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Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume

Also known as Scorching Ping Pong Girls.

Studio: Kinema Citrus
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Ever since their champion was defeated, the world of girls' junior high ping pong has been in turmoil. Koyori is the new smirking transfer student at her junior high and she's ready to shake up girls' ping pong.



Tags: Table Tennis , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , School Club , School , Tsundere , Yuri , Sweat , Tomboy , Kuudere , Chuunibyou , Shounen

Inazuma Eleven

Studio: TV Tokyo , OLM , Dentsu , Half H.P Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports , Supernatural

The main character, Endou Mamoru, is a very talented goalkeeper and the grandson of one of the strongest goalkeepers in Japan, who died before he was born. Even though his skills are incredible his school lacks a real soccer club as the 6 other members don't appear very interested even in training. But as soon as a mysterious forward called Gouenji moves to Endou's town, the young goalkeeper sets out to find and recruit members for his soccer team.



Tags: Football , Super Power , Kids , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , School Club , Primarily Child Cast , Ensemble Cast , Found Family , Primarily Male Cast , Aliens , School , Adoption , Criminal Organization , Travel , Dissociative Identities , Drugs , Tragedy , Crime , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Terrorism , Tomboy , Time Skip , Tanned Skin , Snowscape , Revenge , Ojou-sama , Fugitive

Puniru wa Kawaii Slime

Also known as Puniru is a Kawaii Slime.

Studio: TOHO animation STUDIO , Tohokushinsha Film Corporation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance , Slice of Life

Seven years ago, Kotarou made a slime that unexpectedly came to life. He named her Puniru, and they’ve been best friends ever since. The two have grown up a lot over the years, and Puniru is now a beautiful, carefree girl who can shapeshift into other cute forms. But with her spontaneous spirit and wild antics, Kotarou can never catch a break!



Tags: Monster Girl , Henshin , Shapeshifting , Female Protagonist , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Surreal Comedy , Cosplay , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Male Protagonist , Agender , Kids , Urban Fantasy , Ojou-sama , Robots , Maids , Chibi

Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!!

Studio: Production I.G , Xebec , TV Tokyo , Yomiko Advertising , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Sports

Based on the manga by Tetsuhiro Koshita, Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!! has 2 main seasons evolving around the Go brothers and the TRF Victorys. The 3rd season, Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!! MAX evolves more around 2 new main characters, but the primary idea is the same...Racing!

Let's & Go!! focused on Retsu and Go Seiba, two young brothers who recieve racing cars called "Mini 4WD" by Dr. Tsuchia. From there on, the series portraits those two boys, training and costumizing parts to later on participate on Japans Cup, where all of Japans racers enter to be the best of the best!

Tags: Cars , Shounen , Male Protagonist

Shoot! Goal to the Future

Also known as Shoot! Goal to the Future.

Studio: EMT Squared , Crunchyroll , Being , Yomiuri TV Enterprise , NTT Plala , Horipro International , MAGNET , Amusement Media Academy , AT-X , Production Ace , BS Fuji , BS Nippon , Magic Bus
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Atsushi Kamiya, a former captain at Kakegawa High School and the world-renowned "courageous captain" for a famous Italian soccer team… And Hideto Tsuji, a student at Kakegawa High School, who seems uninterested in the now-weakened soccer team…

Their meeting is the start of a new legend...



Tags: Football , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Boys' Love , LGBTQ+ Themes , 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

Softenni

Studio: Xebec , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Lantis , AT-X , KLOCKWORX , Studio Mausu
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Sports

The tennis comedy centers around the members of a female middle school soft tennis team and the twists and turns that their lives take as they aim for the nationals.

Tags: Nudity , Parody , Surreal Comedy , Tennis , Slapstick , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , School , Kuudere , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Crossdressing , Tragedy

Ro-Kyu-Bu!

Also known as Ro-Kyu-Bu ~ Fast Break!.

Studio: Magic Capsule , project No.9 , ASCII Media Works , KLOCKWORX , Warner Home Video & Digital Distribution
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Sports

Talk about games being called unexpectedly! Hasegawa Subaru joined the basketball club at Nanashiba High, only to have his hopes dashed when the teams' play is suspended after the captain is suspected of having inappropriate feelings for the coach's underage daughter. Blindsided and blocked by bad luck, Subaru expectedly finds an opening for his talent with the hoops when his aunt asks him to take on the task of coaching a young girls' basketball club - a Ro-Kyu-Bu!. But can a superstar wannabe find true satisfaction while playing sixth man to a team of five girls?



Tags: Basketball , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Child Cast , School Club , Primarily Female Cast , School , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Age Gap , Tsundere

Turkey!

Also known as Turkey! Time to Strike.

Studio: BAKKEN RECORD , Pony Canyon , Tatsunoko Production , BS Nittele , Nippon Television Network , TV Shinshu Enterprise
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Sports , Supernatural

"Turkey" is a bowling term for scoring three consecutive strikes.

Mai, a second-year student and captain of the Ikkokukan High School Bowling Club, is a genius who can't seem to win a match. Whenever she scores a Turkey, she mysteriously follows it up with an unyielding split—the Snake Eyes.

One day, Rina, the club’s only first-year member, confronts her "You’re doing it on purpose, aren’t you?"

"You’re running away from winning. But I want to win. If you have no intention of winning, I’ll quit."



Tags: Female Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Historical , Primarily Female Cast , Bowling , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , School Club , Crossdressing , Swordplay , Samurai , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Arranged Marriage , Gore , Adoption , Suicide , Twins , Time Skip