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The Knight in the Area (TV)

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Alternative title:
Area no Kishi (Japanese)
Football Dream (Portuguese)
Football Dream: El caballero del área (Spanish)
エリアの騎士 (Japanese)
Themes: School, soccer, sports
Plot Summary: Believing himself to be useless at soccer, Aizawa Kakeru instead becomes the manager of his school's soccer team, while his brother Suguru is its ace, and is even good enough to represent Japan in the championships. However, Kakeru may have a yet unknown strong talent within himself that only his brother Suguru can see, and they often get into arguments over Kakeru's denial of his skills. Things are made more complicated with the return of Nana, an old friend of theirs that Kakeru has a crush on.
User Ratings: 168 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 7 votes (sub:7)
 Excellent: 16 votes (sub:13, dub:1, others:2
1 Russian dubbed
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Very good: 44 votes (sub:40, dub:1, others:3
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Arabic dubbed
)
 Good: 49 votes (sub:47, others:2
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Decent: 22 votes (sub:21, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 So-so: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Not really good: 13 votes (sub:12, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Weak: 7 votes (sub:7)
 Bad: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 404 users, rank: #2473 (of 9777)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.845 (Good), std. dev.: 1.8355, rank: #4590 (of 9919)
Weighted mean: 6.717 (Good−), rank: #4943 (of 9919) (seen all: 7.11 / seen some: 6.07 / won't finish: 4.79)
Bayesian estimate: 6.772 (Good−), rank: #4387 (of 7496)
Running time: Half Hour
Episode titles: We have 37
Vintage:
2012-01-07
2016-02-15 (Portugal)
Opening Theme:
"Higher Ground" (ハイヤーグラウンド) by SRS
Official website:
テレビ朝日｜エリアの騎士 (Japanese)
Review:
Knight in the Area Episodes 1-25 Streaming (Sep 14, 2012)
News: Show:
The Knight in the Area Soccer TV Anime to End Next Week (Sep 23, 2012)
North American Stream List: February 20-26 (Feb 26, 2012)
North American Stream List: Feb. 13-19 (Feb 19, 2012)
North American Stream List: February 6-12 (Feb 12, 2012)
Touch Anime Co-Stars Make Cameo in Area no Kishi Series (Feb 10, 2012)
North American Stream List: Jan. 30-Feb. 5 (Feb 5, 2012)
North American Stream List: January 23-29 (Jan 29, 2012)
Crunchyroll Streams The Knight in the Area Soccer TV Anime Series (Jan 5, 2012)
The Knight in the Area Soccer Anime's 1st TV Ad Posted (Dec 20, 2011)
Other articles: Show:
Shelf Life - Pitch Men (Apr 23, 2012)
The Stream - Papa's Delivery Service (Mar 6, 2012)
