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- 1,260 VOTES. Aoashi. Photo: Aoashi / Production I.G. Ashito Aoi is the star soccer player of his small rural town. His talent is the one thing that can take his home team to victory in their preliminary soccer tournament, but an opponent causes him to lose his cool mid-match and he’s removed from the game as a result.
- 453 VOTES. Blue Lock. Photo: Blue Lock / 8bit. Blue Lock is arguably one of the most unique anime on this list. Most sports anime are notable for their teamwork, but Blue Lock focuses on the exact opposite - the characters in this series are encouraged to be selfish and ruthless to achieve their ultimate goal.
- 2,851 VOTES. Days. Photo: Days / MAPPA. Two strangers named Jin and Tsukashi meet fatefully one night. Tsukashi is a plain person with no outstanding traits, but Jin is a soccer genius.
- 1,284 VOTES. Captain Tsubasa. Photo: Captain Tsubasa / Studio KAI. Considered a sports anime classic, Captain Tsubasa focuses on an 11-year-old boy named Tsubasa Oozora who is obsessed with soccer.
- Blue Lock. A new anime involving the sport of soccer! Blue Lock summarizes the goal of finding a “star striker” player for the Japanese national team.
- Shoot! Goal to the Future. If you want to binge-watch something that won’t take you the whole day, you should check out this anime: Shoot!
- Farewell, My Dear Cramer. Do you want to watch something different besides guys playing soccer? How about a girl playing soccer? You should look into Farewell, My Dear Cramer, which aired in 2021.
- Clean Freak! Aoyama-Kun. The anime: Clean Freak! Aoyama-Kun is a bit comedic due to Aoyama’s cleanness. Aoyama-Kun is a student at Fujimi High School and joins the soccer team where the team tries to head to the Nationals.
- Football Anime About Self Discovery
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#15 Offside
Number of seasons: 1 Number of episodes: 39 Studio:Ashi Productions Yokonan High School is well-known for its prestigious football club. Goro Kumagaya is a middle school goalkeeper who wanted to enroll in Yokonan but unfortunately enrolled in a not-so-reputed Kawasaki High School. After enrolling, Goro found skilled football players, with whom the football team of Kawasaki High embarks on a journey to become the champion by challenging the football powerhouse Yokonan among other formidable fo...
#14 Farewell, My Dear Cramer
Number of seasons: 1 Number of episodes: 13 Studio:LIDENFILMS In middle school, Nozomi Onda used to play with the boys’ football team. She has the skills of a prodigy but doesn’t want to play in a girls’ team. She doesn’t want her skills to get wasted. However, her coach motivates her to join the girls’ soccer team upon enrolling in high school. Knowing the skills she has developed throughout the years, Nozomi’s coach asks her to bring women’s football back into the spotlight. On the other ha...
#13 Fight! Kickers
Number of seasons: 1 Number of episodes: 23 Studio:Pierrot Kickers have just lost a match by a SMALL margin, 0 – 21. The players of the team have no interest in getting better. Instead of practicing, some read manga, some play video games, some enjoy snacks, and others enjoy music with earphones on. The Kickers play for the sake of representing their school, nothing more. But, when Kakeru Daichi enrolls in the school, he motivates the whole team to get serious about the game of football while...
#12 Clean Freak! Aoyama-kun
Number of seasons: 1 Number of episodes: 12 Studio:Studio Hibari Aoyama is a football prodigy. Although he has germophobia (mysophobia), he plays a sport where staying clean isn’t an option. However, he has found ways around that – he wears gloves during thrown-ins and avoids tackling or heading the ball. He is known as a football nerd who cleans the balls after practice. Surprisingly, avoiding crowds should’ve become a weakness in a sport like football, but Aoyama uses that to dodge the play...
#11 Captain Tsubasa
Number of seasons: 1 Number of episodes: 52 Studio:David Production Tsubasa Oozora knows only one language, which is football. He eats, sleeps, and breathes football. Ask him anything about football, and he will answer your question. Tsubasa has been in love with the sport for as long as he can remember. At the mere age of 11 – when other kids play football for fun – Tsubasa has already made up his mind about representing Japan in the Football World Cup. To achieve that, he moves to Nankatsu...
#10 Blue Legend Shoot!
Number of seasons: 2 Number of episodes: 71 Studio:Toei Animation, Magic Bus, EMT Squared Toshihiko Tanaka gets bewitched by the performance of Yoshiharu Kubo, who led Kakegawa High School to an unexpected victory in a soccer tournament. To become a soccer player like him, Tanaka enrolls in the same high school, but alas, Kubo is on leave due to his illness. In this school, a freshman isn’t allowed to use the field or play as a regular; menial jobs are all they can do. And, if that wasn’t eno...
#9 Days
Number of seasons: 1 Number of episodes: 24 Studio:MAPPA Tsukushi Tsukamoto and Jin Kazama’s encounter is what you call fate. Jin Kazama is a prodigious football player – who found Jin to be one of the kindest souls in the high school crowd. On the same day, Jin needed an extra player for a casual futsal match; and he asked Tsukushi to join. Although it’s their first time interacting with each other, Tsukushi joins without any hesitation. As a timid boy, Tsukushi hardly had any friends, so he...
#8 Victory Kickoff!!
Number of seasons: 1 Number of episodes: 39 Studio:TYO Animations Momoyama Predators disbanded after the players got into a fight with the coach. Following this incident, the players began to leave the team one after the other, and soon only Shou Oota remained, resulting in the team’s disbandment. However, Shou is hellbent on reviving the football team and comes across Erika Takato, a new transfer student with eye-catching football skills. Not only that, even her dog is strong enough in footb...
