Anime like Kyojin no Hoshi

Ashita no Joe

Studio: Mushi Production , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Slice of Life , Sports

Joe, a teenage orphan in the slums of the Doya streets, meets Danpei, a homeless, alcoholic ex-boxing coach. Danpei, seeing Joe's boxing talent, decides to train him. When Joe is sent to a terrible juvenile home for petty crimes, he meets Rikiishi who becomes his boxing rival. Danpei arrives at the home to help Joe to train in order to defeat Rikiishi. When Joe decides to seriously pursue boxing, Danpei cannot get a coaching license because of his reputation as a drunk.



Tags: Boxing , Anti-Hero , Coming of Age , Delinquents , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Class Struggle , Primarily Male Cast , Rehabilitation , Ojou-sama , Orphan , Prison , Yakuza , Homeless , Police , Crime , Time Skip , Educational , Gangs , Bullying , Primarily Teen Cast , Achromatic

Samurai Giants

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Studio Junio , Doga Kobo , YTV , TMS Entertainment , Asahi Production , MADHOUSE , Tokyo Animation Film , Tokyo Movie
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Ban Banjou is an insolent wild boy who was raised on the rough sea in Tosa, southern Japan. He joined the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants in Japanese pro baseball league such a baseball pitcher noted for the blazing fastball and the worst control. He fights hard battles against his rival batters, developing his incredible pitching magics.

Tags: Shounen , Baseball , Male Protagonist , Delinquents , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Samurai , Suicide

Yakyuukyou no Uta

Studio: Nippon Animation , Studio Jack
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Against her insistence, Yūki is drafted by the Tokyo Mets as the first woman player in the baseball league.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Baseball

Otoko Doahou! Koushien

Studio: Nippon Television Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

The story of a dim country boy who dreams of making it to the high school baseball championships in Koshien.



Tags: Shounen , Baseball , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , School

Apache Yakyuugun

Also known as Apache Baseball Team.

Studio: Toei Animation , TV Asahi
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

Mr. Dojima refuses to join a professional baseball team, and becomes a high-school baseball coach in a small village. Through baseball games, he teaches his students the greatness of cooperation.

Tags: Delinquents , Baseball , Shounen , School

Nine: Original-ban

Studio: Group TAC , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Sports

Cinema adaption of the manga by Mitsuru Adachi.

Tags: School , School Club , Love Triangle , Athletics , Baseball , Shounen , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast

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 , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Shounen , Heterosexual , School Club , Rural , Acrobatics , Boxing

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 , School , Love Triangle , Primarily Teen Cast , Time Skip , Shounen , Iyashikei

Shin Kyojin no Hoshi II

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Yomiuri TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

A continuation of the popular baseball saga about the star pitcher of a professional baseball team.



Tags: Baseball , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast

Diamond no Ace

Also known as Ace of the Diamond.

Studio: Production I.G , MADHOUSE
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

With a stray pitch that completely missed the batter, Eijun Sawamura loses his final middle school baseball game. Frustrated by this defeat, Eijun and his teammates vow to reach the national tournament once they are in high school. But everything changes when a scout unexpectedly invites him to Tokyo's prestigious Seidou High School after seeing the potential in his unusual pitching style. Encouraged by his teammates, Eijun accepts the offer, ready to improve his skills and play at a much more competitive level of baseball.

However, now surrounded by a large number of skilled players, Eijun struggles to find his place on the team. He declares that he will one day become the team's ace, but that's only if fellow first year Satoru Furuya doesn't take the title first, with his breakneck fastballs that earn him a coveted spot on the starting roster. With the addition of these talented new players to an already powerful lineup, the Seidou baseball team aims to become the best in Japan, facing off against a number of formidable foes that stand in their way.



Tags: Baseball , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , School Club , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Rehabilitation , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things