Hello guys and girls, mr_beanoz here, as the host of the Giant Killing rewatch. The rewatch will be held in two weeks.

Here's how the schedule goes:

What is Giant Killing?

Ever heard or seen Ted Lasso, that show where a college football (the American kind) coach was hired to become a coach for a Premier League team called A.F.C. Richmond despite the titular character having no experience on coaching a football (the other, more global kind) team? Well, think about a more grounded and slightly serious version of it, then you got Giant Killing.

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. Fortunately for ETU, Tatsumi is also an expert in "giant killing", as in, an event where a lower budgeted team with lower quality players being able to beat a better funded team in a match. However, Tatsumi is also branded as a traitor by ETU's hardcore fans due to him leaving the team when he was younger.

Why should I watch?

Unlike most sports anime, Giant Killing takes a different approach where the main character is the coach of the sports team, instead of the player that does the job of playing the game. It is also one of the few sports anime animated by Studio Deen.

Kou Yuu, who directed Chrno Crusade, the second and third seasons of Zero no Tsukaima, and the first two seasons of Uta no Prince-sama, directed this show.

And being a show about professional sports featuring a diverse cast of adults, this will also give a different vibe to the anime. We also see several foreign players in the series, who would also speak in their native tongues instead of just Japanese. And that would also mean we have scenes where the Japanese players try to speak English, which would give you some broken English time. The theme songs for the series, both opening and ending, are bangers too.

Series information

MAL | Anilist | AniDB | ANN

Ways to watch

Streams – None

Each thread will be posted at 8:00 PM EST.

I hope you decide to give this show a chance, especially since this year we're going to have a world soccer tournament in the Americas region (Canada, USA, and Mexico).