Ganbare, Kickers!

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Ganbare, Kickers!
Anime logo
がんばれ!キッカーズ (Ganbare! Kikkāzu)
Genre	Sport, Comedy, Drama
Manga
Written by	Noriaki Nagai
Published by	Shogakukan
Magazine	CoroCoro Comic
Demographic	Kodomo, Shōnen
Original run	1985 – 1989
Volumes	20
Anime television series
Directed by	Akira Shigino
Produced by	Haruhiko Akamine Kunitaka Okada Takaichi Matsumoto Yuji Nunokawa (Executive producer)
Written by	Sukehiro Tomita Hiroshi Kaneko Isao Shizutani Mitsuo Aimono
Music by	Jun Irie
Studio	Studio Pierrot
Original network	NNS (NTV)
Original run	October 15, 1986 – March 25, 1987
Episodes	26

Ganbare, Kickers! (がんばれ!キッカーズ, Ganbare! Kikkāzu, roughly translated Fight, Kickers!) is a romantic soccer kid anime drawn by Noriaki Nagai. It was published by Shogakukan in CoroCoro Comic magazine from 1985 to 1989.^[1] The story is usually classified as Comedy, Drama, Shōnen and Sports.

The manga was turned into an anime series by Studio Pierrot during 1986–1987. It ran 26 episodes and one 40 minute special, but only 23 episodes were aired in Japan. In 1988 the anime arrived to EMEA in its dubbed version and had some success in the Middle East (الهداف Al Haddaf), Iran (فوتبالیست‌ها), South Korea (내일은 축구왕), Italy (Palla al centro per Rudy), Spain (Supergol), France (But Pour Rudy), Poland (Piłkarze) and especially in Germany and Austria (Kickers). In Malaysia, the anime was aired on TV1 RTM in 1990s, Awesome TV in 2020. In Indonesia, the anime was aired on Indosiar in 1995-1997, TPI in 2003, Bali TV in 2005.