Anime Detail

Akakichi no Eleven

赤き血のイレブン

TV Finished Airing PG-13 - Teens 13 or older Community Score: 6.57 Source: Unknown

Episodes: 52

Aired: Apr 13, 1970 to Apr 5, 1971

Duration: 25 min per ep

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At Shinsei high school, soccer is almost a combat sport and new team coach Teppei Matsuki is a fully paid up sadist who will push his team as hard as necessary to win. Headstrong school bad boy Shingo Tamai and his friend Ohira are determined not to be bullied into joining Matsuki's team; instead they set up a squad of their own, and at first play just for fun and struggle to keep up with Matsuki's team. As their skills progress, they play other teams and get stronger and craftier, until they face the crack Asakase high school squad and its star player Misugi Yan in the schools' final. In a tangle of subplots involving old rivalries and injuries, and a mixed-race player seeking his identity and his lost mother (who turns out to be in jail), Shingo develops his skills as a center forward and looks forward to playing a visiting Brazilian squad. He is seriously injured in a game, but his talent, which even the legendary Brazilian Pele recognizes, is equaled by his determination. With the help of a friend of his old rival Matsuki, he recovers to help the team to victory. Definitely melodrama rather than a sports series proper, this is the first in the line of Japanese soccer soaps that stretches to Captain Tsubasa and beyond. Based on a manga by Ikki Kajiwara and Kosei Sonoda. (Source: The Anime Ecyclopedia)

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Rank

7296

Popularity

11431

Episodes

52

Aired

Apr 13, 1970 to Apr 5, 1971

Duration

25 min per ep

Members / Favorites

2880 / 9

Studios

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Tokyo TV Douga

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Genre: Sports Theme: Team Sports

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Characters

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Tamai, Shingo

Tamai, Shingo

Main

Voice actors: Tanaka, Ryouichi, Bianchi, Rodolfo

Yamagata, Gojuurou

Yamagata, Gojuurou

Supporting

Voice actors: Kuwabara, Takeshi

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