Murasaki and Daidaiiro: (✪㉨✪)/ Area no Kishi (AR)

Area no Kishi

(The Knight in the Area)

Episodes: 37

Aired: Jan 7 2012 to Sep 29 2012

Area no Kishi is a sports anime about soccer. It is an average show, sometimes episodes are entertaining and sometimes they are boring too. Nothing really outstanding but it also has nothing to make it a bad show. Area no Kishi is about our young siblings Kakeru Aizawa and Suguru Aizawa.

Young Suguru and Kakeru

Young Kakeru and Nana a.k.a. Seven

Suguru Aizawa is the older brother and is an upcoming football star. At age 15 he is already heralded as japan's savior, he also one of japan's U-15 (under 15) representatives.

The Genius Mid-fielder Kakeru Aizawa

He is frustrated by his brothers lack of determination.

Kakeru, the otouto, on the other hand lacks motivation and eventually quits playing after a game accident involving him and someone getting injured. Instead he aims to be a top football manager.

Kakeru has potential to be a great forward with his striking..

..but instead settles to be a club manager

Nana Mishima a.k.a "Seven" is our third protagonist, she is a female football who played in the same team as the Aizawa brothers when they were still young, she eventually moved to America.

Besides being beautiful...

...Nana has some serious football skills (She's one of the stars of Nadeshiko Japan)

Suguru and Kakeru trains hard to be a great player and club manager respectively. However, Suguru, being the old brother, knows Kakeru's potential and he wanted Kakeru to someday play with him as national representatives. A "Road Accident" however will change things, which will kick-start the real story of Area no Kishi.

Regarding the "Major" Accident, Click here (☢WARNING☢ SPOILERS!!!!)

The show revolves around football matches, training and some few other things (Typical sports anime). Some character development (w/c is essential to sports animes) here and there. There are a lot of characters (another obvious thing for sports anime specially football ones). The show alternates it's focus between the Enoshima FC (the main protagonist team) and the Nadeshiko Japan (Japan's National Female Team).

The two trains every night

This goofy looking guy is the Ace of Enoshima FC. A former teammate of Suguru.

You know your'e in trouble..

Kakeru's New Teammates on Enoshima High FC

And apparently he has the ability to gain and lose fat very quick

...when this happens!!!

One good thing about Area no Kishi is that it sticks to reality, it never had those special-makes-no-sense-but-looks-cool moves that most Sports anime today possess which i kinda liked. I don't really know a lot of football (I'm a hardcore basketball man like Sakuragi) but i learned some things from the show, some strategies and basic stuff from the sport are shown (though i'd really like more in-depth stuff.) The show also kinda made me wanted to play soccer for a bit. Besides the typical sports anime elements, the jokes (comedy is also an essential for successful sports titles) are at most times not really that funny which makes it a bit less entertaining sometimes. The art is okay, though sometimes it looks bad. Nothing special about the music, it kinda lacked music if you asked me. Overall, it's an average anime, there will be no real sense of completion in watching this anime since nothing really happened big in the ending (sort of needs a season 2). If you love soccer, or sports in general then give it a try.

Combined Enoshima FC and Enoshima SC Roster: (only the Regulars)