History Anime / HungryHeartWildStriker

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** [[spoiler: Sakai's beloved mother was an IllGirl and died early in life, which marked him deeply. It doesn't help that his relationship with his dad isn't the best either.]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: The anime has lots of colored hairs.

* MixedAncestry: Sakai, who has Swedish blood.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the BeachEpisode, Kyousuke and his friends have a ''kakigori'' stall. Kaori helps them out... [[MissFanservice wearing a bikini]]... and then [[NakedApron putting on an apron over her bikini]]...

* HelloNurse: Kaori a gorgeous HospitalHottie, and both Kyousuke and [[spoiler: Sakai]] feel drawn to her.

* BerserkButton: Kyōsuke ''really'' hates being compared to [[TheAce his brother]]. Actually, he never had a problem with the comparison in his younger days, it's only when he was in Junior High, after [[spoiler: he inadvertantly learned he was an adopted child)]], that he developped the button. Coming to terms with it during a match against a team which tries to use the button at its advantage, is a crucial moment of his CharacterDevelopment.

* CheatersNeverProsper: Averted and later played straight in the matches against Tenjin High. They win the Interhigh match against Akanegaoka using UnnecessaryRoughness to [[GameBreakingInjury injure Kyousuke and put him out of the game]], but during the rematch in the regionals, [[TaughtByExperience Kyousuke has gotten wise]] [[ItOnlyWorksOnce and doesn't let them pull the same trick on them again.]]
* CoolBigSis: Kaori takes up the role towards not only Kyousuke, but the rest of the team.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Gender-flipped with Kyōsuke. He's so allergic to girls, pimples appear on his face whenever a girl comes close to her. The only ones who can approach him without causing this effect are his eventual sweetheart Miki, and the team's physiotherapist and nutrionist Kaori, who he has a crush on [[spoiler: before finding out that she's Seisuke's girlfriend.]]
* {{Expy}}: Considering this series could be described as ''Manga/SlamDunk'' meets ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'', expies are to be expected.
** Kyōsuke: a high-egoed newbie who dyes his hair red and is a natural for Soccer. That says [[Manga/SlamDunk Hanamichi Sakuragi]] all over the place.

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Kyousuke is ''very'' tall while Miki is slightly waifish, so this trope takes place between them. It really doesn't help that the anime itself [[NotDrawnToScale can't decide how *exactly* tall Kyosuke is.]]

** Kyousuke was one in junior high, when he mentally/emotionally broke down after [[spoiler: learning that he was adopted]]

* JerkAss: Kiba and his friends began as this and, as a result, the regular team members took prolonged offence to them. Thankfully, they underwent CharacterDevelopment.

* MadeOfIron: Or something even stronger. In the manga's beginning Kyosuke breaks iron.

* ThemeMusicPowerUp: When you hear an insert theme song Kyosuke will pull an awesome move. However, it sometimes cheats the viewer. The insert theme song does not mean Akanegoaka are gonna win. Heck, in one occasion the music ended, Kyosuke failed but still made the goal without the insert song.
* TheOnlyWayTheyWillLearn: Even though Kyosuke is clearly made to play forward, Coach Murakami at first forces him to play defense in the back for no apparent reason and much to his dismay. However, in the first match of the Interhigh tournament, Kyosuke is finally allowed to play forward, and he's able to predict how the opposing players react to him, breaking through their defense. It's then that Kyosuke understands that this was Murakami's intention all along.

* WaxOnWaxOff: After Miki's goading, Kyosuke accepted her offer to coach the women's team, only to have them pick up stones and pebbles on the pitch as their "training". It appears that Kyosuke was only bullying them, but Miki believes that it is some conditioning exercise of sorts. It is later revealed in a flashback that Kyosuke and Seisuke used to do the same as a warm-up and to have a clean pitch to play on. Kyosuke also does them the favor of leveling the pitch using a manual roller before starting off their proper training.

** In the first Akanegaoka vs Tenjin match, five Tenjin players simultaneously slide-tackle against Kyosuke, [[UnnecessartRoughness in a]] ''[[UnnecessaryRoughness very]]'' [[UnnecessaryRoughness blatant attempt to]] [[GameBreakingInjury injure his leg]]. The referee only issues a ''yellow'' card for one of them, when such an attempt would have been worth a red one for all of them in a real game.

The story follows Kyōsuke Kanou, a highschool student who once dreamed of being a soccer player. His older brother Seisuke, an already famous player, is the one who trained him and taught him all he knows. But after Seisuke left to play in Italy, people started comparing the siblings and that ''plus'' a life-wreaking discovery about himself made Kyōsuke's self-esteem plummet, making him quit sports altogether.

* {{Expy}}: considering this series could be described as ''Manga/SlamDunk'' meets ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'', expies are to be expected.

* ToBeAMaster: Well, duh.

* ItRunsInTheFamily: [[spoiler: Kyousuke's deceased biological dad, Keisuke Natsume, ''also'' was a soccer player.]]

** [[spoiler: Keisuke and Mitsuko Natsume, Kyosuke's birth parents, died in an accident. ''And Kyousuke was there''.]]

* WaxOnWaxOff: After Miki's goading, Kyosuke accepted her offer to coach the women's team, only to have them pick up stones and pebbles on the pitch as their "training". It appears that Kyosuke was only bullying them, but the GenreSavvy Miki believes that it is some conditioning exercise of sorts. It is later revealed in a flashback that Kyosuke and Seisuke used to do the same as a warm-up and to have a clean pitch to play on. Kyosuke also does them the favor of leveling the pitch using a manual roller before starting off their proper training.

''Hungry Heart: Wild Striker'' (''ハングリーハート WILD STRIKER'') is the name anime adaptation of the 2002 ''Hungry Heart'' [[SportsStories soccer]] manga. It was done by Yoichi Takahashi, the creator of the more well-known ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa''.