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“Struggling football club ETU hires eccentric ex-player Tatsumi as coach to achieve giant-killing success against wealthier rivals.”
Giant Killing
GIANT KILLING
8.03
775 rank · 14,739 readers · 346 favorites
Seinen
Team Sports
Award Winning
Drama
Sports
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Synopsis
Struggling football club ETU hires eccentric ex-player Tatsumi as coach to achieve giant-killing success against wealthier rivals.
East Tokyo United has been struggling in Japan's top football league for a few years. In an effort to improve their performance, ETU hires a new coach, the slightly eccentric Tatsumi Takeshi. Tatsumi was once a star player on ETU before abandoning the team, but has proven himself as manager of an English amateur team. The task won't be easy as the teams pitted against ETU have bigger budgets and better players. However, Tatsumi is an expert at Giant Killing. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Community consensus
Derived from 8 sampled reviews
8.9
/10
What 8 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 9
σ 0.60
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Strong agreement
σ 0.60 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 0.13
Running avg · Mar 2010 → Oct 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “Giant killing is an actual soccer manga, unlike most of the bullshit soccer mangas such as captain tsubasa or inazuma eleven. Instead of focusing on just one player who is so awesome that he will...”
- 10 “Giant killing is one of the Mangas which cover almost all the aspects of a Football club from players to Mangment to fans. It has everything a sports manga should have and from my pov I rate it as...”
- 9 “Like Captain Tsubasa and some other sports manga Giant killing is a football manga. The stroy sets in Japan League with the club East Tokyo United facing the crisis. Ex-Star and manager of a...”
Verbosity
Short · 50%
Medium · 13%
Long · 38%
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A Manga Publication
- Published Jan 2007 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M9172 catalog