OFFSIDE
TV series / 30min. / 39eps.
Story
Goro Kumagaya fails to take an entrance exam of Yokohama Minami high school famous for its strong soccer team due to a traffic accident in which he saved his girl friend, Nagisa Ito, and enters Kawasaki high school together with his two teammates, Yakumaru and Shingo. The soccer team of Kawasaki high school has just 11 members and is awfully weak. Goro, however, does not give up his dream and tries hard to make his team strong enough to participate in the All Japan High School Soccer Championship overcoming various difficulties through friendship among his teammates and love with Nagisa.
Staff
- Original Creator / Comic Author : Natsuko Heiuchi
- Planning : Toshihiko Sato, Masao Takiyama
- Script Writer : Takao Koyama
- Director : Seiji Okuda
- Character Design : Mari Tominaga, Yutaka Arai
- Art Director : Mitsuharu Miyamae
- Color Coordinator : Yuki Umeda
- Sound Director : Atsushi Watanabe
- Composite Director : Kazuhiro Konishi
- Editing : Hiromi Komine
- Music Coordinator : Masayuki Sakamoto
- Producers : Kiyonori Hirase, Koichi Tamura
- Produced by Ashi Productions, Animax Broadcast Japan
Cast / Japanese Voice Actors
- Kumagaya Goro : Hiroshi Tsuchida
- Ito Nagisa : Chieko Higuchi
- Yakumaru Hideki : Atsushi Kisaichi
- Sato Shingo : Shigeru Shibuya
- Nouchi Yoshinari : Yoshinori Fujita
- Hibino Katsuhiko : Hiroshi Kamiya
- Oda Kazuhiko : Yasunori Matsumoto
- Kayano Takashi : Shinichiro Miki
- Hibino Yoshihiko : Nobutoshi Kanna
- Ishihara Jyotaro : Kenta Miyake
- Hibino Masahiko : Koichi Tochika
- Akechi Noriyuki : Takahiro Sakurai
- Arimotokantoku : Tomoyuki Shimura