Giant Killing / ジャイアントキリング
East Tokyo United (ETU) has been struggling in Japan's top soccer league for the past few years. It has taken everything they have just to avoid relegation. To make matters even worse, the team has lost five matches in a row, leading to abysmal team morale. Even the fans are beginning to abandon them, and rumors hint that the home ground municipality is going to withdraw their support. With countless coaches fired and poor financial choices in hiring players, it is a downward spiral for ETU. The board of directors, under pressure from general manager Kousei Gotou, takes a gamble and hires a new coach—the slightly eccentric Takeshi Tatsumi. Though considered a great soccer player when he was younger, Tatsumi abandoned ETU years ago. However, since then, he has proven himself successful as the manager of one of England's lower division amateur teams. Tatsumi's task won't be easy; ETU fans call him a traitor, and the team is pitted against others with larger budgets and better players. Yet even the underdog can take down a goliath, and Tatsumi claims he is an expert at giant killing. ...
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Genre : Drama, Sports
Seasons : spring
Type : TV
Eposide : 26
Status : Finished Airing
Studio : Studio Deen
duration : 24 min per ep
Rating : PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Popularity : 2738
Member : 73660
staff
Urasaki, Nobumitsu
Producer
Kou, Yuu
Director
Ejima, Yasuo
Episode Director
Furuta, Jouji
Episode Director
Hirata, Yutaka
Episode Director
Kimura, Hiroshi
Episode Director
Suzuki, Takaaki
Episode Director
Takeshita, Kenichi
Episode Director
Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki
Episode Director
Kawase, Toshifumi
Script
Namura, Hidetoshi
Storyboard
Terahigashi, Katsumi
Storyboard
Toukairin, Shinichi
Storyboard
Usuda, Yoshio
Storyboard
The Cherry Cokes
Theme Song Performance
Aisaka, Naoki
Animation Director
Aoki, Mariko
Key Animation
Asai, Akito
Animation Director
Enomoto, Hanako
Key Animation
Fujikawa, Futoshi
Key Animation
Fukuda, Noriyuki
Key Animation
Higashi, Junichi
Art Director
Hino, Takafumi
Key Animation
Honda, Toshie
Background Art
Hwang, Mi-jung
Animation Director
Igari, Takashi
Animation Director
Iida, Hiroyoshi
Animation Director
Kamura, Hiroyuki
Key Animation
Kitazume, Eiko
Color Design
Kondou, Shinyo
Director of Photography
Kubo, Satoshi
Animation Director
Kumagai, Tetsuya
Character Design
Kusaka, Takeshi
Animation Director
Matsumoto, Kentaro
Key Animation
Matsumura, Masahiro
Editing
Mori, Hideharu
Music
Niizuma, Daisuke
Key Animation
Noji, Kiyoshi
Key Animation
Oda, Mayumi
Animation Director
Sano, Eri
Animation Director
Sawamura, Tooru
Animation Check
Sekino, Takeshi
Background Art
Sekino, Masahiro
Key Animation
Sekiya, Kaoru
Key Animation
Shimizu, Katsuhiro
Animation Director
Shimizu, Hiroaki
Key Animation
Suda, Masami
Animation Director
Taki, Gorou
Key Animation
Tsujitomo
Original Creator
Tsukuma, Takenori
Key Animation
Tsunamoto, Masaya
Original Creator
Wada, Toshiya
Sound Effects
Wanibuchi, Kazuhiko
Key Animation
Yanagi, Shinsuke
Key Animation
Yoshida, Masayuki
Key Animation