The Knight in the Area (TV)
Alternative title: 
	
Area no Kishi (Japanese)
	Football Dream (Portuguese)
	Football Dream: El caballero del área (Spanish)
	エリアの騎士 (Japanese)
Plot Summary: 
	Believing himself to be useless at soccer, Aizawa Kakeru instead becomes the manager of his school's soccer team, while his brother Suguru is its ace, and is even good enough to represent Japan in the championships. However, Kakeru may have a yet unknown strong talent within himself that only his brother Suguru can see, and they often get into arguments over Kakeru's denial of his skills. Things are made more complicated with the return of Nana, an old friend of theirs that Kakeru has a crush on.
User Ratings: 
	168 ratings have been given [details]
Running time: 
	Half Hour
Episode titles: We have 37
Vintage: 
	
2012-01-07
	2016-02-15 (Portugal)
Opening Theme: 
	
"Higher Ground" (ハイヤーグラウンド) by SRS
Official website: 
	
	テレビ朝日|エリアの騎士 (Japanese)
Review:
Knight in the Area Episodes 1-25 Streaming (Sep 14, 2012)
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The Knight in the Area Soccer TV Anime to End Next Week (Sep 23, 2012)
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| Director: Hirofumi Ogura Series Composition: Hirofumi Ogura Script: Higashi Shimizu (13 episodes eps 5, 9-15 odd, 16, 19-20, 23-24, 27, 30, 35) Hiroaki Murakami (6 episodes eps 14, 18, 22, 26, 34, 36) Tetsuo Hirakawa (eps 1-4, 7, 10) Yasuhiko Tamura (9 episodes eps 6, 8, 12, 17, 21, 25, 29, 32, 37) Yasushi Ootake (eps 28, 31, 33) Storyboard: Ai Yoshimura (ep 27) Dojag-a-gen (ep 30) DROP Hajime Horinouchi (4 episodes eps 4, 9, 14, 23) Hirofumi Ogura (eps 1, 21, 25) Hiroshi Aoyama (ep 28) Housei Suzuki (ep 24) Jiro Fujimoto (ep 19) Jōji Furuta (5 episodes eps 7, 13, 22, 34, 36) Kazuo Miyake (ep 33) Kenji Kodama (eps 12, 17) Kōji Yoshikawa (eps 10, 15) Makoto Fuchigami (ep 26) Mamoru Kurosawa (ep 2) Masato Satō (ep 3) Noriaki Saito (ep 24) Shinobu Sasaki (5 episodes eps 6, 11, 18, 25, 37) Takeshi Ushigusa (ep 8) Tsutomu Murakami (ep 31) Yoshiaki Okumura (ep 20) Yoshihiro Sugai (ep 32) Yoshihiro Takamoto (eps 29, 35) Yukio Nishimoto (ep 16) Unit Director: Akio Yamaguchi DROP Hiromichi Matano Kazuo Miyake Makoto Fuchigami Masahiro Takada Minoru Yamaoka Mitsutoshi Satō Osamu Sekita Rokō Ogiwara (ep 15) Shinobu Sasaki Shinya Watada Shunji Yoshida Taiji Kawanishi Takashi Toda Takeshi Kino Takeshi Ushigusa Tohru Ishida Tomio Yamauchi Tsutomu Murakami Yoshihiro Sugai Yūsuke Onoda Character Design: Hitomi Tsuruta Art Director: Akira Suzuki Animation Director: Akira Kano Akira Sotoya Chūji Nakajima Dae Yeol Park Dai Imaoka Hideo Maru Hiroaki Kawaguchi Hitomi Matsuura Hitomi Tsuruta Hitoshi Haga Hyung Jun Heo Ichizō Kobayashi Ippei Ichii Ju-Hyeon Lee Kaito Senkōji Kazuo Takematsu Kazuyuki Ikai Kenji Hattori Kim Hyoeun Kōji Yukino Kōsuke Yoshida Kuean Yongsang Kumiko Shishido