NagiReo

"I want him to be mine!"

- Reo, upon meeting Nagi, Chapter 23

ReoNagi is the slash ship between Reo Mikage and Seishiro Nagi from the Blue Lock fandom.

Canon
Reo is the son of a billionaire who lived a life of tedium, having gotten everything he wanted. Until he was exposed to soccer and decided to make it his life goal to win the World Cup. In his drive to create a soccer team, he accidentally bumps into Nagi on the stairs and makes the shorter boy drop his game. Nagi kicks the console up with blinding accuracy, astonishing Reo. Reo immediately asks if he's in the soccer club, to which Nagi replies, "Give me money". The heir tries to convince Nagi to join him in a soccer club, but he refuses and would rather take his money instead. Nagi flat-out tells Reo that if they needed to work hard at soccer, then he would rather not do it at all. Reo thinks back at what his father had said about naturally talented soccer players and realizes that Nagi is one of them. This sparks his interest, so he pulls in Nagi anyways and promises that he won't need to work hard, so they should go play soccer!

Reo, Nagi, and Zantetsu Tsurugi listen to Wataru Kuon's attempt to influence them with backhanded tactics, but they immediately shut him down. Nagi complains to Reo that Kuon's talk is annoying him, and asks him for a piggyback ride. Reo protests but lifts him onto his back nevertheless. As they're leaving, Nagi asks Reo why Kuon was still so desperate and Reo guesses it's probably because he wants to win.

Back in their own training room, Zantetsu admonishes Nagi for playing video games instead of doing exercises. Reo quickly jumps to the boy's defense, reminding Zantetsu that as the star of their team, Nagi was allowed to do anything he wanted. Zantetsu complains that Reo is too protective over Nagi, to which Reo just smiles and affirms it, calling Nagi his own "gem".

Nearly at the end of Team V's match against Team Z, Reo's movements become limited by Team Z's defensive formation and he realizes he has no one to pass to. Seeing Reo's unsavory position sparks something in Nagi. He begins running on his own spontaneously, surprising the team who thought he didn't do anything unless directed to. With a fire in his eyes, he tells Reo that he'll give it his all.

"The reason why he started running at this moment, even Nagi Seishiro himself didn't understand why. Just that it was his first time seeing Reo's impatient face and the first loss lurking behind him."

- Chapter 32

After Nagi makes his own independent goal, he picks himself up off the ground and faces Reo, acknowledging how interesting soccer really is.

When Kuon leaps out in a desperate grab to barricade Nagi's path, he grabs his face and pulls the striker down so he can't shoot. This sends Reo into a fit of anger and he nearly attacks Kuon before Zantestu holds him back. Nagi, who's on the ground reassures him that he's all right. As they're preparing to go into Extra Time, Reo once again asks if Nagi was hurt. Nagi repeats that he's fine. The three of them, Reo, Nagi, and Zantetsu all agree that they must play to cripple the other team, and they won't take a tie for an answer.

Nagi is unwilling to take in the fact that they lost to Yoichi Isagi's last shot and tells Reo with disbelief that they could still make it, with just two more shots... And then the game is announced to be finished. Nagi talks about how frustrating it was to lose, even after having given it his all. At the end of the first stage in the 2nd Selection, Nagi and Reo have already paired up and are waiting for a third teammate when Isagi and Meguru Bachira finish. To both parties' amazement, Nagi walks over to the other two and invites Isagi to join his team. Reo is caught off guard, asking if Nagi was sure that he was the one whom they wanted for their team. Nagi reasserts his confidence in the choice, reasoning that Isagi was the best in their match, so he would like to play alongside him. When Isagi rejects the offer, Reo seemingly sighs in relief—but it doesn't last long. Nagi then makes the choice to join their team instead, with a dumbfounded Reo in the background. It gets Reo all worked up, who asks Nagi whom he'll team up with if he wasn't there as a given.

Nagi faces him, telling him that although he and Reo could be the best in the world, they had lost, so he needed to understand that frustration, surpass it, and figure out how to win. Reo watches him turn away with an anguished expression, and he opens his mouth to say something but thinks the better of it. He gives in, surrendering Nagi to the two. Nagi leaves with a word of parting to Reo, who continues to look crestfallen.

Bachira makes note of how Reo looked really miserable back there and asks if Nagi was really a cold-hearted person. Nagi replies that although he was a bit lonely, he did it because he wanted to improve his "ego", and leaving Reo back was the correct way to do it.

In the public bath for 3rd Stagers in the Second Selection, Nagi meets Reo and his team again. The white-haired boy walks over to him amicably and prepares to high-five, but Reo slaps his hand away, surprising him. He claims that they are now rivals and should act as such since he will defeat Nagi because he was left behind. When discussing whom to mark with his teammates Kunigami and Chigiri, Reo decides on Isagi because he wanted to prove to Nagi that Isagi wasn't anything much, really. Both Kunigami and Chigiri agree to pick Nagi if they win, but Reo suggests that he would've also liked to leave Nagi in the dust to "feel the same [way Reo] did back then". At the end of the match. Nagi, Isagi, and Baro have emerged victorious. Nagi walks over to Reo and acknowledges the last play of the game where he was able to strain himself in order to catch the ball, which was all thanks to Reo's pass. It's a sort of consolation when he says it's due to Reo's "amazing" pass that he was able to advance. Darkly, Reo interrupts him and accuses him of changing into a player that forgot all about their promise to become the best strikers together in the world. Nagi immediately turns tack and asks if Reo would prefer it if they chose him right then and now, even if they would end up having unexciting matches afterward. He ends up leaving and calling Reo a troublesome asshole.

