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* CurbStompBattle: When they are at their best condition and against teams that are considered subpar, Seiseki would deal this towards them. [[spoiler: One notable instance comes from their first Nationals match against Yuigahama, where they scored a 4-0 in 9 chapters, despite being the arc about Kazama.]]
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* {{Determinator}}: Tsukushi doesn't get discouraged by his lack of experience. His mistakes make him practice harder.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Kimishita and Ooshiba seem fond of this InUniverse, acting like they're about to do something unusually friendly to the other and then switching out at the last second, occasionally fooling even the other.
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* SeriousBusiness: Soccer, obviously. Justified in that many of the players will or at least want to go pro and have to take it seriously as their future career.
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* RotatingProtagonist: While Tsukushi is technically the main protagonist, his relative lack of skill means that he spends a lot of time out of focus, especially during matches, while his teammates pass the role back and forth between them depending on whose character arc it is.
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* CoolKidAndLoserFriendship: Kazama (talented, outgoing, popular Cool Kid) and Tsukushi (shy, nervous, emotional, less-than-athletic Loser). They're completely inseparable [[spoiler:and also turn out to be much the same. Kazama was only a cool kid on the surface before meeting Tsukushi, having been ostracized by his middle school team and almost driven out of soccer entirely, so meeting each other was arguably what turned them into a cool-kid-and-loser friendship in the first place]].
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* MoeCouplet: Shy, awkward, hardworking Tsukushi and talented, popular, outgoing but secretly disillusioned Kazama. They only bring out the best in each other, make each other see soccer and the world in a new light, give each other a purpose, and flat-out adore each other.
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Tsukushi Tsukamoto is a shy first-year high school student who has no particular special talents or traits. On his first day of school he is asked by a classmate, Jin Kazama, to play a football game with him as he's down one person. This gets Tsukushi interested in this sport. Tsukushi is a beginner at football but decides to join his school's team, along with Kazama. Despite his lack of experience he is determined to play the best he can.
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[[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Tsukushi Tsukamoto Tsukamoto]] is a shy first-year high school student who has no particular special talents or traits. On his first day of school he is asked by a classmate, Jin Kazama, to play a [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball football game game]] with him as he's down one person. This gets Tsukushi interested in this sport. Tsukushi is a beginner at football but decides to join his school's team, along with Kazama. Despite his lack of experience he is determined to play the best he can.
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* PowerTrio: The three arrows of Seiseki are the embodiment of this.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Seiseki has Satou and Suzuki, as well as Hayase and Kokubo to some degree.
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* HairColorDissonance: Ubukata in the manga, whose hair is depicted as ranging between grayish dirty blonde and outright silver depending on the illustration, presumably supposed to represent the former. And Hayase in the anime, who has cherry-red hair to represent a more realistic shade.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Almost completely averted, except for Ubukata (especially in the anime, which makes her hair pink), as well as Usui (silver-haired ranging from gray to almost blue). An explanation for these odd colors is never given.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Almost completely averted, except for Ubukata (especially in the anime, which makes her hair pink), as well as Usui (silver-haired ranging from gray to almost blue). An explanation for these odd colors is never given.
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* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple:
** The most prominent example are Indou and Narukami. They're inseparable, on first-name basis, live together, play soccer together, and are bickering 24/7.
** Kimishita and Ooshiba also end up falling into this dynamic as their relationship shifts from SitcomArchNemesis to VitriolicBestBuds.
* LeftHanging: [[spoiler:The anime, essentially. The series ends with a cliffhanger right before the beginning of the Touin match and the promise of a sequel. A sequel does come after a full year, but it's a three-episode OVA series and a limited edition accessible only to a select few, meaning that the series was left hanging for the overwhelming majority of the fanbase.]]
** The most prominent example are Indou and Narukami. They're inseparable, on first-name basis, live together, play soccer together, and are bickering 24/7.
** Kimishita and Ooshiba also end up falling into this dynamic as their relationship shifts from SitcomArchNemesis to VitriolicBestBuds.
* LeftHanging: [[spoiler:The anime, essentially. The series ends with a cliffhanger right before the beginning of the Touin match and the promise of a sequel. A sequel does come after a full year, but it's a three-episode OVA series and a limited edition accessible only to a select few, meaning that the series was left hanging for the overwhelming majority of the fanbase.]]
