These anime delve into the world of competitive Sports, ranging from team-based to individual participants. From Baseball or Basketball, to track and field or combat-based sports, these works focus on the athletes and those around them who show their support.
If you think the sports anime genre is boring, then you probably never watched a decent sports anime. A good sports anime is like a well-written drama, but with sports involved. The characters need to be interesting with different motivations and rich backgrounds that make you want to cheer or boo them.
‘Haikyuu!!’ is one of the most famous sports anime ever and probably the best volleyball anime ever made. So, if you have not seen it, then what are you waiting for? Just jump right into it! The protagonist of the anime is Shouyou Hinata.
Updated On March 24th, 2020 By Allison Stalberg: Due to the popularity of certain titles like Haikyuu and Kuroko's Basketball, more quality sports anime are being both rediscovered and released. It is now 2020 and more titles been added to our list as the viewership of this anime genre grows.
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Vinland Saga is one of the most popular anime of the Summer 2019 anime season, and for good reason. Based on a critically acclaimed manga by Makoto Yukimura, this Amazon Prime exclusive follows Thorfinn, a young Viking warrior who is dedicated to avenging his father's demise.
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The Thousand SunnyThe Thousand Sunny is a brigantine, a type of ship that relies on the skills of its navigator. The ship has a lawn on her deck, complete with a swing and a slide, as well as an observation tower for a crow's nest. The huge masts give the ship extreme maneuverability.
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Arriving at college Kouko Kaga introduces herself as a new student at the grounds, as well as declaring herself Mitsuo's fiance.
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The anime centers around young teenager, Eva, who secretly enrolls in the race in order to reunite with her estranged father, who's actually the manager of the Great Race. This solid premise combines Eva's emotional journey with thrilling action that beautifully ties together.
Sure the 60 km course, driven on at 400km/hr by pilots is a Motorsport thrill, but more than anything, the anime is a tale of humility, specifically that of Tekeshi.
This racing anime is a heartwarming take on the story of a 14-year-old boy, Kazami Hayato. He holds the title of the youngest Cyber Formula driver, a special sort of Grand Prix that enables vehicles with computers. Kazami Hayato is a passionate racer, who with the help of an advanced cyber-navigation system, Asurada, aspires to win.
Uma Musume is the story of great racehorses who are reincarnated as horse girls. These girls aren't horses just in terms of speed and endurance but have also inherited horse-ears and tails. The best of the horse girls get a chance to attend Tracan Academy based in Tokyo.
Appare-Ranman is one of the most recent racing anime on this list and despite how it currently only has 13 episodes it's still able to tell an incredibly addicting story in that condensed time frame. Appare-Ranman feels like a combination of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run with Hanna-Barbera's Wacky Races.
An unabashed anime fan , Sakamichi Onoda is a happy-go-lucky guy who wants nothing more in the world than to join his school's anime club. But the club has limited membership, so it ends up getting disbanded. Sakamichi's resilience knows no bounds, and he decides to get friends on board. One day, when biking on his journey to Akihabara, he bumps into first-year, Shunsuke Imaizumi. Shunsuke is impressed by Sakamichi's ability to trek the difficult Akihabara terrain on his old bicycle. Quickly, Shunsuke challenges Sakamichi to a cycling race, promising to join the school anime club if he lost. Thus begins the bicycle diaries of Sakamichi.
Anime manages to capture the sport of racing well in these shows. There's not a single humanly or transcendental concept that anime has left untouched. There are as many genres of anime as far as the human reach can go, almost everything comes under their guise, racing anime being the case in point today.
The series features the destroyer Fubuki as the main character, with the storyline based on her point of view. Fubuki arrives at the naval base, where she meets other girls that she will eventually fight alongside. Despite lacking adequate combat training, she is recommended into the Third Torpedo Squadron by the admiral, and quickly finds herself sortied into battle. Upon being rescued by Akagi in a dangerous situation, Fubuki strives to do her best in order to train, with the hopes of eventually being able to fight alongside Akagi.
Another destroyer of the Third Torpedo Squadron, alongside Fubuki and Mutsuki, who has a laid back attitude. She has a verbal tic as she speaks, often inserting "poi" into her sentences. She is later transferred to Naka's fleet during Operation FS, before getting a second remodel and being transferred again to the First Carrier Task Force (第一機動部隊, Dai-ichi kidō butai) (consisting of Akagi).
Plot. In a world where humanity faces the threat of the abyssal fleet which has taken over the seas, special human girls who don weaponized outfits and possess the spirit of historical naval vessels known as kanmusu (艦娘, literally "fleet girls" or "ship girls") are the only ones capable of countering them.
However, due to a misunderstanding, she let Fubuki dock in the hot springs, thinking that the latter is severely damaged.
An aircraft carrier of the Fifth Carrier Division and assigned to the Fourth Fleet during the Battle of the Sea in Front of the Naval Base. She advised her sister Zuikaku to avoid arguing with the experienced Kaga, but she seems to have satirized Kaga and the First Carrier Division potentially as escorts.
Akagi engages enemy ships by firing arrows with her bow, which transform into aircraft piloted by fairies. Due to her past combat history, she is held in high esteem throughout the base. Her massive appetite is only outdone by Yamato-class battleships.
