Seishiro Nagi

Nagi is a very lazy and unmotivated person with an exceptional aptitude for soccer. He is abnormally talented, with incredible reflexes, good speed, and jumping skills. However, he has no interest in becoming a professional or even playing at first. As long as he can get a decent job and continue to live a relaxed life, he is content to do nothing forever and often appears lethargic in his speech and body language. An extreme introvert, he lives alone in an apartment his parents pay for with only a pet cactus for company. He was shown to have no friends in high school before meeting Reo, and he was often the target of gossip or possibly bullied. Even so, he shows no interest in socializing and often has to be dragged into things by others, especially Reo. He initially does not want to put in the effort in soccer and looks down on those who are weak and untalented at the game, as such things come easy to him. He does not even know anything about the best soccer players in the world, much to the dismay of his competitors. At first, he is shown to be indifferent to playing soccer and becoming the world's best striker, preferring to play video games or skip training altogether. He displays a reclusive demeanor and may actually be addicted to his phone. He struggles to let it go when Anri tries to confiscate his items, and Reo is even able to bribe him to play when he reminds him that he can get it back with the goal reward system. After playing against Team Z at the end of the First Selection and experiencing his first defeat, Nagi begins to take more initiative and deal with the frustration of losing. He eventually begins to have motivation and is willing to explore these feelings on his own if necessary, and this only happens because he realizes that his friend and teammate, Reo Mikage, seems to be lost against Team Z. Despite his initially indifferent exterior, Nagi strives to improve his soccer skills as a result of his team's loss to Yoichi Isagi. This desire to improve follows him into later arcs, and he even tarnishes a friendship because of it. During the Neo-Egoist League era, defeating Isagi was Nagi's most important driving force. Nagi seems to care about his friends and teammates, especially his best friend Reo, even though their relationship becomes rocky from the Second Selection onwards due to Reo's possessiveness over Nagi, which clouds their vision of their shared dream of winning the World Cup. However, he is, at his core, a selfish person like some of Blue Lock's best players. He only cares about his ambition, his dream, and winning. Despite all of this, Nagi shows that he can motivate himself if challenged. Upon joining Blue Lock, he encounters players who involve him in the game to the point where he is willing to make his own strategies and go against Reo, whom he obeys, just so he can think as little as possible. Nagi also has a bold side that appears around Baro more often due to an early rivalry that began with him calling him Reo's "slave". He often antagonizes him and gets in his face when his arrogance irritates him, something few characters are willing to do, given how intimidating Baro can be. However, when he wants to play, he demonstrates a deep sense of teamwork and can synergize with many players, Reo and Isagi in particular. Although Nagi seems like an apathetic person, he is a reliable player who has some of the most unpredictable moves on the field, perhaps rivaled only by Gagamaru in terms of creativity. Nagi tends to clash with people he doesn't like. When he meets Baro after Nagi and Isagi's defeat to Rin Itoshi, they immediately begin arguing and teasing each other, competing on the field over who is the better of the two, frequently challenging each other to 1-on-1s, throwing insults at each other, and even fighting over who gets the single bed in a three-member team room.