Endou Mamoru

Endou Mamoru (円堂 守) is one of the main characters in the Inazuma Eleven game, manga and anime. He's a goalkeeper and the captain of Raimon and Inazuma Japan.

Inazuma Eleven (game)

 * "No one has more love for football than Raimon's fiery captain!"

Background
When Endou was young, while taking something to the shed, he stumbled upon his grandfather's notes, band, gloves, and an old soccer ball. At that moment, he felt like playing soccer. Even though his father allowed him to play, his mother did not allow it because she was afraid that something (presumably terrible) will happen to him, like it did with his grandfather. But Endou kept persuading her until she finally gave up and let him play soccer. And when Endou opened one of Daisuke's notes, he said that he found something that he really loved doing, and that was playing soccer with his friends.

Appearance
Endou has brown hair with two pointed edges at the sides and one at the front of his head. He has black eyes, which are shown as brown sometimes. He always wears an orange headband, and has a striking resemblance to his grandfather, Daisuke. He wears the goalkeeper uniform of Raimon and the school uniform during when he's not practicing in Season 1, but in Season 2 he wears the normal Raimon uniform as he takes up the position as Libero. In Season 3, he wears the Inazuma Japan jacket when he's roaming around and his goalkeeper uniform when he's the goalkeeper. He only wore the normal Inazuma Japan uniform during the match against Neo Japan. He is rarely seen wearing anything else besides the earlier mentioned.

Personality
Endou is described as a soccer loving, cheerful goalkeeper. He is the type of person who never gives up and always thinks of others before himself. He also shows great admiration toward his grandfather, Daisuke, and studies the technique notebooks that he wrote many years ago. People around him call him a soccer freak due to his love of soccer. Even Coach Hibiki once said that for Endou, the best compliment would be: the biggest soccer freak in the universe.

Because of his positive personality, he attracts people even if they're an enemy or an ally. It was because of this that he was able to gather many new members. His teammates benefit from his mental strength and encouragement. They also respect him despite his carefree attitude. He trains harder than anyone else to get stronger. The reason for doing so is that he wishes to face stronger opponents. Though he may sometimes be at a disadvantage, he always finds a way to bring his teammates to victory. Even if he loses, he still isn't disappointed at his defeat and always strives to win the next match, as seen from Raimon's matches against Aliea Academy.

Season 1
Endou Mamoru is a very talented goalkeeper and the grandson of one of the strongest goalkeepers in Japan, who is said to have 'died' before Endou was born. Throughout the first season, Endou's passion for soccer has sparked the ambition his teammates' dreams of winning the Football Frontier Championship.

Even though his skills are incredible, his school originally lacks a real soccer club as the six other members don't appear very interested even in merely training. He had to find four more members for a match against Teikoku or their club would be closed; the team would also be disbanded if they lost also the match. However, as soon as a mysterious forward called Gouenji Shuuya moves to Endou's town, the young goalkeeper sets out to find and recruit members for his soccer team.He encounters a problem since Gouenji doesn't want to join but shortly after, he helps the Raimon Team against Teikoku and because of Gouenji, Endou's team was able to score a point against Teikoku. After that, they had requests of matches against other teams. This follows through to the addition of new members like Domon Asuka but it was revealed that he was Teikoku's spy but he was forgiven later. Afterwards of fighting against different teams, they finally fought against Teikoku in the finals where Kidou Yuuto was having problems if they will still follow Kageyama or not. In the end, Kidou warned Endou and the others to be careful, later steel pillars fell at Raimon but because Kidou warned them, they were able to not get hit by it. Ichinose Kazuya, who was originally thought to be dead, also joined their team later on. He came to meet Kino Aki and Domon but stayed in Japan only because of his attitude that is strongly positive. Then he also found out that the one who might have presumably killed his grandfather could have been Kageyama Reiji, but he was able to overcome it, and in the end defeated Zeus in the finals.

Season 2
After they won the Football Frontier, Endou and the others found their school was destroyed by soccer team from Aliea Academy, called Gemini Storm. Endou fought the team led by Reize. Because the difference in skills, Endou and the others lost. Most of the team got injured badly. They start training to beat Gemini Storm. Later Zaizen Touko and Fubuki Shirou joined their team and with their help of them they were able to beat Gemini Storm. During the course of the journey they meet a number of people who like soccer and have joined their team. But tough teams like Epsilon and their master rank team, The Genesis, defeated them still. Kageyama also came to destroy Raimon with his team True Teikoku Academy but was defeated. Onwards towards this season, his hyperactive personality tones down as later understands that his teammates are much more important than when he realizes he was only thinking highly for himself that they can clear every challenge anywhere. For instance, when he understands it was his fault for pushing his team towards defeating Aliea Academy, it dragged Kazemaru down into depression through his inability to catch up with everyone. Though there was a time when he was badly depressed, he was able to overcome it. They were able to defeat Epsilon and Chaos which were combination of Prominence and Diamond Dust with the help of Gouenji Shuuya and Aphrodi. They also came to know Coach Hitomiko was the 'sister' of Gran (captain of Genesis) and Aliea Academy consist of humans who used Aliea Meteorite to boost their power. They had a tough fight with Gaia but at last they won. When they return to Raimon, they had one final opponent: Dark Emperors, who are none other than their old teammates. But because of Endou's perseverance reaching to his teammates hearts, he was able to free them and shatter the Aliea meteorite.

