Best Cycling Anime & Cartoons
They Do Exist: 5 Best Japanese Cycling Animes 1 Hill Climb Girl. Hinako is a high school girl who loves cycling. ... 2 Idaten Jump. Sho is a teenage boy growing up to become the best mountain biker in the world. ... 3 Nasu: Summer in Andalusia. ... 4 Over Drive. ... 5 Yowamushi Pedal. ...
When he discovers his new schools anime club has disbanded, Sakamichi Onoda takes it upon himself to revive it. While completing his weekly 90 kilometer bicycle ride to Akihabara, his riding ability is noticed. After taking up a fellow students' challenge for a race, Onoda begins his bicycle racing journey.
Fraser becomes the most powerful cyclist, but is outdone by the seemingly endless power of the Japanese cycling academies vastness of his interhigh rival Kakigōri. He cycles for the team Kansai.
The incident proves fortuitous when Takaya is approached by a mysterious driver offering to help Takaya with his destiny. This OVA follows the trials of a motorcycle racer. Retsu and Go Seiba receive racing cars called Mini 4WD and take up the goal of winning the Japan Cup.
Amazingly accurate renditions of bikes and gear, with very creative skirting around copyright and proper branding. All your favourite brands are there: Specializer, Glant, Scolt, De Rose, Tima, Colmago, Trak, and many others. Many of them are shod with the latest Shimomo Duba Ace groupsets too!
There have been 7 character popularity polls conducted since the Yowamushi Pedal manga began....Second Poll.RankCharacterNumber Of Votes1stOnoda Sakamichi1,2242ndMidousuji Akira1,0523rdMakishima Yusuke7964thShinkai Hayato74417 more rows
After the Inter High, Sakamichi is given a yellow BMC road bike with a complete carbon-fiber frame. This bike is half the weight of the Kuromori, allowing him to pedal at greater speeds and travel greater distances with ease.
As TV anime Yowamushi Pedal is heading towards its 3rd season, the popular bicycle series is not sitting still and will be collaborating with road bike makers BMC and Cannondale! BMC was the brand used by protagonist Sakamichi Onoda during his first Inter-High race.
However, the announcers reveal that it was Doubashi who won by a small but clear margin.
Hakone Academy's ace Ashikiba Takuto wins the three-way battle for the first day of the Inter-high! Naruko and Midousuji just narrowly tie for second. Having won all of the first day's number tags, Hakone Academy reclaims its throne.
Naruko Shoukichi Naruko met Onoda during his first visit to Akihabara. Naruko immediately recognizes Onoda as an otaku and asks him for advice about what figures to purchase. However, he ignores Onoda's advice and buys the figure that looks the coolest, which put 1000 yen short and so he asks Onoda for a loan.
Kinjou Shingo is a first-year student at Yonan University and was the captain and ace of the Sohoku High Bicycle Club during his high school.
A couple of the local hotshot sprinters challenge him, and Naruko declares that if he loses to any of them he'll do as Imaizumi says and quit being a sprinter.
ShinkaiShinkai in his "Straight-Line Demon" form According to Fukutomi, Shinkai has a high natural ability when it comes to road racing, game sense, athleticism, and explosive power. It's this and his extreme desire to win that makes him the fastest sprinter in the Inter High.
Tadokoro JinKnown result:PlaceNameTeam1stTadokoro JinSohoku2ndNaruko ShoukichiSohoku3rdIzumida TouichirouHakone4thShibata YasuyukiKanazawa Misaki18 more rows
TeshimaThe winner of the race for a spot on the Inter-High team is Teshima. The defeated Koga entrusts the other six with his passionate will.
A timid otaku shows some serious climbing ability, and is convinced to join his high school’s cycling team as they train for the upcoming championships – a fairly standard premise, but exciting animation, entertaining characters, and excellent pacing has made this possibly the most popular cycling anime there is.
The story of a Spanish pro competing in the Vuelta, who overhears that he will be fired following the conclusion of the race. This cracker of a film will have you rooting for Pepe as he suffers through the trails of life and road by continuing to pedal just a little bit harder.
A short but sweet film about a girl that competes against a schoolmate in bike race up a hill. Well animated, and a good way to spend 7 minutes. (Bonus: It has an animated Bradley Wiggins!)
The story of Mikoto Shinozaki who wants to become the best cyclist in the world. This one season show provides a somewhat more realistic depiction of cycling and cycling clubs than Yowamushi Pedal, while still managing to be exciting and entertaining (though, the animation is a bit choppy and the story does occasionally drag).
