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The Knight in the Area (manga)

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Alternative title:
Area no Kishi (Japanese)
エリアの騎士 (Japanese)
足球騎士 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: drama, tournament
Themes: school, soccer, tragedy
Plot Summary: Believing himself to be useless at scorer, Aizawa Kakeru is the manager of his school's Scorer team, while his brother Suguru is its ace, and is even good enough to represent Japan. However, Kakeru may be harbouring a strong talent within himself that only Suguru can see, and the two often get into arguments over Kakeru's denial of his skills. Things are made more complicated with Suguru die in a car accident and Kakeru got a heart injure and need a heart transplant and the parent gave Suguru' heart to save Kakeru. Seven, an old playmate of theirs that Kakeru has a crush on. She join Aizawa Kakeru in his journey to the national and even international championships.
User Ratings: 9 ratings have been given [details]
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Seen in part or in whole by 80 users, rank: #1034 (of 6736)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.444 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.8325, rank: #2298 (of 7468)
Weighted mean: 7.833 (Very good−), rank: #1739 (of 7468) (seen all: 7.54 / seen some: 8.24)
Bayesian estimate: 7.792 (Very good−), rank: #877 (of 3489)
Vintage: 2006 (serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine)
Release dates: We have 98
Official website:
The Knight in the Area @ Maga Mega (Japanese)
Links: We have 1
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