Moero! Top Striker: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Hikaru Kicker is a 13-year-old boy who loves football. He has grown up playing with a football at all times ever since his father's friend gave him one when he was still only a baby.

Hikaru goes to Italy to learn the sport. He first joins a strong team at Genova, but soon quits this team to join an extremely weak team named "Columbus" with his female friend Anna.

Experiencing many hardships and difficulties, their team gradually becomes stronger and stronger, and finally they defeat Margerita, one of the strongest soccer teams in Genova.

Soon Hikaru hears that Genova will stage its first soccer tournament. Throughout the tournament, Hikaru and his teammates confront many rivals and develop increasing maturity.

Can Hikaru score a goal and which team will win the championship?

Series details

• Title: Moero! Top Striker
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Action, Anime, Sports
• Premiere date: 1991-10-10
• Final broadcast date listed: 1992-09-24
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: TV Tokyo
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 25 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 55299
• TVDB ID: 115841

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1991-10-10; final listed air date 1992-09-24.

Source and licence

Adapted from Moero! Top Striker 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.