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Shippuu! Iron Leaguer

Studio: Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Mecha , Sci-Fi , Sports

In the future, mankind has developed a multi-sport tournament known as Iron League, using artificially intelligent robots as the players instead of humans. The competition is very popular. However, its main support comes from the Dark Organization, a group that produces cheating Iron Leaguers that use dirty and violent tactics in games as a sure ticket for fame and popularity. While the sports community has been turned into a dangerous and (figuratively) bloody contest, Silver Castle, the team with the lowest winning ratio, tries to preserve true sportsmanship by playing sports by their original rules without any cheating or violence. The team's fate as well as the fate of the Iron League itself is changed when two Iron Leaguers - Mach Windy, Dark Prince FC's former ace striker and Magnum Ace, a mysterious but skillful baseball-playing Leaguer - join Silver Castle, and gradually lead the team back to its forgotten glory. It's not all fun and games, however; as the story goes on, it is revealed that the Iron League is actually a front for something far more sinister...



Tags: Football , Baseball , Robots , American Football , Memory Manipulation , Ensemble Cast , Basketball , Ice Skating , Artificial Intelligence , Super Robot

Hungry Heart: Wild Striker

Studio: Nippon Animation , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Sports

Kyosuke Kano has lived under the shadow of his successful brother Seisuke all his life who is a professional soccer player. Tired of being compared and downgraded at, he abandoned playing soccer until a boy from his new highschool discovered him and asked him to join their team. Kyosuke joins it and befriends two other first year players named Rodrigo and Sakai with the dream of becomming professional soccer players themselves.



Tags: Football , Shounen , School Club , Primarily Male Cast

DAYS

Also known as DAYS.

Studio: MAPPA , Pony Canyon
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

The anime centers on two boys who were never meant to meet: Tsukushi Tsukamoto, who has no special skills but secretly hides a passionate heart, and Jin Kazama, an isolated soccer genius. On a stormy night, the two meet, and that meeting creates a whirlwind in the world of high school soccer.



Tags: Football , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , School , Coming of Age , Bullying