Inazuma Eleven

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Japanese: イナズマイレブン

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Type: TV

Episodes: 127

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 5, 2008 to Apr 27, 2011

Premiered: Fall 2008

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: TV Tokyo, Dentsu, Half H.P Studio

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: OLM

Source: Game

Genre: Sports

Themes: Super Power, Team Sports

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: G - All Ages

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Score: 7.72¹ (scored by 131,979 users)

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Ranked: #1184²

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Popularity: #1127

Members: 215,044

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Synopsis

While other schools in Japan compete for the title of being the best soccer team in the country, Raimon Middle School's soccer club, Inazuma Eleven, struggles to rise from the verge of being disbanded. The grandson of Inazuma Eleven's first generation goalkeeper and captain of the team, Mamoru Endou, takes the challenge of kicking the long neglected club back into shape. To do this, he'll need a little help and more than a little luck.

Mamoru Endou finds hope in the hands of Shuuya Gouenji, a brilliant young player who has given up on soccer. Mamoru is determined to get Shuuya and other new recruits to join his team, no matter what the cost. Is his passion and determination enough to treat the ailing club? Or is there no more hope for the team?

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Background

Inazuma Eleven first started out as a sports role-playing game for the Nintendo DS. The series has had numerous sequels since then. The manga was first published in the Shogakukan CoroCoro Comic and the anime series was produced by game developer Level-5 along with TV Tokyo and OLM. The anime aired in numerous countries around Asia and Europe. Aside from the anime, manga and video games, there is also an animated film and guidebooks for the series.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Endou, Mamoru

Main

Takeuchi, Junko
Japanese

Gouenji, Shuuya

Main

Nojima, Hirofumi
Japanese

Kidou, Yuuto

Main

Yoshino, Hiroyuki
Japanese

Fubuki, Shirou

Supporting

Miyano, Mamoru
Japanese

Kiyama, Hiroto

Supporting

Mizushima, Daichuu
Japanese

Afuro, Terumi

Supporting

Sanpei, Yuuko
Japanese

Kazemaru, Ichirouta

Supporting

Nishigaki, Yuka
Japanese

Fudou, Akio

Supporting

Kaji, Yuuki
Japanese

Midorikawa, Ryuuji

Supporting

Kodaira, Yuuki
Japanese

Tsunami, Jousuke

Supporting

Sakaguchi, Shuuhei
Japanese

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Akiyama, Katsuhito

Director

Mima, Masafumi

Sound Director

Tsuda, Naokatsu

Episode Director

Fujimoto, Jirou

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Opening Theme

	1: "Tachiagariyo" by T-Pistonz (eps 1-26)
	2: "Maji de kansha!" by T-Pistonz+KMC (eps 27-54)
	3: "Tsunagariyo" by T-Pistonz+KMC (eps 55-67)
	4: "Katte nakou ze!" by T-Pistonz+KMC (eps 68-87)
	5: "GOOD Kita!" by T-Pistonz+KMC (eps 88-107)
	6: "Bokura no Goal!" by T-Pistonz+KMC (eps 108-127)

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Ending Theme

	1: "Seishun oden" by Twe'lv (eps 1-26)
	2: "Seishun bus guide" by Berryz Kobo (eps 27-50)
	3: "Ryuusei boy" by Berryz Kobo (eps 51-67)
	4: "Otakebi boy WAO!" by Berryz Kobo (eps 68-87)
	5: "Maji Bomber!" by Berryz Kobo (eps 88-101)
	6: "Shining Power" by Berryz Kobo (eps 102-112)
	7: "Mata ne... no Kisetsu" by Inazuma All-Stars (eps 113-127)

Reviews

Feb 21, 2024

Raijin_-_

Recommended

Inazuma Eleven stands tall as a timeless classic, a beacon of nostalgia and inspiration that continues to captivate audiences with its boundless energy and unwavering spirit. As a fervent admirer of this remarkable series, I can attest to its enduring appeal and unmatched brilliance in the realm of sports anime.

From the moment I first laid eyes on this masterpiece I was entranced by its electrifying action, endearing characters, and heartfelt storytelling. The series effortlessly blends the thrill of soccer with elements of friendship, determination, and teamwork, creating a captivating narrative that resonates with viewers of all ages.

As a child, I was drawn to the vibrant ...

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May 17, 2017

ViniciusAlves

Mixed Feelings

Inazuma Eleven is what you would expect from a kids' sport Anime. Full of sparks and over-the-top flashy moves, but little to none substance or story depth. I'm totally not against the characters having super powers, but when this overused feature starts damaging the actually good on-going action, it doesn't work for me. The characters can apparently freeze time or increase the length of the soccer/football field so they can do one of their signature techniques (which makes no sense by the way, it just alter how strong the shoot will be, apart from some few dribble moves). I was also bothered by the repetitive ...

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Mar 14, 2024

Ruxenus

Not Recommended

Preliminary (26/127 eps)

The least worth to watch anime in my tierlist as someone who currently has 1,445 episodes of various anime series watched. I watched Inazuma Eleven about 10 years ago as a kid on TV with no internet, and back then I felt a shame that they showed only 26 episodes on the TV channel. In present, I would thank TV director or whoever stopped Inazuma Eleven from keep on going. As an adult I think if I watched 27th episode back then, it could make me become so silly in life. Personally, from all anime when I had no internet like Bakugan, Pokemon... only Doreamon ... has a possibilty of being more useless than Inazuma Eleven but I don't even know if I even saw first episode of Doraemon so I can't add it to my list in appropriate way, that leaves Inazuma Eleven.

