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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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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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Buzzer Beater (2005)
Plot Summary:
Hideyoshi is a homeless boy living in New York in the near future, who survives by hustling other kids in basketball games. But now he's been drafted into a pro team-a pro team with a very unique goal. There once was a time when humans dominated the game of basketball. But times have changed, and now the physically superior alien players have taken over the game, and there are barely any human players next. But Hideyoshi's team—the first all-human team to compete in the Space League—intends to change all that, and bring the championship back home to Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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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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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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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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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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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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Usakame (2016)
Plot Summary:
The girls of the Usakame High tennis club, Kinako Tanaka, Ayako Suzuki, Kurumi Satou, and Nishi Nishiarai-Taishi, pursue their various dreams... The series depicts the mostly ordinary but slightly strange daily lives of four girls who devote themselves to practice.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 4 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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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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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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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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How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sakura Hibiki is your average high school girl, with a voracious appetite. Noticing her clothes tightening in lieu of her slowly expanding waistline she decides to look into enrolling in the nearby gym. There she runs into a girl from her grade named Souryuuin Akemi. Akemi, who has a muscle fetish tries to get Hibiki to enroll in the gym despite its high ratio of macho men. Thankfully a beautiful trainer, Machio, appears and unknowingly convinces her to enroll and start her quest to a great body.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, uplifting, touching, humorous, sweet, ecchi, edutainment
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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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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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Burning Kabaddi (2021)
Plot Summary:
Yoigoshi Tatsuya was a star soccer player known as "Yoigoshi the Unstoppable," but when he entered high school, he severed all involvement with sports. Now, he has been invited to a certain sports team. In these matches, victory is achieved through teammates working together to catch and defeat the opponents invading their territory... You could call it a sort of running combat sport. And the name of this game is... Kabaddi.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Animation, Action, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, funny, feel good, entertaining
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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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After School Dice Club (2019)
Plot Summary:
A story about girls playing board games after school! Kyoto in Spring. Aya is a high school girl who's just moved to a new town. Miki is her shy classmate, and her first friend. One day after school Aya and Miki follow the committee president Midori to a speciality board games store. The Dice Club!! Without thinking they try out a German board game together. These girls, who are searching for fun, soon fall into the exciting world of games!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious
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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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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
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Amanchu! (2016)
Plot Summary:
The hyperactive teenage scuba diver, Hikari Kohinata, lives in a small town near the sea. On her first day of high school she meets the shy transfer student, Futaba Oki, who is struggling to find a place after moving away from Tokyo. Hikari takes the lead, dragging Futaba into her hijinx, and the two soon become close friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, shounen