Least Serious Inazuma Eleven Moments (an inexhaustive list):
Ichinose death hoax
Kageyama poisons the town's water supply in the first game and zombifies everyone and they're staggering around trying to kill you
Kabeyama finds pornography!!
Otaku team in the game is irredeemably evil and poisons you
Max's omake hat collection (anime exclusive)
Kurimatsu maid addiction arc (game exclusive)
English game release heavily implies that Domon kicked Fuyukai in the balls
Megane promises to get those nerds a special limited anime figure when the team goes to America, but then they never go to America
No girl units in the first game... at all. They can't play soccer yet
Gojou Poll
They won't if the corporate thieves get their way (I revealed this moment to Tumblr lo these many years ago!)
Multiple teams in the second arc join steroid cults because you 🫵, the player, benched them for better units; every successive arc in the series forces you to do exactly the same thing again
Fudou throw banana
Dub reference goes viral on tumblr because people thought it was about Mickey Mouse from Kingdom Hearts
The aliens weren't really aliens, they just looked like that
Kurimatsu getting bashed for years because he runs away from the team, even though he doesn't leave in the game! Gran attacks and hospitalizes him with weird ass alien powers he never uses again
Megane's fuckass incredibly talented twin brother reveals himself after we spent months fighting for our lives against those aliens
Japanese fandom becomes obsessed with Fudou's weird OOC eyelash face from his intro in the third game
Hibiki escapes roving soccer assassins by hiding under a house and then crawls out and says, "Don't underestimate Japanese housing structure" or something like that
Everyone's beloved Endou Daisuke turns out to be sort of a douchebag
Kappas
Kageyama woobification (canon)
Soccer between Heaven and Hell, eh?
When the first GO trailer aired and everyone thought Tsurugi/Shindou was gonna be the juggernaut ship
Guy who tried to blow up a bus full of kids rehired as teacher AT THE SAME SCHOOL; this is never explained
Hibiki's identical descendant (?) has become Hitler for no reason
"These words are the devil's spell"
Tsurugi given ridiculous high-pitched Russian accent in the game dubs for NO reason
Fudou bench thing becomes canon
Joan of Arc given fire-based moveset
Gilles de Rais is a playable unit
Tenma's shit ass miximax hair
Character named Gamer gets a 10yl version instead of half the original Raimon team
Airplane Poll
The soccer in Italy is like pasta
Zanark miximaxes with a hurricane (normal) but does it offscreen (unserious)
Zanark.
Tenma's dog becomes a playable unit
The Endou's-wife shell game perpetrated by our great enemy, Akihiro Hino
Player dies on the field
Kageyama, Kageyama, Kageyama!
Introducing a random flaming hairdresser/pedophile joke character after a decade of milking fujoshi for gaybait dollars
Hino has to issue a statement that the child Tenma was not crushed to death in the Ares timeline, because they initially forgot about that
Hey all! Normally when I post for Mona's community aid initiative, I post about the communities of refugees she is helping. But today I went to Instagram to update you all and saw that she hasn't posted since April, and we hadn't spoken since then either. She hadn't messaged me updates like she normally does. I was very afraid. It turned out she had broken her phone during a displacement, and she hasn't been able to replace it due to the high costs. Mobile phones are a scarce and expensive resource in Ghazzah but they are a lifeline for the families there. And for Mona it is not just a lifeline for her family but also for the refugee community she has dedicated the last few years of her life serving. She cannot connect with her usual network of volunteers or access funds without her phone (she had to contact me through her mother's phone). Despite helping displaced refugees, her and her family are also displaced refugees also living out of a tent, and she cannot currently afford a replacement. Please please please help her get a new one so she can continue doing the life-saving work she has been doing. Chuffed link to support Mona.
Hey on an unrelated note who would read a story about Endou and Tenma both getting kidnapped as kids, featuring protective big brother Endou, adorable but slightly feral tiny Tenma, and torture? Asking for a friend
Actually the dynamic goes both ways! Endou is all sunshine and daisies until somebody looks at Tenma wrong, and Tenma is all puppy eyes and smiles until somebody tries to separate him from Endou!
OG!Raimon’s expressions, omg, they are absolutely perfect- and Endou spotting Tenma's hair through the window is. On point. Like that's exactly what I ahd in mind.
And Endou looking in the damn trash can-
Didn't even notice that one the first time I saw this lmao
Nuni, you have once again outdone yourself and you're amazing as always!
AW THANK YOU!!!
Endou looking into the trash can just means Tenma did this before I think LMAO
I'm not done tho hehehehe
I think im finally getting the hang out of drawing Endou!
Also I HADDDD to colour tenma in the first panel because... because LOOK AT HIM! HES ADORABLE!
abdhshsifhdj NUNI IT'S TOO LATE AT NIGHT HERE FOR ME TO LOSE IT AS BADLY AS I DID
My neighbors are gonna complain--
But yes oh my god yes this is perfect and I love it 💜
Also, headcanon accepted. Tiny Tenma runs around and hides a lot in whatever facility he and Endou were held in and Endou is an expert in finding him in increasingly baffling spaces. When they finally get rescued and after Tenma has wrapped the whole of OG!Raimon around his finger, hide and seek becomes a regularity and Endou, without fail, is the only one who can consistently find him. This is canon now.
