Shoot!" A new TV animation will be broadcast! A milestone soccer manga that has been made into a live-action movie with SMAP!

Goal to the Future" will be broadcast as a new TV anime in 2022.

Goal to the Future," which sold more than 50 million copies in total, was serialized by Tsukasa Oshima in "Weekly Shonen Magazine" for 13 years from 1990 to 2003, won the Kodansha Manga Award for Juvenile Division in 1994, was made into an anime in 1993, and a live-action movie starring SMAP was also released. The original work is based on the Kakegawa High School soccer game.


The original story depicts the transformation of the Kakegawa High School soccer team into the strongest team in the country. The story includes memorable scenes such as the "legendary 11-man elimination" and "Do you like soccer? and "Do you like soccer?" The story has many memorable scenes, and has many fans among soccer players, both professional and amateur.
The popularity of the story has been translated and published not only in Japan, but also in English, Indonesian, and many other languages, and an animated series has been broadcast in North America and Europe.


Now, 19 years after the series ended, it will be revived as a completely original new anime in time for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, a time of great excitement in the world of soccer!


When Atsushi Kamiya, a "world-class fighter" formerly with a prestigious Italian team, and Hideto Tsuji, who attends Kamiya's old but now weakened Kakegawa High School and tries to keep his distance from the soccer club, meet, the curtain rises on a new legend...

Teaser Visual
The teaser visual depicts Hideto Tsuji, the protagonist of the film, holding a ball in the uniform of the Kakegawa High School soccer team and staring at the viewer with a strong gaze, and Atsushi Kamiya, wearing a suit and looking off into the distance, with his back to Tsuji.


Tsuji, who had distanced himself from soccer after an incident, and Kamiya, a former captain of the Kakegawa High School soccer team, are depicted in the background wearing the uniform with the number 10, which Kamiya has carefully inherited since his high school days. ......
What meaning this number 10 holds for Kamiya, we can only hope for more developments in the future.

Tsukasa Oshima, the author of the original work, also sent a congratulatory comment!
Congratulations on the new anime adaptation.
As the original author, I look forward to the sequel to the original "Shoot! As the author of the original work, I am looking forward to the sequel to "Shoot!
Tsukasa Oshima
(Original text is in Japanese only)


The animation will be produced by EMT Squared, the same company that produced "Kuma Kuma Bear Bear Bear" and "Assassin's Pride".
The official website & Twitter for the animation is now open, so keep checking back for the latest information.


Goal to the Future Production Committee

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