“Failed elite goalkeeper Goro joins low-ranked Kawasaki High, becomes ace striker, and leads team to challenge top schools.”
Offside (TV)
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Synopsis
Failed elite goalkeeper Goro joins low-ranked Kawasaki High, becomes ace striker, and leads team to challenge top schools.
Goro Kumagaya is an established, tall middle-school goalkeeper who wanted to enter Yokonan high-school that is considered to be among the elites in terms of its football club, only to fail and end up in the lowly-ranked school opposite to Yokonan because of an accident. However, he met Shingo, Hideki and Kazuhito Oda who are all skillful footballers there and together in the Kawasaki High School football club, they challenge Yokonan and any other schools that they have to face in order to improve and become the champions. Any setbacks that they face would instead be an opportunity for a better improvement; one of which was the discovery of Goro's natural talent as an ace striker. (Source: ANN)
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Running avg · Oct 2009 → Feb 2026
- 10 “This show was such a good watch!! Keep in mind that it released in 2001. Many people would not want to watch it, thinking it's old and not worth it, but for its time the anime had a solid plot,...”
- 10 “This anime is one of my favorite sports animes specially when I was a child Story : A rather huge looking goalkeeper ( who is also very innocent) ends up not going to the exam of one of the soccer...”
- 10 “highly recommend this anime if you like old classics.sadly the anime has no further contination. Plot: After failing to enter a prestigious soccer school, Goro attends Kawasaki High (Kawako),...”
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- Format 39 × 23′ eps × min
- Total runtime 14h 57m all episodes
- Aired May 2001 – Jan 2002 Spring 2001
- Source Tv media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-4004 catalog
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- Animax Producer