Days

"I want to put my life on the line to live."
- Tsukushi Tsukamoto

This anime teaches us that no matter what don't give up...you can't give up... don't blame yourself just because it didn't work for you...you can't call yourself a loser when you have the ability to change it if you put your hardest on the line. That what it's meant to live.

This story is about a boy named Tsukamoto who is physically weak yet mentally strong.On the first day of school, he gets invited by his classmate Kazama to a soccer match at night.While playing the game Kazama finds a hidden potential within ... Tsukamoto.Watch him as he unravels his abilities to become a cheer-leading runner ('outstanding').

It's different from all the others.
I like how they made the Tsukamoto a complete newbie at soccer. and the best of it that he got his own way of becoming a much of help to his team aside from being NOOB at soccer like his fresh character and his trait that can motivate his teammates.
Like:"It's always exceptional idiots like him that smash the status quo."
- Hisahito Mizuki.

I know I know that they exaggerate in his influence to the teammates but hey..... it's quite refreshing this kind of character from now and then.Right!!

To summarize:
-Story: 8/10
-Art: 9/10 (they put a remarkable effort in the football skills and techniques)
-Sound: 8/10 (nice OP and ED)
-Character: 9/10 (every character has its own charm)
-Enjoyment: 9/10
-Overall: 9/10

I think there's a lot of merit to judging an anime not on what it tells you, but what it shows you. Days, an anime about football, or American Soccer as it's called in the rust belt, wants to tell me that football is an exciting daring sport where any boy, beefy or lanky, can play his heart out. However, the message it shows is that football is a boring sport only Europeans could love. What's far, far more important is boys' love.

Look, there's only two reasons why anyone watches sports anime: to watch hot muscle boys fight each other, and to watch hot ... boys almost kiss each other. This anime flat out fails at the first and somewhat performs on the second. If there's a second season, we need more boys falling awkwardly on top of each other and looking into each others eyes. It's a football game, it should be happening like every other minute already.

You'll be too busy keeping a tally of the times the main characters almost kiss to notice anything about the sound design or the artistic direction. I can't even remember very much about the actual sports matches, and sometimes you'll see a football in the screen and think "Why is this in my Boys' Love anime? Is it supposed to symbolize something?" and then remember that this is supposed to be a sports anime.

This succeeds at being an anime. I can honestly praise it enough for that, and I probably have already praised it too much. I'd suggest watching this anime if you want to lose interest in football forever and make a transition to a sport less humiliating like lacrosse. I'd also suggest watching this if you're into boys' love because, boy oh boy, there's a lot of boy action in this anime.

Do you remember that family guy joke, where the truck with chocolate crashes into the truck with peanut butter, and makes reeses peanut butter cups? Stop watching family guy, throw out your football, pick up a lacrosse butterfly net and watch this anime.

I love the sports genre and played soccer for many years, so I started watching this anime as a hopeful viewer. My rating started high and kept declining as the season went on because the show lacked a few essential things:

While the show had a lot of promise, the character development was lacking. Tsukushi emulates the familiar sports trope “not very talented, but dedicated to practice every waking moment.” This was fine for me (but if you dislike that trope, run for the hills). I was interested to see how this show would set Tsukushi apart from other characters within that trope. Not only did ... the writers fail to distinguish him as a unique character, they failed to write the trope very well at all. Instead of fleshing out a diverse cast, the show kept revealing new backstories for incoming rivalry teams, giving characters one or two base traits to fall back on as the story moved forward. Tsukushi doesn’t really do anything exceptional throughout the season to demonstrate how he gets better at soccer (besides running around the school a bazillion times)—he just kind of does and the viewer has to accept that because every rivalry team reacts to his mediocre performance the same way. Even though this happens in other sports anime, because he wasn’t developed very well as a character, his success falls flat.

As for the gameplay, well, it was a bit hard to tell they were playing soccer at all. The animation in general was sparse when it came to the action of the show, and it was clear that the writers took some liberties to spice up the plot. Not that sports anime has ever stayed realistic to the sport itself—I wasn’t looking for authentic soccer. However, the animation of the gameplay did not make up for the long-winded conversations that occurred on the field (conversations that didn’t really do much to provide insight or emotion to the viewer).

Days is an anime that begins with some hopeful charm and ends with dissatisfaction.