Shoot! (manga)

Shoot! (Japanese: シュート!, Hepburn: Shūto) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsukasa Ōshima. It was published in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine between 1990 and 2003. The story revolves around a boy named Toshihiko Tanaka, who had just started at Kakegawa High School in order to play association football with his idol, Yoshiharu Kubo. Toshi's friends were not interested in playing football again until he convinces them to join the team and soon the team would enter the All-Japan High School Championship. A 58-episode anime television series adaptation titled Aoki Densetsu Shoot! (蒼き伝説 シュート!, Aoki Densetsu Shūto!; lit. 'Blue Legend – Shoot!') was produced by Toei Animation and broadcast between November 7, 1993, and December 25, 1994, on Fuji Television. A brand-new original anime television series by EMT Squared and Magic Bus titled Shoot! Goal to the Future (シュート！Goal to the Future) aired from July 2 to September 24, 2022, on AT-X, Tokyo MX, TV Shizuoka, ytv, BS NTV, and BS Fuji. Noriyuki Nakamura directed the series alongside Junichi Kitamura serving as assistant director, Mitsutaka Hirota writing the scripts, and Yukiko Akiyama designing the characters. Crunchyroll streamed the series. A side story volume centered around Yoshiharu Kubo was released in 1994. Shoot! won the 1994 Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category.