Football Hawk

Football Hawk (Japanese: フットボール鷹, Hepburn: Futtobōru Taka) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Noboru Kawasaki. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from January 1977 to April 1979 and published in ten volumes.

Football Hawk
First tankōbon volume cover
フットボール鷹 (Futtobōru Taka)
Genre	Sports[1]
Manga
Written by	Noboru Kawasaki
Published by	Kodansha
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Magazine
Original run	January 9, 1977 – April 1, 1979
Volumes	10

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Noboru Kawasaki, the series began serialization in serialization in Kodansha's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine on January 9, 1977.^[2] It completed its serialization on April 1, 1979.^[3] Its individual chapters were collected into ten tankōbon volumes.^[4]

Volumes

No.	Japanese release date	Japanese ISBN
1	July 26, 1978[5]	978-4-06-109483-3
2	July 26, 1978[6]	978-4-06-109484-0
3	August 18, 1978[7]	978-4-06-172516-4
4	September 21, 1978[8]	978-4-06-172520-1
5	October 20, 1978[9]	978-4-06-172526-3
6	December 19, 1978[10]	978-4-06-172551-5
7	January 23, 1979[11]	978-4-06-172560-7
8	February 22, 1979[12]	978-4-06-172566-9
9	March 23, 1979[13]	978-4-06-172571-3
10	April 20, 1979[4]	978-4-06-172578-2

Audio drama

An audio drama adaptation, with scripts written by Mamoru Sasaki and starring Kinya Aikawa, was released by NHK FM Broadcast. It ran for six episodes from August 14–19, 1977.^[14]

Reception

In 1978, the series won the 2nd Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen manga category.^[15]

Mike Toole of Anime News Network felt that the story was not as melodramatic as Ikki Kajiwara's Ashita e Free Kick, but that it was well researched and had good artwork. He concluded that "Football Hawk would be the most successful stab at [American football]'s depiction in manga for quite some time".^[1]