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Plot Summary:
Tsubasa Ozora moves to the town Nankatsu to increase his skills as a soccer player. He is challanged by the Super Goalkeeper Genzo Wakabayashi. He then agree to compete and see who was the best soccer player there.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, retro, exciting, captivating, serious
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Captain Tsubasa: Road to 2002 (2001)
Plot Summary:
Tsubasa becomes a superstar amongst soccer players in Brazil. He is now planning to play in Europe. At an important must-win game, as the fans cheer him on, Tsubasa looks back at the days when he started his soccer life. His passion to make goals and win the game is as strong as it was during his childhood. He recalls the games and moments that had decisive impact on his life. He remembers Goalkeeper Wakabayashi, Genius striker Hyuga, tender-hearted Misaki and Coach Roberto. He was happy to meet them, enjoyed playing with them, and learned many things from them. The whistle sounds and the game begins. Tsubasa dashes for the ball!.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing
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Supa Strikas (2008)
Plot Summary:
With dreams of becoming Super League champions, a talented striker named Shakes and his football team take on rivals while going on global adventures.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Animation, Family, Sport
Country: South Africa, Malaysia
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Backflip!! (2021)
Plot Summary:
The final summer of middle school, Shotaro Futaba discovers boys gymnastics and is completely enamored by it. Shotaro ends up going to Soshukan Private High School (aka Ao High) and decides to visit the boys gymnastics club. He's greeted by very unique senpais and a star gymnast named Misato Ryoya. Dedicating your life to something you love during your fiery days of youth... Of course, there is frustration, and fights, but see how these boys work together as a team towards a similar goal in this drama about sports and youth.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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Taisho Baseball Girls (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a local player arrogantly states that girls should become housewives instead of going to school, teenage firebrands Koume and Akiko respond by forming their own baseball team. It's shocking. It's scandalous. And yet, in a nation in which almost anything seems suddenly possible, it may just be the start of something greater than any nine girls can imagine.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, anime, super sentai
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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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Free! (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around Haruka Nanase, a boy who has always loved to be immersed in water, and to swim in it. Before graduating from elementary school, he participated in a swimming tournament along with his fellow swimming club members, Makoto Tachibana, Nagisa Hazuki, and Rin Matsuoka. After achieving victory, each of the boys went their separate ways. Time passed, and in the middle of their uneventful high school lives Rin appears and challenges Haruka to a match, showing Haruka his overwhelming power. Not wanting it to end like this, Haruka, gathers together Makoto and Nagisa once again and brings a new member named Rei Ryugazaki to create the Iwatobi High School Swimming Club in order to defeat Rin.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, exciting, light, humorous, motivational
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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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Shoot! Goal to the Future (2022)
Plot Summary:
Atsushi Kamiya is a former captain at Kakegawa High School and the world-renowned "courageous captain" for a famous Italian soccer team. Hideto Tsuji, a student at Kakegawa High School seems uninterested in the now-weakened soccer team. Their meeting is the start of a new legend.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing, shounen
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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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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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Hoop Days (2003)
Plot Summary:
A defunct high school basketball team finds a new student and things may start looking up for them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, inspirational, captivating, exciting, light, entertaining
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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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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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Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma (2015)
Plot Summary:
Yukihira Souma's dream is to become a full-time chef in his father's restaurant and surpass his father's culinary skill. But just as Yukihira graduates from middle schools his father, Yukihira Jouichirou, closes down the restaurant to cook in Europe. Although downtrodden, Souma's fighting spirit is rekindled by a challenge from Jouichirou which is to survive in an elite culinary school where only 10% of the students graduate. Can Souma survive?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, feel good, shounen, ecchi, semi serious, light, manga, emotional, super sentai
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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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Extreme Football (2014)
Plot Summary:
Every weekend, Samy and his friends meet up at a mall under construction that became their private street football arena, hidden from the eyes of the townspeople, A new and spectacular game has emerged, incorporating other urban sports such as komball, free-running, rollerblading, dance, acrobatics and gymnastics : Extreme Street Football. The game is on!.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Animation
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: stylized, semi serious, exciting, computer animated, captivating, fast
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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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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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Farewell, My Dear Cramer (2021)
Plot Summary:
