Inazuma Eleven

Inazuma Eleven (イナズマイレブン, Inazuma Irebun; "Lightning Eleven") is a football themed media franchise created by Level-5. The franchise began with the release of Inazuma Eleven in 2008, with the game series selling over 8 million copies worldwide by 2016. In addition to video games, the franchise also includes a manga series and several anime television series and films.

The manga has been published by Shogakukan in CoroCoro Comic since the June 2008 issue. The manga series won the 2010 Kodansha Manga Award and 2011 Shogakukan Manga Award in the Children's Manga category.