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.
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 […]
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
Although otaku Sakamichi Onoda hoped to join the anime club to make friends in high school, he sadly finds it disbanded. To cheer himself up, he decides to bicycle to Akihabara – a 90km round trip he has been doing since elementary school on his mommy bike. When determined, competition-minded cyclist and fellow first year
Here at Recommend Me Anime, we don’t do manga series in our recommendations, just anime. However, that doesn’t mean that anime fans don’t also like to lie in bed and read a few good chapters of manga every now and then. And besides, where do many good anime series come from in the first place
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Hanamichi Sakuragi is known for three things – his height, his fiery red hair, and his fiery-hot temper. Hoping to get a girlfriend, unfortunately his looks and reputation send most girls running. However, when a girl approaches him one day and asks if he likes basketball, of course he falls in love with her and
Filled with youth and vigor, the sports anime genre is often, unexpectedly, not solely populated by those that like sports. While not true for every anime fan, let’s just say we have a lot of indoor kids here. However, it is the themes in sports anime that often catch those non-sports fans. If you are
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Once an elite runner, Kakeru is now only running to escape those accusing him of stealing food. While fleeing, he meets another runner, Haiji, who persuades him to live in his old apartment complex. There, Kakeru finds it is full of fellow residents who all have one goal – to enter the Hakone Ekiden Marathon.
Ushio Hinomaru is a new student, small of stature and body. However, he appears before the sumo club of his school and wishes to join. Although all the other members are big men, the sumo club is hardly renowned. However, this little sumo wrestler has a goal – the Hinoshita Kaisan, the pinnacle of sumo
Major tells the story of Gorou Honda, a boy that has always been obsessed with baseball. At first it started as admiration for his father, a professional pitcher. However, even after an injury forces his father off the team, Gorou aims for the sky. Follow him as he climbs up to professional greatness! As one
After solving the mysterious Millennium Puzzle, high school student Yugi Motou suddenly finds himself aided by a mysterious alter ego of a pharaoh prince named Yami. While trying to unravel the mystery of this Yami Yugi, Yugi and his friends find themselves battling powerful opponents in the competitive card game Duel Monster where the opponents
