Important takeaways
- Metavision gives footballers an all-powerful perspective, allowing them to exploit tactical vulnerabilities effectively.
- Reo Mikage, Yo Hiori and Oliver Aiku are among the best players with meta vision, who excel on the pitch.
- Players like Michael Kaiser use metavision, along with tactical genius, to outwit opponents and score goals.
Football player in Blue lock franchises are gifted with, or manage to develop, unique techniques, which they call weapons, to impose their presence on the field and outplay the competition. Among the many weapons, metavision stands out because it gives footballers an almost omnipotent perspective on the field, allowing them to exploit tactical oversights and vulnerabilities.
Players gifted with that unique skill thrive and often outplay their opponents by creating scoring opportunities where none exist. In the world of Blue lockthese are the best players using metavision, who have often shown themselves to be one step ahead of everyone else.
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Blue Lock: Each main character's age, height, and birthday
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8 Reo Mikage
Manshine City central midfielder
- Manga Debut: Chapter 1
- Anime Debut: Episode 1
- Positions: Center Back, Attacking Midfielder, Defensive Midfielder, Midfielder, Striker
As the heir to the Mikage Corporation, Reo could have chosen a life of comfort, but from a young age he was fond of the sport of soccer. Reo was eventually selected for the Blue Lock project, where he competed with the best strikers from Japan.
His experiences there helped him reinvent his game and become a better player. Of all the weapons he ended up adding to his arsenal, his ability to use metavision made him a game-changing star capable of disrupting any team on his day.
7 Yo Hiori
The amazing attacking midfielder who plays for Bastard Munich
- Manga Debut: Chapter 93
- Anime Debut: Episode 24
- Positions: Striker, Winger, Fullback, Attacking Midfielder
Unlike most players at Blue Lock, who were always driven to play football, Yo Hiori's parents trained him from childhood, wanting him to be the best in the world. Despite being forced into the sport, Hiori has grown up to develop world-class talent and is respected as a playmaker. His most formidable weapons include metavision, flow state, ball control and passing.
6 Oliver Aiku
Dreams of being the best in the world
- Manga Debut: Chapter 110
- Anime Debut: Episode 25
- Positions: Center Back, Forward
Oliver Aiku is a respected footballer who gave up his dream of becoming a striker after a series of unfortunate incidents early in his career. Instead, he decided to become the world's best defender. He is one of the few players who can consciously enter flow state, and has also used metavision in crisis situations to help his team.
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Oliver masterfully uses his central and peripheral vision to understand his opponent's positioning and to read their movements. By making predictions based on these insights and data, Aiku has successfully saved multiple goals and turned the game on its head. His meta vision yields better results thanks to his experience as a forward, which allows him to guess what the attackers are thinking in real time.
5 Charles Chevalier
Paris X Gen's heart
- Manga Debut: Chapter 244
- Position: Midfielder
Midfielders are expected to develop a balance between offensive creativity and defensive diligence, to serve the interests of the team. Paris X Gen midfielder Charles Chevalier does just that with his exceptional passing accuracy and speed to beautifully control play and create chances for his strikers to thrive.
As a contrarian, Charles invents new defensive and offensive strategies to support his team, sometimes not even hesitating to go against senior players like Julian Loki. In his unique play style, Charles often uses metavision to outsmart his opponents.
4 Yoichi Isagi
The Blue Lock Forward Chasing Greatness
- Manga Debut: Chapter 1
- Anime Debut: Episode 1
- Positions: Striker, attacking midfielder
Isagi arrived at the Blue Lock as a talented striker with huge unexplored potential, which only Jinpachi Ego saw at the time. After playing alongside some of the best soccer players from Japan and realizing that he still had many holes in his game, Yoichi underwent a dramatic transformation and developed his technique.
Isagi was gifted with spatial awareness, but his game really reached a new level when he developed metavision, giving him an all-powerful perspective on the field and positioning. As a striker, Yoichi used these insights along with his other weapons to score goals and establish himself as one of the best strikers in the Blue Lock facility.
3 Marc Snuffy
Malta's Playmaker who is recognized by the greats
- Manga Debut: Chapter 155
- Positions: Striker, defensive midfielder
Malta's Marc Snuffy is a master striker whose game is deeply influenced by jujutsu. Regarded by Noel Noa as the world's best playmaker, he represents Italy's Ubers as a forward and is a fantastic team man.
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His genius on the field is known throughout the world, and very few can match him. Marc's style of play relies heavily on metavision along with his superior physicality to lead the team's offense.
2 Itoshi said
The Japanese genius
- Manga Debut: Chapter 4
- Anime Debut: Episode 2
- Positions: Midfielder, forward
Sae Itoshi is a talented Japanese soccer player and member of the New Generation World XI. Although he is arguably the best footballer in his country, he feels he was born in the wrong place after experiencing competition in the European leagues. Sae's pessimistic view of Japanese football and its future does not change until he plays a match against Blue Lock Eleven.
As a playmaker, Itoshi loves to control the flow of his team's offensive play with his unique weapons, among which metavision stands out. He can easily bypass a team's defense by exploiting the tactical vulnerabilities that he in turn exposes with his developed vision. Along with metavision, Sae often uses his unique weapons such as perfect kicking technique, reflexes, dribbling and precise passing.
1 Michael Kaiser
The Clinical Finisher who plays for Bastard Munich
- Manga Debut: Chapter 149
- Position: Forward
Regarded as a future international soccer star, Michael Kaiser is a stunning striker whose exceptional talent and tactical genius are unmatched. He plays as a forward for Germany's Bastard Munich, and has made his mark despite playing alongside the world's best striker, Noel Noa.
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Michael Kaiser thrives on the soccer field, using his lightning-quick shot to score goals from unexpected angles, surprising opponents. He can score seemingly impossible goals with the help of his tactical genius and well-developed metavision that gives him an almost omnipotent view of the pitch. While several other soccer players can use metavision, very few can come close to brilliantly utilizing their high soccer IQ to make predictions as well as Kaiser.
- Release date
- October 9, 2022
- Studio
- 8 pieces
- Creator
- Muneyuki Kaneshiro