills and freedom to play as he wishes make him a formidable player. He is considered the best striker in Blue Lock and likely the entire Neo Egoist League.

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Appearance

Baro is a large young man with slim red eyes and long black hair that he wears up in a spiky style. When he lets it down, his hair is shoulder-length. Baro also has a muscular build due to his dedicated training regimen, which keeps up his physical fitness.

At Blue Lock, Baro wears the standard-issued body suit (black with gray stripes) and tracksuit. During the First Selection, he wore Team X's white #10 jersey and Team X's gray-capped cleats. During Second Selection, he wore Team Red's #18 jersey, which later switched to white when he joined Isagi's team.

During Third Selection, Baro wore Team B's white jersey and while on the bench for the Blue Lock Eleven, he wore his bodysuit and a long black trench jacket. Once subbed in for the second half for the Japan U-20 match, he dons the official Blue Lock #13 jersey.

In the Neo-Egoist League, Baro has added three red highlight streaks to his hair, and he wears the Ubers uniform as #13.

Volume Cover 7

Young Baro

Highschool uniform

Team X uniform

Ubers uniform

Blue Lock player Icon

Team B Uniform

Blue Lock Eleven Uniform

Personality

In accordance with his perception of himself as "the King," Baro has an imperious personality, seeing himself above others and maintaining an arrogant and selfish attitude. Initially, Baro perceived all others on the field as supporting roles, moving for the sake of his own goals, with himself being the main actor on the stage. He is obsessed with pursuing his own soccer but doesn't actually like it or have a passion for it. The need to face others who play soccer and to use his goals to drag them off the seat of the main actor and replace them motivates Baro. The pleasure obtained through this is something Baro believes is only for the strong. Baro is the kind of player who refuses to pass the ball, and whenever he loses possession, he endeavors to steal the ball back or steal a goal.

After his symbolic loss to Isagi, where he felt he lost his position as the main actor, Baro adopted a more villainous approach to his own philosophy. He is now willing to adopt a "villain" role if it means stealing back that position. Despite this new wicked take, Baro also matured after that match, being willing to admit when he was beaten and asking Isagi about the soccer he wants to play. Baro was visibly upset when he did not make the Blue Lock Eleven lineup, despite Isagi doing so, and has since been focused and biding his time to play. When Baro is finally subbed in to play the Japan U-20, he still has his overly critical and rude demeanor.

In keeping with his obsessive personality, Baro is a perfectionist when it comes to controlling his environment and routine. He keeps constant order in his surroundings, cleaning and organizing his living space within Blue Lock and getting angry at those who don't. This also extends to the bath area and controlling how people behave within it. Baro's obsession also extends to his training, where he is diligent and stoic. He always performs an extensive routine of physical fitness training to maintain his strength.

During the Neo Egoist League, Baro shows what's his ultimate ambition: to "conquer" the world, wanting to leave his mark on an entire generation of soccer as a king, and will crush anyone who dares to challenge him or his throne. However, he states that he will do it on his own, refusing to accept the help or any kind of philosophy of anyone, even from Marc Snuffy, who wants Baro to become his successor as the king of Ubers.

Abilities

Archetype

• Complete Forward: Complete forwards are strikers with great technical ability, clinical finishing, and physical strength, enabling them to fulfill multiple roles. They can link up with and play with others, fashion chances for themselves, finish off team moves, and hold up the ball. These players are often best given the freedom to play as they wish without rigid tactical instruction, as their versatility allows them to be fluid on the pitch.
  
  Baro's physique enables him to hold up the ball and physically contest other players; his charging ability allows him to dribble and create chances for himself; and his shooting and villainous style enable him to finish off team moves by devouring his teammates. Baro has one of the best physiques in Blue Lock, as well as having one of the best techniques at his age in Japan, as Anri Teieri stated. Often Baro is given the freedom to play and devour who he wishes on the field, as shown during the Second Selection, as well as by Ego telling Baro to disregard the team's plan and focus on devouring Isagi against the Japan U-20. Snuffy states that Baro's specs make him the best striker type player in Blue Lock and most likely in the whole Neo Egoist League.

