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Aoki Densetsu Shoot! (蒼き伝説 シュート!
?) is a Japanese anime
produced by Toei
Animation between November 7, 1993 and December 25, 1994 on the
Fuji TV
television network; there were fifty-eight episodes. The story
revolves around a boy named Toshihiko Tanaka, who has just started
at Kakegawa High School in order to play soccer with his idol, Yoshiharu Kubo.
Toshi's friends are not interested in playing soccer again this year until
he convinces them to join the team. Soon, the team is entered into
the All-Japan High School Championship.
The series is based on the manga Shoot! by Tsukasa
Ōshima, which won the 1994 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen.[1]
Story
Toshihiko "Toshi" Tanaka joined the same soccer club that his
idol, Yoshiharu Kubo plays for at Kakegawa High School. When Toshi
played in junior high with two of his friends Kenji Shiraishi and
Kazuhiro Hiramatsu, they were known as the Kakenishi golden trio.
Now in high school, his friends do not want or cannot play soccer
anymore. Hiramatsu is forced to study by his father so that he
would become a respectable adult. However, Hiramatsu loves soccer
and wants to play so he confronted his father and says that he
wants to play soccer with his friends and that he would never
understand his love for soccer. It turns out that his father played
soccer during his youth and, remembering how much he loved it,
decides to let Hiramatsu play soccer but under the condition that
he will keep his grades up as well. Shiraishi on the other hand
quit soccer because he lost his temper and got into a fight that
ended up disqualifying their team. In the end, he joins the
Kakegawa High School soccer club because he loves soccer and
playing in the golden trio.
Tragedy struck Kake-High soccer club when they lost their
captain and ace striker Yoshiharu Kubo. During the semifinal match
against Kakekita, they were down with 2-1 with less than ten
minutes left. Kubo was on defense helping Kenji defend the goal
against Hirose's Knuckle Shoot, when he decided to make an effort
to tie the game. Kubo took the ball from his own side of the pitch,
passed every Kakekita player, and scored the tying goal. After the
goal, Kubo collapsed and died after the game. Toshi scored the last
and winning goal for Kake-High with the end result 2-3.
Afterwards, the team can't get over Kubo's death and lose to
Fujita East before they get to the Nationals. Soon after, Mahori, a
Brazilian-Japanese student appears. He decides to join their team
after making a bit of mayhem. The whole team decides to follow
Kubo's example and play fun soccer, vowing to get to the Nationals
in his name.
Characters
- Toshihiko Tanaka
- The Main character of Aoki Densetsu Shoot! He's a freshman on
the soccer team. At the very beginning when he joined the soccer
club of Kakegawa High he's only assigned to do the laundry by
Co-Captain Kamiya. But later on, as the team started to recognize
how great he was during middle-school, they let him join the
training
- Kubo recognized that Toshi has different footings than other
members. He's anxious when see Toshi was not balanced in stepping.
After examining his legs, Kubo found out that Toshi's true strength
lies in his left leg, not right leg. This caused Kubo to put him at
separated training apart from their teammates. At first Toshi was
disgraced and protested against him. But after rigorous shooting
training when Kubo tested his left leg and ordered him to shoot
using his left leg, Toshi discovered that he has immense weapon
striker left leg that even caused Kubo to be amazed. His left leg
shoots very hard. Later he was called "The miracle leg", he become
the new no. 10 and ace striker of the soccer team.
- voiced by Hikaru Midorikawa
- Jersey Number: 11 -> 10
- Position: Striker
- Class: Freshmen
- Birthday: 22 July, 1975
- H/W: 172 cm / 60 kg
- Elated Skill: Golden Left Foot, Submarine Shot, Front Axial
Shot, Two Plato Shot (with Kazuhiro)
- Kazuhiro Hiramatsu
- He's one of Toshi's best friends, since they were young. He
stopped playing soccer to study more because of his father's will.
