Gurimu Igarashi

Cropped hair sits above a pair of thick brows and wide black eyes that seem permanently open, all set on a short, slight frame. Once inside Blue Lock he wears the standard bodysuit and tracksuit, and during the First Selection he pulled on Team Z's number 13. A small quirk sees him sleep in heart-patterned trunks beneath his kit.

Awkward, devout, dogged, and relentlessly practical, Igarashi grew up in a temple and dreads a life of monkhood, which fuels his hunger to turn professional. He entered the facility as its lowest-ranked player, armed with little more than a refusal to quit, yet that stubbornness carried him further than anyone expected, including a desperate dive to block one of Nagi's shots. He later engineered a win for Shido in the Second Selection with a self-taught Malicia style built on drawing fouls, a tactic others simply call flopping.

Pragmatism is his defining trait, and he plays without hesitation to put rivals at a disadvantage. During the opening game of tag he tried to boot the ball at a seemingly dozing Bachira, then landed a hit on Kunigami and used Isagi as a human shield to dodge being tagged. There is little he will not stoop to in order to stay in Blue Lock, and few contenders keep close ties with him, so he is most often found beside Isagi, who once sat just above him at the bottom.

Igarashi lines up as a forward, the attacking role charged with reaching scoring positions and finishing chances. His signature weapon, though, leans on deception rather than finishing: his Malicia dribbling coaxes fouls out of defenders. He telegraphs obvious dribbling motions to lull an opponent, then flings himself onto the pressing player at the last instant, fooling the video review into awarding a foul and handing his team a free kick. He claims to have refined it so thoroughly that anyone who comes after his right shoulder is doomed to concede one, a boast borne out when he drew two straight fouls from Rin during Bastard Munchen's clash with Paris X Gen.