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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
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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
Similar in 84%
Major 2nd (2018)
Plot Summary:
Shigeno Daigo is an elementary student whose father, Goro, is a professional baseball player. Inspired by his father, who was once a Major League player, Daigo started playing baseball with the Mifune Dolphins, a youth team. However, he was unable to live up to the expectations of being the son of a professional, and quit baseball after less than a year. Then, in the spring of his sixth-grade year, Daigo's school welcomes a transfer student, Sato Hikaru, whose father is Sato Toshiya, a former Major League player and Goro's close friend. The fate of these two young men begins to move forward!.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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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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PuraOre! ~Pride of Orange~ (2021)
Plot Summary:
This sports anime is set in Nikko City, Tochigi Prefecture, and follows a team of girls as they aim for the top in the sport of ice hockey. It’s about team-building, friendship and competition!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Free! Timeless Medley: The Bond (2017)
Plot Summary:
First part of Free!: Timeless Medley.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story follows the unfolding of the U-17 World Cup, which takes place at the KCC Arena, in Melbourne, Australia. A total of 32 countries are participating in this long-awaited competition, and only 16 of them will manage to qualify for the final stages….
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing
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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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Harukana Receive (2018)
Plot Summary:
Oozora Haruka, who's just moved to Okinawa, is generally cheerful and optimistic, but there's one thing she feels insecure about: she's taller than most other girls. Her cousin Higa Kanata also has one hang-up: she had to quit her beach volleyball because she was too short. The mismatched cousins find themselves paired up as a beach volleyball team.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, ecchi
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The Gymnastics Samurai (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2002, the formerly powerful Japanese men's gymnastics team member Jotaro Aragaki is no longer able to compete. Even though he trained strenuously daily, he is asked about retiring by his coach Amakusa. However, a certain encounter alters Aragaki's fate.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, suspense
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Fanfare of Adolescence (2022)
Plot Summary:
The jockey curriculum at the Horse Racing School... A school with incredibly difficult entrance requirements, where only one out of every ten to twenty applicants is accepted, and students need not just book smarts, but also physical and athletic abilities. There, a boy who is a popular idol meets his real dream for the first time. A boy who grew up on an island dreams of spending his days racing with horses. A boy from England is unsure of the path his parents have chosen for him, but still chooses to follow his dreams. This is a story about boys who pursue their dream of becoming a jockey.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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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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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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TAMAYOMI: The Baseball Girls (2020)
Plot Summary:
In her Junior High years, the pitcher Yomi Takeda was not able to get very far in a cross-school baseball tournament. Since the catcher on her team wasn't at her level, she couldn't use her signature move, the "Magic Throw," and eventually regretted not being able to use it. After Junior High, she decided to stop playing baseball and went to Shin Koshigaya High School, a school without a baseball club. There, she found her long lost childhood friend, Tamaki Yamazaki, who used to play catchball with her when they were kids. Tamaki also played baseball during her Junior High years as a catcher, and could even catch Yomi's "Magic Throw!" Their promise with each other during their childhood could now be fulfilled! Walking together on the road of baseball once again... The story of the girls who love baseball will begin!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, adult anime
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Futsal Boys!!!!! (2022)
Plot Summary:
Haru Yamato watches the championship of the U-18 world cup and is inspired by a Japanese player Tokinari Tenōji. He joins the Koyo Academy High School's futsal team with the goal of becoming a player like Tenōji. There, he finds friends, and together they face their rivals.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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Ao Ashi (2022)
Plot Summary:
Ashito Aoi is a young, aspiring soccer player from a backwater town in Japan. His hopes of getting into a high school with a good soccer club are dashed when he causes an incident during a critical match for his team, which results in their loss and elimination from the tournament. Nevertheless, he catches the eye of someone important who happened to be visiting from Tokyo. How will things turn out for Ashito?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, seinen
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Hungry Heart: Wild Striker (2002)
Plot Summary:
Kyosuke Kano has lived under the shadow of his successful brother Seisuke all his life who is a professional soccer player. Tired of being compared and downgraded at, he abandoned playing soccer until a boy from his new highschool discovered him and asked him to join their team. Kyosuke joins it and befriends two other first year players named Rodrigo and Sakai with the dream of becoming professional soccer players themselves.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, shounen, entertaining
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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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Slow Loop (2022)
Plot Summary:
Nervous to meet her new stepdad, Hiyori heads to the place she always feels at home—the ocean. When a curious girl named Koharu shows up, Hiyori decides to teach her how to fish, just like her father did before he died. But after Koharu reveals she’s also meeting her new family that night, the girls come to a startling realization. Their friendship is about to reach a whole new level!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Cinderella Nine (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Arihara Tsubasa enters Rigahama Municipal High School and learns that it has no baseball club, she starts up the Girls' Baseball Club on her own. Drawn to the club are girls who have never played baseball before, girls who once played it but quit, and girls who are constantly tackling great challenges. The Rigahama Girls' Baseball Club races through the trials of youth, periodically clashing and quarreling, but supporting each other all the way! And so begins the hottest summer the world has ever known.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, super sentai
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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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Captain Tsubasa (2018)
Plot Summary:
The passionate story of an elementary school student whose thoughts and dreams revolve almost entirely around the love of soccer. 11-year-old Tsubasa Oozora started playing football at a very young age, and while it was mostly just a recreational sport for his friends, for him, it developed into something of an obsession. In order to pursue his dream to the best of his elementary school abilities, Tsubasa moves with his mother to Nankatsu city, which is well-known for its excellent elementary school soccer teams. But although he was easily the best in his old town, Nankatsu has a lot more competition, and he will need all of his skill and talent in order to stand out from this new crowd. He encounters not only rivals, but also new friends like the pretty girl Sanae Nakazawa and the talented goalkeeper, Genzo Wakabayashi, who shares the same passion as Tsubasa, and will prove to be a treasured friend in helping him push towards his dreams. Representing Japan in the FIFA World Cup is Tsubasa’s ultimate dream, but it will take a lot more than talent to reach it.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, inspirational, disturbing
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Minami Kamakura High School Girls Cycling Club (2017)
Plot Summary:
Maiharu Hiromi has moved to Kamakura Nagasaki, and rides a bicycle to school everyday. Then she meets Akizuki Tomoe, the leader of the girls cycling club. She therefore joins the club and her life gradually begins to change.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Long Riders! (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ami Kurata, a first-year university student who has no athletic ability, suddenly falls in love with a folding bicycle after seeing it in front of a train station. Inspired by her newfound love, she starts saving up to buy a bicycle and to learn cycling.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, super sentai
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Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (2020)
Plot Summary:
Asakusa Midori wants to create an anime, but she's too disheartened to make that first step by herself. By pure chance, she meets Mizusaki Tsubame, an up-and-coming socialite secretly dreaming of becoming an animator. Together with Midori's money-loving best friend Kanamori Sayaka, the energetic trio slowly work towards making their "ultimate world" a reality!.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Classroom Crisis (2015)
Plot Summary:
Humanity has successfully colonized all the planets in the Solar System, with intentions to continue into new frontiers. Individuals live stable lives in these colonies, including young high school students living in 4th Tokyo on Mars. Two of these students are Iris Shirazaki and Mizuki Sera. Iris is finishing her last year of high school while studying to be a test pilot while her friend Mizuki also works as a mechanic on the aircraft. Her own brother, Kaito, oversees Mizuki and Iris as their homeroom teacher and program director.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, disturbing
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Major (2004)
Plot Summary:
Honda Goro the son of a famous baseball player loves nothing more than baseball itself. His biggest dream is to show his father that he can become the best pitcher in the world despite all the hardships he had to endure he keeps on running towards his goal at full speed.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, light, captivating, entertaining, shounen
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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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Anne Happy♪ (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story centers around class 1-7 of Tennomifune Academy, where all the students with "bad karma" or misfortune seem to have been gathered. Hibari, a student in this class, meets the unlucky Hanako and the perennially unhealthy Botan on her first day of school, and together they try to find a way to turn their school life into a happy one.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, satirical, disturbing