(i) Football Frontier arc: Follows the journey of Raimon Junior High as they take on the local school teams to enter the competition and play against the best of the nation and their journey to the top. The are three different arcs in the show - The Football Frontier arc, The Aliea Academy arc and the Football Frontier International arc. This is the beginning of the adventures that await Raimon and Endou Mamoru in his future. Teikoku then abandon the game as they got what they had come for, and thus resulting in a victory for Raimon Junior High. It seems that Teikoku was waiting all along for him to take the field and as he does an inspired Endou Mamoru catches the ball cleanly hit by Teikoku and throws it straight at Gouenji who then with this amazing shoot makes the goal. As everything seems over before it began for Raimon, an unexpected twist occurs as Gouenji Shuuya, the talented striker who swept away all his opponents single-handedly in the previous Football Frontier Tournament while still just being a freshman, takes the field wearing a Raimon unifrom. Shoot after shoot, goals after goals Raimon players get battered brutally with an overwhelming margin of 20 goals to nil as Endou Mamoru could only watch his friends lying helplessly not able to stand across the field. Things do not go as planned however for Raimon as they are completely overpowered by Teikoku in all departments of the game. But before they could even participate in the tournament, they are pit against the famous Teikoku Academy, which is currently the best in the nation and have been winning the tournament for 40 successive years. Football Frontier is a competition where all the junior high schools across the nation participate in order to achieve the number one position in the whole country. Up spirit, Endou with the help of a few soccer buddies manages to find eleven players to play for the club and to aim for the Football Frontier Tournament.
With his charismatic personality and never-giving The story is centered around a young and energetic football freak, Endou Mamoru, who is trying to gather members for the local school football team The Raimon Junior High. Presented by Oriental Light & Magic, the studio that gave us Pokemon, Inazuma Eleven has been a huge success in Japan and several other countries and it has good reasons for so. That production was heavily altered from its Japanese version and was made for Dentsu Entertainment.I recently had the pleasure of watching Inazuma Eleven for a third time and I can safely say it is still as evergreen and exciting as I found it the first and the second time I watched it.
Germain's listing Inazuma Eleven was hosted in 2012, years before the franchise was officially introduced to North America.īetween 20, Ocean worked on an English dub for Little Battlers eXperience, a separate Level-5/OLM anime series that had crossovers with Inazuma Eleven, though the dub never reached the point where the two intercepted. Little else is known about the dub, though it was likely a pilot for the anime created to sell the series to broadcasters in North America. All three credit the project to Inter Pacific Productions, the casting agency of Ocean Productions. Germain specifically mentions playing the role of Glenwood, a name that seems to be specific to this dub. Henderson plays the role of Kabeyama, while Petriw only lists his participation as being a "lead" in the series, and St. Germain, list the series on their resumes. Three Vancouver, Canada-based voice actors, Saffron Henderson, Adrian Petriw, and Tabitha St. Īt least one more English Inazuma Eleven cast exists. In 2014, Nintendo of America released a Nintendo 3DS port of the first game, this time with an all-new dub recorded by Bang Zoom in Los Angeles.
When Nintendo of Europe began localizing the video games for European releases, Side UK was hired to do the English voice work with an entirely separate cast. It debuted on Cartoon Network South East Asia on June 7, 2010, and was later distributed in North America, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
The TV anime series was dubbed entirely in Hong Kong by Omni Productions. The franchise has had a tumultuous history regarding English voice casts. The series later inspired multiple spin offs, which are all distributed internationally by Arait Multimedia. Inazuma Eleven is a 127 episode anime adaptation of Level-5's video game franchise of the same name by Oriental Light & Magic (OLM) that aired between 20 on TV Tokyo in Japan.