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Plot Summary:
Second Haikyuu!! recap movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining, shounen
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Haikyuu!! Movie 4: Battle of Concepts (2017)
Plot Summary:
Recap film focusing primarily on the match against shiratorizawa from the third season.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, shounen
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Haikyuu!! Movie 3: Genius and Sense (2017)
Plot Summary:
Recap film focusing primarily on the match against Aoba Jouhsai from the second season.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, disturbing, anime, shounen
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Umamusume: Pretty Derby (2018)
Plot Summary:
In a world very much like our own, great race horses of the past have a chance to be reborn as "horse girls"—girls with the ears and tails of horses as well as their speed and endurance. The best of these horse girls go to train at Tokyo's Tracen Academy, hopefully moving on to fame and fortune as both racers and idols. Special Week, a high school horse girl from the countryside, has just transferred to Tracen, and she's determined to fulfill her promise to her mother to become the best horse girl in Japan. On her way to school, she takes a pit stop at the race track and instantly falls in love with Silence Suzuka's style, becoming determined to race on the same team as her.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, sincere, captivating, entertaining
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Initial D Battle Stage 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Initial D Battle Stage 2 summarizes the major street races from the Initial D: Fourth Stage. Two races that were previously seen only in the manga were animated specially for this OVA. The first race is Takahashi Keisuke vs. Smiley Sakai, and the other is Keisuke vs. Kawai Atsuro.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining
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Yowamushi Pedal Re:ROAD (2015)
Plot Summary:
A compilation film, recapping the second season, Yowamushi Pedal: Grande Road.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, anime
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Kuroko's Basketball - Movie: Winter Cup - Shadow and Light (2016)
Plot Summary:
First of three compilation films of Kuroko no Basket.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 532
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, shounen
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Kuroko no Basket Movie 3: Winter Cup Soushuuhen - Tobira no Mukou (2016)
Plot Summary:
The third of three Kuroko no Basket compilation films.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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Salaryman's Club (2022)
Plot Summary:
Mikoto Shiratori is a childhood prodigy at badminton that lost in high school; after joining the sales department of the Sunlight Beverage company, he starts playing badminton again.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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Prince of Stride: Alternative (2016)
Plot Summary:
"Stride," is an extreme sport that involves six people on one team who run relay races through towns. Hōnan Academy and other schools compete to win eastern Japan's top Stride competition, "End of Summer." However, Hōnan's team has shut down. First-year high school students Takeru Fujiwara and Nana Sakurai attempt to restart the club, but they must recruit six members for the team. They ask Riku Yagami to join, but he turns them down by saying that Stride is the one thing he doesn't want to do.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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The New Prince of Tennis (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Seigaku tennis club has been invited to train at the U-17 (Under 17) camp. Seigaku is one of the 50 middle schools invited and must compete with high school players to prove they are just as good.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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Skate-Leading Stars (2020)
Plot Summary:
Kensei Maeshima left figure skating behind, now only using his athleticism to help several high school teams. But his rival announces a shift to a team sport, bringing a kid familiar with Kensei’s past to offer him an invite to the world of skate-leading.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, anime
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Haikyuu!! The Movie 1: The End and the Beginning (2015)
Plot Summary:
First Haikyuu!! recap movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining, shounen
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Fighting Spirit: Champion Road (2003)
Plot Summary:
Makunouchi Ippo is the new Featherweight champion of Japan and is now ready for his first title defense. His opponent, the former Jr. Featherweight champion and a medical student, Sanada Kazuki. In addition to this feud, Sanada is being coached by Kamogawa's former rival, Hama Dankichi. What makes things worse is that Sanada works at the same hospital where Kumi is a nurse at and everybody at the hospital wants Sanada to win. Not only does Ippo have to defend his title, he has to reclaim his love.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining, shounen
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Sabagebu! Survival Game Club! (2014)
Plot Summary:
Momoka is a high school student who's mastered the art of blending in after transferring from one school to another several times. Despite her ability to fly under the radar, she finds herself recruited by her new school's survival game club. Most of the other girls in the club are a bit eccentric in one way or another: there's the wealthy gun nut, the cosplaying otaku, and the seemingly cute girl with a terrifying dark side. Momoka, however, is just as eccentric herself. (Source: ANN).