Makoto Matsui Masao Takeda Masayuki Fujita Miho Yoshioka Naoki Aisaka Satoshi Kubo Shin Suk Min Shinichi Shigematsu Tae Gun Kim Takashi Narikawa Takashi Ueno Tetsurō Nireki Tomoe Nishio Yoshishige Kosako Yōsuke Yabumoto Yuji Ito Yūji Moriyama Yūya Takahashi Yuzo Kayama Zhen Yu Guan Director of Photography: Kenji Takahashi 2nd Key Animation: Emiko Kataoka (eps 4, 29, 32) Masami Yamashita (5 episodes eps 4, 9, 19, 23, 29) Miyuki Koga (ep 29) Assistant Animation Director: Taizō Iwanaga Assistant Director: Shinobu Sasaki Color design: Hiromi Imaizumi In-Between Check: Masaru Kanamori (ep 24) Key Animation: Akihiko Sano (Wish; ep 2) Akihito Fujiwara (ep 3) Akira Ono (eps 1, 6) Akira Takeuchi (ep 9) Aya Yamaguchi (ep 6) Ayumi Tsukamoto (eps 4, 9) Chie Nishio (Studio Liberty; eps 2, 7) Chizuko Kusunoki (eps 4, 9) Chūji Nakajima (Studio Liberty; eps 2, 7) Daikichi Ishiyama (ep 3) Eiji Kaneda (ep 9) Emiko Kataoka (5 episodes eps 1, 6, 9, 11, 35) Emiko Momose (ep 5) Fujio Oda (ep 7) Hideaki Matsuoka (ep 9) Hideki Shibuya (eps 4, 9) Hideo Maru (ep 4) Hiroaki Kawaguchi (ep 5) Hiroko Shigekuni (ep 5) Hiroshi Kugimiya (ep 2) Hiroshi Oikawa (ep 4) Hiroyoshi Iida (ep 21) Hiroyuki Kamura (eps 2, 9) Hitomi Matsuura (ep 6) Ichirō Hattori (eps 9, 19) Kana Tanabe (ep 8) Kaori Saito (Wish; ep 7) Kazuhiko Wanibuchi (eps 2, 9) Kazuhiko Yokota (ep 3) Kazuhiro Sasaki (eps 4, 9) Kei Sakai (ep 4) Keiko Motoya (ep 5) Koichiro Ueda (ep 1) Konomi Sakurai (ep 5) Kota Takeuchi (ep 4) Maiko Ochiai (ep 5) Maki Hashimoto (ep 8) Makiko Shinohara (ep 1) Masahiko Inuzuka (Wish; ep 7) Masahiro Sasaki (eps 4, 9) Masaru Kanamori (eps 20, 24, 30) Masashi Ōmura (ep 2) Masashi Yamaoka (eps 4, 9) Masato Nishikawa (ep 6) Masayo Matsumoto (eps 3, 7) Masayuki Mizutani (ep 3) Mieko Seki (4 episodes eps 1, 6, 11, 29) Misato Takasaki (ep 6) Miyuki Koga (ep 23) Momoko Nagakawa (ep 37) Nao Takano (Studio Liberty; eps 2, 7) Naoko Ozawa (ep 5) Natsuko Sadamoto (Wish; ep 7) Nobuyuki Koyanagi (eps 3, 7) Noriko Hatta (eps 5, 7) Noriko Takahashi (ep 6) Osamu Kurosawa (ep 5) Reiko Sato (ep 8) Risa Tabata (ep 8) Ryuji Tsuzuku (ep 4) Sachie Tanaka (Wish; eps 7, 16) Shigenori Taniguchi (ep 5) Shinichi Wada (ep 5) Shinsuke Kasahara (eps 4, 9) Susumu Watanabe (eps 3, 7) Takako Onishi (ep 5) Takeru Yamazaki (ep 1) Takeshi Kakihara (ep 5) Takeshi Moriyama (ep 20) Tomoko Shimizu (ep 9) Tomomi Ishii (ep 1) Tomoyo Yoshida (eps 1, 6) Toshiharu Kudō (ep 1) Toshihiko Araki (ep 6) Toshihiro Kawakami (ep 9) Toshiyuki Yoshioka (ep 2) Wataru Sekimoto (ep 4) Yasuaki Aoki (ep 8) Yayoi Komine (ep 8) Yōhei Yamamoto (Wish; ep 7) Yōko Iizuka (eps 4, 8-9) Yōko Ono (ep 9) Yoshiaki Matsuda (ep 7) Yoshiki Hirai (ep 4) Yoshito Narimatsu (ep 5) Yui Enomoto (eps 1, 6) Yūichirō Fukaya (Wish; ep 2) Yūki Nakano (ep 8) Yukie Kawakami (ep 4) Yūko Hineno (ep 6) Yuko Watanabe (ep 9) Yumi Chiba (ep 1) Yumiko Kinoshita (ep 6) Yuriko Kono (ep 5) Line Test: Tomoaki Makitera Mixing: Takaaki Uchiyama Production Advancement: Yū Kinome (ep 24) Sound Effects: Kentarō Washio | Jun Fukuyama as  Shizuka Itō as  Yūko Sanpei as  Akira Ishida as  Atsushi Kakehashi as  Chihiro Suzuki as  Daisuke Namikawa as  Hiro Shimono as  Kei Shindō as  Ken Takeuchi as  Minoru Shiraishi as  Shinichirō Miki as  Takehito Koyasu as  Tarusuke Shingaki as  Teruyuki Tanzawa as  Tsubasa Yonaga as  Ai Nonaka as  Akihiro Higashi as  Akio Suyama as  Akira Sasanuma as  Anri Katsu as  Atsushi Abe as  Chie Nakamura as  Chieko Kagose as  Daisuke Kishio as  Fukumi Matsumoto as  Fumihide Ise as  Genki Muro as  Haruna Ikezawa as  Hayato Taya as  Hidemitsu Shimizu as  Hiroaki Tajiri as  Hiromi Igarashi as  Hiromi Igarashi as  Hironori Miyata as  Hiroyuki Yoshino as  Hisaya Tanaka as  Itsuki Oota as  Itsuki Takizawa as  Jin Horikawa as  Jin Urayama as  Jirō Saitō as  Junji Kitajima as  Junko Noda as  Kahoru Sasajima as  Kanako Ikeda as  Kanako Sakura as  Kaoru Morota as  Katsumi Toriumi as  Katsuya Shiga as  Kazuo Oka as  Kazuyoshi Hayashi as  Kazuyoshi Shiibashi as  Kazuyuki Okitsu as  Keiichi Kuwabara as  Keita Miyanaga as  Kenichi Koike as  Kensuke Nishi as  Kentarō Tone as  Kissei Kumamoto as  Kiyoshi Katsunuma as  Kōji Fujiyoshi as  Kosuke Onishi as  Koya Muko as  Kōzō Mito as  Kunpei Sakamoto as  Makoto Naruse as  Mami Horikoshi as  Masaaki Kouda as  Masafumi Kimura as  Masahiro Ichihara as  Masahito Horii as  Masao Harada as  Masaru Suzuki as  Masato Funaki as  Masato Kokubun as  Masaya Hashimoto as  Mayu Isshiki as  Michi Imase as  Misuzu Togashi as  Mitsuhiro Ichiki as  Motoki Takagi as  Natsuko Sakai as  Nobunaga Shimazaki as  Nozomi Chikamura as  Orie Kimoto as  Ren Katō as  Rintarō Nishi as  Rintaro Sakai as  Ryōhei Arai as  Ryōta Asari as  Ryūji Nakagi as  Ryūzō Ishino as  Saori Sudo as  Satoshi Hino as  Sayuri Yoshida as  Seirō Ogino as  Shinji Tokumaru as  Shintarō Ogawa as  Shizuka Itō as  Showtaro Morikubo as  Subaru Kimura as  Susumu Chiba as  Suzu Maihara as  Takahiro Miyake as  Takahiro Mizushima as  Takao Sugiyama as  Takashi Maeshima as  Takashi Matsuyama as  Takaya Kuroda as  Takayuki Fujimoto as  Takumi Asahina as  Takumi Watanabe as  Takuya Hatanaka as  Takuya Satō as  Takuya Yamaguchi as  Tesshō Genda as  Tetsuya Iwanaga as  Tetsuya Motomura as  Tomohiro Tsuboi as  Tomokazu Seki as  Tomoko Kaneda as  Tomomi Betsui as  Toshiaki Kuwahara as  Toshihiko Nakanishi as  Toshiyuki Morikawa as  Uko Tachibana as  Yasuhiro Yoshimoto as  Yayoi Sugaya as  Yōichi Nishijima as  Yoshiko Kamei as  Yoshiyuki Kōno as  Yūichi Ishigami as  Yūji Mitsuya as  eps 10, 26-27, 29, 34, 37) Yuka Keichō as  Yukako Uemura as  Yukari Honma as  Yūki Itō as  Yukiko Amada as  Yumi Kakazu as  Yumiko Kobayashi as  Yūsuke Handa as  Yūta Odagaki as  Yuu Yaguchi as  Yūya Chikaki as  | |||