The Stream - Bend It Like Kakeru (Feb 21, 2012)
The Stream - Breasted Development (Feb 7, 2012)
Gia's List: 7 Luckiest Ladies & Gents of Anime (Jan 28, 2012)
The Stream - Papa Don't Creep (Jan 24, 2012)
The Winter 2012 Anime Preview Guide - Bamboo Dong (Jan 6, 2012)
The Winter 2012 Anime Preview Guide - Carlo Santos (Jan 6, 2012)
The Winter 2012 Anime Preview Guide - Carl Kimlinger (Jan 6, 2012)
The Winter 2012 Anime Preview Guide - Rebecca Silverman (Jan 6, 2012)
The Winter 2012 Anime Preview Guide - Zac Bertschy (Jan 6, 2012)
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Hirofumi Ogura
Series Composition: Hirofumi Ogura
Script:
Higashi Shimizu (13 episodes
eps 5, 9-15 odd, 16, 19-20, 23-24, 27, 30, 35
)
Hiroaki Murakami (6 episodes
eps 14, 18, 22, 26, 34, 36
)
Tetsuo Hirakawa (eps 1-4, 7, 10)
Yasuhiko Tamura (9 episodes
eps 6, 8, 12, 17, 21, 25, 29, 32, 37
)
Yasushi Ootake (eps 28, 31, 33)
Storyboard:
Ai Yoshimura (ep 27)
Dojag-a-gen (ep 30)
DROP
Hajime Horinouchi (4 episodes
eps 4, 9, 14, 23
)
Hirofumi Ogura (eps 1, 21, 25)
Hiroshi Aoyama (ep 28)
Housei Suzuki (ep 24)
Jiro Fujimoto (ep 19)
Jōji Furuta (5 episodes
eps 7, 13, 22, 34, 36
)
Kazuo Miyake (ep 33)
Kenji Kodama (eps 12, 17)
Kōji Yoshikawa (eps 10, 15)
Makoto Fuchigami (ep 26)
Mamoru Kurosawa (ep 2)
Masato Satō (ep 3)
Noriaki Saito (ep 24)
Shinobu Sasaki (5 episodes
eps 6, 11, 18, 25, 37
)
Takeshi Ushigusa (ep 8)
Tsutomu Murakami (ep 31)
Yoshiaki Okumura (ep 20)
Yoshihiro Sugai (ep 32)
Yoshihiro Takamoto (eps 29, 35)
Yukio Nishimoto (ep 16)
Unit Director:
Akio Yamaguchi
DROP
Hiromichi Matano
Kazuo Miyake
Makoto Fuchigami
Masahiro Takada
Minoru Yamaoka
Mitsutoshi Satō
Osamu Sekita
Rokō Ogiwara (ep 15)
Shinobu Sasaki
Shinya Watada
Shunji Yoshida
Taiji Kawanishi
Takashi Toda
Takeshi Kino
Takeshi Ushigusa
Tohru Ishida
Tomio Yamauchi
Tsutomu Murakami
Yoshihiro Sugai
Yūsuke Onoda
Music:
Keiji Inai
Yasunori Iwasaki
Original creator:
Hiroaki Igano (story)
Kaya Tsukiyama (art)
Character Design: Hitomi Tsuruta
Art Director: Akira Suzuki
Animation Director:
Akira Kano
Akira Sotoya
Chūji Nakajima
Dae Yeol Park
Dai Imaoka
Hideo Maru
Hiroaki Kawaguchi
Hitomi Matsuura
Hitomi Tsuruta
Hitoshi Haga
Hyung Jun Heo
Ichizō Kobayashi
Ippei Ichii
Ju-Hyeon Lee
Kaito Senkōji
Kazuo Takematsu
Kazuyuki Ikai
Kenji Hattori
Kim Hyoeun
Kōji Yukino
Kōsuke Yoshida
Kuean Yongsang
Kumiko Shishido
Makoto Matsui
Masao Takeda
Masayuki Fujita
Miho Yoshioka
Naoki Aisaka
Satoshi Kubo
Shin Suk Min
Shinichi Shigematsu
Tae Gun Kim
Takashi Narikawa
Takashi Ueno
Tetsurō Nireki
Tomoe Nishio
Yoshishige Kosako
Yosuke Yabumoto
Yuji Ito
Yūji Moriyama
Yūya Takahashi
Yuzo Kayama
Zhen Yu Guan
Sound Director:
Akira Ōkuma
Yasuyuki Urakami
Director of Photography: Kenji Takahashi
Producer:
Motomichi Araki (Shin-ei Animation)
Tomoharu Matsuhisa (TV Asahi)

