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.
