Anime like Hachigatsu no Cinderella Nine

Tamayomi

Also known as TAMAYOMI: The Baseball Girls.

Studio: studio A-CAT
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Sports

In her Junior High years, the pitcher Yomi Takeda was not able to get very far in a cross-school baseball tournament. Since the catcher on her team wasn't at her level, she couldn't use her signature move, the "Magic Throw," and eventually regretted not being able to use it. After Junior High, she decided to stop playing baseball and went to Shin Koshigaya High School, a school without a baseball club.

There, she found her long lost childhood friend, Tamaki Yamazaki, who used to play catch ball​ with her when they were kids. Tamaki also played baseball during her Junior High years as a catcher, and could even catch Yomi's "Magic Throw!"

Their promise with each other during their childhood could now be fulfilled! Walking together on the road of baseball once again...

The first episode pre-aired on March 8.

Tags: Baseball , School Club , Primarily Female Cast , School , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Outdoor , CGI , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Twins

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 , School Club , Age Gap , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Ojou-sama , Arranged Marriage

Princess Nine: Kisaragi Joshikou Yakyuu-bu

Also known as Princess Nine.

Studio: The Right Stuf International , Phoenix Entertainment , NHK Enterprises , d-rights
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Sports

Keiko Himuro, Chairman of the Kisuragi School, puts together an all-girl baseball team led by Ryo Hayakawa, daughter of a legendary pitcher, in hopes of proving that girls can compete just as well as boys. Their goal: Koshien Stadium, where only the best teams get the opportunity to play.



Tags: Baseball , Primarily Female Cast , School Club , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Love Triangle , Ojou-sama , Bullying

Cross Game

Also known as Cross Game.

Studio: SynergySP
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sports

The main character is Kou Kitamura, son of the owner of Kitamura Sports. In the same neighborhood is a batting center run by the Tsukishima family. Due to their proximity and the relationship between their businesses, the Kitamura and Tsukishima familes have been close for many years, with their children going back and forth between the two homes like extended family. Because Kou and Wakaba were the same age and always together, Aoba was jealous of all the time Kou spent with her older sister. Aoba is a natural pitcher with excellent form, and Kou secretly trains to become as good as she was, even while publicly showing little interest in baseball.

Tags: School Club , Baseball , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Tomboy , Tsundere , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , School , Love Triangle , Primarily Teen Cast , Time Skip , Shounen , Iyashikei

Moshidora

Studio: Production I.G , NHK , NHK Enterprises
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

Minami joins her High School baseball team as a team manager after finding out that her best friend Yuuki is in the hospital and can't be a team manager any more. In order to try to fill in for Yuuki and to help out the team the best she can, she goes out to find a book on how to manage a baseball team.

Unfortunately, she accidentally buys Peter Drucker's book called "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices" which is actually about how to properly manage a business. Because she couldn't return the book, she decides to read it anyway and to try to apply the business management concepts to the baseball team so that way they can go on and win the Nationals.

Tags: School Club , Baseball , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Economics

Little Busters!

Also known as Little Busters!.

Studio: J.C. Staff , Key , Sentai Filmworks , Warner Bros. Japan , Visual Arts
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life , Supernatural

When tragedy struck Riki Naoe as a child, he was rescued from grief over his parent's deaths when four other kids "recruited" him for their group—the "Little Busters." Now in high school, Riki and the other Busters are still fast friends, and though their vision of being heroes for justice may have faded, they'd still do anything for each other. Which is why Riki is now on TWO special missions. The not so secret one: recruiting new members so the Busters can form a baseball team. Preferably FEMALE recruits, as the current dude/babe ratio is an inconvenient 4 to 1. The OTHER mission, though... That's the strange one. Because Riki and Rin, the group's singular girl, are receiving odd messages, delivered by cats, concerning the existence of a "secret world" and assigning them tasks they have to complete. Were their youthful dreams of being crusaders not so fanciful after all? Or is there something even more vital at stake? Between steeling his courage to talk to girls, dealing with his own narcolepsy and facing his feelings concerning Rin, Riki may just need the strength of a superhero to solve the ultimate mystery of the Little Busters!



Tags: School , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Slapstick , Found Family , Urban Fantasy , Baseball , School Club , Orphan , Memory Manipulation , Twins , Crossdressing , Kuudere , Foreign , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things

Boukyaku Battery (TV)

Also known as Oblivion Battery.

Studio: MAPPA , KADOKAWA
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

Iron-armed pitcher, Haruka Kiyomine, and the shrewd catcher, Kei Kaname, AKA the "Skilled General," were considered to be an unrivaled, monstrous battery duo in the middle-school baseball world. They were both scouted by various powerhouse high schools across the nation, but somehow, they both ended up at Tokyo Municipal Kotesashi High School, which wasn't known for baseball at all. On top of that, other star players who had lost to that duo in the past and completely strayed from baseball coincidentally also enrolled at that school, and…

Their meeting sets everything into motion once again.

Their high school baseball story begins now!



Tags: Baseball , Amnesia , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Male Cast , School Club , Shounen , School

Major 2nd

Also known as MAJOR 2nd.

Studio: NHK Enterprises , OLM
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

Shigeno Daigo is an elementary student whose father, Goro, is a professional baseball player. Inspired by his father, who was once a Major League player, Daigo started playing baseball with the Mifune Dolphins, a youth team. However, he was unable to live up to the expectations of being the son of a professional, and quit baseball after less than a year. Then, in the spring of his sixth-grade year, Daigo's school welcomes a transfer student, Sato Hikaru, whose father is Sato Toshiya, a former Major League player and Goro's close friend. The fate of these two young men begins to move forward!



Tags: Baseball , Shounen , Primarily Child Cast , School

Puraore!: PRIDE OF ORANGE

Also known as PuraOre! ~Pride of Orange~.

Studio: CAAnimation , C2C , DMM Games
Status: Finished
Genres: Music , Slice of Life , Sports

Manaka’s competitive spirit ignites when she discovers ice hockey! Even though she’s a rookie, she’s got her sights set on Nikko City’s hockey team, where girls aim for the top as they compete in this full-contact sport. After finally convincing her childhood friends and her sister to play, they join a team of girls ready to go for the goal!



Tags: Ice Skating , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Athletics , Idol , Primarily Teen Cast , CGI , Time Skip , Dancing , Volleyball

Sayonara Watashi no Cramer

Also known as Farewell, My Dear Cramer.

Studio: LIDENFILMS , Toy's Factory , DMM pictures , Kodansha
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

With no soccer accomplishments to speak of during the entirety of Sumire Suo’s junior high school years, the young wing gets an odd offer. Suo’s main rival, Midori Soshizaki, invites her to join up on the same team in high school, with a promise that she’ll never let Suo “play alone.” It’s an earnest offer, but the question is whether Suo will take her up on it. Thus the curtain opens on a story that collects an enormous cast of individual soccer-playing personalities!



Tags: Football , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , School Club , Ensemble Cast , Ojou-sama