There has never been a true absence of girls' sports anime, however, as one of the most formative anime series ever made was, in fact, a college girls' volleyball series. Attack No. 1 started as a manga series in 1968 and as an anime in 1969, running 104 episodes, and to this day it's remembered in Japan as a classic.
Fans who are tired of seeing such sexist tropes and would rather prefer seeing sports anime where women dominate on-screen can have a look at 10 sports anime with an all-female cast. Described as the world’s most intense water sport, Jet Racing is all the rage in Tokyo’s Asakusa Girls' High School.
So here’s a list of the most awaited anime shows that will premiere in the year 2020. 20. Uzumaki (TBA) Junji Ito, the famed horror mangaka, is best known for his work in ‘Uzumaki’.
Women's sports anime are slim pickings, but that doesn't mean that there isn't quality out there, and it certainly doesn't mean there isn't heart. All the things that make sports anime shine, from hard work to determination, are just as well bundled together on the girls' side.
8 Good-bye, Cramer: A Sports Anime Where Girls Play Soccer After an excited Suou agrees, Midori promises she'll never let her be alone again. This anime is set to air in the month of April, and its prequel Sayonara Watashi no Cramer Movie: First Touch is a standalone series that features Suou's life in junior high.
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Kuroko no Basket and Haikyuu give a similar feeling of intensity during games, as sports anime, and have both comedy and drama. They also have a similar focus on friendship and competition between team members.
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Animal Olympic Games, a 1928 animated short film directed by Yasuji Murata, is regarded by critics as the first sports anime.
One of the more popular sports anime alongside Haikyuu!!, Kuroko no Basuke is a longer series with 75 episodes so you can binge to your heart's content.
Like Haikyuu!!, Kuroko no Basket is one of the most popular sports anime of the modern era. If fans of Haikyuu!! love the fighting and team spirit the show enacts, look no further than the basketball team of Seirin.
While not a traditional sports anime, the central hero Baki Hanma, is a martial arts master on a mission to defeat his father, Yujiro Hanma, the deadliest fighter in the world.
Across the board haikyuu is better. Plot: knb's plot is filled with asspull after asspull after asspull. It was decent up till the 2nd match with Touou, then it went downhill. In Haikyuu they always win the hard matches through sheer grit, and its always due to a couple of players having a strategic advantage.
Definitely Haikyuu. Personally, I love both of them equally. Both BNHA and Haikyuu have great storylines that keep the viewers/ readers engaged, but in terms of interpersonal relations between the characters and the way they're developed in the story, I personally think Haikyuu is better.
Safe to say, Haikyuu will not be ending with Season 5. The Haikyu manga officially concluded in chapter 402 and with Haikyuu Season 4 only starting with Chapter 207 and stretching up to Chapter 292, there is plenty of content left to adapt – probably for a Haikyuu Season 6 too.
The second season of Baki. Weakened by the poison from his last battle, Baki Hanma finds himself on the verge of death with no salvation in sight.
"One day, we're going to make the strongest battery ever!" Based on the promise to reunite with Hikaru again, Daigo has moved on to Fuurin Academy Middle School. Daigo is the captain for the baseball club, but with all the older students gone, the team is all girls, including Mutsuko.
Hina is an indoor-oriented girl who likes crafts and moves to a seaside town to continue with her high school education. She meets upperclassman Kuroiwa as she walks along an embankment and joins the mysterious "Embankment Club." Hina dislikes sea creatures, but she fishes with her fellow club members and eats their catches.
Joutarou Aragaki, former member of the national team, had given his whole life for gymnastics and was fighting against his age and physical strength. However, one day he is told by his coach to start thinking of his next career. Joutarou struggles, but his daughter, Rei, is always there by his side.
Demetrios was a young man in Ancient Greece who was a potter's apprentice, but also a rather timid otaku. Despite pursuing the arts, he was blessed with natural athletic talent. One day, he gets dragged into a village conflict.
