Anime like Area no Kishi

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 , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , School , Bullying , Time Skip

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 , Work , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Achronological Order

Ginga e Kickoff!!

Studio: NHK , NAS , NHK Enterprises , TYO Animations
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

The story follows a boy who was in a soccer team, but it was disbanded due to not enough players. However, after the boy meets a female professional soccer player, he aims to bring his soccer team back.



Tags: Football , Male Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Ensemble Cast , School

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

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 , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , School , Coming of Age , Bullying

Futsal Boys!!!!!

Also known as Futsal Boys!!!!!.

Studio: diomedéa , Bandai Namco Arts , Bandai Namco Entertainment , Live Viewing Japan , Good Smile Company
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

For the past 10-odd years, futsal has been booming across the world. After watching Tokinari Tennoji represent Japan in the U-18 World Cup, Haru Yamato aspires to be a player like him. He joins the Koyo Gakuen Futsal Club where he meets teammates Seiichiro Sakaki, a loner who refuses to pass the ball to anyone, and Toi Tsukioka, who is burdened by a past that nearly made him quit futsal for good.


Tags: Football , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Super Power , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Delinquents , Boys' Love

Cross Game

Also known as Cross Game.

Studio: SynergySP
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sports

The main character is Kou Kitamura, son of the owner of Kitamura Sports. In the same neighborhood is a batting center run by the Tsukishima family. Due to their proximity and the relationship between their businesses, the Kitamura and Tsukishima familes have been close for many years, with their children going back and forth between the two homes like extended family. Because Kou and Wakaba were the same age and always together, Aoba was jealous of all the time Kou spent with her older sister. Aoba is a natural pitcher with excellent form, and Kou secretly trains to become as good as she was, even while publicly showing little interest in baseball.

Tags: School Club , Baseball , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Tomboy , Tsundere , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Love Triangle , School , Time Skip , Shounen , Iyashikei

Sayonara Watashi no Cramer

Also known as Farewell, My Dear Cramer.

Studio: LIDENFILMS , Toy's Factory , DMM pictures , Kodansha
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

With no soccer accomplishments to speak of during the entirety of Sumire Suo’s junior high school years, the young wing gets an odd offer. Suo’s main rival, Midori Soshizaki, invites her to join up on the same team in high school, with a promise that she’ll never let Suo “play alone.” It’s an earnest offer, but the question is whether Suo will take her up on it. Thus the curtain opens on a story that collects an enormous cast of individual soccer-playing personalities!



Tags: Football , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , School Club , Ensemble Cast , Ojou-sama

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

Aoki Densetsu Shoot!

Studio: Toei Animation , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sports

Aoki Densetsu Shoot! (Shoot!!), is the story of Toshihiko Tanaka, Kenji Shiraishi, and Kazuhiro Hiramatsu. Three high school freshmen who have become best friends during their junior high years while playing soccer together. There they were known as the Kakenishi golden trio for their role in making Kakenishi Junior High`s soccer team into a force to be reckoned with. After junior high, all of them decided to go to the same high school, Kakegawa High, a school only founded a year before, because of their star soccer player, Yoshiharu Kubo, whom they had idolized.

This young man led Kakegawa High Soccer Club to the best 8 of their prefecture in their first ever appearance with a freshmen only team almost single-handedly. He refuses offers from a number of foreign professional soccer clubs so he can stay at Kake-High to lead them to the All-Japan High School Championship. As the three of them start playing soccer for Kake-High, they experience hardships, romance, and losses on their road to becoming the best Japanese high school soccer team - a team of legends.



Tags: Football , Delinquents , Shounen , School , Tragedy , Love Triangle