Anime like Hungry Heart: Wild Striker

Aoashi

Also known as Aoashi.

Studio: Production I.G , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , NHK Enterprises , BANDAI SPIRITS , Marvelous , Production I.G
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Ashito Aoi is a young, aspiring soccer player from a backwater town in Japan. His hopes of getting into a high school with a good soccer club are dashed when he causes an incident during a critical match for his team, which results in their loss and elimination from the tournament. Nevertheless, he catches the eye of someone important who happened to be visiting from Tokyo. How will things turn out for Ashito?



Tags: Football , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Seinen , Ensemble Cast , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , School , Bullying , Time Skip , Love Triangle

Captain Tsubasa

Studio: Tsuchida Productions , Studio Jack
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

Tsubasa Ozora moves to the town Nankatsu to increase his skills as a soccer player. He is challenged by the Super Goalkeeper Genzo Wakabayashi. He then agree to compete and see who was the best soccer player there.



Tags: Football , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Coming of Age , School Club , Primarily Child Cast , Heterosexual , Foreign

GIANT KILLING

Also known as Giant Killing.

Studio: Studio DEEN , NHK
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

East Tokyo United, ETU, has been struggling in Japan's top football league for a few years. It has taken everything they have just to avoid relegation. To make matters even worse, the fans are starting to abandon the team.

In an effort to improve their performance, ETU has hired a new coach, the slightly eccentric Tatsumi Takeshi. Tatsumi, who was considered a great football player when he was younger, abandoned the team years before but has proven himself as the manager of one of England's lower division amateur teams. The task won't be easy, the teams East Tokyo United is pitted against have bigger budgets and better players. However, Tatsumi is an expert at Giant Killing.

Tags: Football , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Work , Primarily Male Cast , Achronological Order

Whistle!

Studio: Studio Comet , Studio Jack
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Kazamatsuri Shou's dream has always been to become a professional soccer player, but he has one problem: he's not very good at the game. He was accepted to the prestigious Musashi no Mori Junior High, known for its top rate soccer team, but he was never able to rise beyond the rank of third stringer. After transferring to Sakura Jousui Junior High, he can finally play soccer. And, with the support of his new friends and teammates, his strong determination, and lots of hard work, his soccer skills are developing rapidly and setting Shou well on his way to achieving his dream.



Tags: Male Protagonist , Football , Primarily Male Cast , School , Shounen , Bullying , Foreign , CGI , Educational

SLAM DUNK

Also known as Slam Dunk.

Studio: Toei Animation , TV Asahi , Funimation , Animax
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life , Sports

Hanamichi Sakuragi, an entering Shohoku high school freshman holds a record for being rejected by 50 girls during middle school. His nearly 2 meters height and bright red hair causes most students to write him off as a delinquent.

One day, a girl named Haruko Akagi approaches Hanamichi without any fear. When she asks Hanamichi: "do you like basketball?" Hanamichi falls head over heels for the girl of his dreams. Without missing a beat, Hanamichi tells her he loves basketball, and the two head to the gymnasium where Hanamichi learns about the slam dunk. He also learns of Rukawa, one of the country’s top basketball prospects, also a freshman at Shohoku.



Tags: Basketball , Shounen , School , Educational , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Delinquents

DAYS

Also known as DAYS.

Studio: MAPPA , Pony Canyon
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

The anime centers on two boys who were never meant to meet: Tsukushi Tsukamoto, who has no special skills but secretly hides a passionate heart, and Jin Kazama, an isolated soccer genius. On a stormy night, the two meet, and that meeting creates a whirlwind in the world of high school soccer.



Tags: Football , Primarily Male Cast , School Club , School , Shounen , Coming of Age , Bullying

Moero! Top Striker

Also known as Top Striker.

Studio: Nippon Animation , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

Hikaru Kicker is a 13-year-old boy who loves football. He has grown up playing with a football at all times ever since his father's friend gave him one when he was still only a baby.

Hikaru goes to Italy to learn the sport. He first joins a strong team at Genova, but soon quits this team to join an extremely weak team named "Columbus" with his female friend Anna.

Experiencing many hardships and difficulties, their team gradually becomes stronger and stronger, and finally they defeat Margerita, one of the strongest soccer teams in Genova.

Soon Hikaru hears that Genova will stage its first soccer tournament. Throughout the tournament, Hikaru and his teammates confront many rivals and develop increasing maturity.

Can Hikaru score a goal and which team will win the championship?



Tags: Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Football

Offside (TV)

Also known as OFFSIDE.

Studio: Animax , Ashi Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Goro Kumagaya is an established, tall middle-school goalkeeper who wanted to enter Yokonan high-school that is considered to be among the elites in terms of its football club, only to fail and end up in the lowly-ranked school opposite to Yokonan because of an accident. However, he met Shingo, Hideki and Kazuhito Oda who are all skillful footballers there and together in the Kawasaki High School football club, they challenge Yokonan and any other schools that they have to face in order to improve and become the champions. Any setbacks that they face would instead be an opportunity for a better improvement; one of which was the discovery of Goro's natural talent as an ace striker.



Tags: School Club , Football , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Love Triangle , Foreign , Primarily Teen Cast

Blue Lock

Also known as BLUE LOCK.

Studio: 8-bit , Bandai Namco Filmworks , Kodansha , Bandai Namco Music Live , TV Asahi , Crunchyroll , BANDAI SPIRITS , Toy's Factory
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Japan’s desire for World Cup glory leads the Japanese Football Association to launch a new rigorous training program to find the national team’s next striker. Three hundred high school players are pitted against each other for the position, but only one will come out on top. Who among them will be the striker to usher in a new era of Japanese soccer?



Tags: Football , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Athletics , Primarily Male Cast , Battle Royale , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , Revenge , Augmented Reality , CGI , Super Power , Boys' Love , Tragedy , Language Barrier , Acting

Captain Tsubasa J

Studio: NAS , Studio Jack , Studio Comet
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

The first 33 episodes are a summary of the previous series. In the first new episodes a new character, Shingo Aoi, (playing in Italy) is introduced. After that the world cup begins, this time with extraordinary, new countries like Sweden, Thailand or Uzbekistan. Unfortunately the Anime ends in the middle of the world cup after the match Japan-Uzbekistan.



Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Football