Also yes. TINY TENMA IS ADORABLE. THIS IS THE AGENDA I'M PUSHING.
i am very interested in which other ina11 characters do you see having DID 👀 (wether you have an explanation of it or just vibes). other than gouenji mine is fei, hiroto/tatsuya, and fuyuka - @soccerpunching
sasanami unmei
I think the "haru" he keeps seeing is an hallucination of his own factive. nothing can convince me otherwise
kusaka ryuuji
his whole gimmick is that he becomes "like a different person" when angry, and even his design changes quite a bit (which is a pattern w/ the ina11 characters that r canonically plural) between his normal and angry self. also in his backstory they say he used to be a kind child and this 2nd personality only awakened after an experience with bullying. he is extremely pluralcoded
fudou akio
I have no explanation for this one. just a strong conviction
satan gaul (orion side character)
he has a gimmick where his design and mannerisms keep drastically changing mid-match without any explanation
tachimukai yuuki
vibes. trust
kazemaru ichirouta
this one is actually more than just vibes but I also can't really explain it so you'll just have to take my word for it that there IS an explanation out there somewhere
You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.
For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:
Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning
Oh yeah, this leaves out what I *did* know about them–they can also survive hypersalinity. That is, water so salty it kills practically everything else–water so salty it burns your skin.
(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.
When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.
It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:
Some species of flamingo actually subsist almost entirely on a diet of bacteria! In other words, there is a species of dinosaur that eats only bacteria and lives in lakes so toxic they would kill almost anything else—and it is best known to the average person as a kitschy lawn decoration.
GREEEEEENNNNNNN who is your favourite Inazuma girl and why? 🤩
HI YUSU 👀👀 Sorry it took a while to answer this, I needed to think ✨ deeply ✨
This is a very hard question to answer even though Inazuma doesn't have nearly as much girls as it has boys. HOWEVER, ALL OF THEM ARE SO FRICKING GREAT CHARACTERS. I love all of them.
I have a soft spot for three though:
A really obvious answer, I mean, she's the character who reps me in Storm. A FUN FACT though is that I actually didn't like her that much growing up, but I find her such a refreshing character to have around now. She's so girl boss. And I love her suit most of all.
Another popular answer. We love the Knak. I thought it was weird how a character introduced halfway through Chrono Stone ended up on Best Eleven (because I saw spoilers for it before meeting her for the first time) but I totally get why people voted her in. Me personally, she's 1- cute 2- selfless 3- so lovely. I don't think anyone can resist the mochi.
And, I will always die on this hill, Aoi. Inazuma Eleven GO is my favourite compared to OG, but one grave mistake it makes is not giving the managers *actual* plot, character arcs, depth. I disliked how Aoi was reduced to following Tenma around (I swear, 90% of her dialogue I'm pretty sure has the word 'Tenma' in it), and even though I really like their ship, I think she was robbed! She was definitely treated better than the other two, though. (At least we have fanfiction to correct that.)
But my favourite thing about her has to be her lovely personality, her kind and caring attitude, her endless support for Tenma, and not to forget her hairstyle change which I think distinguished her character design and made her look more unique (hence why I chose her Galaxy design). Her other one looks great too, but I think her haircut is one of the best character hairstyle changes in IE (at least better than Norika).
So if I had to choose one, it would be Touko, but I just had to mention the other two!
YOU'RE SO RIGHT!! The girls are such awesome characters I love them all so much RAAAAAH
OOOOO Touko, Kinako, and Aoi!! Great picks 🥹🐐! Touko was of course expected and for good reason. She's so chill and authentically herself and so fiercely dedicated SHE'S GREAT. And Kinako!! Her entire story is one of the most emotional in IE imo. Travelling back in time to befriend and protect your future son and spreading joy and whimsy wherever you go. Oh Nanobana Kinako the girl you are 🥹. Something I really like about these two is their deeply emotional relationships with their respective family members (Zaizen and Fei). It's so great to see characters, especially female characters, with a focus on platonic and familial relationships over romance.
AOI LOVE!! You're so right about the managers, I wish they had their own arcs 😔. They had such compelling personalities and then it just went nowhere </3 And YES HER GALAXY HAIRCUT IS SO CUTE!!!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR AWESOME ANSWER AWESOME GREEDY <33
I'm coming to realize how vital it is to keep a running list of shit you did in the past few weeks so that you can participate in small talk. It's literally not anything to do with them being interesting at all it's just having Something to say to give people even the barest thing to hold on to. It's so you don't get into the "what have you been up to" "nothing much what about you" "yeah same" trap. Literally just say something.
What have you been up to? Um well it's getting warmer so I've been having to brush my cat every day.
Like no it's not that interesting of a thing to say. But now they can respond to it. They could say, man yeah it really is heating up, I've been trying to think of things to do inside more often. Or, oh you have a cat? What's their name?
Like. It's Something. All you need is Something. And if you're like me and your brain immediately goes blank upon entering small talk then keeping a list will help you remember things to say.
