An internet site opened on Wednesday to announce that Tsukasa Ooshima‘s soccer-themed manga Shoot! is inspiring its first new anime in 28 years. The fully authentic anime, titled Shoot! Purpose to the Future, will air in 2022. EMT Squared is producing the anime.

The anime’s official web site describes the story:

Atsushi Kamiya, a former captain at Kakegawa Excessive Faculty and the world-renowned “brave captain” for a well-known Italian soccer group…
And Hideto Tsuji, a scholar at Kakegawa Excessive Faculty, who appears uninterested within the now-weakened soccer group…
Their assembly is the beginning of a brand new legend…

The unique Shoot! manga ran in Kodansha‘s Weekly Shōnen Journal between 1990 and 2003. The manga has greater than 50 million copies in print. The manga’s story revolves round a boy named Toshihiko Tanaka who satisfied his pals to hitch the soccer group and tackle the All-Japan Excessive Faculty Championship.

The sequence impressed the Aoki Densetsu Shoot! tv anime produced by Toei Animation that debuted in 1993. A brief sequel movie then debuted in 1994.

The manga additionally impressed a live-action movie adaptation in 1994 that includes the members of the boy band SMAP within the main roles.

An isekai spinoff manga titled Shoot! no Sekai ni Gon Nakayama ga Tensei Shite Shimatta Ken (That Time Gon Nakayama Bought Reincarnated within the World of Shoot!) launched in 2020. The manga tells the story {of professional} soccer participant Masashi Nakayama, in any other case often called Gon Nakayama, getting reincarnated into the world of Shoot! and impressing the world along with his expertise.

Sources: Shoot! Purpose to the Future anime’s web site, Comedian Natalie