Four destroyers belonging to the Sixth Destroyer Division (第六駆逐隊, Dai-roku kuchikutai) and assigned to the Second Support Fleet (第二支援艦隊, Dai-ni shien kantai) (Akatsuki and Hibiki) and the First Carrier Task Force (Ikazuchi and Inazuma) during the Battle of the Sea in Front of the Naval Base. Akatsuki considers herself an adult lady, while Hibiki tends to speak Russian frequently, rarely saying anything but "хорошо" ( Khorosho, "Very well" in Russian), Ikazuchi has a very caring and confident personality, and Inazuma is a timid girl. Akatsuki and Ikazuchi do not get along very well, as they constantly argue about whatever went wrong, such as Inazuma using a flamethrower to boil their curry faster only to end up burning the entire pot, making Inazuma cry and blame herself for the failure.
A group of teenagers, reeling with nostalgia, drag together a swim club in high school. After meeting an old friend and rival, their little swim club ventures into competitions.
Yamato and his two friends practice MTB (mountain biking) in a special area known as the 'X-Zone', until one day their territory is challenged by an MTB race team named Shark Tooth. However, a race for rights to the X-Zone is derailed when the racers find themselves in another world also named X-Zone. What is going on and how will they return to their old life?
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.
He then starts dreaming of becoming the best cyclist in the world and winnign the Tour de France. The only problem is, he doesn't know how to ride a bike.
The Saionji Racing Team is created to compete against Black Shadow, which has a reputation of ruining big races. To do this, they've created a cutting edge engine and a car to put it in, with a driver who has vendetta against Black Shadow.
Akagi, a 'country' boy, moves to the city to pursue his dreams of racing a Formula One car. Good thing for him, he seems imbued with a bit of natural talent.
Hiromi meets the leader of the cycling club at her school while riding her bicycle to school everyday. From there, new journeys unfold.
Football fans do not need to worry, there are sports anime for that are about football! The main character of this show is Kenji Gion, a guy who is completely obsessed with the sport.
As you may tell from the "pedal" in the title, this sports anime focuses on biking. The main character, Sakamichi Onoda, is an otaku who is looking to make friends. However, the school anime club disbanded so he has to settle for the bicycle racing club. The cast of characters are a fun group with a main character that is not exactly your typical sports anime protagonist. Not only are the protagonists great, but the antagonists are pretty memorable.
This scuba diving focused sports anime ran in 2016 with 12 episodes and an OVA. It is the sport of scuba diving, but also a slice of life story where each episode feels like its own little adventure. Like every other title on this list, friendship is a major point of the show. The two friends that are focused on, Pikari and Teko, are pretty fun to watch since one is very shy and the other is energetic and eccentric. Teko does not even know how to swim at first, so that's fun.
The two friends that are focused on, Pikari and Teko, are pretty fun to watch since one is very shy and the other is energetic and eccentric. Teko does not even know how to swim at first, so that's fun. The animation is one that makes you wish you were in a seaside town in the summer where you can go scuba diving.
Originally created as a manga series in 1981, Captain Tsubasa has been through a lot. It's manga is ongoing and its anime series from the 80s as over 100 episodes. It got many films and OVAs afterwards and then had more anime series' in the 90s, 2000s, and most recently from 2018 to 2019.
Baseball is the most popular sport in Japan, so of course this list would be a disservice without a fantastic sports anime about baseball. The popularity of baseball in Japan may explain why this show has a ton more episodes than most sports anime. The anime has 126 episodes and five OVAs. That's a lot of baseball!
This anime focuses on the sport of running. Like other shows on this list, it is a very character-driven story . Everyone is running for different reasons and come with their own baggage that they need to work through. They all have their own personal and complex relationship with the sport. While the focus in on a ten-person team, each character is given plenty of time to be memorable and expressive .
They bring you the thrill of sports along with the entertainment value of anime. Today, we are going to focus on one particular sport – volleyball. You would be surprised to know that there are quite a few volleyball anime movies and shows that have been released over the years.
It is just 30 minutes in length, so if you love volleyball and want to catch a quick anime revolving around it then you must check this one out. It is not a masterpiece and you won’t feel so connected to the characters but there’s some nice volleyball action which might entertain you.
The art and animation of this anime are pretty decent and so you don’t have to worry about the quality of the visuals. There are a total of 12 episodes in this anime, with each episode being 23 minutes in length. This is a really interesting anime. Haruka Oozora and Kanata Higa are the protagonists of this anime. Haruka does not have any idea about beach volleyball and wasn’t really interested in it. One day, while walking on the beach, she sees a few girls playing the sport. She joins them and starts having fun. But as soon as a girl by the name of Narumi notices Kanata approaching the court, she quickly turns the game into a match. Our protagonists are defeated badly.
The anime also belongs to the shoujo genre, so you know it is going to have a good number of episodes. ‘Attacker You!’ has a total of 58 episodes with each episode being 23 minutes in length. In this anime, too, the protagonist is a girl who loves playing volleyball. Her name is You Hazuki.
There are a total of 23 episodes in this anime with each episode being 24 minutes in length. For some reason, all these volleyball anime have female protagonists. Here, too, it is kind of similar. This anime revolves around high school girls who love playing volleyball.
This anime is not so popular mainly because it is so old. But I think that the anime has a good premise and if someone really wants to watch an anime revolving around volleyball, then they can give it a try. There are a total of 23 episodes in this anime with each episode being 24 minutes in length. For some reason, all these volleyball anime have female protagonists. Here, too, it is kind of similar. This anime revolves around high school girls who love playing volleyball. They form a team and keep practicing until they become one of the best teams in their school. Now their goal is to win the National High School Volleyball League but this is not going to be easy. It’s gonna require a lot of pain and hardship but it is good to share the stress with your friends. Through the game of volleyball, the girls learn some valuable life lessons.
The protagonist of the anime is Neri Ooishi, who is a high school girl. She is quite talented when it comes to playing volleyball. She was the captain of a volleyball team in her elementary school. That team won the second place in the national tournament.