2nd Key Animation:
Emiko Kataoka (eps 4, 29, 32)
Masami Yamashita (5 episodes
eps 4, 9, 19, 23, 29
)
Miyuki Koga (ep 29)
Assistant Animation Director: Taizō Iwanaga
Assistant Director: Shinobu Sasaki
CG監督: Takeshi Sanada
Color design: Hiromi Imaizumi
Editing:
Toshihiko Kojima
Yumiko Nakaba
In-Between Animation:
Sachie Tanaka (ep 7)
Sun Hee You (eps 26, 31)
Key Animation:
Akihito Fujiwara (ep 3)
Akira Ono (eps 1, 6)
Akira Takeuchi (ep 9)
Aya Yamaguchi (ep 6)
Ayumi Tsukamoto (eps 4, 9)
Chie Nishio (Studio Liberty; eps 2, 7)
Chizuko Kusunoki (eps 4, 9)
Chūji Nakajima (Studio Liberty; eps 2, 7)
Daikichi Ishiyama (ep 3)
Eiji Kaneda (ep 9)
Emiko Kataoka (5 episodes
eps 1, 6, 9, 11, 35
)
Emiko Momose (ep 5)
Fujio Oda (ep 7)
Hideaki Matsuoka (ep 9)
Hideki Shibuya (eps 4, 9)
Hideo Maru (ep 4)
Hiroaki Kawaguchi (ep 5)
Hiroko Shigekuni (ep 5)
Hiroshi Kugimiya (ep 2)
Hiroshi Oikawa (ep 4)
Hiroyoshi Iida (ep 21)
Hiroyuki Kamura (eps 2, 9)
Hitomi Matsuura (ep 6)
Ichiro Hattori (eps 9, 19)
Kana Tanabe (ep 8)
Kaori Saito (Wish; ep 7)
Kazuhiko Wanibuchi (eps 2, 9)
Kazuhiko Yokota (ep 3)
Kazuhiro Sasaki (eps 4, 9)
Kei Sakai (ep 4)
Keiko Motoya (ep 5)
Koichiro Ueda (ep 1)
Konomi Sakurai (ep 5)
Kota Takeuchi (ep 4)
Maiko Ochiai (ep 5)
Maki Hashimoto (ep 8)
Makiko Shinohara (ep 1)
Masahiko Inuzuka (Wish; ep 7)
Masahiro Sasaki (eps 4, 9)
Masashi Ōmura (ep 2)
Masashi Yamaoka (eps 4, 9)
Masato Nishikawa (ep 6)
Masayo Matsumoto (eps 3, 7)
Masayuki Mizutani (ep 3)
Mieko Seki (4 episodes
eps 1, 6, 11, 29
)
Misato Takasaki (ep 6)
Miyuki Koga (ep 23)
Momoko Nagakawa (ep 37)
Nao Takano (Studio Liberty; eps 2, 7)
Naoko Ozawa (ep 5)
Natsuko Sadamoto (Wish; ep 7)
Nobuyuki Koyanagi (eps 3, 7)
Noriko Hatta (eps 5, 7)
Noriko Takahashi (ep 6)
Osamu Kurosawa (ep 5)
Reiko Sato (ep 8)
Risa Tabata (ep 8)
Ryuji Tsuzuku (ep 4)
Sachie Tanaka (Wish; eps 7, 16)
Shigenori Taniguchi (ep 5)
Shinichi Wada (ep 5)
Shinsuke Kasahara (eps 4, 9)
Susumu Watanabe (eps 3, 7)
Takako Onishi (ep 5)
Takeshi Kakihara (ep 5)
Takeshi Moriyama (ep 20)
Takeshi Yamazaki (ep 1)
Tomoko Shimizu (ep 9)
Tomomi Ishii (ep 1)
Tomoyo Yoshida (eps 1, 6)
Toshiharu Kudō (ep 1)
Toshihiko Araki (ep 6)
Toshihiko Sano (Wish; ep 2)
Toshihiro Kawakami (ep 9)
Toshiyuki Yoshioka (ep 2)
Wataru Sekimoto (ep 4)
Yasuaki Aoki (ep 8)
Yayoi Komine (ep 8)
Yōhei Yamamoto (Wish; ep 7)
Yōko Iizuka (eps 4, 8-9)
Yōko Ono (ep 9)
Yoshiaki Matsuda (ep 7)
Yoshiki Hirai (ep 4)
Yoshito Narimatsu (ep 5)
Yui Enomoto (eps 1, 6)
Yūichirō Fukaya (Wish; ep 2)
Yūki Nakano (ep 8)
Yukie Kawakami (ep 4)
Yūko Hineno (ep 6)
Yuko Watanabe (ep 9)
Yumi Chiba (ep 1)
Yumiko Kinoshita (ep 6)
Yuriko Kono (ep 5)
Mixing: Takaaki Uchiyama
Planning:
Noboru Sugiyama
Yoshio Kato
Production Advancement: Yū Kinome (ep 24)
Prop Design:
Kumiko Shishido (7 eps)
Taizō Iwanaga
Sound Effects: Kentarō Washio
キャラクターデザイン補: Yosuke Yabumoto (9 eps)
小物デザイン: Kumiko Shishido
Jun Fukuyama as Suguru Aizawa
Shizuka Itō as Nana Mishima
Yūko Sanpei as Kakeru Aizawa