The anime's college rugby story centers on Natsusa Yuzuki, who expects to be an ace on the rugby team when he enrolls in college. However, he is no longer able to play rugby due to certain circumstances. Ibuki Ueoka is an older fellow student who quit rugby. Yasunari Tsuru is a younger student who finds Natsusa disagreeable.
A stop-motion anime that will bundle with the 42nd compiled book volume of Haruichi Furudate's Haikyu!! manga. Anime will have 10 short episodes featuring the Karasuno team as puppets. (Source: Anime News Network)
His classmate, Iwashimizu, who can’t get into rugby because of something happening in the past, the vice-captain, Hachioji, who looks out for all of the members, and their captain, Sekizan, who is more passionate and intense than anyone….
In elementary school, Nanase Haruka, Tachibana Makoto, Matsuoka Rin, and Hazuki Nagisa attended the same swimming class together. Time passed, and as Haruka was living an uneventful high school life, he suddenly encountered Rin again. Rin challenged Haruka to a race and showed him how much stronger he had become.
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.
The Prince of Tennis (tennis) Summary: Twelve-year-old tennis prodigy Ryoma Echizen takes down Sasabe, the bully, easily with his advanced tennis game. ( Hulu) This one has a nostalgia factor of a million because it came out in 2001 and is the oldest anime on this list by a lot.
Summary: With no skills or outstanding features, one boy hides a passionate heart, Tsukushi Tsukamoto. The other is a lonely soccer genius, Jin Kazama. The winds of change begin to blow in the world of high school soccer as these two boys with nothing in common come together.
Higa Kanata, her cousin of the same age who meets her at the airport, also has one hang-up: she had to quit her beloved beach volleyball in the past because she was too short. Through some twist of fate, these mismatched cousins find themselves paired up as a beach volleyball team.
Yawara is a Urasawa Naoki creation – the same author who penned Monster and 20th Century Boys, and gave insight into manga creation through Manben. Although Yaware, which is one of his early works, is definitely not as dark as the aforementioned titles, it still carries a lot of Urasawa's care in fleshing out how human his characters are. Yawara herself is extremely talented at judo, but wants nothing more than to live a normal life. The show addresses the point of talent and whether that deserves to be exercised or not, regardless of whether the person in question has any interest in the sport. A comedy similar to Bamboo Blade, Yawara still shows a lot of detail about martial arts, as well as the grind of practice. The anime also was timed to the Barcelona Olympics, which, interestingly enough, was where women’s judo was officially added to the program.
While real-life sports keeps the divide between the sexes, Princess Nine takes on that challenge. In the world of Princess Nine just as in our own, baseball is still considered a men's sport, ...
A comedy similar to Bamboo Blade, Yawara still shows a lot of detail about martial arts, as well as the grind of practice. The anime also was timed to the Barcelona Olympics, which, interestingly enough, was where women’s judo was officially added to the program.
The newest animated series from Devilman Crybaby director Masaaki Yuasa, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! is a lighthearted, goofy comedy adapted from Sumito Ōwara’s manga series of the same name. Centered around the art of producing anime itself, a trio of three high school girls form a club to, well, make an anime. The catch is that socialite Tsubame Mizusaki’s parents have forbidden her from joining any kind of anime club, given that she’s on the path to becoming an actress. In turn, the group creates Eizouken -- a live-action film club that’s a front for their true ambition.
The highly anticipated new film from Your Name. director Makoto Shinkai, Weathering With You brings the same kind of whimsical energy as its predecessor. After a stellar Japanese box office run in 2019, the film finally debuted stateside on January 15. The film follows Hodaka, a teenage runaway who moves to a perpetually rainy Tokyo, and Hina, a "sunshine girl" who has the unusual power to stop the rain. The two team up to start a business marketing Hina’s ability to bring the sun back, which results in a ripple of unforeseen consequences that signals commentary on climate change.
