Football Manga 'Area no Kishi' To Be Animated

by dtshyk
Sep 15, 2011 11:04 PM | 71 Comments

According to Weekly Shonen Magazine, Igano Hiroaki and Tsukiyama Kaya's manga "Area no Kishi" was announced to get an anime adaptation.

Area no Kishi manga official website

Source: Scan of WSM

Area no Kishi on MAL

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they made Seven's hair too brown :( its supposed to be a lighter color

Dec 29, 2011 5:28 PM by xTachibana

Best news i've heard for ages. This is my favourite manga, and i was thrilled in learning it will get its own anime. Why can't it be January now, oh well. Merry Christmas everyone. BEST PRESENT EVER!!! :S ~ end fan girl rant. Anyoe thinking of watching this, i suggest you do so. This manga isn't just about soccer, it has so much more to offer, and if the anime holds true to the manga most will surely need a few tissues at some point in this show. :)

Dec 25, 2011 9:45 PM by Kyupen

Tenchi_Ryu said:
Hell if I know......but to get butthurt over people thinking it meant American Football is retarded.

I guess I'll have to agree, but calling American football

RyanSaotome said:
real football

is even more retarded.

There's no such thing as "real" football, there are just 2 kinds of it.

Dec 8, 2011 12:28 PM by Tiago97

Tiago97 said:

Tenchi_Ryu said:
Site created by an american.....Good portion of users here american.....

Facepalm at the people thinking a facepalm was needed in the first place.

Then why does the title of the thread say "football"?

Hell if I know......but to get butthurt over people thinking it meant American Football is retarded.

Dec 8, 2011 12:26 PM by Tenchi_Ryu

Tenchi_Ryu said:
Site created by an american.....Good portion of users here american.....

Facepalm at the people thinking a facepalm was needed in the first place.

Then why does the title of the thread say "football"?

Dec 8, 2011 12:10 PM by Tiago97

Site created by an american.....Good portion of users here american.....

Facepalm at the people thinking a facepalm was needed in the first place.

Dec 8, 2011 12:00 PM by Tenchi_Ryu

RyanSaotome said:
Aw, I got excited and thought it was real football, not soccer.

Why can't I hold all of this facepalm.

Dec 8, 2011 11:43 AM by walktheplank

Sounds cliché.

But it's shounen + sports.
COUNT ME IN.

Dec 8, 2011 4:49 AM by Tiago97

i`m really looking forward to this i like the story since it`s not the normal stories you see in soccer mangas and animes

Nov 30, 2011 8:18 PM by setogirl2

GrayArchon said:

halberdiers said:
I'm not really sure if I'll be looking forward to this, I mean the manga doesn't even have enough chapters out for an entire 25 ep season... Anime creators these days are getting desperate.

What are you talking about? Aera no Kishi has over 200 chapters out. Even if it's pacing is glacial, which I doubt, that's more than enough for a season.

Bumping topic up~~

i won't actually be surprised if the anime ends up overtaking the current manga scanlation releases, like what happened with giant killing XD

Nov 22, 2011 3:11 AM by vanerz

Oh yes, I love sports animes <3

Sep 19, 2011 9:04 PM by Shancakeschan

What are you talking about? Aera no Kishi has over 200 chapters out. Even if it's pacing is glacial, which I doubt, that's more than enough for a season.

Sep 19, 2011 3:31 PM by GrayArchon

Some interesting football mangas out there, this one has a good back story to it as well, hopefully they can bring it out well enough =P

Wouldn't mind a fantasista anime :P

Sep 19, 2011 6:41 AM by Veredra

Sounds like it could be as good as Giant Killing.

Though instead of a new football anime I'd rather they make another season of Giant Killing. But this seems to have potential too.

Sep 18, 2011 1:57 PM by Alcoholicide

halberdiers said:

Adol_Christin said:

By the way, about Area no Kishi, is it going to be realistic like Giant Killing of more special like Captain Tsubasa and Izuma Eleven?

Well it's definitely more realistic than both captain tsubasa and izuma eleven but don't expect it to be too realistic since it's a manga. If I had to describe it it'll be school kids displaying moves even zidane or ronaldinho would be proud of yet not as flashy as tsubasa.

I'm not really sure if I'll be looking forward to this, I mean the manga doesn't even have enough chapters out for an entire 25 ep season... Anime creators these days are getting desperate.

playing the its noy gonna be realistic card i crap when the other big spotrs manga on the last 20 yaers has the Main Chacter with the worst fighting style in History of Boxing

Sep 18, 2011 4:01 AM by DateYutaka

Adol_Christin said:

By the way, about Area no Kishi, is it going to be realistic like Giant Killing of more special like Captain Tsubasa and Izuma Eleven?

Sep 18, 2011 3:50 AM by halberdiers

Sounds interesting...maybe it'll be the next Eyeshield 21.

Sep 17, 2011 9:55 AM by malvarez1

pokymon said:
For the millionth time i'll repeat myself to yankees...It's football, not soccer

and

archiemouse said:
...though most if not all sub groups are american, them calling it soccer is really going to annoy me -_-

Why always whine and bash american about calling Football "Soccer"? For your information, Japanese call it "Soccer" too but strangely I never read anywhere "Stop calling it "soccer" you japanese dumb!". Same thing goes for Australian and South African.

And even Italian do not call it Football (Piede Pallonne) nor Soccer but "Calcio". Is it that bad? Come on, cut the crap, football or soccer (which basicaly is a contraction of "Football Association" which is the original real name of football) is the same thing and you can call it like you want.

By the way, about Area no Kishi, is it going to be realistic like Giant Killing of more special like Captain Tsubasa and Izuma Eleven?

Sep 17, 2011 9:33 AM by Adol_Christin

Will definitely check out.

Sep 17, 2011 8:15 AM by holypoop

For the millionth time i'll repeat myself to yankees...It's football, not soccer

Sep 17, 2011 3:25 AM by pokymon

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