Titile: Hungry Heart: Wild Striker
Total Episodes: 52 episodes
Genre(s): sports, soccer
Director: Hitoshi Haga, Satoshi Saga
Script: Yoshiyuki Suga
Original creator: Youichi Takahashi
Animation: Tetsuro Aoki
Plot Summary:
Kyosuke Kano has lived under the shadow of his successful brother Seisuke all his life who is a professional soccer player. Tired of being compared and downgraded at, he abandoned playing soccer.
However, in the first year of high school, he accidentaly becomes the team manager of a female soccer club and realizes that he still love soccer very much. Kyosuke finally joins the soccer team, and will grow up, with the attractive teammates and rivals, to be one of the top strikers in the world!
The TV series is the real hot drama full of exciting soccer performances, friendships and heart-warming stories, based on "Hungry Heart" by Yoichi Takahashi, the author of "Captain Tsubasa".[/b]