Underplayed Gems

Ganbare, Kickers! (1986)

Ganbare, Kickers! poster
Original title
がんばれ!キッカーズ
Genre
sports manga
Country
Japan
Length
1 season, 26 episodes
Rated
TV-Y7
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 30 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young soccer team works hard to improve their skills and win matches. The story follows their training and competitions.

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What happens

Ganbare, Kickers! (Japanese: がんばれ!キッカーズ, Hepburn: Ganbare! Kikkāzu; transl. Fight! Kickers) is a soccer kid manga by Noriaki Nagai. It was published by Shogakukan in CoroCoro Comic magazine from 1985 to 1989 and collected into 20 volumes. The manga was turned into an anime series by Studio Pierrot in 1986–1988. It consists of 26 episodes and one OVA, but only 23 episodes aired in Japan during the initial broadcast from October 1986 to March 1987, and the last three instead aired as a TV special in January 1988. In 1988 the anime arrived to EMEA in its dubbed version and had some success in the Middle East (الهداف Al Haddaf), Iran (فوتبالیست‌ها), South Korea (내일은 축구왕), Italy (Palla al centro per Rudy), Portugal in 1994-1995 by RTP Canal1 (O Ponta de Lança), Spain (Supergol), France (But Pour Rudy), Poland (Piłkarze) and especially in Germany and Austria (Kickers). In Malaysia, the anime was aired on TV1 RTM in 1990s, Awesome TV in 2020. In Indonesia, the anime was aired on Indosiar in 1995–1997, TPI in 2003, Bali TV in 2005. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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