Hungry Heart: Wild Striker episodes

Kyosuke Kanou is a 16 years old boy, and he is on the first year of Highschool in Jyojo Akanegaoka. When he is in the street with his friends, he fights a couple of thieves and when they are running away, they push a little kid lover of soccer. This incident makes Kyosuke to show his skills at soccer shooting the ball that the kid dropped. This incident was watched by Mori and Miki, two persons that goes to the same highschool of Kyosuke. The next day, Kyosuke is asked by Miki to be the coach of Akanegaoka' female soccer team for a week, and Kyosuke accepted. Now, Kyosuke has to face the soccer one more time.

Kyosuke is now the coach of the female soccer team of Akanegaoka. As a first training, he puts the girls to grab all the rocks and herbs of the field from the first line of goal to the other one. With this task, the girls of the team, eventually leaves the team and only Miki stays until the end. With this task and a thanks from Miki, Kyosuke realizes that he still loves soccer and with the help of Mori, he decides to play again soccer and he decides to join the male soccer team of Akanegaoka.

Kyosuke finally joins Akanegaoka' s soccer team where he meet Rodrigo and Sakai, and to prove his skills he challenges Kamata and Sako, the captains of the team to a friendly game but a one price, the loser has to run 100 laps around the field. Will Kyosuke wins the bet? or is he going to run 100 laps?

Akanegaoka is going to play a friendly game with Kokuryou highschool, the number 1 team in the region. Rodrigo and Sakai has been chosen to play as main players in the team, but Kyosuke is chosen as defender instead of forward. Can Kyosuke play as a defense?

Kyosuke doens' t play very well as a defense this cause that Akanegaoka loses the game againts Kokuryou 3-1. Kyosuke doens' t like his position because he is a forward, he ignores the true intentions of the coach and he leaves the team.

Now that Kyosuke quits soccer again, he went with his friends again in the streets. He doens' t want to accept that he is running away from his brother and from the soccer. Meanwhile, Akanegaoka' female team is playing the first game in the interhigh tournament and they are playing against Himenokawa, a tough team. When Kyosuke watch the game, he decides to cheer them up in the game, but they lose the game 9-0. After that, Kyosuke decides to keep his promise to Miki and he decides to return to Akanegaoka.

Rodrigo' game style has Ichikawa upset and they have a fight between them. After that Murakami challenges Rodrigo to play with Kamata and beat his defense.

Sakai realized that he has a weakpoint, during a practice of shoots with Murakami the coach. Then, later that night he practices with Rodrigo and Kyosuke and then, he remembers the reasons of his weakpoint, an accident when he was a child. The next day, Sakai has to prove Murakami that he is the best goalkeeper and that he is not gonna give up his position.

The interhigh tournament has finally begins and the first game of the 1st round is Akanegaoka Vs Johoku. Kyosuke has been chosen to play as forward, but during the game, Kyosuke is not playing well ans he is not in coordination with the other forward, Shimizu. This mistake causes that the other team scores tree goals. Then during the break, Kyosuke is chosen as the only forward in the game and he has to prove that he is not a coward. Can Kyosuke prove that he is worth to be a forward?

Kyosuke has read the minds of his opponents and he scores two goals in the game. This is the result of playing as a defense, in that way he could see the plays of the defense. But the other team is not gonna allow Kyosuke to keep scoring, so Kyosuke has to find a way to score and win the game.

The next game in the interhigh tournament is Akanegaoka Vs Ryosei, and the captain of Ryosei and brother of Rye, Furuki, has a strategy called "ID soccer" where he takes advantage of weakpoints of the other team. He thinks that Kyosuke is Akanegaoka' s weakpoint because Kyosuke' s game style is unworthy and he is making mistakes during the game. With this situation, Kyosuke has lost the confidence from his teammates and now he is alone. Can Akanegaoka win the game and advance to the 3rd round? or Furuki is right and Kyosuke is Akanegaoka' s weakpoint?

Akanegaoka is losing the game 1-0 against Ryosei. Kyosuke is making mistakes one after another and everything is happen just like Furuki planned. But Sako comes with a new strategy that could change the things in the game, Kyosuke has to shoot from a long distance and try to score. Will this tactic worth? Can Akanegaoka win the game with this tactic?

Kyosuke meets the kid that he met in the street in the first episode, his name is Kenta and he is the brother of Miki' classmate, Kari. Kenta becomes the first fan of Kyosuke because of his ability to shoot. The next day, the 3rd round of the interhigh tournament begins. This game is between Aganekaoka and Yamanomori. Can Akanegaoka win the game and make it to the semifinals?

During the first time of the game, Akanegaoka' tactics aren' t working because of the teamwork of Yamanomori and they are winning the game by two goals. Then, during the break, Murakami try to cheer them up and he tells them of a new strategy. Meanwhile, Mori is feeling bad because he likes the game style of Yamanomori and he has doubts about his confidence of the team. Now with a new strategy in mind, Will Akanegaoka change the score in the 2nd time?

During the 2nd time, Akanegaoka' new strategy is working and they were able to tie the score. However during the game, Rodrigo' leg gets injured and he is trying to play the whole game even with his injury. At the end of the game, with the assist of Sakai, Kyosuke, and finally Rodrigo, Akanegaoka wins the game scoring one last goal. Now Akanegaoka will play against Kokuryou in the semifinals.

Ichikawa gets angry with Rodrigo' gamestyle and he is not gonna take it anymore. He tells Sako and Kamata and they try to calm him down for a moment. Meanwhile, Miki finds out about Rodrigo' injury and he tells her to not say anything about it. With this condition, Can Rodrigo play the next game well?

Akanegaoka is facing Kokuryou in the interhigh tournament semifinals. Rodrigo is determined to show his skills in front of the talents hunters. but during the game, his injury is getting worst. Besides of that, Akanegaoka is having problems to score a goal against Iguti. Near the end of the first time, and withou goals, The coach of Kokuryou is going to switch two of his players with the Fujimori brothers, two midforwards veri talented.

The game between Kokuryou and Akanegaoka continue. With the entrance of the Fujimori Brothers, Kaoru and Minoru Kokuryou' offensive is stronger now. Rodrigo is trying to face them but his injury is worst than before and he fail in the game. LAter in the lockers, everybody finds out about Rodrigo injury, but Rodrigo still wants to play and he asked Murakami to play 5 more minutes. Can Rodrigo finally work as a teamwork?

The 2nd time begins and Rodrigo is finally playing with the team. With this. Akanegaoka takes control of the game for a while. But the 5 minutes pass and Rodrigo is out of the game. But not only that, Kokuryou is using now the best player of the region, Kamiyama. With the entrance of Kamiyama, Kokuryou regains the control of the game. Now Kyosuke challenges Kamiyama to a duel. Will Akanegaoka win the game? Will Kyosuke beat Kamiyama?

Kyosuke receives a letter from his brother, Seisuke Kanou.