Every morning, first year Taiki Inomata looks forward to heading to the school gym to practice badminton before school starts. However, it isn’t so much that he looks forward to the practice so much as he does getting to practice beside second year Chinatsu Kano, his crush who also practices basketball in the gym before […]
Watching sports anime over the years has really made me realize that the physical education teachers I had in school were really just giving the bare minimum of effort. It’s not great when you learn more rules and techniques from a sports anime than someone paid to teach a sport. Now, it should be said
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Sports anime is considered the most approachable genre for those unfamiliar with anime because sports are a widely popular hobby. Even for those that don’t play sports, the activity is an easily grasped stage for the character stories that are often the very highlight of sports anime. That said, if you do happen to play
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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 the main character getting back into some sport. The second follows
In his second year of high school, Yatora Yaguchi goofs off with his friends and studies hard enough to make good grades. However, neither makes him happy. Bound by normal activities, he wonders if there is something more. One day, he discovers the joy of drawing after becoming enchanted by a painting made by an
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
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
Tatara is rescued one day by a professional dancer and teacher named Sengoku. Ending up back at his dance studio, he meets a school mate that he had secretly come to idolize. From this moment, Tatara is thrust into the world of dance, aiming to improve as a dancer in order to be acknowledged by
Makunouchi Ippo has been bullied his entire life, but dreams of changing himself. One day, he is saved by Takamura Mamoru, who happens to be a boxer. After Ippo faints from his injuries, Mamoru takes him to his gym where Ippo asks to be trained in the sport of boxing. Only anime can transform a
