Yoichi Isagi

Yoichi Isagi / Yoichi Isagi

Yoichi Isagi (潔いさぎ世よ一いち Isagi Yoichi) is the protagonist of Blue Prison.

Isagi is a young striker who played for Ichinan High School before Blue Prison. When he first arrived at the Blue Prison, he became a member of Team Z during the first tryout. His main goal is to become the best striker in the world.

He is currently ranked 15th out of the initial 300 forwards selected for the draft and is starting his career as an attacking midfielder for the Blue Prison against the Japan Under-20s.

Appearance

Isagi is a fairly tall teenager with an average build. He has short navy blue hair that leaves V-shaped bangs between large blue eyes.

While attending Ichinan High School, he wore an unbuttoned blazer over a white tank top and striped tie.

In Blue Prison, Isagi wears a regular suit (black with gray stripes) and a tracksuit. During the first tryout, he wore Team Z's blue jersey and Team Z's gray boots. During the second tryout, he wore the white team's No. 15 jersey and then changed to the black team's number. During the selection tests for the best players in the Blue Prison team, Isagi dons the official uniform of the Blue Prison player number 11.

Personality

Isagi is easy-going and generally friendly, cheerful, but his simple and innocent habits often get on the nerves of those around him. He tends to avoid any childish quarrels among other Blue Prison competitors. At the beginning of Blue Prison, Isagi is very insecure about himself and his skill due to being originally the second-lowest ranked Blue Prison and his conflicting ideas about football. Over time, Isagi develops a more assertive presence on and off the field, becoming the backbone of Team Z and earning the respect of some of the best players in Blue Prison who mostly have highly assertive or dominant personalities. At the third Selection Stage, Isagi has enough confidence, charisma, and reputation to speak openly with Rin, one of the most talented but difficult people in Project Blue Prison.

On the field at the very beginning, Isagi was unsure of how to proceed in the Blue Prison due to the conflicting ideas of football in his head and was unsure of how to be selfish, but after Team Z's first win, Isagi becomes more calm about being cold and ruthless. In time, he is ready to step on the plans and dreams of his rivals and teammates in order to score a goal and go further in the Blue Castle. When it comes to football, he is ambitious and calculating, willing to change and adapt, get the right "chemistry" from his teammates, stay one step ahead of his rivals and ultimately be the best player on the field while staying true to his commitment to being the best. attackers in the world.

Ever since he met Rin and subsequently lost to him, Isagi has been chasing Rin, trying to copy and outdo him at every turn. He has improved his ability to compete with Rin and he tries his best to get closer to Rin and copy his routines in an attempt to get closer to his level and get closer to being the best hitter in the world. But no matter how far Isagi has progressed in his football career, he still tends to get nervous before big matches like at the end of the first qualifier or at the start of the XNUMXrd qualifier or in the Japan national representative match, but he always seems to work through it. .

Skills

Archetype

Playmaker: A player who controls the course of a team's attack and is often involved in combinations that lead to goals due to their vision, technique, ball control, creativity and passing ability.

Isagi creates perfect moments and random opportunities by using his spatial awareness to see the field as a whole and the players on it. With his understanding of all players, he uses his pristine passing skills, footwork, and teamwork to create perfect plays for his teammates, random opportunities using his teammates, and score high level goals for himself. Through his relationships and playing time with most of Blue Lock's outstanding players, Isagi is able to bring out the best in his teammates, either forcing them to play in a way that he can attack or forcing them to surpass Isagi's skills at the moment. He was seen as the heart of Sae Itoshi's Blue Prison and is implied as such by Ego. His playmaking skills are highly regarded and respected by most Blue Prison players, with even Jinpachi Ego commenting publicly on his abilities.

Skills

Spatial orientation: Isagi instinctively begins to analyze the entire field, giving him a vast understanding of the game, including the weapons of his opponents and teammates. His premonitions then allow him to envision a perfect mid-game play. His ability for spatial awareness rivals and sometimes surpasses that of Rin Itoshi, the #1 player in Blue Lock.

Goal smell: Isagi instinctively recognizes the "smell of a goal" given off by key players from his predictions and is able to masterfully send the ball to them so they can score.

Movement without the ball: A term used to describe when players are not in possession of the ball. Isagi can use these moments to position himself in the blind spots of his opponents, position himself in a spot where he can fool the enemy and become a bait for his teammates' shots, or position himself close enough to a teammate to make a super close back-to-back pass , which can break through the enemy defenses.

