Milan, people started comparing Kyōsuke with his brother and criticizing him due to his different playing style.

After Seisuke left Japan to sign with Italian powerhouse A.C. Milan football player, Kanō Seisuke, who had first taught him how to play and love the game of football and whom he has greatly admired since childhood. Kyōsuke's older brother is the illustrious and extremely famous A.C. Hungry Heart: Wild Striker tells the story of Kanō Kyōsuke, a teenage high school student who at the beginning of the series, has just transferred into Jyoyō Orange High School. The anime series was animated by Nippon Animation and broadcast on Animax from September 2002 to September 2003, spanning a total of 52 episodes.

The manga was serialized in Akita Shoten's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion from January 2002 to February 2005, with its chapters collected in six tankōbon volumes. Backed by his helpful teammates and wellwishers like Miki, the girl’s soccer team captain and Mori, the manager, he proceeds forward in life.Hungry Heart: Wild Striker ( Japanese: ハングリーハート WILD STRIKER, Hepburn: Hangurī Hāto Wild Sutoraikā) is a Japanese football manga and anime series, authored by Yōichi Takahashi. Thus, his journey to fulfill his dream begins portraying his path of struggle. Threatened by inferiority complex, he decides to give up soccer.Yet, destiny reunites him with football as he accidentally becomes the coach of the women’s soccer team of his school. But somehow the shadow of his renowned elder brother Seisuke, a midfielder for AC Milan falls upon his career. Kyusuke Kanou, a robust teenager of 16 sports orange hair and aspires to conquer the world of soccer as a forward.

Kyosuke joins it and befriends two other first year players named Rodrigo and Sakai with the dream of becomming professional soccer players themselves. Tired of being compared and downgraded at, he abandoned playing soccer until a boy from his new highschool discovered him and asked him to join their team. Kyosuke Kano has lived under the shadow of his successful brother Seisuke all his life who is a professional soccer player.

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