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* AdaptationExpansion: The anime gives several Seiseki regulars small speaking appearances before their former introductions where they were just ''there'' in the manga, most prominently Kimishita and Ooshiba picking a fight while watching the first-years play and later practicing one on one and fighting over who gets the ball after Kimishita scores a goal.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: The Seiseki regulars show up in shots of the whole team long before they get proper introductions or speaking roles. Expanded in the anime.
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* DramaPreservingHandicap: Seiseki in the match against [[spoiler:Keiou]]. While the powerhouse Seiseki could usually beat an underdog team like them with ease, they're not at their strongest because [[spoiler:Kazama and Ooshiba are both injured and Mizuki's out after two yellow cards, meaning none of the three arrows can play]].
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Keiou makes that mistake with Seiseki because [[spoiler:all three of their regular forwards can't play for one reason or another]]. They quickly learn their lesson.
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* DumbJock: A study session episode for Seiseki soccer club reveals Kurusu's clique, Ooshiba and Mizuki as this.
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* DumbJock: A The first-years (minus Kazama and Tsukushi), Ooshiba, and Mizuki, as revealed during a team study session episode for Seiseki soccer club reveals Kurusu's clique, Ooshiba and Mizuki as this.session.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Seiseki school club alone has 57 members, which focused to Seiseki's eleven regulars and the first-years who have yet to become regulars. A good number of rival teams with several named and developed characters each, and a whole handful of characters who aren't playing on any team at all. It adds up.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There's the Seiseki school club alone has 57 members, soccer club, which focused to Seiseki's eleven regulars consists of 57 players alone, coaches, managers, parents, friends, and of course other teams. And the first-years who have yet to become regulars. A good number of rival teams cast just keeps on growing with several named and developed characters each, and a whole handful of characters who aren't playing on any team at all. It adds up.every match.
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* SequelHook: There's one at the end of episode 24, showing Seiseki's game against [[spoiler:Touin]].
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Seiseki soccer club. They had already been to the Nationals 10 times [[spoiler: including Tsukishi's first year.]] But had yet to win the championship.
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* HuddlePower: Nearly every team before a match, especially Seiseki.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Tsukushi is a slightly awkward boy who gets nervous easily. Also, believe it or not, Mizuki is this as well.
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* AudienceSurrogate: Tsukushi is a beginner at football and thus doesn't know much about it.
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* BlushSticker: Tsukushi has a permanent blush on his cheeks, emphasizing his youthful looks. He shares them with his mother.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Ooshiba proposes that Seiseki will three-peat the nationals and that he will star in all three. He's a ''second'' year.
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* OpposingSportsTeam: Played with. Seiseki is this to many other teams, being a big powerhouse with half a century's tradition and a bunch of very talented and intimidating players. The protagonists themselves are mostly oblivious to that though.
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* SequelHook: There's one at the end of episode 24 implying that there will a second season, which shows Seiseki's game against [[spoiler:Touin]].
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Seiseki soccer club. They had already been to the Nationals 10 times [[spoiler: including Tsukishi's first year.]] But had yet to win the championship.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are Seiseki's eleven regulars, the first-years who have yet to become regulars, a good number of rival teams with several named and developed characters each, and a whole handful of characters who aren't playing on any team at all. It adds up.
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* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Kazama has long, blond hair that gets commented on in-series.
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* WebcomicTime: Especially prominent during matches, which take place over about an hour and a half but are published over the course of several months, or sometimes half a year.
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* OneGenderSchool: Keiou. They're quite jealous of Seiseki for having a beautiful female manager.
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* SpinOff: The series has one in the shape of DAYS Gaiden, which contains several characters' backstories.
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* BeachEpisode: The first OVA has Seiseki [[spoiler:and later Saku High]] training at the beach. Seiseki being Seiseki, HilarityEnsues.
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* BreatherEpisode: The summer festival and study chapters between the Saku High match and the training camp, and the [[spoiler:victory party after the Touin match]] and the school festival between the winter tournament prelims and [[spoiler:nationals]].
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* ArtEvolution: Just compare the art from the early chapters to the current style. Everyone looks much less baby-faced than they used to, and Yasuda's way of drawing faces and hair has changed visibly.
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* ParentalAbandonment: More frequent than you'd expect. Tsukushi's father died when he was little, Kimishita doesn't have a mother and her fate is never explored (although the character guidebook implies she's still alive), [[spoiler:Kazama's mother left him when he was a child, and whether or not he has a father is still a mystery]], and then there's [[spoiler:Indou and Narukami, who were both orphaned at a young age]].