| 2nd Key Animation: A-Line Anime Spot Anitus Kōbe Asterism Big Bang Big Owl Def.c Dream Force FAI Han il Animation Jumondo Kino Production Magic Bus Marbean Animation MK Seoul Mouse Nakamura Production Neox Seigasha Studio Angle Studio Gimlet Studio Hibari Studio Liberty Studio Pastoral Studio Pineapple TAP Triple A Wish Animation Check: drop (eps 10, 15) Animation Production: Shin-Ei Animation Animation Production Cooperation: Ascension (14 episodes eps 2, 4-5, 7, 9-10, 14-15, 17, 19-20, 22-24) Broadcaster: TV Asahi (2012-01-07) Digital Paint: AI AIC BEEP Big Owl Core drop Han il Animation Hayashi Hyoin Animation I&S Factory Jumondo Light Foot M.S.J Musashino Production Magic Bus Marbean Animation MK Seoul R.I.C Rocket Vision Sao Sang Design Studio Hibari Studio Pastoral Triple A Video Art Wish Direction: drop (ep 5) Editing Studio: Okayasu Promotion Film Editing: Tokyo Laboratory In-Between Animation: AI AIC Anitus Kōbe Asahi Production BEEP Big Owl Core drop Han il Animation Hayashi Hyoin Animation I&S Factory Jumondo M.S.J Musashino Production Magic Bus Marbean Animation MK Seoul Nakamura Production R.I.C Rocket Vision Sao Sang Design Studio Hibari Studio Pastoral Sung San Production Triple A Video Art Wish Internet Streaming: Videx Key Animation: Anime Torotoro (ep 10) Eagle Nest (ep 4) Hyoin Animation (eps 17, 22) I&S Factory (eps 14, 19, 23) Jumondo (eps 14-15, 23) Marbean Animation (eps 22, 25, 37) MK Seoul (ep 3) Nakamura Production (ep 3) Seigasha (5 episodes eps 4, 8-9, 14, 19) Studio Bambino (eps 8, 13) Studio Gimlet (ep 13) Studio Liberty (7 episodes eps 2, 5, 7, 10, 12, 17, 22) Studio Mark (eps 4, 8-9, 13) Studio Pineapple (ep 24) Studio Toybox (eps 8, 13) Sung San Production (ep 15) Wish (eps 2, 7, 16) Photography: Asahi Production Production Assistance: C2C (ep 21) Dream Force (4 episodes eps 9, 14, 19, 23) Studio Hibari (eps 20, 24) Recording Studio: Apu Meguro Studio Sound Effects: Fizz Sound Creation Sound Production: Audio Planning U Storyboard: drop (ep 5) | ||||
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| Dubbing Director: Consuelo Pizarro (Latin American dub) Translation: Agnès Pérez (Spain dub) | Consuelo Pizarro as  Nicolás Carmona as  Daniel Streeter as  David Aguilera as  Felipe Waldhorn as  Matías Fajardo as  Rodrigo Saavedra as  Anita Barros as  Betsabé Gutiérrez as  Brian Ramirez as  Carolina Highet as  Cristóbal Areite as  Enzo Miranda as  Lucía Suárez as  Natalia Ríos as  Nicolás Morales as  Pablo Arriagada as  Rubén González as  | |||
| Distributor: Rose Entertainment Dubbing Studio: Provoz Chile Translation: Daruma Serveis Lingüístics (Spain dub) | ||||
| (none) | Joana Castro as  Tiago Caetano as  Vítor Emanuel as  Tiago Matias as  Paula Pais | |||
| Broadcaster: Panda Biggs (Portugal) Dubbing: Santa Claus Audiovisuais (Portugal) | ||||
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