Top 10 Sports Anime Of All Time
The winter Olympics is not just a sports event held every 4 years where counties send their best athletes to compete in games and bring honour to them. it is a sign that the strong grips of our national pandemic which have been on our tails and on our mids for almost 3 years now finally leaving us.
So, in honour of the Winter Olympics and all that it symbolizes starting not too long ago. here are the top 10 best sports anime for you to watch and feel like your moving around despite you lying comfortably on your couch, binge-watching others pull squats and lift weights. let us go!
10/ 10 Free!
. Kyoto Animation Do
. ( Original Run ) 2013
Haruka Nanase is a young high school student who is an extremely gifted swimmer. after meeting his childhood rival outmatch him in swimming and having an amazing swimming team, Haruka reignites his high school swimming team to fight his high school friend in the swimming ring.
the majority of people love sports anime due to the sheer amount of young men and abs. in this anime, I assure you that you will certainly see a host of this particular fetish.
9/ 10 Long Riders
. Actas
. 2016-2017
You wouldn't expect a slice of life sports anime to make it on this list, but here it is. Long Riders follows our main character Ami Kurata who discovers the world of competitive riding after seeing what she views as the cutest bike ever on the way back home from school.
she meets a few other girls who share the same passion as her and together they form the competitive biking team " Fortuna". Watch as these five friends bike their way through life in this sweet slice of life sports anime.
8/ 10 Backflip!!
. Zexcs
. ( Original Run ) 2021
Shotourou Futaba has always loved sports, he tried all sorts from baseball to soccer. no sport he tried really stuck to him and made him passionate. after seeing a rhythmic gymnastics competition for himself, he falls in love with the sport.
Shotourou decides to join Shoushukan high school and apply to become one of the rhythmic gymnasts. there he faces challenges and enemies as his love for the sport increases and his passion for his teammate rises.
7/ 10 Baby Steps
. Pierrot
. ( Original Run ) 2014-2015
Honour student Eiichirou Maruo takes up tennis because he is worried about his health. while at a tennis club, he meets his crush Natsu Takasaki who wants to become a professional tennis player. He decides to become one too because he begins to enjoy the sport as it is.
Baby Steps holds a special place in my heart because it's one of the better tennis anime out there. I watched this anime during a time when I was interested in joining and this anime really piqued my interest.
6/ 10 Yuri!! On Ice
. MAPPA
. ( Original Run ) 2016
Yuuri Katsuki is a former ice skater who has quit the trade due to insecurity problems. one day, he films himself doing an impression of Victor Nikiforov's ( a famous Russian ice skater ) famous skating routine. the video goes viral and before Yuuri knew it, Victor has come to live with him and convince him to skate again by being his personal couch.
we all watch as victor and Yuuri's relationship blossoms to that more of just couch and athlete. we also witness Yuuri growing out of his bubble of self-pity and into a new life as he sees himself grow as a person.
5/ 10 Baki
. Knack Productions
. 1991-present
Baki Hanma is a boy who desires to be like his father who is the strongest man alive. he was born into the world of fighting and boxing. he is considerably weak compared to those around him and too caring. that is until his father takes something special away from him and soon Baki is truly focused on becoming the strongest man on earth and facing his father.
4/ 10 Angelic Layer
. Bones
. ( Original Run ) 2001
Misaki Suzuhara is a country girl who moved to Tokyo to live with her aunt. on the way there, she sees a large tournament on tv. the weird thing about the tournament though is that it wasn't humans that were fighting, instead, it was human-like robots battling it out in an arena.
Misaki falls in love with the sport and buys an angelic layer egg instantly. see fights her way to the top with her angelic layer named Haru.
3/ 10 Sk8 Infiniti
. Bones
. 2021
Langa Hasegawa has just immigrated to Japan after his late father passed away. he used to adore snowboarding, but after his father passes away, his zeal to be on the snow decreased as well as his passion to get involved in any other sport.
one day at school, he meets a troublesome skateboarder kid named Rekki Kyan. Langa falls in love with skateboarding as it becomes a passion that fills the void that his fathers' death had created in his heart. the two meet a host of other skateboarders and enjoy their skateboarding life together. winning and losing competitions and beating enemies on the way.
2/ 10 Welcome To The Ballroom
. Productions I.G
. 2017
Tatara Fujita is a lost middle schooler who has no idea what to do in life, on his way home from school one day he sees his classmate Shizuku Hanaoka enter a building. He follows suit due to curiosity and is thrust into the spiralling dazzling and expensive world of ballroom dancing.
1/ 10 Haikyuu
. Productions I.G
. ( Original Run ) 2014-2020
Hinata Shoyo has always been ashamed of his height. that is until he catches a glimpse at the "tiny giant" during a volleyball match that was streamed on tv. he falls in love with volleyball there and then. he swears to go to the high school his role model the tiny giant went to.
after enrolling into Karasuno high school, he sees his once enemy Kageyama on the very same team as him. the once enemies band together to create a formidable team, a force to be reckoned with.
Conclusion
Sports anime are a popular genre of anime that never fails to entertain. although the general plot of anime is like most shounen and mecha anime in the sense that it is just copied and pasted material per anime, the anime on this list are not just unique and entertaining, they also leave an impact on people and can influence the sport in real life. there is the 10 best sports anime ever.
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