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: One of the most frequent ways to end chapters, episodes, or volumes, especially during matches.
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* LovableJock: Given the genre, it's natural that the series is full of them.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** An early chapter has [[MellowFellow Usui]] blushing with second-hand embarrassment at Mizuki and Indou's staring contest.
** Kimishita refers to Ooshiba as "Shiba" before their fight in the Saku High halftime break. Fixed in the anime.
** An early chapter has [[MellowFellow Usui]] blushing with second-hand embarrassment at Mizuki and Indou's staring contest.
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* WhiteAndGreyMorality: The few matches that aren't outright GoodVersusGood. Some of the rival teams antagonize Seiseki to rile them up or make harsh remarks about them behind their backs, but even they are still portrayed as mostly good (if sometimes strange) people.
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* WhiteAndGreyMorality: The few matches that aren't outright GoodVersusGood. Some of the rival teams antagonize Seiseki to rile them up or make harsh remarks about them behind their backs, but even they are still portrayed as mostly good (if sometimes strange) people.people.
* WorthyOpponent: A given, considering the genre.
** Indou and Mizuki view each other this way and look forward to facing off, even if they don't get along well otherwise.
** Kazama and Himura even outright state that they see each other as the only first-years worth competing with.
** Seiseki and Seikan as whole teams, at least after [[spoiler:Seikan loses to Seiseki]].
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* WorthyOpponent: A given, considering the genre.
** Indou and Mizuki view each other this way and look forward to facing off, even if they don't get along well otherwise.
** Kazama and Himura even outright state that they see each other as the only first-years worth competing with.
** Seiseki and Seikan as whole teams, at least after [[spoiler:Seikan loses to Seiseki]].
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* CastOfSnowflakes: All the characters have their own unique designs, facial features and visual quirks. The only characters who can sometimes accidentally look alike are Indou and Haibara in the manga, but that's mostly due to bad perspective or a mild case of art failure since their faces and hairstyles look far from the same.
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* BrickJoke: In the halftime break of the Saku High match, Tsukushi notices Kazama looking a little gloomy and tries to cheer him up with a silly pose he calls "Wringing a dustcloth!" It works; cue Kazama showing him how to do the pose properly. Fast forward to [[spoiler:Kazama getting subbed in close to the end of the Touin match]], when Seiseki is troubled and in a tight spot... and the first thing Kazama does is twist Tsukushi in that same pose he did back then to cheer up his team. "Wringing a dustcloth, Tsukushi version!" Again, it works like a charm.
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* SitcomArchNemesis: Several examples throughout the series.
** Kimishita and Ooshiba appear to be the most prominent one, although they're later revealed to be VitriolicBestBuds.
** Kazama and Ubukata start out this way before eventually starting to get along.
** Mizuki and Indou. Even though Indou tries to bond with Mizuki a lot, the two of them can't stay in one room for long without picking a fight.
** Himura hates Kazama's guts for no logical reason. How much Kazama reciprocates the hatred is unclear.
** Kimishita and Ooshiba appear to be the most prominent one, although they're later revealed to be VitriolicBestBuds.
** Kazama and Ubukata start out this way before eventually starting to get along.
** Mizuki and Indou. Even though Indou tries to bond with Mizuki a lot, the two of them can't stay in one room for long without picking a fight.
** Himura hates Kazama's guts for no logical reason. How much Kazama reciprocates the hatred is unclear.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Many many.
** Tsukushi went from dark brown/black hair and brown eyes in the manga to black hair and blue eyes in the anime.
** Kazama's eye color changed from blue to brown.
** Kimishita went from black hair and gray eyes to brown hair and green eyes.
** Ooshiba changed from bright red hair and brown eyes to auburn hair and blue-greenish eyes (depending on the scene and lighting).
** Ubukata's hair was grayish in the manga. In the anime it's a shade of pink.
** Hayase, a brunette in the manga, became a redhead in the anime.
** Tsukushi went from dark brown/black hair and brown eyes in the manga to black hair and blue eyes in the anime.
** Kazama's eye color changed from blue to brown.
** Kimishita went from black hair and gray eyes to brown hair and green eyes.
** Ooshiba changed from bright red hair and brown eyes to auburn hair and blue-greenish eyes (depending on the scene and lighting).
** Ubukata's hair was grayish in the manga. In the anime it's a shade of pink.
** Hayase, a brunette in the manga, became a redhead in the anime.
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