Inazuma Eleven: Orion no Kokuin

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Japanese: イナズマイレブンオリオンの刻印

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Type: TV

Episodes: 49

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 5, 2018 to Sep 27, 2019

Premiered: Fall 2018

Broadcast: Fridays at 17:55 (JST)

Producers: TV Tokyo, Dentsu

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: OLM

Source: Game

Genre: Sports

Theme: Team Sports

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: G - All Ages

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Ranked: #4564²

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The moment of reckoning has arrived as the illustrious Football Frontier International is finally underway. After winning the national Football Frontier, the newly assembled Raimon Junior High School soccer team awaits the announcement of Inazuma Japan—the team of players who will represent Japan at the international tournament. Asuto Inamori, along with the "Demon of the Field" Ryouhei Haizaki and the "Emperor of the Pitch" Yuuma Nosaka, quickly realize that they are up against forces far greater and more powerful than they anticipated.

In Inazuma Eleven: Orion no Kokuin, mysterious powers are at play within the tournament that threatens to alter the course of history and the game of soccer itself. With the help of their cunning coach Zhao Jinyun and the inexplicable newcomer Ichihoshi Mitsuru, Inazuma Japan must defend the world of soccer in their most difficult challenge yet.

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Inazuma Eleven: Ares no Tenbin

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Characters & Voice Actors

Nosaka, Yuuma

Main

Fukuyama, Jun
Japanese

Haizaki, Ryouhei

Main

Kamiya, Hiroshi
Japanese

Ichihoshi, Hikaru

Main

Oomachi, Tomohiro
Japanese

Inamori, Asuto

Main

Murase, Ayumu
Japanese

Ichihoshi, Mitsuru

Main

Oomachi, Tomohiro
Japanese

Fubuki, Shirou

Supporting

Miyano, Mamoru
Japanese

Endou, Mamoru

Supporting

Takeuchi, Junko
Japanese

Gouenji, Shuuya

Supporting

Nojima, Hirofumi
Japanese

Kidou, Yuuto

Supporting

Yoshino, Hiroyuki
Japanese

Kiyama, Hiroto

Supporting

Mizushima, Takahiro
Japanese

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Hino, Akihiro

Director, Original Creator, Series Composition

Kamakura, Yumi

Director

Haraguchi, Noboru

Sound Director

Miyoshi, Keiichirou

Sound Director

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Opening Theme

	1: "Butai wa Dekkai Hou ga Ii! (舞台はデッカイほうがいい！)" by pugcat's (eps 1-21)
	2: "Chikyuu wo Kick! (地球をキック！)" by pugcat's (eps 22-??)

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Ending Theme

	1: "Suisei Girls (彗星ガールズ)" by alom (eps 1-21)
	2: "Summer Zombie (サマーゾンビ)" by alom (eps 22-36)
	3: "Asu e no Bye Bye (明日へのBye Bye)" by Urashimasakatasen (浦島坂田船) (eps 37-??)

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Oct 1, 2019

vradmic

Not Recommended

It hurts, as a big Inazuma Eleven fan who watched the franchise ever since the first season of Inazuma Eleven was still airing, to give such a low rating for an Inazuma Eleven franchise. But... here we are.

I waited until I watched every episode of this to know for sure whether or not I would be certain of my decision, and having watched all 49 episodes I can say this with no regret: I am really disappointed with what Orion has become.

I also make a handful of references to the other installments of Inazuma Eleven in this review to try and emphasize my point.

Story (3/10) ... - All right, so those watching Orion will directly notice several things. Orion takes inspiration from the other Inazuma Eleven seasons, every one of them if you want to analyze every little frame, and this was a nice idea. It would serve as a little bit of an easter egg for the faithful fans who have watched every episode of every season where we could go "Ah, that came from Galaxy, and that one came from the Aliea Academy arc!"... but the execution of everything is horrid, there is no other way to describe it. By trying too hard to reference everything, Orion ends up in this weird space where it cannot stand out from the others. Sure there are only so few plot ideas they could have gone for with what is effectively Inazuma Eleven's eighth arc, but it really feels very weak. Orion also suffers from the same pacing problem that Ares had, but then cranked up to an eleven (more on that in the Enjoyment part of this review). In short, the story tried to focus on one specific plot point but it ended up becoming a rushed mess that, honestly, was quite all over the place.

