Hungry Heart (ハングリーハート) is a Japanese comic book series created by cartoonist Yoichi Takahashi focused on football. This is Takahashi's most successful series behind his seminal work Captain Tsubasa. The cartoon was serialized by Akita Shoten in its shonen magazine Weekly Shonen Champion from issue #9 of 2002 to issue #11 of 2005 for a total of 49 chapters. Due to Takahashi being engaged at the time with Captain Tsubasa: Road to 2002, during the first two years the chapters were irregularly published as he only drew chapters in his free time, and they only had a more regular publication starting 2004 once Takahashi finished the serialization of Road to 2002. Hungry Heart was compiled in six tankobon volumes.