The interesting thing about sports anime recommendations are that people don’t really enjoy it like they would enjoy watching sports on live TV. Certainly the sense of fiery competition is compelling, but most often sport anime recommendations are driven to great heights by character stories and relationships that thrive in the high octane heat of competition.
It has been almost 30 years since the legend of Tatsuya Uesugi and the Meisei Academy High School Team was born in the National High School Baseball Championships. However, despite the glory the school received afterwards, the team has since languished in mediocrity and lost all fame. Two step-brothers, Souichiro and Touma Tachibana, form a […]
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Before their last match in middle school, Michi Sonoda announces to her teammate Sanae that she won’t be continuing judo in high school, believing that youth should be spent having fun and getting a boyfriend. However, her goal to go out with a bang is smashed when she is embarrassingly defeated by talented newbie, Towa
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While the WWE may be choking out its raspy death knell, wrestling as a form of entertainment is still a rather popular sport around the world even if it isn’t as popular on television anymore. Certainly people have flocked to the lower pageantry, less staged nature of MMA fighting, but the old school style of
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Kyudo is a modern martial art with a focus on archery. Minato used to be into the sport in middle school, enchanted by the “tsurune” sound made by a releasing bowstring, but gave it up after a certain incident left him with target panic. This phenomenon resulted in Minato missing every shot he took and
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For a good chunk of sports anime, the appeal isn’t in the sport it presents. You can only present soccer, basketball, or baseball in so many different ways before its not actually anything like the sport. Instead, the appeal of many sports anime is the characters and the relationships between them. Everyone loves a supportive
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It was the split decision to pass the ball instead of selfishly take the shot that lost the Nationals-qualifying soccer game for Yoichi Isagi and his team. When he returns home, the striker receives an invitation from the Japan Football Union that invited three hundred strikers to participate in a controversial project called Blue Lock.
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After watching a gripping performance by a male ballet dancer as a kid, Junpei Murao fell in love with dance. However, after being pressured into finding it effeminate, he took up more manly sports like Jeet Kune Do and soccer, particularly after his father’s death made him the man of his house. One day after
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After a crushing defeat at the Grand Prix finale, Yuuri Katsuki returns home no longer as Japan’s most promising figure skater. With his window for skating success closing, he assesses his options. After a video of Yuuri performing a routine by five-time world champion Victor Nikiforov goes viral, he suddenly finds the champion on his
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In my admittedly limited experience with sports anime, the vast majority of the plots can be split into two general themes. The first is that someone that was once good at a sport or sports in general has quit and the series is about them getting back into some sport. (I have a list for
A devastating loss, a toxic team, a debilitating accident – Whatever the cause, it serves as a catalyst for a player quitting the sport they once loved. It it a popular way to start a sports anime. It is a pretty simple way to build a character with some skill at the sport, but missing
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