Yet, destiny reunites him with football as he accidentally becomes the coach of the women’s soccer team of his school. Threatened by inferiority complex, he decides to give up soccer. 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.

The HHWS story is more inspirational because of above reason and it's slice of life approach will be endearing to a mature crowd who want to watch a good sports anime.Kyosuke Kano has lived under the shadow of his successful brother Seisuke all his life who is a professional soccer player. In SD the obstacles are in the nature of beating the opposite side which you will enjoy watching but will not be as memorable as the victories achieved by HHWS MC and his team. There are lot of obstacles HHWS characters face which engages the audience on emotional level. The plot has a lot of twist and turns on and off the field compared to predictable twists in SD. Also, the HHWS MC is constantly compared to his successful brother, which also causes a lot of friction in MC's life.These differing motivation of MC's in both the anime gives the anime a different flavor. In HHWS the MC wants to be a Professional football player and be like his brother who is already a Pro. In SD the MC wants to impress a girl, so he takes up the sports. While protagonist of both the anime show a lot of promise in their sports there reason for taking the sports will impact the way you watch these anime. In SD most of development and focus is on MC. In HHWS there is a lot off character development for MC as well as for side characters. There are few things that make HHWS stand out versus SD Such as character development, an interesting plot, and Inspirational story. Hungry Heart: Wild Striker(HHWS) is faster version of Slam Dunk(SD) and does it in less number of Episodes.

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