Coming later this year, in theaters. The latest feature film from Studio 4C and director Ayumu Watable, Children of the Sea is a lush dive into the fauna of the ocean itself. Adapted from Daisuke Igarashi’s manga of the same name, the film follows Ruka, a young girl whose father works at an aquarium.
Another project from director Masaaki Yuasa (but not the last one on this list), Ride Your Wave is a feature film that premiered in June 2019 in Japan and is finally getting a stateside release. The film follows Hinako, a college student and surfer; when her apartment catches on fire, firefighter Minato saves her.
Set at a fictional, cutthroat culinary academy in Japan, the series tracks a generation of young chefs competing with each other in cooking showdowns known as shokugeki.
In short, anime is cool now in addition to being more accessible than ever outside of Japan, especially with streaming services taking it seriously. 2019 was a killer year for anime, but the content flow never stops: from blockbuster movie ...
While the animation style starkly contrasts the early adaptations of author Masamune Shirow’s seminal manga, there’s some fidelity to prior works: the main voice cast of the 2002 Stand Alone Complex will return, including Atsuko Tanaka as Motoko Kusanagi, Akio Otsuka as Bato, and Koichi Yamadera as Togusa.
A few years later, legendary director Osamu Dezaki, hot off the success of his boxing anime Ashita no Joe, tackled the high school girls' tennis world in Aim for the Ace!
― The official website for The Rising of the Shield Hero 2, the second season of The Rising of the Shield Hero television anime series, announced on Thursday that the anime's premiere date is delayed to April 2022. The anime was initially slated to premiere in October 2021, with Crunchyroll also slated to stream the anime alongside the Japanese ai...
Yawara! (Judo) Not on the list is Mitsuru Adachi 's famous series Touch which features two protagonists, one is male and into baseball, the other is female and into rhythmic gymnastics. Similarly, Adachi's H2 is about a couple that are both great at baseball, as his most recent series Cross Game.
There has never been a true absence of girls' sports anime, however, as one of the most formative anime series ever made was, in fact, a college girls' volleyball series. Attack No. 1 started as a manga series in 1968 and as an anime in 1969, running 104 episodes, and to this day it's remembered in Japan as a classic.
Shirobako: Movie (February 29, 2020) In a world full of heavily fantastical Isekai anime shows, ‘ Shirobako ‘ outshines all the others with its sense of realism. It revolves around the lives of five young women who aspire to make a name for themselves in the anime industry.
Centering Hachiman Hikigaya, a social outcast who keeps to himself all the time, the anime portrays how he develops bitterness towards the toxic social construct of his school, where he finds himself on the adverse side of the popularity spectrum. But he soon becomes a part of a social club and is forced to step out of his comfort zone to make new friends. While the anime explores the adventures of the club as a group, it also reflects on Hachiman’s transformation as he begins to value the people around him more than ever.
In the year 2020 , the series will be celebrating its 20th anniversary by releasing a whole new installment.
15. 5-toubun no Hanayome 2nd Season (January 2020) Harem Ecchi anime shows never hold themselves back when it comes to presenting content that involves absolute banality and that’s probably the reason why so many people enjoy watching them in the first place.
7. Violet Evergarden: Movie (April 24, 2020) Violet, the titular protagonist of the series, struggles to find the true meaning of love.
More often than not, in a typical Shoujo anime, two teenage characters end up falling in love despite the odds being against them and they eventually fly off into the sunset to live happily ever after; however, ‘ Kaguya Sama, ‘ begs to differ. Instead of approaching the romance genre with a cheesy storyline, it brings in two tsundere characters who know they are in love with one another but are just too egoistic to confess their feelings. This marks the inception of a war where the one who confesses first, will lose. This is no tragic story of a doomed relationship, it is, instead, a hilarious take at the heavily sought-after high school romance sub-genre.
So here’s a list of the most awaited anime shows that will premiere in the year 2020.