GAMBARE KICKERS Good Luck Kickers

AKA: But pour Rudy (French), Das Kickers (German)

Author: Noriaki Nagai

Director: Akira Shigino

Script Writer: Sukehiro Tomita, Hiroshi Kaneko, Isao Shizutani

Character Design: Takeshi Ozaka

Backgrounds: Satoshi Miura

Music: Jun Irie

Company: Studio Pierrot

Year: 1986

Charas:
Kakeru Daichi our young hero

Story: Gambare Kickers, relates the story of a rather mediocre football team: "the Kickers" and what they have to do to get to the top.

Type: Sports / TV series

Number of Episodes: 20 TV eps + 1 OAV ("musical")

We have: Some in German

What we thought: Well, for one I actually like Kickers better than Captain Tsubasa. It doesn't have these "look I can levitate above the ground for 2 minutes" and other unbelievable scenarii such as one match spread over several episodes. Instead the emphasis seems to be on "If you're not so good but work at it, you will succeed". A cute story