FOOTBALL NATION

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AUTHOR: YUKI OTAKE
RETAIL PRICE: SGD$10.90
PRODUCT DIMENSIONS: 127mm (W) x 190.5mm (H)

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Football Nation (フットボールネーション) is a sports manga series by Yuki Otake, who specialises in sports-related manga such as “Bounty Sword, Double Edge” and “Soccer Boy: Football Nation – Taidou”. Targeted at older teens and young adults, the story revolves around an amatuer football team, the Tokyo Crusades, and the coach who uses a unique technique to coach his team to victory.

Besides the main story, the manga also explores the scientific and technical aspects of the game used by real football players, which gives an added sense of realisim to the manga and its characters.

This is Yuki Otake’s first translated English manga series, and the manga has been recommended by the Alberix Niigata FC (Singapore), a satellite team of Albirex Niigata of Japan. Volume one of the series has sold over 105,000 copies in Japan.

VOLUME 03

With the addition of Mario and Ivan, the ‘two essential items’ needed for Tokyo Crusade to become a competitive team have been found… except these new members are just as problematic as Chihiro! Noda, Toriumi and Tamaki go out to celebrate the team’s success at making it into the finals of the Emperor’s Cup, only to run into Yusa – a former member of the Crusades! Noda recognises Yusa’s skills and wants him to return to play for the team, but Yusa is only interested in one position… the one currently occupied by Chihiro! ISBN: 978-981-09-0733-4

VOLUME 02

Under Coach Takahashi’s unique training menu, the players of Tokyo Crusade are shaping up as a team to be reckoned with! However, it’s still a long way to go before the Division III club can play in the Emperor’s Cup, and their star player Chihiro Oki is forced to sit out all matches until then. Even if Oki is undeniably talented, Coach Takahashi tells him it’s impossible for him to become a professional player! Also, the team is still missing ‘two essential items’ to win. To that end, Oki calls his teammate Toriumi Shinnosuke out in the middle of the night, and they take their football to the streets! ISBN: 978-981-09-0732-7

VOLUME 01

‘WANTED: Players with Beautiful Legs!’ With that, Kicker Weekly sports reporter Yukari Ogata is sent on the onerous task to cover Tokyo Crusade, an amateur football club. But what would have been another frivolous assignment becomes a potentially worthy scoop, when Ogata discovers that Chihiro Oki – a football freelancer who goes by the name ‘Joker’ – is playing at the tryouts! Rumours have it that the Joker can fill any position on the field, and whichever team he joins is guaranteed to win! But why has such a talented player gone unnoticed for so long? Throw in an ex-league professional, a bunch of ragtag players and the eccentric coach who will bring them all together, this Division III club may just have what it takes to win the Emperor’s Cup! ISBN: 978-981-09-0731-0

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