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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 Sports , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Athletics , Idol , Primarily Teen Cast , CGI , Time Skip , Dancing , Volleyball

Uma Musume: Pretty Derby

Also known as Umamusume: Pretty Derby.

Studio: P.A.WORKS , Lantis , Cygames , CygamesPictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , 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 Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Rehabilitation , Boarding School , Gambling , Ensemble Cast , Time Skip , Kuudere , Idol , School , Animals , Food , Body Image , Rural , CGI , Language Barrier

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

Rinkai!

Studio: TMS Entertainment , Mixi , Bandai Namco Music Live , U-NEXT , Shouchiku , TOKYO MX , BS Fuji
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

The story centers on the sport of women's cycling, which debuted in Japan shortly after World War II. However, organized competitions folded after just 15 years and laid dormant for several decades. Then the Rinkai! League launched to revive the sport.



Tags: Cycling , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , CGI