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 has just started at Kakegawa High School in order to play association football with his idol, Yoshiharu Kubo. Toshi’s friends are not interested in playing football again this year until he convinces them to join the team. Soon, the team enters into the All-Japan High School Championship.
A fifty-eight episode anime television series adaptation titled Aoki Densetsu Shoot! (蒼き伝説 シュート!, 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) premiered on July 2, 2022, on AT-X, Tokyo MX, TV Shizuoka, ytv, BS NTV, and BS Fuji. Noriyuki Nakamura directed the series, with Junichi Kitamura serving as assistant director, Mitsutaka Hirota writing the scripts, and Yukiko Akiyama designing the characters. Crunchyroll has licensed the series.
Shoot! won the 1994 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen.
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