Giant Killing: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

East Tokyo United, ETU, has been struggling in Japan's top football league for a few years. It has taken everything they have just to avoid relegation. To make matters even worse, the fans are starting to abandon the team.

In an effort to improve their performance, ETU has hired a new coach, the slightly eccentric Tatsumi Takeshi. Tatsumi, who was considered a great football player when he was younger, abandoned the team years before but has proven himself as the manager of one of England's lower division amateur teams. The task won't be easy, the teams East Tokyo United is pitted against have bigger budgets and better players. However, Tatsumi is an expert at Giant Killing.

Series details

• Title: Giant Killing
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Anime, Sports
• Premiere date: 2010-04-04
• Final broadcast date listed: 2010-09-26
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: NHK
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 22581
• TVDB ID: 139631

Cast and credited roles

• Tomokazu Seki — Takeshi Tatsumi
• Daisuke Ono — Luigi Yoshida
• Kentaro Ito — Kazuki Kuroda
• Masumi Asano — Yuri Nagata
• Nobutoshi Canna — Mochida
• Ryotaro Okiayu — Shigeyuki Murakoshi
• Takahiro Mizushima — Daisuke Tsubaki
• Tokuyoshi Kawashima — Kōsei Gotō
• Seirô Ogino — Carlos
• Saeko Zōgō — Yoshio Fukazawa

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2010-04-04; final listed air date 2010-09-26; episode order: 26.

Source and licence

Adapted from Giant Killing on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.