Season 3
During the FFI, Endou continues to be very passionate for soccer. He still motivates his other teammates with inspiring confidence and encouragement. Unlike before, his passion for soccer and playing in the FFI has spurred him into waking up very early to practice, something he rarely did as he always liked to sleep in. He was shocked to see Coach Hitomiko when she brought a team Neo Japan which consists of players who weren't called during the formation of Inazuma Japan. He and his team goes up in soccer ranks as they eventually challenge their former teammate Ichinose. During this time, his grandfather was eventually revealed to be alive.This may be the most challenging tournament his team has ever faced, where their friendship will truly be tested as well. While Kageyama planned on destroying Endou's team in the beginning, he became a minor protagonist due to the events of Episode 105. However, Endou still has to face the true person who plotted to kill his grandfather. It was revealed soon after that Kageyama was in reality, just a pawn to the true villain, Garshield who was behind all the darkness. Afterward, their next fight was against the Kingdom and their coach is Garshield. After getting more info, they learned that the Kingdom is having a hard time especially their captain, though with of the help of the detective, they were able to arrest Garshield for his actions and the real coach of the Kingdom returnes. But more trouble ensues when Garshield later escapes and attacks Cotarl team, Little Gigant, though this time, he is finally defeated and arrested and now the next match of Inazuma Japan begins against Little Gigant. But this time Endou needs to perfect the new hissatsu (God Catch) for the strongest battle yet against Little Gigant. As Inazuma Japan fought against Little Gigant, he finally mastered God Catch and both teams are now on the edge for the winning point. Then he uses a perfect Jet Stream with Gouenji and Toramaru and they score, making Inazuma Japan the winner. They return home after the FFI and move on to graduation.

Plot (GO)
It has been confirmed that in the not yet released Inazuma Eleven GO, which takes place 10 years after the end of the FFI, Endou will be the coach of the new Raimon team.

Movie
In the movie he learns Omega The Hand and his grandson, Endou Kanon will help him.

Hissatsu

 *  [GK] Bakuretsu Punch (Anime)
 *  [GK] Fist of Justice
 *  [GK] God Catch
 *  [GK] God Hand
 *  [SH] Grenade Shot (Game)
 *  [GK] Hammer of Wrath
 *  [GK] Ijigen The Hand
 *  [SH] Inazuma No. 1 (Anime)
 *  [SH] Jet Stream (Anime)
 *  [GK] Majin The Hand
 *  [SH] Megaton Head (Anime)
 *  [GK] Nekketsu Punch (Anime)
 *  [GK] Omega The Hand (Movie)
 *  [SH] The Earth
 *  [GK] Triple Defense

Quotes

 * "Practice is like Onigiri!" (To Aphrodi)
 * "It won't be counted as a goal as long as it doesn't enter it!" (To Kabeyama and Tobitaka)
 * "You're always late!" (To Gouenji Shuuya)

Gallery

 * Main Article: Endou Mamoru/Gallery

Trivia

 * 'Mamoru' (守) means protect, which is a pun on his position as goalkeeper.
 * He has not been shown wearing any other types of clothing other than his Raimon uniform, Raimon jersey, Inazuma Japan jersey, Inazuma Japan and Raimon track suit, and his pajamas. Except in episode 86 he wore a tuxedo for a short time.
 * Endou is an apparent late waker, and either Aki, his mom or his soccer fanatic instincts have to wake him up every time.
 * When Endou just realizes something that is particularly bad for not knowing, or when he is annoyed by something kind of disturbing,he is seen with the usual anime features (losing his balance and falling down,drop of sweat, smaller version of himself, navy blue lines all around, etc.).
 * He does not know the feelings of girls towards him, for example: Aki, Fuyuka, and Natsumi are usually confused by their actions around him and he just takes it as them being very nice and kind.
 * In Inazuma Eleven Go he got married (confirmed by the President of Level-5 Akihiro Hino on Twitter). Though it's still unclear who his future wife is, Mr Hino has given several "hints", like the "3" number and searching through the last episodes (prior to March 20th at least). Needless to say, it's pretty much like playing Professor Layton, so it wouldn't be too much surprising if there was some pun intended.
 * He has a character song titled "I'll Protect!".