Anime like H2

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

Touch

Studio: Group TAC , Toho , Asatsu DK
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Sports

The story centers around three characters - Uesugi Kazuya, his twin older brother Tatsuya, and Asakura Minami. Kazuya is the darling of his town as he's talented, hardworking, and the ace pitcher for his middle school baseball team. Tatsuya is a hopeless slacker who's been living the life of giving up the spotlight to Kazuya, despite the fact that he may be more gifted than him. Minami is the beautiful childhood girlfriend and for all intents, sister from next door who treats both of them as equals. Society largely assumes Kazuya and Minami will become the perfect couple, including Tatsuya. Yet as time progresses, Tatsuya grows to realize that he's willing to sacrifice anything for the sake of his brother, except at the expense of giving up Minami to Kazuya. And thus the story is told of Tatsuya trying to prove himself over his established younger brother, how it affects the relationship between the three, and both brothers' attempts to make Minami's lifelong dreams come true.

Tags: Baseball , School , Coming of Age , Twins , Tragedy , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , School Club , Acrobatics , Rural , Boxing , Motorcycles

MIX: MEISEI STORY

Also known as MIX.

Studio: OLM , Yomiuri TV , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Sports

MIX takes place 26 years from the story Touch. From the legend left by the hero of Touch, Tatsuya Uesugi, Meisei Academy High School was well known for their strong baseball team. 26 years from their glory, the team has not been able to keep their record and lost their fame.
MIX is about two stepbrothers, Soichirou and Toma Tachibana. The two aim to revive of the once strong Meisei Academy’s baseball team and enter the National High School Baseball Championship.
Soichirou and Toma were second years in Meisei Academy Middle School. Both boys are talented baseball players. Soichirou has shown excellent skill as a catcher and batter. Though having an extraordinary skill as a pitcher, Toma no longer pitches due to a “certain reason.”
Once the two enter High School, they pair as a battery and aim to enter the National High School Baseball Championship!

The passion and devoted emotions will touch your heart! MIX is a high school baseball drama that all ages and genders can enjoy!



Tags: Baseball , Shounen , School Club , Male Protagonist , Twins , School , Rural , Meta , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Male Cast

Hiatari Ryoukou!

Also known as Sunny Ryoko.

Studio: Group TAC , Toho
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Sports

Kishimoto Kasumi, a 15-year-old girl, was supposed to live at her auntie's house in order to go to high school since April. However, when she moved to the house she was surprised with the fact that there were already four new male students living in the same house. To make the matter worse, that day while she was taking a bath, Takasugi Yusaku, one of those boys, came into the bath and saw her naked. This is how Kasumi's troublesome high school days started.



Tags: Love Triangle , Heterosexual , School , Cohabitation , Baseball , Cheerleading , School Club , Athletics , Shoujo , Primarily Teen Cast , Delinquents

Miyuki

Studio: Kitty Film
Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Masato Wakamatsu lives with his step-sister, Miyuki, with whom he does not have blood relationship. Their father is always working overseas and left the two of them living by themselves in Tokyo. Miyuki is cute, nice, sensitive and very popular among guys around Masato. Masato has a girlfriend at school whose name is Miyuki Kashima, who is pretty and gentle, the ideal dream of every high school boy.



Tags: Love Triangle , School , Episodic , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Heterosexual

Major S1

Studio: Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , Studio Hibari , NHK
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

Honda Shigeharu is a Major League batter on the rise. His son Gorou is a Little League pitcher who one day hopes to follow in his father's footsteps. Hoshino Momoko is Gorou's schoolteacher and the first woman Shigeharu has been interested in since the death of Gorou's mother. The destinies of these three individuals will become intertwined as father and son experience both heartbreak and triumph on the baseball diamond. But when an unspeakable tragedy visits the family, it will take everything they have to pick up the pieces and reclaim their dreams.



Tags: Baseball , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Shounen , Tragedy , Primarily Child Cast , Parenthood , Adoption , Time Skip , School , Primarily Male Cast , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Unrequited Love , Language Barrier , Bullying , Marriage

MIX: MEISEI STORY 2ND SEASON - Nidome no Natsu, Sora no Mukou e

Also known as MIX MEISEI STORY Season2.

Studio: OLM , Yomiuri TV , Shogakukan , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Sports

Following the achievement in the year’s summer tournament, many students apply to join the Meisei High School baseball team. Kenji Nishiki, who had quit the team in a dispute with its manager while in the middle grade years, returns to the team as well, and the team carries on with newly joined members.

The following spring, Otomi Tachibana, Ichiban Natsuno, Arisa Mita, and Ryo Akai enter the high school. Ichiban aspires to be a pitcher. Arisa is the younger sister of Hiroki Mita, and Ryo is the younger brother of Tomohito Akai. Tomohito reveals to Toma how he and Ryo are brothers by remarriage just like Toma and Soichiro are, that their relationship is discordant due to troubles in the past, and that Ryo, who had quit baseball feeling inferior to Tomohito, still loves the sport and has a talent for it. Tomohito asks Toma to persuade Ryo to join the team by using him as the “bad guy”, and Toma obliges. The baseball team begins its new season with new members including Ichiban and Ryo.

The Eastern Tokyo block preliminaries begin for the summer national tournament, and the Meisei High School team advances steadily. Memories of past summers are recalled as the team confronts formidable opponents Kenjo, Seinan, and Eishin, striving to finally win the coveted slot in the national tournament. Along the way, various human relationships and emotions intersect, and a key character in TOUCH also joins the scene.



Tags: Baseball , Shounen , Meta , Amnesia , Tragedy , School , Primarily Teen Cast

Slow Step

Also known as Slow Step.

Studio: Youmex , Pastel , OB Planning , Toho
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life , Sports

Based on the Adachi manga of the same name. The story revolves around a romantic triangle formed by the girl Minatsu Nakazato, a young student and softball player; Shu Akiba, a schoolmate; and Naoto Kadomatsu, an up-and-coming boxer. In reality the three-way relationship is more like three-and-a-half, considering that Naoto is in love with Maria... actually Minatsu herself, who'd once disguised herself to escape some evildoers.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Age Gap , School , Boxing , Shoujo , Baseball