Something away from intense competitive cycling, Long Riders! follows a young girl’s journey into the world of cycling as she aims to form a team and ride a brevet – it’s charming, easy to watch, and seems to be the only show that really addresses how expensive cycling can be (and what a shock that is!).
Honestly, this one takes a couple of episodes to get into. And out of all the entries in this list, I found this to be the least entertaining cycle anime.
The story of a Madame Souza trying to rescue her kidnapped grandson, a pro who was competing in the Tour de France. This oddball French comedy as almost no dialogue, but is a must watch for fans of the genre.
Nasu: Summer in Andalusia. The cycling anime that is set into the Vuelta race in Spain, was directed by legendary Kitarō Kōsaka, the author of award-winning movies like Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Princess Mononoke.
In the search for a potential friend, he meets Imaizumi Shunsuke, a keen cyclist, who notices Onoda’s secret talent for the sport. Yowamushi Pedal is a never-ending story about friendship and road cycle racing. The series gives you insight into how much Japanese people can work in a team and sacrifice themselves for the success of their closest ones.
In “Nasu: Summer in Andalusia ,” the first anime video to make it into the Cannes Film Festival. The animation director for “Nasu” is the man responsible for “Spirited Away,” one of the best-known anime feature films.
It turns out that Japanese animators are just as into Rapha and Sir Bradley Wiggins as the Brits are—at least, according to a recently released anime short called "Hill Climb Girl." The video has quickly become a cycling sensation, thanks to a pithy-but-adorable plot and an inspiring TT up a grade that would make even the most seasoned cyclist cringe.
Amid the flurry and popularity of sports anime, racing anime's always been there as the genre's less noticeable, yet just as passionate cousin. Be they in mecha suits, cars or bicycles , there's nothing quite as adrenaline filled as urging a favored character across the finish line.
A young man finds himself living a dream when he obtains a pair of Air-Techs, next-gen roller skates. His dream is to make it to the top and become the 'King', but plenty of opponents stand between him and the title.
With dreams of becoming a great racer, Takaya constructs his own race car. However, inexperience leads to disaster and while he escapes injury, his car is destroyed. The incident proves fortuitous when Takaya is approached by a mysterious driver offering to help Takaya with his destiny.
Retsu and Go Seiba receive racing cars called Mini 4WD and take up the goal of winning the Japan Cup.
Bari Bari Densetsu features four teenage motorcycle racers as they aim for the top.
Science fiction meets racing when mindless, biomechanical creatures called Demoniacs hold modern Germany under siege. A Xenogenesis Assault Team (XAT) is dispatched to address the problem. However, life takes a bizarre turn when humans begin to display Demoniac abilities.
An ingenuitive 4th grade boy restores an old junked racing cart and puts it to the test in actual races. He'll prove he's the best, even without the 'newest and best' model.
Live action actor: Ryōma Baba (TV Series), Shuntaro Yanagi (Movie) Makishima is a third-year high school student and member of the Sohoku High Bicycle Team. Makishima is the ace climber of the team and has the nickname of “Peak Spider” due to his unusual dancing technique when cycling uphill.
Hakone Academy is the country's largest cycling team , and claims to be made up of “six aces” with many more in reserve. During the first year of the series, it was noted to have 50 club members. Since Hakone is such an expansive team, the selection process of who does, and does not, go to the Inter-High is quite complex. To determine who has the honor of participating in the Inter-High, all of the members race against each other, and only the winners of each group (A - F), are allowed to participate. Furthermore, these groups are divided so that the team takes three all-rounders, two climbers, and up to two sprinters to the Inter-High.
Makishima is also well known for having a longtime, intimate rivalry with Hakone’s ace climber, Toudou. Live action actor: Yūki Tomotsune (TV Series), Ken Sugawara (Movie) Tadokoro is a third-year high school student and member of the Sohoku High Bicycle Team.
Sakamichi Onoda is an otaku who has just entered high school. In middle school, Onoda did not have any friends with whom he could talk about his interests, and hopes to change that by joining his new school's anime club. However, he is crushed when he discovers the anime club has been disbanded due to lack of interest, and in order to reestablish the club, four new members must join.
The series was later published in tankōbon format by Akita Shoten, with the first volume being released on July 8, 2008. As of February 2020, 65 volumes have been ...