Akira Ishida as Ryuuichi Araki
Aruno Tahara as Aizawa (father)
Atsushi Kakehashi as Makoto Hyoudou
Chihiro Suzuki as Hiromi Kunimatsu
Daisuke Namikawa as Ryouma Oda
Hiro Shimono as Reo Kurebayashi
Kei Shindō as Mito Aizawa
Ken Takeuchi as Yuuji Sawamura
Minoru Shiraishi as Kouta Nakatsuka
Motoko Kumai as Suguru Aizawa (young)
Rei Sakuma as Aizawa (mother)
Sayaka Ōhara as Ayaka Mine
Shinichirō Miki as Teppei Iwaki
Takahiro Mizushima as Shigeo Nishijima
Takehito Koyasu as Akito Horikawa
Tarusuke Shingaki as Yuusuke Saeki
Teruyuki Tanzawa as Michirou Takase
Tetsu Shiratori as Leonardo Silva
Tsubasa Yonaga as Kaoru Matoba

Akira Sasanuma as Shimatani
Atsushi Kisaichi as Koichi Hibino
Daisuke Kishio as Leonardo Silva (boyhood)
Daisuke Sakaguchi as Ichirō Yamanashi
Haruna Ikezawa as Mina Meier
Hiroaki Miura as Akitoshi Li
Katsuya Shiga as Junpei Hino
Kazuo Oka as Principal (Enoshima High)
Kiyotaka Furushima as Jouji Uryuu
Kōzō Mito as Tae-Seung Kim
Mami Horikoshi as Araki's Mother
Masafumi Kimura as Director Akutsu
Masao Harada as Gou Kaiouji
Noriko Hidaka as Taeko Isshiki
Orie Kimoto as Momoko Fukushima
Rintarō Nishi as Masakatsu Kondou
Saori Sudo as Mai Murasaki
Satoshi Hino as Tsuguhide Tendō
Shizuka Itō as Narrator
Takahiro Miyake as Kazunari Iwamoto (eps 23-24)
Takahiro Mizushima as Kouji Yakumo
Toshinobu Iida as Manabu Endou
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Kazuhide Tendō
Yūichi Nakamura as Akira Takajo
Yūji Mitsuya as
Director Gotou
Shinji Takeda
Yūki Itō as Player C (ep 1)
Yukitoshi Tokumoto as Kinichi Fuwa
Yūko Nagashima as Nana's Mother
Yuu Yaguchi as Kyousuke Hasegawa

Misuzu Togashi
Japanese companies
2nd Key Animation:
A-Line
Anime Spot
Anitus Kōbe
Asterism
Big Bang
Big Owl
Def.c
Dream Force
FAI
Hanil Animation
Jumondo
Kino Production
Magic Bus
Marbean Animation
MK Seoul
Mouse
Nakamura Production
Neox
Seigasha
Studio Angle
Studio Gimlet
Studio Hibari
Studio Liberty
Studio Pastoral
Studio Pineapple
TAP
Triple A
Wish
Animation Check: drop (eps 10, 15)
Animation Production: Shin-Ei Animation
Animation Production Cooperation: Ascension (14 episodes
eps 2, 4-5, 7, 9-10, 14-15, 17, 19-20, 22-24
)
Backgrounds:
Studio SEY
Studio Uni
Broadcaster: TV Asahi (2012-01-07)
Digital Paint:
AI
AIC
BEEP
Big Owl
Core
drop
Hanil Animation
Hayashi
Hyoin Entertainment
I&S Factory
Jumondo
Light Foot
M.S.J Musashino Production
Magic Bus
Marbean Animation
MK Seoul
R.I.C
Rocket Vision
Sao Sang Design
Studio Hibari
Studio Pastoral
Triple A
Video Art
Wish
Direction: drop (ep 5)
Editing Studio: Okayasu Promotions
Film Editing: Tokyo Laboratory
In-Between Animation:
AI
AIC
Anitus Kōbe
Asahi Production
BEEP
Big Owl
Core
drop
Hanil Animation
Hayashi
Hyoin Entertainment
I&S Factory
Jumondo
M.S.J Musashino Production
Magic Bus
Marbean Animation
MK Seoul
Nakamura Production
R.I.C
Rocket Vision
Sao Sang Design
Studio Hibari
Studio Pastoral
Sung San Production
Triple A
Video Art
Wish
Internet Streaming: Videx
Key Animation:
Anime Torotoro (ep 10)
Eagle Nest (ep 4)
Hyoin Entertainment (eps 17, 22)
I&S Factory (eps 14, 19, 23)
Jumondo (eps 14-15, 23)
Marbean Animation (eps 22, 25, 37)
MK Seoul (ep 3)
Nakamura Production (ep 3)
Seigasha (5 episodes
eps 4, 8-9, 14, 19
)
Studio Bambino (eps 8, 13)
Studio Gimlet (ep 13)
Studio Liberty (7 episodes
eps 2, 5, 7, 10, 12, 17, 22
)
Studio Mark (eps 4, 8-9, 13)
Studio Pineapple (ep 24)
Studio Toybox (eps 8, 13)
Sung San Production (ep 15)
Wish (eps 2, 7, 16)
Photography: Asahi Production
Production Assistance:
C2C (ep 21)
Dream Force (4 episodes
eps 9, 14, 19, 23
)
Studio Hibari (eps 20, 24)
Production Assistant:
Dream Force (ep 4)
drop (eps 5, 10, 15)
Recording Studio: Apu Meguro Studio
Sound Effects: Fizz Sound Creation
Sound Production: Audio Planning U
Storyboard: drop (ep 5)
English staff
English companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll
English cast
(none)
Spanish cast
Spanish staff
Dubbing Director: Consuelo Pizarro (Latin American dub)
Translation: Agnès Pérez (Spain dub)
Consuelo Pizarro as Nana Mishima (Latin American dub)
Nicolás Carmona as Kakeru Aizawa (Latin American dub)