Skills

• Charging Skill: Baro has the ability to create the space for his own shots by charging through an opponent's defense and into a range for his middle shot. He has multiple attributes and techniques that contribute to his overall charging ability. Baro was able to charge through two of the Iron Wall Quartet while holding them back to steal a goal.
  • Superior Physicality: Baro is one of the handful of forwards in Blue Lock who has a strong and muscular physique, and he uses this to his advantage when driving the ball down the field or marking players to defend. On top of that, his endurance is also particularly good, as seen in the Ubers vs. Bastard München match, where Baro, after he scored the second equalizer, charged everyone and went up and down on the field at an insane rate. Baro's physique, as Isagi notes, is incredible, and a diligent and extensive workout routine that Baro performs before practice maintains it. This enables him to leverage his physicality against opposing players to create the space he needs, even managing to charge through a pile-up of players with the ball at his feet.
  • Heel Flick: Baro overcomes the opponent's defense by flicking the ball up and over them and recovering the ball on its landing, demonstrating strong technical ability.
  • Nutmeg: Baro has demonstrated the ability to nutmeg at least two players in quick succession in order to get through their defense. Also during the Neo-Egoist League, he managed to score a goal by nutmegging Isagi, Kaiser, and Marc Snuffy.
• Middle Shot: Baro's main method of scoring is his powerful and accurate shot, from a position near the middle of the goal. Baro can target the top right corner with incredible reliability, being almost guaranteed to score within a specific area of the goal (29 meters, near the middle). When outside of this specific area, however, Baro's accuracy can decrease sharply. He has performed this shot directly from kick-off, although it was saved. He has also shown that he can change the aim of the shot to the top left corner, but this again suffers from a decrease in accuracy. And finally, he performed this shot when he was too far to the side of his range, and it hit the post. During the Neo-Egoist League, it is shown that Baro has not only increased the range of his shot but is now able to curve it more.
  • Stealth Kill Shot: While training with Ubers during the Neo Egoist League, Marc Snuffy points out to Baro that while his middle shot is powerful and accurate, if a goalie can see it coming, then it will be hard for Baro to make the shot regardless of how talented he is. To improve, Baro trained his ability to shoot the ball in a crowded space, using his team as a wall to cloud the goalie's view. Waiting for the moment where the goalie is most confused, he is able to take a powerful and accurate curved shot that is so fast and close it is impossible to react to even if the goalie does see it. Baro used this to score Uber's first goal against Bastard München.

• 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.

• Villainous Soccer: A selfish and unpredictable playing style that involves Baro "devouring" his own teammates for the sake of his own goal.
  On the field, Baro will look to see where he can steal the ball from his teammates to capitalize on their positioning and devour them. He can also take this a step further by observing the way his team evolves their plays and interrupting that process, which he did to score a goal in the U-20 match. Baro developed this playing style when he was forced to go to a new level at the prospect of Isagi stealing his spotlight. This style makes Baro a complete irregularity on the field, making it impossible for even Rin to predict his movements. In fact, the more knowledgeable the opponent is about football, the more likely this ability overcomes them, as it circumvents all conventional wisdom of the sport.
  • Chop Feint: A feint wherein a player uses their off foot to shield the ball whilst knocking the ball in the other direction with their other foot, effectively misdirecting the opposing player.
    Baro frequently uses this skill to supplement his charging ability, enabling him to keep his opponent's guessing as to which direction he is going to dribble.
  • Lightning Dribble: By making use of chop feints, continuous rebounds, and angled dribbles, Baro is able to perform a mazy dribble that is incredibly difficult to stop. Baro has also demonstrated the ability to use other players as screens to get past opponents, a testament to the "villainous" football he adopted.
  • Sliding Shot: By maneuvering into a position where he can intercept a pass, Baro uses his physical strength to exploit the pass and perform a shot at the same time, supporting himself on one knee. He was able to score while holding off both Miroku Darai and Kazuma Nio.
• Predator Eye: Described as the complete opposite of Metavision, instead of expanding his vision, Baro drastically narrows it down, focuses solely on the goalkeeper, and waits patiently for the opponent to drop his guard and score a goal.

Manga Appearances

Second Selection Arc
39. Hungry	Appears
40. Second Selection
41. BLUE LOCK MAN
42. About-Face
43. Three-Man Teams
44. Rivalry Battle
45. Battle to the Death
46. TOP 3
47. Chemical Reaction
48. The Beauty of the Parabola
49. After the Parting	Appears
50. Match Confirmed	Appears
51. Creator	Appears
52. Talent and Mediocrity	Appears
53. Blind Spot	Appears
54. Devour	Appears
55. A Dream that Won't Come True	Appears
56. Proof I've Wagered My Life	Appears
57. Chance Encounter	Appears
58. The Battle Begins	Appears & Cover
59. Triple Combo	Appears
60. Field Vision	Appears
61. Leverage	Appears
62. Loser	Appears
63. Buried Ego	Appears
64. The Lead Actor's Stage	Appears
65. Trick of Fate	Appears
66. Loser's Crossroads	Appears
67. Power of Despair	Appears
68. Promise	Appears
69. Chaos	Appears
70. Dancing Boy
71. Friends
72. MATCH UP!!	Appears
73. Ultra-Coordination	Appears
74. Monster	Appears
75. Wild Dance	Appears
76. Can't Go Back	Appears
77. All-Out	Appears
78. Irregular	Appears
79. I'm Not There	Appears
80. Unlimited	Appears
81. Last Action	Appears
82. I Don't Need You	Appears
83. Voice	Appears
84. Initial Impulse	Appears
85. Eight Seconds Ago	Appears
86. Pride	Appears

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

Third Selection Arc
93. Gathering	Appears
94. Time has Come	Appears & Cover
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
105. 5 X 6
106. Chameleon
107. All Matches Over
108. Top 11

