Anime like Kyojin no Hoshi

Ashita no Joe

Also known as Tomorrow's 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 , Delinquents , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Anti-Hero , Class Struggle , Primarily Male Cast , Rehabilitation , Ojou-sama , Orphan , Prison , Yakuza , Homeless , Time Skip , Crime , Police , 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 , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Delinquents , Samurai , Suicide

Nine: Original-ban

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

Cinema adaption of the manga by Mitsuru Adachi.

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

Yakyuukyou no Uta

Studio: Nippon Animation
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 , Shounen , Baseball , School

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 , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Primarily Teen Cast , Rehabilitation

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

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 Goro is a Little League pitcher who one day hopes to follow in his father's footsteps. Hoshino Momoko is Goro's schoolteacher, and the first woman Shigeharu has been interested in since the death of Goro's mother. The destines 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 , Tragedy , Shounen , School , Primarily Child Cast , Time Skip , Primarily Male Cast , Language Barrier , Bullying