But after Kazumi and Toshi talked to him playing soccer again, he
tried to convince his father that he can play soccer AND study for
his tests. In the end he's allowed to play soccer again after being
told from his mother that his father also played soccer when he was
young. He was remarked as the genius player through the anime. He
is famous of his "Heel/Double Heel Shoot", which causes illusion
that looks like the ball disappears. In the later end of series,
when the anxious opponents have discovered the secrets of Double
Heel Shoot and found a way to counter it, Kazuhiro lifted all his
strength, creating a miraculous "Triple Heel Shoot" and tricked the
awaiting opponents once again, making him an unstoppable player all
the time with his Heel Shoots.
- voiced by Masami Kikuchi
- Jersey Number: 9
- Position: Right Forward
- Class: Freshmen
- Birthday: 26 April, 1975
- H/W: 170 cm / 59 kg
- Elated Skills:Heel Kick, Double Heel Kick, Triple Heel Kick,
Two Plato Shot (with Toshi)
- Shiraishi Kenji
- Kenji stopped playing soccer. He got his team disqualified from
a tournament, because of a gang-fight. But like Kazuhiro he has
been convinced to join the soccer team. His skills as a goal keeper
are outstanding as he has a great sense of the direction the ball
is following. He is hot-tempered and pick up fights easily, an
example of this were the fights he had with Mahori when Mahori
first joined the team. He is popular of his "Moon Salto Save". He
found this move later in the series. With this move he defended the
goal from Rudy's Wolf Shoot, making Kakegawa impenetrable. In fact,
throughout the series he blocks many dangerous attacks using it,
including his friend Toshi's Golden Shoot in their spare
training.
- voiced by Nobutoshi Canna
- Jersey Number: 1
- Position: Goal Keeper
- Class: Freshmen
- Birthday: 17 Aug, 1975
- H/W: 174 cm / 63 kg
- Elated Skills:Moon Ape Save, Headbutt Save
- Kazumi Endo
- The Manager of the soccer club. She's always there to cheer
them up and stop the fangirls to get near 'her' team. Kazuhiro
liked her, but she preferred Toshi. Then it's a love-rivalry
between Toshi and Kazuhiro, although Toshi himself didn't regard
Kazumi as his love and apparently didn't have so much interest in
her.
- Yoshiharu Kubo
- Genius Kubo was an extremely skillful and talented football
player. His opponent saw him as the biggest rival and threat; his
teammates followed the light and hope shone from his football. He
lived in Germany for years before going back to Japan. Although he
was invited by a lot of big football school, he chose to build his
own team and went to Kakegawa. Kubo's talent was extraordinary that
led the newly formed team to the quarterfinal in the national
tournament. Also, Kubo did the coaching job of the team too, he
made the tactic and worked on the training of the team. The player
had affected many people with his talent. Facing Kakekita in the
province semifinal, Kubo wrote a legend by getting through all 11
opponents and put the ball in the net. Yet he used too much energy
and died due to leukemia. He died in the age of 17. The members of
the team carry on his will of "fun-soccer" during the rest of the
series. Kubo had superior skills than other players, and he alone
can execute one special shoot that later is done by combining Toshi
and Kazuhiro together.
- voiced by Toshio Furukawa
- Jersey number: 10
- Position: Mid Fielder
- Class: Junior
- Nickname: Genius
- Birthday: 29 July, 1974
- H/W: 179 cm / 65 kg
- Elated Skill: Locus Shot (2 Axial Rotation Super-Breaking
Shot)
- Atsushi Kamiya
- The Vice-Captain of the soccer team. He's always a bit rude,
especially when it's something about Kubo, but still a good-hearted
person. He used to play selfish in middle school and his team
didn't accept him, but as Kubo joined them, they became a strong
formation together. After Kubo dies he became Captain and also
decided that Toshi'll become the new no. 10. Kamiya can seemed
conceited some times but he is nothing like this.