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, shoujo, super sentai
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2.43: Seiin High School Boys Volleyball Team (2021)
Plot Summary:
Kimichika Haijima was a strong junior high school volleyball team member. After getting into trouble with the team, he moved to his mother's hometown and reunites with his childhood friend, Yuni Kuroba. The two become an ace pair at volleyball, but in their last tournament, get into a big fight. Will they ever play volleyball together again?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, josei
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Tsurune (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Minato Narumiya joins Prefectural Kazemai High School, he is quickly invited to join the archery club by the club's advisor, Tommy-sensei. His childhood friends Seiya Takehaya and Yamanouchi Ryohei swiftly agree to join, but Minato is hesitant at first. Because Minato is the rare student with experience in archery, Tommy-sensei orders him to give a demonstration, which Minato does... except his arrow doesn't hit the target. It is revealed that Minato has developed a terrible dysfunction regarding archery.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing, super sentai
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Ace of Diamond (2013)
Plot Summary:
Eijun Sawamura is a pitcher who joins an elite school with a brilliant catcher named Kazuya Miyuki. Together with the rest of the team, they strive for Japan's storied Koushien championships through hard work and determination.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, touching, captivating, light, shounen
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The Knight in the Area (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Knight in the Area is a Japanese manga series written by Hiroaki Igano and illustrated by Kaya Tsukiyama. The series was adapted into an anime by Shin-Ei Animation and broadcast on TV Asahi beginning January 7, 2012.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Eyeshield 21 (2005)
Plot Summary:
Eyeshield 21 is a Japanese manga series written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Yusuke Murata. The series tells the story of Sena Kobayakawa, a introverted boy who joins an American football club as a secretary, but after being coerced by Hiruma, turns out to play wearing an eyeshield and the number 21, under the pseudonym of "Eyeshield 21". Inagaki chose American football as a central subject of Eyeshield 21 after realizing that it fit perfectly with his idea for the series. The manga was originally serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from July 2002 to June 2009. The series consists of 333 chapters collected in 37 tankōbon volumes. An anime adaptation consisting of 145 television episodes was directed by Masayoshi Nishida, and co-produced by TV Tokyo, NAS, and Gallop. The television series first aired on Japan's TV Tokyo network from April 6, 2005 to March 19, 2008. The Eyeshield 21 franchise has spawned two original video animations, audio albums, video games, and other merchandise. In North America, the manga was released by Viz Media from April 2005 to October 2011. The anime series was later licensed in North America by Toonami Jetstream as a joint effort with Viz Media, and aired on December 17, 2007 on its site, but before its completion, the streaming service was shut down. The whole series was streamed in English by Crunchyroll, while Sentai Filmworks licensed the series, with distribution from Section23 Films on DVDs.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, disturbing
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High Speed! Free! Starting Summer (2015)
Plot Summary:
A prequel to the 2013 Kyoto Animation series Free! which is an adaptation of light novel High☆Speed!.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anime, inspirational, captivating, psychological, emotional
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Days (2016)
Plot Summary:
The series is about two boys named Tsukushi and Jin. Tsukushi is a boy with no special talent or traits while Jin is considered a soccer genius. On one stormy night, Jin meets Tsukushi, and they get dragged into the world of soccer.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, shounen
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Haikyu!! (2014)
Plot Summary:
Shōyō Hinata began playing volleyball after seeing the "small giants" who played the sport when he was in elementary school. He suffers a crushing defeat in his first and last tournament in middle school at the hands of his rival Tobio Kageyama. So, Hinata joins Kurasuno High School's volleyball team, vowing revenge against Kageyama. However, Kageyama is also on Kurasuno's team. The former rivals form a legendary combo with Hinata's mobility and Kageyama's precision ball-handling. Together, they take on the local tournaments and vow to meet Kurasuno's fated rival school in the nationals.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, realistic, disturbing, humorous, semi serious, shounen, mind blowing, super sentai
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Kuroko's Basketball - Movie: Winter Cup - Beyond the Tears (2016)
Plot Summary:
The second of three Kuroko no Basket compilation films.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Kuroko's Basketball: Last Game (2017)
Plot Summary:
Shortly after the Inter-High of Kagami and Kuroko's second-year, a street basketball team from the USA called Team Jabberwock came to Japan to play a friendly match against a Japanese college-level street basketball team, Team Strky. Despite their best efforts, Strky is brutally crushed by Jabberwock. After the match, the Jabberwock players insult the players from Strky and all of Japanese basketball, claiming Strky's basketball was at the same level as monkeys and telling the players and crowds to quit playing basketball and kill themselves. As a revenge match, Kagetora assembles a dream team of all members of Generation of Miracles plus Kuroko Tetsuya and Kagami Taiga, along with bench players Hyūga Junpei, Takao Kazunari, and Wakamatsu Kōsuke, forming Team Vorpal Swords, with the hopes of reclaiming the pride of Japanese basketball.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, light, uplifting, captivating
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Bamboo Blade (2007)
Plot Summary:
A school kendo club is in need of talent and participation when the petite and talented Tamaki is drafted. With her understated sense of justice and ample strength, Tamaki becomes an inspiration for her team-mates, school and even the deadbeat instructor.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, inspirational, entertaining, captivating, exciting, semi serious
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AI Football GGO (2010)
Plot Summary:
Artificial Intelligent Football GGO is made by Puzzle Animation studio Ltd. It's an animation series about football and future technology.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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Free!: Take Your Marks (2017)
Plot Summary:
A special sequel anime for Free! to screen in Fall 2017.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Battery (2016)
Plot Summary:
Meet Harada Takumi – not even in junior high and he’s the best pitcher in the region, although he’s frustrated and ready to give up, because he can’t find a catcher who is good enough to keep up with how he pitches in this backwater town his family has just moved to. Then along comes a kid named Nagakura Gou….
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, captivating, disturbing