The Akakichi no Eleven Redraw trend stems from the 1970 sports anime Akakichi no Eleven (The Red-Blooded Eleven), renowned for its distinctively rough, high-contrast, and hyper-masculine art style. The meme typically involves artists redrawing modern characters from popular franchises like Genshin Impact or VTubers in the exaggerated, 'hard-boiled' aesthetic of the show's protagonist, Shingo Tamai. This trend flourished on Japanese social media platforms like Twitter and Pixiv, where the jarring juxtaposition of modern character designs with gritty, vintage 1970s animation serves as both a nostalgic tribute and a comedic commentary on how much anime aesthetics have shifted over the decades.