I'm enjoying this, I only wish that getting other players was more worth it compared to the original team or story characters, nearly everyone you start with is way better than anyone you recruit. The only exception is maybe Tod, but he has a few good skills for his position.
What makes me worried is just how localized this game is, it seems to basically take place in some weird part of the UK. When you look at the settings of the other 2 games: Going around Japan and trying to find players to take on aliens for the second and going around Japan to find the best team to compete in the youth world cup, it makes me wonder if those will ever be localized. Though they could do the same thing but just keep all the very British sounding lingo in I suppose, but it does make you wonder if this is just a one-off for the series outside of Japan. Perhaps if the sales are good/the anime gets good ratings. I think we'll have to wait and see how the UK market responds to this game as it's obvious much of the localization was aimed at it.
How is the localization for the other languages, does it feel like the game could very well be set in Spain, Italy, Germany, France?