Tsukasa Akeuraji dreamed of becoming a professional figure skater, but with professionals starting training in elementary school, he started too late in his teens and his ambitions never got off the ground. Giving up on his dreams, he takes a job as an assistant skating coach. On his first day, he meets Inori Yuisuka, a […]
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
Second-year high school student Shun Tokinoya lives with his mother and disabled sister. After an accident killed his father and injured his sister, he took up the roll of not only studying hard to get a good future job to support them, but working part-time at an e-sports cafe to help pay the bills. While
Haruka Nanase has a passion for swimming that led him to compete and win a tournament in elementary school with his friends. Years later, they reunite as high schools students, and while Haruka and three friends decide to form a swim club, his fourth friend, Rin, attends another school in order to surpass Haruka in
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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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
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
After watching his grandfather perform the shamisen at a young age, Setsu became entranced. However, after his grandfather’s death, he runs away from his small village and quits playing after his grandfather said he should never play if he was just going to imitate others. Fleeing to the city, Setsu slowly begins to become inspired
Fujito Chiyuki has dreamed of being the star model for her father’s modeling agency since she was a girl. Unfortunately, she stopped growing and is considered too short to be a good model. Regardless, she kept pursuing her dream. Only did her resolve start to waiver in her last year of high school. However, after
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
