Inazuma Eleven (2008)
Mamoru Endou is a cheerful goalkeeper in Raimon Jr High, with six other players in the team. But there was a day when the team was almost lead to disbandment by Natsumi unless they are able to win the match against the Teikoku Gakuen, currently the best team in Japan. He tried to save the club by gathering four more players to join the team.
Seasons & Episode
Finally, the members of Inazuma Japan are announced at the Holy Road Stadium! Matsukaze Tenma, Shindou Takuto and Tsurugi Kyousuke are chosen, but all their other teammates are strangers from various schools around Japan. When they have an exhibition match against Teikoku, none of the members, other than those three, seem to know that they are doing. In fact, a few of them are only soccer beginners! The fans lose interest immediately—what a disappointment for Japan's national team.
The match between Inazuma Japan and Fire Dragon continued. Fire Dragon easily obtained the lead with 0-1 and Inazuma Japan were still not up to their fullest. What would happen next? Would Inazuma Japan be able to win or would they be eliminated before their challenge to the world even begins?
The match between Inazuma Japan and Storm Wolf continues. Inazuma Japan has been able to cope up with Storm Wolf equally but Matsukaze Tenma still feels something is lacking. Then, Storm Wolf scores another goal with Gold Fever which makes Ibuki Munemasa very frustrated. Most of the team doesn't follow Tenma's orders and charges ahead alone. After seeing their movements, Ibuki remembers his past. Will Ibuki realize what Shindou Takuto was trying to tell him by doing those things?
Inazuma Japan takes back a point with their counterattack. The second half starts, with the score being 2-1. However, Storm Wolf's movements become different from the moves they showed in the first half, which surprises a lot of Japan's players.
After witnessing Storm Wolf's players turning into aliens and seeing the spaceship in the sky, Inazuma Japan is awestruck to see the players "collected" by the spaceship and an alien called Bitway Ozrock appears in front of them. Bitway informs the team that they were now Earth's representative team, not Japan's, to participate in the Grand Celesta Galaxy. Confused at his words, Gouenji Shuuya suddenly walks into the stadium and explains everything.
As Galaxy Nauts Gou gets ready to be warped, Tetsukado notices that there is another person on the train. The members of Earth Eleven then begin the search but there aren't any traces of another person. Then, they arrive to the last place which is the canteen. To their surprise, the one they were searching for is actually a member of Raimon, Nishizono Shinsuke. What are they going to do now that Shinsuke tagged along with them?
As the day of the match between Earth Eleven and Sandorius Eleven is coming near, Earth Eleven is still unable to play soccer properly due to the difference of the gravitational force. Most of the members are under pressure because of being the representative of Earth.
Potomuri appears before Earth Eleven and reveals the truth about him and Mizukawa. He has been controlling Mizukawa's body since the time he used the last of his power to save her. He also reveals that Kiel was ruined by a black hole. Tsurugi, who got kidnapped, is brought to Faram Obius to meet queen Lalaya. He then gets proposed to become Lalaya's husband.
As Earth Eleven discussed about how Sazanaara's citizens were able to predict their moves, Mizukawa told them that they could "see" other peoples' hearts. This fact shocked the team, especially Matatagi. In Sazanaara Eleven's clubroom, Powai Pichori had a talk with Van Tareru about Matatagi. He told her that Matatagi has a dark, ugly and twisted "azur". Hilary Flail then came in and used her hair to drain the life force of Powai when she refused to share news about Matatagi with her.
Earth Eleven has started their match against Sazanaara Eleven. Though, for some reasons, Sazanaara Eleven keeps stealing the ball from them but they let Matatagi pass through them and immediately attack him aggressively. Unknown to Earth Eleven, Powai Pichori along with her teammates has a secret plan of destroying Matatagi's dark "azur".
With Hilary Flail joining the second half of the game, Sazanaara Eleven starts to see Earth Eleven's minds, making the game even harder for Earth's team to win. Just when Earth Eleven has a chance of scoring, Minaho unexpectedly shoots towards his team's goalpost and scores an own goal! What is Minaho thinking?
Earth Eleven has arrived to the planet of fire, Gurdon. After being toured around by Ishigashi, they get to know that this planet is divided into two factions: the Pro-Machine of the west and Anti-Machine Factions of the east. While in Faram Obius, Lalaya goes out to the city with Tsurugi in disguise and finds out that Faram Obius isn't an ideal planet that she has been wanting to protect.
As Shindou and Ibuki attempted to get back to Galaxy Nauts Gou, they were rescued by the leader of the eastern tribe, Roglos Gordon. As the two asked about the location of the red stone, Roglos brought them even more shocking news about the two factions. Meanwhile, Earth Eleven were told that Shindou and Ibuki would surely return to the match of the next day, but couldn't return now for certain reasons... The next morning, Shindou and Ibuki got up and watched Roglos flying, though the next moment the duo were brought up to the sky and dropped off towards a volcano! What was the elder thinking?
The match between Earth Eleven and Gurdon Eleven started without Shindou and Ibuki present, leaving the team's goal to Shinsuke. Gurdon Eleven used their advanced machines to their advantage and made the match ever harder for Earth Eleven, especially for Shinsuke who had a hard time defending the goal on his own as he was injured. Suddenly, Tetsukado Shin used a new hissatsu and his Soul showed signs... Will Ibuki and Shindou make it in time to the match before it ends?
Tetsukado, who was determined to activate his Soul, finally unleashed it, named Buffalo! Shindou and Ibuki eventually returned to the match in the second half and switched in for Konoha and Shinsuke. However, unbeknownst to both Earth Eleven and Gurdon Eleven, Rodan prepared some traps: magma rock balls that hit straight towards the stadium! But then something even more shocking happened: Arbega Gordon unleashed his Soul Gouryuu and saved both teams from being crushed by a magma rock ball!
Potomuri finally believed Tenma's story that Katra still lived, but still couldn't understand why Katra didn't appear before him. The two members of Shitennou, Ryugel Baran and Gandales Baran, thought that they arrived to a planet called Ratoniik but ended up getting lost on an unknown planet.
As Banda suggested, Earth Eleven and Ratoniik Eleven have a joint-training. However. While watching Ratoniik Eleven's own training, one of the players died suddenly. Banda told them that Ratoniik's inhabitants only have a lifespan of approximately one month, which shocked Earth Eleven a lot. During the break after the joint-training, Tenma and his teammates have a talk recalling their memories of the Grand Celesta Galaxy tournament they have gone through so far.
Under the Baran brothers' attack, Earth Eleven was once again suppressed. However, Minaho surprisingly unleashed a shocking new hissatsu named Asoko ni UFO! The two Shitennou members were so furious, they left during the first-half!
As Earth Eleven arrived at Faram Obius, Kuroiwa Ryuusei resigned from the position of coach. On the other hand, Bitway Ozrock told Potomuri Emnator to invent the cosmic plasma photon cannon. When Potomuri was hesitanting, one of his servants brought Katra Paige into the scene. It was revealed that Ozrock kidnapped Katra when Kiel was about to be destroyed. Katra then explained to Potomuri the life energy that is created out from people's clashing wills. Unbeknownst to them, the light Pixie and the dark Pixie secretly watched the conversation...
Earth Eleven despaired as Bitway Ozrock unleashed his nightmarish Soul, Ixaal, which easily scored a goal against Earth Eleven's Soul defense.