Art (4/10) - With a new franchise come new techniques and new animation techniques to, well... animate the techniques. The animation of all the new techniques introduced in Orion (and there are a lot of them!) has certainly improved, but none barring one (maybe two) of these were techniques that left me with a spark and in awe.
Orion also does this thing where they have goal celebrations from the characters of the main team, especially in the first half of Orion. I know that there are goal celebrations in the other installments of Inazuma Eleven, but these somehow feel... choppy and kind of awkward. I am not that big of a fan of these if that was not obvious.

Sound (6/10) - The soundtracks of Inazuma Eleven has always been pretty good, and even though I feel like it has gone down with Ares and Orion, they're still pretty decent. I will also admit that I am a pretty big fan of the third ED of Orion and more than its OP, which is something I can't say I am since Maji Bomber all the way back in the original Inazuma Eleven's third season.

Character (2/10) - Oh boy... I could write this whole review just about the characters in Orion, but... let's try and just get to the point. The Inazuma Japan from the original Inazuma Eleven had sixteen members at any given time. The Inazuma Japan from Galaxy had thirteen members at most. Orion's Inazuma Japan starts out with nineteen members right from the first episode, which is a bigger problem than most people might realize. The characters themselves are perfectly fine, that's not the issue. What is the issue is that there is no way for us to bond with any of them as there is no feasible way for Orion to properly showcase any character growth whatsoever (except if you are one of the main characters).
The worst part of all this is that they were doing okay for the first half of Orion, because once it got to the world tournament they ended up ADDING characters to the main team. Sure we also lost some characters along the way, but we ended with a surplus of characters. And that would have been okay if those new additions got the respect they deserved, but the moment that they had their place in the spotlight they were sidelined almost immediately after. And that, to me, is sadder than if they had not been brought on to the team to begin with...

Enjoyment (1/10) - Let's just get this out of the way early: at some point, I ended up watching Orion not because I enjoyed it or because I wanted to know what would happen next, but to find out how they would try and salvage what was left to salvage.
On a very basic level, I could enjoy it when new techniques were shown. But the Inazuma Eleven fan inside of me knows that I was disappointed throughout the entire run of it. And it all can be concluded by one word: pacing. The pacing of Orion is, as much as it hurts me to say this about an Inazuma Eleven installment, horrible. There is almost no scene shown where characters are training their new techniques in the later episodes, making it seem like they "learned the technique out of nowhere" when they use them in the match. There is very minimal interactions going on between the characters to help us understand how their dynamic is with other characters that we do not know of already (I mean, Endou interacted with Kidou, sure, but we have seen Endou interact with Kidou all the time. Show him interacting with someone like Haizaki who he hasn't interacted with before). In addition, there was also very minimal downtime in between each match (downtime which could have been used to show character development or have them train a new technique together or something).
And the matches, ESPECIALLY the latter half of Orion, ends up being the two teams throwing around hissatsus left, right and center. Which, to be fair, I know is what Inazuma Eleven's matches is supposed to be about, but thanks to the lack of training scenes shown it seems like they are pulling those hissatsus out of thin air. I would be okay if that would be for the big final technique or whatever, but it happened almost all the time.

It says a lot about how disappointing this was when I enjoyed the start of Orion (say... the first 19 episodes) more than I did everything that followed. And, yes, I did rewatch the start of Orion again to confirm this.

Overall (3/10) - A really neat story idea all in all with a lot of potential, but with very poor execution and finishing which ended up ruining all of that. After having finished watching Orion, I really wish they just stopped with Inazuma Eleven after Galaxy ended. Maybe my hopes and expectations were too high and/or unrealistic for Orion, but the fact remains that I am disappointed with the final result.

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Oct 13, 2019

TakaCode

Not Recommended

Inazuma Eleven Ares was one of most disappointing series comebacks I've ever seen. The story was incredibly rushed thanks to it's dreadful pacing. The writing was shallow at best, most of the new characters sucked and the visuals were underwhelming .
It had some good moments but those moments didn't save the anime from being painfully disappointing.
Before Inazuma Eleven Ares finished airing OLM announced a squeal for it called Inazuma Eleven Orion. Like with many Inazuma Eleven fans I was super excited for it as I thought Orion would be the tasteful main course that would overshadow its amateur hour starter that was Ares. I thought ...

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Mar 4, 2021

StupidPerson878

Mixed Feelings

This anime has way to many characters like I have no idea what the writers were thinking. You want a shit ton of strikers for no reason? You want 3 goal keepers? Unlikeable characters? cough cough Goujin or characters with absolutely no personality? Like many the only reason I watched this was to see my favourite OG characters in action like the Fubuki brothers which I was most excited for but my excitement quickly faded. Fubuki barely had any screen time to begin with like all the other characters since there was simply to many but then they had to get him injured and become ...

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