Direct hit: Isagi first assesses the position of the defenders and the trajectory of the ball, and then delivers a powerful shot to the point of impact of the ball to score a clean goal. By doing this, Isagi avoids overthinking his position and next move and can simply score a clean shot without interference. Nagi noted that Isagi does not waste any extra movement when performing his throw, implying that Isagi executes it with impeccable technique and control.

Back heel kick: Isagi first assesses the position of the defenders and fires a false direct shot in anticipation of an enemy block. He then delivers a powerful kick back to the point of impact of the ball to score a clean shot. This move was first used against Itoshi Rin during their rematch in the Second Selection, which surprised everyone on the field.

Stream Status (Incomplete): Flow, as the ego describes it, is a state of "fully immersed" or "being in the zone." This is a mental state in which a person performing any activity is completely immersed in a feeling of energetic concentration, full involvement and enjoyment of the process of activity.

Isagi has inadvertently entered the Flow State many times during the Blue Castle, back during the First Choice, but he has not mastered it yet. His most impressive feat in the Flux state is stealing a target from Rin and Ryusei and performing a direct shot between them. The goal itself should have been impossible due to Isagi's physical characteristics, but he still completed it, albeit with difficulty.

Metavision: A special ability obtained by Isagi while analyzing Kaiser's game. The whole point is to use your eyes properly. It is necessary to collect information all the time with peripheral vision, updating the database of your enemies and allies in order to always be aware of who, where and what is doing. With so much information, it's not difficult to find the best point that no one suspects. In other words, the player looks as if from another world. Watching the field from a higher dimension.

Quotes

Football is a sport played by 11 people. Thus, one person cannot win on his own. Football is not just for one... One for all... I want to win!
I didn't come to stomp others... to be the best in the world!! I came here... Therefore, I need to defeat those who are stronger than me! Otherwise, nothing will change!!
(About myself) Inside of me? I want to know more! What is my monster really. This may be my only key to survival inside the blue castle.
(Nico) But this is my victory, Niko... You don't have what it takes to be a striker.
(Baro) No matter how hard you try to understand other people's hearts. People can't change others!! Look Baro!! This is me adjusting to you!! The darkness that you created in this field, I will devour it and turn it into light.
(To Reo) You should not strive to be the one who chooses, not the one who is chosen.
(To Reo)Only people who become truly selfish in the world... can survive in the Blue Castle.
(About myself) I can't become the best striker in the world this way!! I want to defeat Rin alone!!
(About myself) The difference between me and Rin is the difference in our resolve. Of course I'm an idiot. I thought I finally got to Rin. No, I even thought I beat him. I lost to him and was just chosen to move on! I have to accept this reality!! Otherwise, there will be no next time. I have to include in my thought process what is called "Luck". I need to update my understanding on a fundamental level!! In order to defeat Rin, I must become a new version of myself!!
(Ego) Who cares... I don't care. Not about the future of Japanese football, not about some safe place for me. What I want... what we want is to win this game.

Etymology

First name Isagi (潔) means "immaculate, pure and righteous". Notably, the adjective form of the kanji, "isagiyoi" (潔い), also means "sporty, virile, and brave".
Yoichi means "peace" (世) (yo) and "one" (一) (ichi).
thereforeIsagi Yoichi can be interpreted as "legitimate" or "the purest".

Facts

Plays football since the age of four;
He begins to wash from the head, as his father taught him that you need to start washing from above;
To the question "How many valentines did you get this year?" Isagi replied "Zero";
According to Isagi himself, his best quality is to find something good in other people, and bad - to go in cycles in other people's feelings;
Usually in the store he takes sour marmalade;
He likes people who smile often or just with a pleasant smile;
Isagi received gifts from Santa until the sixth grade of elementary school;
His favorite animal is the spiny lobster;
Favorite season is autumn, he likes coolness and a slight feeling of loneliness;
He will always be very happy with praise, especially if he is treated to sweets;
On the last day before the end of the world, he would enjoy delicious kintsuba tea;
The last time he asked Santa was at Christmas for a PS4;
Favorite color is light blue;
If Isagi got 1 million yen, he would give everything to his parents, as he doesn't know what to do with it;
The last time Isagi cried was after losing the prefectural tournament;
To the question "Is there any fetish?" he replied “I have something yak at the sight of my thighs ... how embarrassing”;
He likes to spend his weekends playing football or reading manga, and he also enjoys taking walks when he is deep in thought;
Isagi is good at physical education and fine arts, but mathematics and natural science are definitely not his subjects.

Appears in:

Blue Prison: Blue Lock (Season 1)