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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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 them getting back into some sport. (I have a list for
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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Hanamichi Sakuragi is known for three things – his height, his fire red hair, and his fire red temper. Hoping to get a girlfriend, unfortunately his is reputation precedes him. However, when a girl approaches him one day and asks if he likes basketball, of course he falls in love with her and tries to
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For three years in a row, the Teikou Junior High basketball team took the championship crown thanks to their outstanding players. However, after graduating, the team split up and went to different high schools. At Seirin High School, two students have been recruited to the team. Taiga, a player just returning form the US, and
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