Anime like Bamboo Blade

Mou Ippon!

Also known as Ippon! again.

Studio: BAKKEN RECORD , Pony Canyon , TV Tokyo , Akita Shoten , MAGNET , CHOCOLATE , Bit Grooove Promotion , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Sports

After one last tournament and an embarrassing loss in the final round, Michi decides to call it quits on the sport of judo. Between high school social activities and entrance exams, she’ll have no time to compete in the martial art she loves most, but putting aside old hobbies is a normal part of growing up. Still, the love of judo lingers—and it comes back full force when she meets her new classmate Towa, the girl who bested Michi in her final match! Towa wants to form a judo club at their school, but she’ll need new members to get it up and running. United by their love of judo, they’ll throw in their passions into the ring together and score ippon again!



Tags: Martial Arts , Judo , Primarily Female Cast , School Club , Female Protagonist , School , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Iyashikei , Shounen

Taishou Yakyuu Musume.

Also known as Taisho Baseball Girls.

Studio: J.C. Staff , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Sports

In 1925 (year 14 of the Taisho era) baseball is still quite unknown in Japan and there are only a few male teams. After being told by a baseball player that women should become housewives instead of going to school, 14-year-old Akiko invites her friend Koume to start a baseball team in order to prove him wrong. During this time, when even running was considered too vulgar for women, baseball is known as "what the boys do" and they face many difficulties when having to find enough members, to get permission from their parents and also when learning about the sport itself, which they soon discover to be more difficult than expected.

Tags: Historical , Female Protagonist , Baseball , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Primarily Female Cast , Ensemble Cast , Age Gap , School Club , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Ojou-sama , Arranged Marriage

Attack No.1

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

Kozue Ayuhara is a highschool girl and enthusiastic volleyball player. Her dream is to play in the Japanese national volleyball team. During the series she makes it from the school district league up to the Japanese volleyball finals, step by step till the international volleyball championship. But the faster and higher Kozue climbs the career ladder up, the more she gets confronted with the dark side of success: too high expectations, self-conceit and envy are progressing towards serious problems.



Tags: Shoujo , Volleyball , Tragedy , Adoption , Female Protagonist , School Club , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Foreign , School , Heterosexual , Delinquents

Kamen no Maid Guy

Studio: MADHOUSE , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Rondo Robe
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi

Fujiwara Naeka is a typical 17 year-old high school student. Or so we thought. She`s really one of two surviving heirs of a tycoon who has the right to inherit his mass fortune when she turns 18 in half a year. Fubuki, a young and beautiful maid, and Kogarashi, a big burly maid guy with a mask, have been assigned to keep Naeka and her brother Kousuke safe from those who would plot their demise, and to steal the fortune she would inherit.



Tags: Maids , Super Power , School , Nudity , Female Protagonist , School Club , Ninja , Shounen , Swordplay , Drugs , Shrine Maiden , Yuri

Ace wo Nerae!

Also known as Aim for the Ace!.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Anime Room , Tokyo Animation Film , Imagica , King Records , Studio Sign , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

On her first day at Nishi High School, 15-year-old Hiromi Oka is inspired by top player Reika "Ochoufujin" Ryuuzaki to take up tennis. Shortly after joining the school's tennis club, she encounters Jin Munakata, the club's new coach. Munakata puts everyone under rigorous training that even puts Ochoufujin to shame. Despite the hardships, Hiromi's determination prompts the coach to select her as part of the club's main players. Because of this, Hiromi must endure the peer pressure from her seniors to become an ace tennis player.



Tags: Tennis , School Club , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , Bullying , Ojou-sama , Delinquents , Slapstick , Coastal

Battle Athletess Daiundoukai (TV)

Also known as Battle Athletes Victory.

Studio: AIC , Genco , Pioneer LDC , TV Tokyo Music
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Sci-Fi , Sports

Akari Kanzaki has just joined an all-girls academy in hopes of entering the University Satellite, an elite sports training facility. She wants to win the title of Cosmo Beauty - a title held years ago by her mother. It's not an easy task for her as fear, doubt and peer pressure get in her way, but friends, rivals and fans slowly encourage her to overcome her obstacles and become the best of the Battle Athletes.




Tags: School , Aliens , Space , Female Protagonist , Athletics , Tennis , Primarily Female Cast , Fitness , Swimming , Football

Uma Musume: Pretty Derby

Also known as Umamusume: Pretty Derby.

Studio: P.A. Works , Lantis , Cygames , CygamesPictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life , Sports

In a world very much like our own, great race horses of the past have a chance to be reborn as "horse girls"—girls with the ears and tails of horses as well as their speed and endurance. The best of these horse girls go to train at Tokyo's Tracen Academy, hopefully moving on to fame and fortune as both racers and idols.

Special Week, a high school horse girl from the countryside, has just transferred to Tracen, and she's determined to fulfill her promise to her mother to become the best horse girl in Japan. On her way to school, she takes a pit stop at the race track and instantly falls in love with Silence Suzuka's style, becoming determined to race on the same team as her.



Tags: Athletics , Kemonomimi , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Time Skip , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Kuudere , Animals , Ensemble Cast , Idol , School , CGI

Choujikuu Yousai Macross: Ai Oboete Imasu ka

Also known as Macross: Do You Remember Love?.

Studio: Mainichi Broadcasting System , Tatsunoko Production , Artland
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Music , Romance , Sci-Fi

A.D. 2009 - The human race is in the middle of a three-way war with a race of giant humanoid aliens called the Zentraedi (male) and Meltrandi (female). After executing a space fold that sent it and part of South Atalia Island to the edge of the Solar System, the space fortress Macross is on its way back to Earth. During a small skirmish with Zentraedi forces, young pilot Hikaru Ichijo rescues idol singer Lynn Minmay and their relationship develops as they're stranded somewhere within the ship. But shortly after returning to Macross City, Minmay is captured by the Zentraedi, and Hikaru and female officer Misa Hayase end up back on Earth - only to view the aftermath of the destruction of their civilization. Only a song discovered eons ago - along with Minmay's voice - can determine the outcome of the war.



Tags: Space Opera , Space , Aliens , War , Aviation , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Idol , Real Robot , Military , Lost Civilization , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Ships , Language Barrier , Nudity