1995 · Spokon · Sports

Aoki Densetsu Shoot!

Nintendo exclusive

Aoki Densetsu Shoot! is a Japanese anime produced by Toei Animation between November 9, 1990 and December 22, 1991 on the Fuji TV television network; there were fifty-eight episodes. The game has an exhibition mode, an anime-style story mode, and a variety of options, which is entirely in Japanese, so literacy in this language is strongly recommended for quality gameplay. Once the game begins, the action progresses in a side view, similar to an arcade soccer game.

Released: 16 January 1995
Platforms: Game Boy SNES
Genres: Spokon Sports
Developers: —
Publishers: Kodansha Comics
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Action
Country: Japan

About

Shoot! (Japanese: シュート!, Hepburn: Shūto) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsukasa Ōshima. It was published in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine between 1990 and 2003. The story revolves around a boy named Toshihiko Tanaka, who had just started at Kakegawa High School in order to play association football with his idol, Yoshiharu Kubo. Toshi's friends were not interested in playing football again until he convinces them to join the team and soon the team would enter the All-Japan High School Championship.

A 58-episode anime television series adaptation titled Aoki Densetsu Shoot! ; lit. 'Blue Legend – Shoot!') was produced by Toei Animation and broadcast between November 7, 1993, and December 25, 1994, on Fuji Television.

Keywords

soccer
anime
based on - anime
licensed game

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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. However, 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 confronts his father and says that he wants to play soccer with his friends and that he would never understand his love for soccer. As it turns out, 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. He eventually joins the Kakegawa High School soccer club because he loves soccer and playing in the golden trio.