#7 Whistle!
Number of seasons: 1 Number of episodes: 39 Studio:Studio Comet Shou Kazamatsuri has loved football since childhood and wants to become a professional football player. To achieve that, he has worked hard to enroll in football powerhouse – Musashi no Mori Junior High. But, he was denied a place in the team for his short stature, tasked only with menial jobs. Being the fighter he is, Shou decides to transfer to Sakura Jousui Junior High, a school where he can play the sport without any obstruct...
#5 The Knight in the Area
Number of seasons: 1 Number of episodes: 37 Studio:Shin-Ei Animation In elementary school, during a practice match, Kakeru’s left kick severely injured a regular. Since then, Kakeru hasn’t been able to use his left foot. Even if he wants to, his instincts stop him from doing so. Growing up, Kakeru and his elder brother Suguru loved playing football. Since then, Kakeru has stopped growing as a player and has switched his role to a manager, while Suguru has become a star player in the Japanese...
#4 Hungry Heart: Wild Striker
Number of seasons: 1 Number of episodes: 52 Studio: Nippon Animation Not only is Kyousuke Kanou an orange head, but he is also hot-headed. Being the younger brother of Seisuke Kanou – the Japanese soccer star – has burdened Kyousuke with expectations so much that he has grown to hate the sport. At least what he says. Deep inside, he still loves soccer. Although he promised not to play soccer after enrolling in high school, Kyousuke’s talent gets spotted by Miki Tsujiwaki, captain of the girls...
#3 Ao Ashi
Number of seasons: 1 Number of episodes: 24 Studio:Production I.G Ashito Aoi is the only hope for the football club, which centers around him for his scoring ability. However, when provoked during the preliminaries of the Ehime Junior High tournament, Ashito headbutts the opposition goalkeeper. Not only was he removed from the entire match, but it also cost his team an important match. Although Ashito was disappointed about the consequences of his actions, soon he was approached by Tatsuya Fu...
#2 Inazuma Eleven
Number of seasons: 4 Number of episodes: 268 Studio:OLM Mamoru Endou is the captain and goalkeeper of Raimon Middle School’s soccer(football) club, Inazuma Eleven. However, because of having only seven members, the club is looked down upon by the whole school and never gets the field to practice. Due to a lack of members and no ground to practice, every club member has lost interest in the sport. Instead, it has become a pastime club. But when the soccer club gets rumored to disband, and a ch...
#1 Blue Lock
Number of seasons: 1 Number of episodes: 24 Studio:8bit To pass or not to pass? That’s the dilemma Isagi was going through during the crucial moment of a match that could have taken his high school football team to the nationals. Well, it didn’t happen. Isagi passed the ball instead of taking the shot himself. After having a breakdown, in the middle of the street, Isagi reaches home to find out about the invitation from Japan Football Union. After going there, Isagi discovers that 300 players...
Here is the table of the best soccer/football anime, along with some honorable mentions that didn’t make it onto the list but are worth considering. And, for the indecisive ones like me, you can use the AverageBeing Picks for a better idea of where to start after diving into soccer/football anime. With that, I present to you the best soccer anime. ...
- Inazuma Eleven. MAL Rated 7.77, Ranked #899 | Premiered Fall 2008 | Produced by Oriental Light and Magic. Inazuma Eleven revolves around Raimon Middle School's soccer club Inazuma Eleven and its battle against disbanding.
- Hungry Heart: Wild Striker. MAL Rated 7.77, Ranked #898 | Premiered Fall 2002 | Produced by Nippon Animation. High school student Kanou Kyosuke lost his passion for soccer after constantly being compared to his professional soccer player brother.
- Giant Killing. MAL Rated 7.74, Ranked #950 | Premiered Spring 2010 | Produced by Studio Deen. Giant Killing is all about taking team East Tokyo United (ETU) and restructuring its strategy.
- Whistle! MAL Rated 7.54, Ranked #1435 | Premiered Spring 2002 | Produced by Studio Coment. Shou Kazamatsuri dreams of becoming a professional soccer player, but his skills need some improvement.
- Captain Tsubasa. Trailer for Captain Tsubasa (Anime) Action, Sports. Originally aired 2018 to Present. 52 episodes (1 season) 7.40 on MAL. Captain Tsubasa was always going to be the best anime about soccer that tops our list.
- Days. Scene from Days (Anime) Action, Sports. Originally aired 2016. 24 episodes (1 season) 7.16 on MAL. When Tsukushi Tsukamoto is attacked by a group of bullies, he's saved by the mysterious Jin Kazama.
- Akakichi no Eleven. Opening Credits for Akakichi no Eleven (Anime) Drama, Sports. Originally aired 1970 to 1971. 52 episodes (1 season) 6.56 on MAL. We finally come to the oldest soccer anime series on our list.
- Clean Freak! Aoyama-Kun. Trailer for Clean Freak! Aoyama-Kun (Anime) Comedy, Sports. Originally aired 2017. 12 episodes (1 season) 6.96 on MAL. How about a soccer anime that also draws attention to some of the issues people may experience when suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder?
Jan 16, 2024 · The best soccer anime features Tsubasa Ozora, a passionate and talented Japanese boy with a dream of winning the world championship in football. Upon moving to Nankatsu with his family, he joins the public school and befriends Ryo Ishizaki, the school football team captain.
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Jul 3, 2024 · Haikyu!! celebrates the ensemble dynamic of a volleyball team, emphasizing teamwork, while Blue Lock promotes individual supremacy on the soccer field, where players are forged into elite strikers through relentless competition amongst themselves.
