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Wow so much complaining -_-

Put whatever label on it as you very well damn please, if that'll make you happy.
My own personal fact is that I LOVE this anime. And I don't care for labels. And the only complaining you'll hear from me is if they don't make 2nd season.


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Back to episode 22.
Gino is awesome. That's all.

And FABULOUS~

While I would agree with you about ZweiTheBadAss being unnecessarily rude, I think you´re missing the main point.

There IS a plan. The PLAYERS know about it.
The viewers(me, you, everyone here) are the ones who don´t fully understand it yet.

You have to keep in mind that the team has been preparing for this match for DAYS. It´s pretty obvious that the "general plan" has already been presented for them several times. Tatsumi just doesn´t like to repeat himself during the match, and the author CLEARY likes to keep his readers/viewers in the dark until the last moment.

There are some guys here who are acting like this is the first "long" game in this season. It is not.

We had the Tokyo Victory match AND the Nagoya Grand Palace match. In BOTH of them, we´ve seen well displayed tactics(exploiting Mikumo´s pride, exploiting Itagaki´s lack of experience in his new position, making Carlos move up on the field on purpose to weaken the defense...), and in BOTH games, the readers/viewers just got an explanation AFTER such events took place.

I fail to see why the Osaka Gunners match would be any different.



...you do know that, putting Murakoshi´s epic second goal against Tokyo Victory aside, ETU didn´t score a single goal against stronger teams in this show without using some sort of trick or setup?

No tactics? I really don´t know what you´re talking about.




Meh. The anime adaptation really is inferior to the manga(which is PURE AWESOMENESS), but I think it deserves a 7.5, at the very least(with the manga being a solid 9).

I have to completely agree with this.
Especially the part about Gino being awesome.


For those of you that think Tatsumi has no "plan," isn't it obvious as hell he told all the players before the game (and they are withholding from laying out Tatsumi's plans so obviously to the viewers to make it more interesting?)

Watching Giant Killing is not like watching real soccer. It is the game from a completely different angle.


I WILL BE SO SAD IF THERE IS NO SEASON 2!!

It's amazing how people think motivation = shounen. I'm serious. I haven't laughed that hard in awhile. Giant Killing is far from a shounen. Tatsumi doesn't necessarily believe his team will win, but as long as they band together and figure out what plays are helping and what isn't, that's all a true coach cares about. How is this anime unrealistic? I'd say their season is pretty realistic to me, considering some of the talent they do have and some that is well, working its way up. It's just amazing how people think if one team who has struggled beats an undefeated a team, it's a shounen or unrealistic. Have you never seen a comeback in REAL sports? Does the 1980 men's hockey Olympic game (Russia vs the US) ring any bells?

As for the episode, this shows that they have learned their mistakes. Now they need to fix their offensive problems, but with Natsuki as the main forward, it's going to be difficult.

Sloppy and unrealistic sports episode as usual. This series is going down each time it's coming to an actuall football match, and this match in particular is extremely painful to watch.

well, time for a comeback

The problem with Giant Killing as always been the pacing of the matchs, they go to fast or drag on to much, with that one magic play. They just leave you waiting for that one amazing play its horrid waiting for it.

Thats why most sports anime are 50+ or have more then one season.Giant killing as so much going for it with characters and so on, it really started out good and very enjoyable. Then it went flat and never made a good come back. When I started this show I was thinking, I couldn't give it below a 7 as a score, but I don't know now. Going to pick up the manga, it has to be 1000x better.

Enjoying the games does help you win a match comparing to those who does, it gives players boost of energy to make the extra effort. ETU still can win this game, they got great striker Natsu, great passer, Gino and the fast wing Tsubaki... next is to see how the other players work with them.

Right now the defense picked up the pace of Gunner's striking team, and Sugie will probably drain Kubota's enjoyment he got there in the first half. I can clearly see this game on ETU's side. The last thing they need should be time.

Tatsumi is more like a psychologist than a coach.




That's a little bullshit though because no matter the preparation, a coach always changes tactics depending on the events developing on the field. Especially if his team is losing 2-0.

That was the point of that entire scene, actually.
Everyone was expecting Tatsumi to CHANGE tactics, but he didn't. If you watch that scene again, you'll see that he even tells them that "Osaka didn't leave the pitch without also taking damage".

In other words: stick to the plan. It IS working, you guys just lost sight of that because we're losing.

And I agree about Tatsumi: despite what he says, he loves psychology. Even as a player, he loved to mess with his opponents by using mind tricks(as shown in the manga).

Personally I'm enjoying this match a lot~ :P Maybe because I'm a shounen fag~~

No, you just have a tendency to complain a lot, the fact of the matter is you're looking for realism in an anime. And my apologies for misspelling amatuer, I am glad you found that one flaw as noone else has ever misspelled a word before after all. And if you have seen the previous episodes, which I hope you have, the plans Tatsumi relays to the team are never shown but explained during the game.

Mada Mada Dane.

What's important that is all of Gino, Kuroda, and Sugie got back on their feet.

so it's only natural that ETU might present us with something different in the second half, the only problem remaining is Natuski and how he will overcome Osaka's defense.

First of all, if you guys have so much to complain about, why the hell are you watching all the way to episode 22? If you don't enjoy this series, quit watching it.

Anyways, I personally liked Tatsumi's halftime advise. If they stick to his well thought out plan and are optimistic about it, I'm sure they have a good chance to make a comeback in the second half. After all, we still haven't seen ETU at its full potential.