Daniel Streeter as Teppei Iwaki (Latin American dub)
David Aguilera as Ryouma Oda (Latin American dub)
Felipe Waldhorn as Suguru Aizawa (Latin American dub)
Matías Fajardo as Akira Takajo (Latin American dub)
Rodrigo Saavedra as Makoto Hyodo (Latin American dub)

Anita Barros as Mrs. Aizawa (Latin American dub)
Betsabé Gutiérrez as Mito Aizawa (Latin American dub)
Brian Ramirez as Kakeru Aizawa (Latin American dub; child)
Carolina Highet as Momoko Fukushima (Latin American dub)
Cristóbal Areite as Junpei Hino (Latin American dub)
Enzo Miranda as Michiro Takase (Latin American dub)
Lucía Suárez as Suguru Aizawa (Latin American dub; child)
Natalia Ríos as Mai Murasaki (Latin American dub)
Nicolás Morales as Akito Horikawa (Latin American dub)
Pablo Arriagada as Go Kaioji (Latin American dub)
Rubén González as Mr. Aizawa (Latin American dub)
Spanish companies
Broadcaster:
CDF (Chile)
ETC...TV (Chile)
Distributor: Rose Entertainment
Dubbing Studio: Provoz Chile
Internet Streaming:
Animados (Spain)
SerieStation (Spain)
Licensed by:
Luk Internacional (Spain)
Rose Entertainment
Translation: Daruma Serveis Lingüístics (Spain dub)
Portuguese staff
Portuguese cast
(none)
Joana Castro as Nana Mishima (Portugal)
Tiago Caetano as Kakeru Aizawa (Portugal)
Vítor Emanuel as Suguru Aizawa (Portugal)

Joana Castro as
Ayaka Mine (Portugal)
Mai Murasaki (Portugal)
Mito Aizawa (Portugal)
Mário Bomba as
Reo Kurebayashi (Portugal)
Ryuuichi Araki (Portugal)
Yuusuke Saeki (Portugal)
Ricardo Monteiro as
Kota Nakatsuka (Portugal)
Makoto Hyoudo (Portugal)
Tiago Matias as
Akito Horikawa (Portugal)
Kaoru Matoba (Portugal)
Ryoma Oda (Portugal)
Shigeo Nishijima (Portugal)
Teppei Iwaki (Portugal)
Vítor Emanuel as
Hiromi Kunimatsu (Portugal)
Ichirou Yamanashi (Portugal)
Leonardo Silva (Portugal)

Paula Pais (Portugal)
Portuguese companies
Broadcaster: Panda Biggs (Portugal)
Dubbing: Santa Claus Audiovisuais (Portugal)
Licensed by:
Luk Internacional (Portugal)
Rose Entertainment (Brazil)

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