With no soccer accomplishments to speak of during the entirety of Suou Sumire's junior high school years, the young wing gets an odd offer. Suou's main rival, Soshizaki Midori, invites her to join up on the same team in high school, with a promise that she'll never let Suou "play alone." It's an earnest offer, but the question is whether Suou will take her up on it. Thus the curtain opens on a story that collects an enormous cast of individual soccer-playing personalities!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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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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La croisée dans un labyrinthe étranger (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in the second half of the 19th century, as Japanese culture gains popularity in the West. A young Japanese girl, Yune, accompanies a French traveler, Oscar, on his journey back to France, and offers to help at the family's ironwork shop in Paris. Oscar's nephew and shop owner Claude reluctantly accepts to take care of Yune, and we learn how those two, who have so little in common, get to understand each other and live together in the Paris of the 1800s.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, atmospheric, sincere, light, contemplative, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Giant Killing (2010)
Plot Summary:
Giant Killing follows a ragtag bunch from East Tokyo who are struggling in Japan's top football league. Nearing the bottom, they have lost 5 matches in a row which hasn't done much to team morale. Even with the fan's turning their backs on the team, it seems as if the end is near. East Tokyo United can only blame their coach right now. However, their Coach is going to do something drastic to prove to his team and fans, that against the biggest club in the nation, he can make this team win.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Inazuma Eleven (2008)
Plot Summary:
Endou Mamoru is a cheerful goalkeeper in Raimon Jr High, with six other players in the team. But there was a day when the team was almost lead to disbandment by Natsumi unless they are to win the match against the Teikoku Gakuen, currently the best team of Japan. He tried to save the club by gathering four more players to the team.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, manga, shounen, exciting, realistic, feel good
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Hikaru no Go (2001)
Plot Summary:
Hikaru Shindo is just a normal 12 year old boy, but one day he's rummaging through his Grandfather's things to see if he can find something to sell and pulls out an old Go board. A ghostly apparition appears out of the board and tells Hikaru his sad story. His name is Sai Fujiwara, a man who was a Go instructor to the emperor of Japan a thousand years ago. However, because of bad sportsmanship of his opponent during a game, Sai was accused of cheating and banished from the city. With no livelihood or any other reason to live, Sai committed suicide by drowning himself. Now, he haunts a Go board, and wants to accomplish the perfect Go game, called the "Hand of God" which he hopes to do through Hikaru. If Hikaru will be able to do it or not (or even wants to) will have to be seen.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, stylized, exciting, serious, tense, captivating, light, feel good, shounen, offbeat
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Beyblade Burst (2016)
Plot Summary:
Elementary-school student Valt Aoi is crazy about Beyblade and is best friends with Shu Kurenai, who is a prodigy at the game and has been named to the national Beyblade tournament's final four. Inspired by his friend's accomplishment, Valt makes it his goal to reach the tournament himself. The first step on the road to the big leagues is to win his district tournament, which includes some tough opponents. As he makes his way up the ladder, Valt reaches new heights and extends his circle of friends, eventually -- unknowingly -- dreaming of becoming the best Blader in the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 781
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: captivating, anime, entertaining, tense, shounen, humorous, suspense
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D-Frag! (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kazama Kenji likes to believe he is something of a delinquent. Moreover, others seem to like to agree that he is. Of course, Kenji's gang finds their way to a group of four not-so-normal girls—Chitose, Sakura, Minami and Roka—and all at once, whatever reputation he may have is nothing compared to the outrageous behavior of the girls. Shanghaied into joining their club, what will happen to his everyday life from that point on?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, ecchi
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Clean Freak! Aoyama Kun (2017)
Plot Summary:
He is charming, cool, athletic, a good cook, but more importantly, he's a clean freak. Aoyama is idolized and respected by everyone, but they can only admire him from afar due to his mysophobia. Despite that, he plays soccer—a rather dirty sport! As the playmaker for Fujimi High School's soccer club, Aoyama avoids physical contact at all cost and cleanly dribbles toward victory. However, the path to Nationals will not be easy for Fujimi's underdog team. But alongside striker Kaoru Zaizen, Aoyama will show everyone that even as a clean freak, there are things he's willing to get dirty for.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious, seinen
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Kuroko's Basketball (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the story, Kagami Taiga has just enrolled into Seirin High School when he meets Kuroko Tetsuya of the school's basketball team. Kuroko happens to be the shadowy sixth member of the legendary Generation of Miracles basketball team. Together, Kagami and Kuroko aim to take their team to the inter-high school championship - against Kuroko's former teammates.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, exciting, uplifting, tense, manga, mind blowing, shounen, light
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The Adventures of Peter Pan (1989)
Plot Summary:
The Adventures of Peter Pan is an anime series by Nippon Animation, and directed by Takashi Nakamura and Yoshio Kuroda, which first aired in Japan on the Fuji TV network between January 8, 1989 and December 24, 1989. It is an adaptation of the classic Peter Pan novel by James Matthew Barrie, and spanned a total of 41 episodes. It was part of the World Masterpiece Theater, a famed animation staple by Nippon Animation, which produced an animated version of a different classical book or story each year. The anime, while adapting material from the original novel, also adds numerous original story arcs. The series was also later translated and released in several international audiences worldwide. In Europe, it was broadcast on the television networks Telecinco, RTL Television, Kika, Italia 1, TV3 and Fox Kids, Yleisradio and TVP 2. It also aired in numerous other countries, such as Israel, Brazil, Mexico and the Philippines.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, feel good, captivating, semi serious