History Anime / GingaEKickoff

* HalfTruth: When recruiting Erika Oota glosses over the fact that the team at the moment has exactly one member. And he was a bench warmer.

* KansaiRegionalAccent: Erika is quick to point to the class that she's from Osaka, not Kansai.

''Ginga e Kickoff!!'' ("Kickoff of the Century!!") started broadcasting as part of the Spring2012Anime season, and it has been slated at least for 39 episodes.

** You can see that Reika is going to lose a lot of weight and she along with Tagi and Aoto be part of the team. It's taken UpToEleven in fact the first time you see her in the anime is after she lost the weight.

* ThinkTwins: Think ''Triplets'' in the case of the Furuyas. They are [[TricksterTwins devious]] and pretty good analysts.

%% * ZettaiRyouiki: Erika.

* FatGirl: Reika is has a lot of extra baggage which slows her down on the field. With sufficient training she is eventually FormerlyFat.

* ImagineSpot: The OP has Oota imagining his future team playing in Barcelona's Camp Nou. [[spoiler:It actually happens in the last few episodes.

* {{The Ace}}s: The Furuya Triplets and Aoto.

* BadassCrew: The Predators later on manages to score at least 5 goals vs [[spoiler:Camp Nou]].

* ChekhovsGunman: The drunk guy in the park in the first episode is there for a reason.

* CrossPoppingVeins: Oota shows these when he gets really frustrated at being out-played by ''a dog''.
* CrushBlush: To make obvious Erika likes Aoto

** Reika as well, and the whole team seems to acknowledge it.
** Ouzou during the [[spoiler:rematch against Amarillo]]
* DrowningMySorrows: Masaru's way of coping with her soccer falling out.

* EyeCatch: Featuring the characters the current arc has the focus on.

* FinishingEachOthersSentences: The Furuyas can guess correctly what [[TwinTelepathy any other brother is about to say]].
* FlashBackEcho: Masaru has one to his times as an elementary school coach triggered by hitting the post in a goal.
* GenkiGirl: Erika
* GraspTheSun: Done by Oota in the OP.
* GrewASpine: Reika joins the team despite Kota's hostility and her family's desires.
* GrinOfAudacity: Ryuuji and Ouzou have this {{Perpetual|Smiler}}ly. Also their brother, Kota though as much.

* HotBlooded: Erika would count as hot blooded, but compared to Oota she's a candle next to an inferno.
-->'''Erika''', laughing: You're really something! You don't hold back at all!
-->'''Oota''': Really? I get that a lot. They say I'm loud and annoying.
* HyperAwareness: Oota has an uncanny abiliy to keep track of details that comes very handy in game. Eventually, Ouzou acquires this skill too, and could even see what Oota is seeing.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: surprisingly fair once you get on their good side.

* NearlyNormalAnimal: Zach plays mean soccer.
* NewTransferStudent: What a coincidence, it's Erika. And the only open seat is behind Oota.
* NoIndoorVoice: Oota

* PigeonHoledVoiceActor: Creator/YuuKobayashi playing a HotBlooded boy.
* PluckyGirl: Reika and Erika

** Also his rival/teammate Aoto.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Furuya triplets in a sense.

* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Masaru and Kyouko

* ShrinkingViolet: Reika is shy and soft-spoken. Also, Oota when he was younger. They both grow out of it.

** Kota even more so, and his brothers whenever they decide to [[TwinSwitch confuse]] their opponents.

* StealthMentor: Kota towards Reika in a sense.

** In a more traditional sense, Ryuuji is this, often filling up the role of the coach.
* StrengthEqualsWorthiness: Erika asks Oota to beat her dog, Zach, at soccer if he wants to play with her. She has a personal heading contest with Oota later, in episode four.

* TeamPet: Zach, Erika's black retriever.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Erika and Reika.
* TomboyishPonytail: Erika's practical hairstyle.

** Oota and Ouzou after playing Blind Soccer.
* TradeYourPassionForGlory: Mine, an old team mate of Masaru, has become a successful bureaucrat obssessed with PR over the actual game.
* TrueCompanions: The Predators.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Kota and Aoto are deathly afraid of ghosts.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Erika.

* SpiritedYoungLady: Kyoko isn't a passive girlfriend, oh no. She'll help Masaru despite himself.

* ObaSan: Masaru doesn't like being called "Oji-san". He's not that old!

''Anime/GingaEKickoff'' started broadcasting as part of the Spring2012Anime season, and it has been slated at least for 39 episodes.

* {{Determinator}}: Oota will shrug off everything thrown at him in his quest to play soccer with his dream team.

* FatGirl: Reika.
** FormerlyFat: Eventually.
* FinishingEachOthersSentences[=/=][[TwinTelepathy Triplet Telepathy]] The Furuyas can guess correctly what any other brother is about to say.

* HyperAwareness: Oota has an uncanny abiliy to keep track of details that comes very handy in game.
** Eventually, Ouzou acquires this skill too, and could even see what Oota is seeing.

* JerkJock: The Furuya triplets are incredibly arrogant and selfish, but...
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: surprisingly fair once you get on their good side.

* TheLoad: Reika joins the team without any previous training and terribly out of shape. But she's the eleventh player they need.
** She eventually gets better.

* MyGreatestFailure: Masaru retired from coaching because he blames himself for pushing too hard his old team and getting a member seriously injured in the process.
** He nearly left [[spoiler:The predators because of Kota's injury]].

* [[ObaSan Oji-san]]: Masaru doesn't like being called this. He's not that old!

* TheQuietOne: Kota doesn't speak much.

* SpikyHair: Oota's hairstyle is naturally spikey.

* SpoilerOpening: You can see that Reika is going to lose a lot of weight and she along with Tagi and Aoto be part of the team.
** Taken UpToEleven in fact the first time you see her in the anime is after she lost the weight.

* TheStrategist: Oota's strength as a player is his ability to read the game.

* [[ThinkTwins Think Triplets]]: The Furuyas are [[TricksterTwins devious]] and pretty good analysts.

* TookALevelInBadass: Reika learns to play pretty fast. Her physical fitness is another matter. She gets considerably better when she does lose the weight

* [[TwinSwitch Triplet Switch]]: Being nearly identical besides their [[IdenticalTwinIDTag personal hairstyle]], the other two can just pull their hair back or matted it down, to confuse opponents.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Erika.

* TheBeautifulGame

* PigeonHoledVoiceActor: YuuKobayashi playing a HotBlooded boy.

* ButNotTooForeign: Aoto Gonzalez Takuma is half-Spanish.Erika quickly notices his blue eyes.

* ImagineSpot: The OP has Oota imagining his future team playing in Barcelona's Camp Nou.

* ShrinkingViolet: Reika is shy and soft-spoken. Also, Oota when he was younger.

* SpoilerOpening: You can see that Reika is going to lose a lot of weight and be part of the team.