Episode 33 Well, we all knew this match was going to end with Toho winning, but Misugi and Musashi acquitted themselves pretty well, and I thought it was a pretty…
Episode 31 As expected, Nitta pulls a Tsubasa. Of course, it doesn’t matter, because he’s not Tsubasa and is therefore still going to lose, but he does it. And now…
Episode 29 This episode was pretty chill which can definitely be forgiven considering the mad run of it we’ve had the last few episodes. And chill does not necessarily mean…
Episode 27 Okay, so Nankatsu won like we all knew they would, Tsubasa is the king of the football and everybody loves him, bow down to your overlord, etc etc.…
Episode 25 I feel like this is another episode that there isn’t a ton to say about, but just because it’s more action than plot advancement. Having said that, I…
Episode 23 The episode starts out with a kind of exhibition or something, showing off all of Meiwa and Nankatsu’s major players to hammer home how equal they both are,…
Episode 21 Wakabayashi, Roberto, Anego and Misaki’s joint pep talk at the start of this episode, while both rousing and effective, contains a fatal flaw: at no point, not even…
Episode 19 I need to bring up something that has been bothering me for a long time now: Matsuyama, Misugi and Misaki all look the same, to a point where…
Episode 17 You know, this is one match that I think I much prefer the ‘80s version of. This one just went too darn quick. There were so many great…
Episode 15 David seem to have temporarily blown their animation budget once again on episode 14, because this episode is not looking too great (though it gets much better once…
Episode 13 There’s no match this time around, so instead, we get character melodrama, which is just fine with me. From the very start, we get Roberto agonising over his…
Episode 11 You know, the more I think about this episode, the more I think it was nothing but an exceptionally cruel framing device for introducing Morisaki, Nankatsu’s substitute goalie;…