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.
Minato Kiyoumizu was once a rockstar among rockstars on his junior high water polo team. However, when a car accident put him into a coma for several months, he awakes without memories from the past few years. Not even fully understanding what water polo even is, he decides to not play and focus on his […]
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Serious sports anime is a bit of a boy’s club, and it’s easy to see why when you do find the occasional anime with a female lead. It’s, uh, less about the sport and more about the sporting body, you know what I mean? However, whether you are legitimately looking for sports anime with a
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High school student Reki Kyan is passionate about skateboarding and board-making. While he works part-time in a board shop after school, his real interest is the underground race that happens at night. S is a competitive skateboard race where participants are encouraged to win at all costs. Unfortunately for Reki, his most recent race came
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Jotaro Aragaki has devoted his life to gymnastics. However, he finds himself no longer able to compete to his own expectations physically due to injury and age. Despite training every day, even his coach recommends that he quit. However, on a trip to an amusement park where he will break the news to his daughter,
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Baseball may be called the American pastime, but Japan brings a lot of passionate fans and players for the sport. For high school athletes that play baseball, playing in the legendary Koshien finals can be the highlight of a lifetime. In terms of baseball anime, a lot of the classics are a bit older, but
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As the son of Hanma Yuujiro, Hanma Baki trains intensely every day in order to finally beat and surpass his father. However, at this very moment, five of the world’s most dangerous and deadly criminals are breaking out of jail. They all seek out one thing – Baki. They all crave the taste of defeat
Full of youthful passion, nothing gets that blood pumping like a race. Yet, it takes some talent to have a racing anime have the same effect on a person that an actual race does. While not all racing series realize that goal, they do make up for it with great characters and even more interesting
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Out-performed by the girls’ club and facing disbandment, team captain of the soft tennis club Toma Shinjou is desperate to recruit members. He immediately targets new transfer student Maki Katsuragi for his solid reflexes. After a few rejections, Maki joins and quickly shines. This causes complicated feelings among the rest of the team who feel
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Sports anime series like to cling to a highly concentrated series of tropes, and people seem continue to love that same heady amalgamation that comes out of it. One of the most popular tropes in sports anime is where a rookie player, someone with very little experience but perhaps experience in others things that help
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Growing up in the shadow of her older sister, Chihaya Ayase is strong-willed and a tomboy with no dreams of her own. However, after learning an outcast in her class, Arata Wataya, has incredible skill at karuta and his huge passion inspires her, she is pulled into the world of the poem-based card game along
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