Inazuma Eleven

The OG team for me, without a dobut. Senbayama is a very important team and overall special interest to me, given it was the first one to gain that denomination. In context, I was still trying to accept being diagnosed with ASD, and both IE and SBY helped me to comprehend what it was about and how it affected my behaviour and the way I consume things.

It was pretty much the team I started to hyperfixiate on every single member - of course, some characters were given more stuff than others, but I honestly just love them all.

Unfortunately it wasn't without flaws, as soon I realized how poorly treated by both the fanbase and creators this team was. Most of the content I made about them was mainly to be able to inspire a change, but I don't think I've done much impact in the long run. Eventually I had to accept that sadly that's how things are, but at least I still can always return to these characters and feel instant comfort.

My favorites will always be Ayano Yuuichi, Yamane You and Chihiro Fuji.

I've always liked SP Fixers a lot, they were a team with a pretty neat concept but I've never paid many attention to them. That was until 2020, in the middle of the Pandemic and some burn-out with Inazuma after the mess of the latest duology. My brain thought about this team for a while, went to search stuff with them... And then got obsessed with them for a few months. It was a fun time, although lonely since I didn't have anyone to share to, and I was starting to feel disconnected from the Inazuma fandom. So it didn't had much to sustain itself, and by 2021 it pretty much faded away.

I still love SP Fixers nonetheless, and I still believe they are a pretty underrated team, mainly from the concept that it is mostly composed by adults in a pretty interesting position; yet still able to play football somehow. Being an adult in Inazuma's world is a pretty underexplored concept, and I enjoy using these characters as a way to do it; not to mention them having a pretty diverse age range than being stuck on Junior High school years gives off to way more interesting scenarios. When it comes to favorites, Hayate Hayato is always the number one for me.

The headcanons and stuff I've made with them still remains there; I just have no idea how to share it.

Being kind of honest, my feelings towards this team are way more bittersweet than with the other two. But nonetheless I've had a huge hyperfixation with this team, for better or for worse.

I've gotten myself attached to many of its members, perhaps a bigger amount than both SBY and SP combined. However there were many pitfalls on liking them, one example being the fact that I have to learn an entire new english accent and absorb information about an entirely new country to make stuff for their headcanons. It isn't much of an issue actually, but all this years I have been used on making stories happen in Japan or in very reduced locations.

Nonetheless, stuff isn't that bad. Technically if it wasn't because of this team, the driving force that led me to create this homepage would never have started. Not to mention I deeply love its characters despite everything. Shine Beach, Quincy Horst, Jean Baker, Bruce Marlin... I love digging deeper into these aussies' appearances (Or lack there-of) and discover always something new.

I am going to be sincere. I remember knowing few things or characters about RedoMata before, but until that point I've never expected that it would be them which would dethrone my Big Waves hyperfixation. It is to say that while none of the players have an actual personality in canon, the little hints spreaded around plus my personal interpretation of each player made me warm up to everyone very fast; to the point I ended up making even more content than with Big Waves, both for canon and fanon characters aside.

It is to say that unfortunately, Red Matador's biggest flaw lies on its team motif: Bullfighting. Being fair, it only boils down to the team emblem/name, three players and one hissatsu, but I can understand why people do not like this team. In my case, while I have fallen in love with researching spanish culture, BF feels like a cactus. Not only the subject matter makes me uncomfortable as a whole (I've always disliked it before getting into RM), but reading so many opinions on the topic (both in favour or aganist) does overwhelm me a lot. But leaving that aside and paying attention to the other sides of the team does balance things out. Plus, I will always find interesting too how bullfighting was handled on the european versions of Inazuma, too.

My favorites are captain Querardo Naval and Mikel Pereiro. But I also love Igor Freire, Pedro/Borja, Davi/M. Jimenez, Rafael/Jose Lopez, Fermin/Iñigo........ I honestly love the whole team.