So since Inazuma Eleven might always be the worst anime on my anime list, let me get to details why this show is completely not worth for people who have objectives in life or just want to be the best/smartest/most mature:
1. Story 3/10.
First episode - first exciting matc- uh sorry I mean: kids probably without magic just lost to kids with actual magic and villain team trainer drives his hugee sci-fi truck into losers' football school leaving everything in ruins. If that wasn't ironic enough, keepers of peace in the world can never do anything about that. That's prologue to us, you probably don't want to hear more silly stories from this show, so let me get to overall story now. As I mentioned there is a villain who is a manager for Teikoku - a team that is said to be the best football team in Japan, the villain's goal is to destroy all football schools in Japan or even the world, so that his team will always be the best. The main character Endou Mamouru from Inazuma Eleven team gathers all friends for the match against team Teikoku. Boring? Well, they have magical techniques to handle the soccer ball... they just need to learn to use their organs, muscles and bones in the specific way. Don't expect a hidden more complex explanation than this. Additionally, it seems you can never learn other peoplet's techniques unless they are your family. Most people I talked about are just kids, because for some reason adults don't play football in this universe, except Endou's grandfather. The story detail holes are uncountable. The only true value of the story I caught that is still too common is to fight for your dreams, but it's just said by a main character who wants football to live forever, his argumenting is too simple anyway.

2. Art 3/10.
Every scene outside of kicking the ball is going to be so lazy, without deeper object details. Like I would really recommend this anime to people who has never watched anime to show that Japanese artists are different from old american cartoons' artists. Remember this: soccer field = high quality and creativity, any other field = culturally known anime tropes. You may say 'hey maybe art then isn't that bad? Just skip to football match', well the minus about soccer field scenes is that the magical techniques I mentioned before have names, and for magical techinque to work, users have to scream technique's name out loud and have exactly THE SAME animation and camera angles when they perform them! This fact just makes serious people look away from the screen the 4th time they see the same animation. If they didn't put high quality into these techinques then I would have to put 2/10 for art.

3. Sound 2/10.
I'm sorry but I won't even believe if you tell me that Inazuma Eleven OST, openings and endings help you think straight about difficullt problems. Especially if you say that you prefer english dub of the first opening over japanese or that second opening has creative lyrics. Everything about sound in this show is low quality, low effort work. Music enjoyers would get ill from being forced to listen to these songs and soundtracks. Also, who would say they like underage low quality girls with woman voice singing like in a bar for drunk adults in ending 1? Also wow, all the lyrics are really relatable and analitic to the story of the show, nah I am gonna stop with that additional sarcasms from now on.

4. Characters 3/10.
Endou Mamoru is the captain of Inazuma Eleven team and the main character, but not that original, his personality is too close to Naruto, oh yea Naturo's voice actor voiced him too. 2 other main characters are: Shuuya Gouenji - a random quiet and skilled guy who might have schizophremia of his sister and will protect her from soccer ball hitting her; Yuuto Kidou - the captain of Teikoku team, yeah the team whose manager adult destroys all football schools whose teams lose to him, and Yuuto sees nothing illegal in that. 90% of side characters you'll see will never get a complex/deep story, there won't even be flashbacks of the past for most of them. Truly, even a preschooler could create these character designs and their simple stories. The only thing saves it from 2/10 is that characters don't have soulless mimics and you are still able to feel them, just not often enough.

5. Enjoyment 4/10.
This rank of enjoyment is higher than any other aspect, because this anime somehow kept on going (It looks like some future arc ended Inazuma Eleven story in 2018) and never got cancelled. Maybe if I analyzed very deeply, I would say that show is somehow enjoyable but I will never say that it's not addictive, it is and it's more addictive for kids than adults of course for useless reasons. When I watched it 10 years ago the most enjoyable scene was the preview on the end of 26th episode. Preview the most enjoyable from the whole show? Pff, almost all anime fans don't even watch previews, how could anyone explain solidly why would this show be actually enjoyable? The another reason for enjoyment 4/10 is that at least it's different from real life football and that the anime didn't copy any other sport anime, but I'd still rather watch real life The World/Continent Cup Finals over any episode of this show and I don't even like football.

6. Overall 3/10.
To all anime fans, even if I didn't watch enough of sports anime yet, I think almost all sport shows would be more valuable than Inazuma Eleven, at least you can have much better expectations for Haikyu!! or Blue Lock. To kids, most of you will feel a regret and a little of cringe someday if you watched over 10 episodes, but don't worry as you can see I watched this as a kid too, what's important to do about shows you think are bad is to be confident and figure out the smart reasons for why the specific show is bad, smart enough to get majority of people on your side. To adults, don't try to finish a kids show in adolscent period, some people may think about you wrongly if they hear you enjoy watching kids show.
Conclusion of the review: only kids can enjoy Inazuma Eleven, and creators of this show may have not worked hard enough, but even if it's the worst anime on my list, it doesn't mean I want any changes to be made about this show, it's just that people won't learn almost any of valuable threads of an use in real life from watching this show.

I rank anime by a scale of what in my opinion is worth to watch, anime that will teach you some serious or even comedical knowledge/attitudes in order to be a mature, adequate and respected person worldwide, and this anime is the least worth from those that I have watched.

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