Anime like Whistle!

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

Captain Tsubasa: Road to 2002

Also known as Captain Tsubasa.

Studio: MADHOUSE
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

Tsubasa becomes a superstar amongst soccer players in Brazil. He is now planning to play in Europe. At an important must-win game, as the fans cheer him on, Tsubasa looks back at the days when he started his soccer life. His passion to make goals and win the game is as strong as it was during his childhood. He recalls the games and moments that had decisive impact on his life. He remembers Goalkeeper Wakabayashi, Genius striker Hyuga, tender-hearted Misaki and Coach Roberto. He was happy to meet them, enjoyed playing with them, and learned many things from them. The whistle sounds and the game begins. Tsubasa dashes for the ball!



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

Area no Kishi

Also known as The Knight in the Area.

Studio: TV Asahi , Shin-Ei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

The Knight in the Area tells the stories of middle and high school students as they grow up through their soccer clubs, compete in national tournaments, and strive for world titles. Main character Kakeru, his respected elder brother Suguru, and childhood friend Nana Mishima, along with all the teammates, rivals from other schools, and world class soccer players around him radiate their own brilliant light as they face adolescence with all their strength. The story also incorporates the strong bond between Kakeru and Suguru, the love of their family, the friendship of their teammates and rivals, and fleeting first loves... all coming together to ignite passion in the hearts of all viewers.



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

Hungry Heart: Wild Striker

Studio: Nippon Animation , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Sports

Kyosuke Kano has lived under the shadow of his successful brother Seisuke all his life who is a professional soccer player. Tired of being compared and downgraded at, he abandoned playing soccer until a boy from his new highschool discovered him and asked him to join their team. Kyosuke joins it and befriends two other first year players named Rodrigo and Sakai with the dream of becomming professional soccer players themselves.



Tags: Football , Shounen , School Club , Primarily Male Cast

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 , Shounen , School Club , Coming of Age , Bullying

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 , Ensemble Cast , School Club , Ojou-sama

Captain Tsubasa (2018)

Also known as Captain Tsubasa (2018).

Studio: David Production , Warner Bros. Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

Remake of the first series.

Tsubasa Oozora is an 11-year-old elementary school student who is deeply in love with football and dreams of one day winning the FIFA World Cup for Japan. He lives together with his mother in Japan, while his father is a seafaring captain who travels around the world. 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 agrees to compete and see who was the best soccer player there.



Tags: Football , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Primarily Male Cast , Coming of Age , School Club , Primarily Child Cast , Time Skip

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

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