U-20 Arc
109. Battle Group	Appears
110. Newcomer	Appears
111. FLOW	Appears
112. Grand Stage	Mentioned
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	Appears
124. Night Snow
125. Ruin
126. 2nd HALF
127. Dragon Drive
128. Dramatic Exchange
129. Cool Head and Chameleon
130. The World Doesn't Know Me Yet
131. What You Taught Us
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
150. Holiday
151. Changing World

Anime Appearances

Season 1
1. Dream	Debut
2. Monster	Appears
3. Soccer's "Zero"	Appears
4. Premonition and Intuition	Absent
5. To Be Reborn	Absent
6. I'm Sorry	Absent
7. Rush	Absent
8. The Formula for Goals	Appears
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	Appears
15. Devour	Appears
16. Tri-Fusion	Appears
17. Donkey	Appears
18. The Stage for the Lead	Appears
19. Dancing Boy	Appears
20. Super Link-Up Play	Appears
21. I'm Not There	Appears
22. Voice	Appears
23. Luck	Appears
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

Etymology

• His given name, Shoei (照 (しょう) 英 (えい) , Shoei^?), means "shining hero."
  • Phonetically, it can be derived from Shori (勝利 (しょうり) , Shori^?), meaning "victory."

• His surname, Baro (馬 (ば) 狼 (ろう) , Baro^?), means "horse wolf."
  • Phonetically, the O (おう, O^?) in his name can refer to 王, meaning "king," referring to his alias.
  • His surname should also not be confused with the Ilocano word baró, which means "new," or the English word borrow.

Quotes

• (To Team Z) "Now hear me, suckers, and remember my words. For me, the ball isn't my 'friend' or any nonsense like that. It's just a spherical servant that exists solely so I can shine. On the field, I am the king."

• (To Isagi) "A striker who chokes in front of the goal simply doesn't have what it takes to be one."

• (To Nagi) "You f*cking amateur only think about creating traps... I guess you wish the king himself destroys you, huh?"

• (To Nagi and Isagi) "I will not run or hide. They can come anytime, and I'll tear them apart. Cowards..."

• (To Naruhaya) "In your mediocre dreams. I'm the one who decides what I do. I live how I want to live, and I win how I want to win. This is my 'Imperial Philosophy.'"

• (To Isagi) "This guy used me for his own goal. He used me!! Who the hell are you calling a retard?! I'll slaughter you. The king of the field is me!!!"

• (To himself) "What is this despair that squeezes my heart? So, this is... is feeling defeated."

• (To himself) "Ahh, sh*t... So that's how it feels. All those guys who passed the ball to me... they felt just like that."

• (To himself) "I see... the act of 'trust' definitely will save me, who is actually lost... but that is— nothing more than an escape for people with broken dreams; for the sake of denial, their lives don't go far. Yes, an excuse... for losers... a future like that... I don't want to live through it!!!"

• (To himself) "If Isagi and Nagi are the main actors... then I... will devour that light... and be the villain if I have to!!!"

• (To Marc Snuffy) "I'm gonna conquer the world my way. So, if you want to utilize me, then you have to adjust to my philosophy, shitty master."

• (To Marc Snuffy) "If I want to change the world... If there's no thorny destructive path for me to walk on... Then I just have to create one myself!!! I don't live for some lukewarm pretender-minded future!!! I'll become king while still being an unruly brat!!! But in the future, if I still can't become the world's number one king after all this... THEN I'LL DIE HONORABLY!!!"

• (To Manshine City) "Out of my way, losers!! The final goal will be mine. That's my way as a tyrant king!!"

• (To Nagi) "I'll define an entire generation in soccer being kings, and I'll destroy anyone who dares to defy me or my throne."

• (To Nagi) "You're not even a bother. What the hell is up to that? It's as if your desire to become stronger has faded. I barely see that competitive fervor that used to annoy me so much. All I see now is a loser pretending to fight because he has lost his advantage. Coward, better go hit rock bottom and die once and for all. Unless you do something with that borrowed ego... because then you have no chance at the world class."

Trivia

• The majority of this information is from the official Egoist Bible.
  • He has two younger sisters.
  • He would buy a sponge at a convenience store.
  • His favorite season is around the end of the rainy season.
  • His favorite food is pudding (his mother bought it when he was a child and had flu).
  • His favorite musician is Hikaru Utada.
  • His least favorite subject is Arts.
  • His type of person would be someone who loves cleanliness and can clean with him.
  • If he had 100 million yen, he would buy a lifetime stock of Quickle Wipers.
  • He said that, besides the time he was born, he never cried.
  • He thinks his strength is his egotistical mindset.
  • His favorite movie is The Dark Knight.
  • He plays bowling from time to time, having his own personal ball.

• Baro ranked 5^th in the first popularity poll with 1,048 votes.

• While he was thought to be based on Cristiano Ronaldo due to their workaholic and perfectionistic mentalities and the fact that they are both 187 cm tall, Muneyuki Kaneshiro clarified that he was based on Mario Balotelli because both are creative scorers and great penalty takers, yet poor decisions off the field can often plague them or have lapses of ill-discipline on the field.