Nagi realizes in the match against the top three & Bachira that it was due to Reo inviting him that fated day that he could feel such an intense fire to crush them.

"I'm sorry, Reo. For not being with you. For leaving you behind and changing. For fighting alongside Isagi. For now, I hope you will forgive me."

- Nagi's thoughts, Chapter 76

He apologizes to Reo because after having a taste of the thrill, he couldn't go back to being the same, normal person he was with the purple-haired boy.

When Reo meets Isagi in the Third Selection, they chat for a while about which team to choose. Isagi said he assumed Reo would immediately follow Nagi, but Reo responds that although that was his initial choice, he wasn't sure if he was someone that deserved to play alongside the genius. Yet he's conflicted because if he misses out on this chance, he may never be able to catch up to Nagi. In the end, Reo chooses to be with Nagi's team.

Reo and Nagi are paired up together in the second game of the Third Selection, in which Reo calls on Nagi to pay attention to him in the match. He does it so he can prove that he's the only one who deserved to be by his side. They trade passes at a lightning-fast speed, Reo passing it perfectly to where Nagi would like it, yet his pass is intercepted by someone from the other team. Even when Nagi makes the first shot for their team, Reo is stunned by the amazing accuracy and pinpoint precision that Nagi was able to utilize to win.

The fact that Nagi is so impressive at soccer makes Reo want to strip all his values away and become an idiot just so he can catch up with the geniuses. He traps the ball from between Rin Itoshi and Kenyu Yukimiya and charges straight toward the goal. Nagi keeps up with him and calls out right at the perfect passing point, but Reo heeds him no mind, instead making a goal himself by copying Yukimiya's gyro shot. At halftime for the Blue Lock 11 and the U-20 team, Nagi sips a drink in the locker rooms, looking around for a towel. Reo instinctively knows what he needs and throws one onto the boy's head while congratulating him on the goal. In conversation, Nagi confirms with him that he can certainly do more than just one goal and Reo nods to it, as he knew Nagi better than anyone.

Reo gets subbed onto the field. The first thing he does is to tell Nagi to make a shot for them because their careers still weren't over and they could do much more. Nagi even compliments him when Reo successfully blocks a shot from Ryusei Shido with his copied defense.

When Gin Gagamaru saves Shido's ball from going into the goal, he falls and calls on Reo to send it further from the goal. But Reo has a different idea. After having watched Nagi for so long, he is able to accurately duplicate Nagi's tap lift and jumping turn in order to steal possession. The rebounded ball flies straight to the real Nagi, who traps it and begins their counter.

Reo interrupts the team to begin their next play, and passes it to Nagi first. They make quips in tune with each other and make their way forward to the other side.

Nagi ends up picking the same country as Reo—England. When Reo mentions this, Nagi says it doesn't really matter.

Moments

 * Reo ruffles Nagi's hair while the sleepy boy leans on the cafeteria table, annoyed by Kuon's words.
 * Isagi retorts back to Nagi when accused of needing Bachira, by saying that he needed Reo as well to accentuate his skills.
 * Kunigami and Chigiri notice how Reo is sitting on his own sulkily because Nagi dumped him for Isagi.
 * While Reo practices his coordination with Kunigami and Chigiri, he says that he doesn't care what the other two decide, as long as he can win against Nagi in the end.
 * Nagi seems extremely relieved that Reo was in one of the last teams to advance to the Third Selection.

Quotes
"Hey Reo, soccer is interesting huh?"

- Nagi to Reo, Chapter 23

"Reo. You taught me about soccer. You and I together can become the best in the world. That's for sure."

- Nagi to Reo, Chapter 43

"Nagi is a treasure I found. With this match, I'll steal him back from you!"

- Reo to Isagi, Chapter 59

"Finally... I can fight by your side, Nagi!"

- Reo about Nagi, Chapter 104

"And that's exactly why they are so radiant."

- Reo about Nagi and the geniuses, Chapter 106

Fanon
On AO3, ReoNagi is the most written ship inside Blue Lock fandom (anime and manga), as well the first for both characters. It sometimes rivalizes Nagisagi, but this latter is easily overshadowed by the earlier mentioned, as it's the most popular. It can be shipped alongside others like Rinsagi or Bachisagi, but it mostly is shipped individually with no others as supporting.

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Trivia

 * Their birthdays are just nearly 100 days (99 days) apart, with Nagi's falling on the 6th of May, and Reo's on August 12th.
 * They have a height difference of 5 cm, with Nagi being 190 cm and Reo 185.
 * Reo is a Leo and Nagi is a Taurus.