- As captain he has the air of a leader. He thinks fast creating
strategies which can help the team and he is the one to motivate
and help his teammates. He cares deeply for the team. After the
loss of Kubo when everyone was depressed he was the one who stood
strong and helped the other two understand that they had to be
strong too. When Mahori appeared the club separated into two
factions: those who agreed with Mahori that the team had to change
its style, like Kazuhiro, Nitta and Akahori, and those who insisted
on following Kubo's play, like Tanaka, Kenji, Yuutaka and Shigeki
(who was the leader of this team). Kamiya arranged a practice match
between the two teams with him as a referee. Through this match the
second team found their past motive and way of playing ending to
tie up the match in the last minute while they were losing making
an all-out attack, with even Kenji leaving the post to score. After
that everyone understood their mistake and decided to fight
together till the end. Kamiya himself entered the match, seeing his
teammates playing with their old style, not resisting in that
making them look at him in surprise. Looking at this we can
understand how he was thinking one step ahead of his teammates,
especially after he took the place of the captain.
- Kamiya makes an excellent playmaker. With his sharp pass he can
easily confuse the opponent. As his skills were improving he became
one of the best play makers of the nation. Moreover later his
abilities were recognized and he was considered as good as Kubo,
especially in the leading of his team.
- voiced by Toshiyuki Morikawa
- Number: 7
- Position: Mid-fielder
- Class: Junior
- Birthday: October 11, 1974
- Height: 175 cm
- Weight: 63 kg
- Elated Skills: Through Pass
- Keigo Mahori
- Keigo lived in Brazil for several years, and he got back to
Japan just after Kubo died. Learning his skill from Brazil, the
Samba technique excites the audience. He fills in Kubo's spot
splendidly using his polished skills.Originally annoyed by his
teammates because of his attitudes, it was him who pointed out that
Kakegawas had to free themselves from Kubo's shadow.
- voiced by Tomokazu Seki
- Jersey Number: 11
- Position: Mid Fielder
- Class: Freshmen
- Birthday: 8 Sep, 1974
- H/W: 172 cm / 63 kg
- Yutaka Sasaki
- Sasaki wasn't considered a very good player. Sasaki his self
entered the team to be with his best friend Nitta, as he was more
into music and indeed a member of a band. However through the anime
Sasaki shows very good skills, he was chosen for the main squad
from the beginning while Nitta entered a lot later.But knowing the
secret practices Nitta has after school, he is willing to accompany
his friends instead of guitar practice. His stamina and Speed,
which are fast as Kazuhiro's are remarkable and he seemed to get
too close with the team later. When Kubo died in a conversation he
mentioned that Kubo was the one who made him take the decision to
enter too.
- voiced by Isshin
Chiba
- Jersey Number: 6
- Position: Forward
- Class: Freshmen
- Shinichi Nitta
- He's a close friend of Sasaki. His role in story is minor. But
surprisingly, he's often the savior in the heat of the game. His
ability is creating offside-trap that often helped the team in dire
situations when dangerous opponent strikers are attacking. His
innocent face combined with great offside timing proves true
alongside Kakegawa team. Although he's good at defending, he
sometimes made mistakes by soloing the dribble pushing the
opponents alone. This causes more advanced opponents to easily
retake the ball from him and counterattack Kakegawa.
- Shigeki Otsuka
- Otsuka is big and strong player. His tackle and shooting are
all about power. And he plays a very important role to the team. He
is a good friend with Akahori and they went to the same junior
high. He is a very impetuous and impulsive person. When the team
was recruiting, he didn't want to join because he disliked the way
Kamiya played. Kamiya then apologized and both Otsuka and Akahori
joined the team at the end.
- Jersey Number: 5
- Position: mid-fielder
- Class: Junior
- Tsuyoshi Akahori
- Akahori is very tall, standing 1.92 m. He is very tough in the
defensive end. He took over the whole defensive responsibility on
his own shoulders before Kenji came over as the goalie. Now, he is
still the strongest and smartest defender in the team. Off the
field, he is very kind and easy going. He can also play basketball
well. In junior high, he used to play goalkeeper.
- voiced by Shinichirou Ohta
- Jersey Number: 2
- Position: Defender/Sweeper
- Class: Junior
Music
- Opening theme
- "Keep Going until Reaching your Dream"～ (Yell ~Anata no Yume ga
Kanau Made~)" by WENDY
- Ending themes
- "Sunao de Itai" by WENDY (1-46, 58)
- "Watashi Datte" by Noriko Hidaka (47-57)
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