Hungry Heart: Wild Striker is a tV series anime that premiered in fall 2002, produced by Nippon Animation.

About the production: the story comes from a manga, there are 52 episodes of about 23 minutes and its current status is "finished".

Its main genres are comedy, slice of life and sports, with themes such as Football, Shounen and School Club.

On AniList, Hungry Heart: Wild Striker has an average score of 72%, a good score, and appears on 4,953 users' lists.

Kyosuke Kano has lived under the shadow of his successful brother Seisuke all his life who is a professional soccer player. Tired of being compared and downgraded at, he abandoned playing soccer until a boy from his new highschool discovered him and asked him to join their team. Kyosuke joins it and befriends two other first year players named Rodrigo and Sakai with the dream of becomming professional soccer players themselves. (Source: Anime News Network)

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