Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4435241-20161218203642/@comment-4525039-20161227221209

Cutie225 wrote: What if Endou never joined a a different soccer team, but went back to his grandfather?

If that is true then he might join Cotral's national team aswell and we might get to keep Norika as the goalkeeper! My hypothesis is that Endou will play a role similar to what he did in GO.

He would probably be mentioned a lot in the story, in the whole "he's a legend, but he kinda just disappeared and we don't know where he is" cliche. It's still unknown if he joined a different school liked his fellow members or if he left the country for unknown reasons.

I doubt that he will replace Norika though...but knowing Level 5, they could definitely pull that switch in the final match if he ends up returning to Raimon. Would be really disappointed though, because I really liked the direction of mixed gender soccer that they start doing.

(For all we know, he might be the final boss but I'm going way ahead of myself.)

I would also like to point out that, as mentioned in the Raimon's trvia page, Ares has some reference to both the original series and the GO series. The obvious examples being Hattori being identical to Shinsuke and Goujin being a mixed Domon and Sangoku, as well as the Raimon emblem almost looking like the GO design.

If I were streaching my imaginations, I could say that Nosaki Yumma looks like a mix between Hakuryuu and Kiyama Tatsuya. (He also has Hakuryuu's seiyuu as well)