Anime like Major: Yuujou no Ikkyuu

Major 2nd Season 2

Also known as MAJOR SECOND Season 2.

Studio: NHK Enterprises , OLM
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

"One day, we're going to make the strongest battery ever!" Based on the promise to reunite with Hikaru again, Daigo has moved on to Fuurin Academy Middle School. Daigo is the captain for the baseball club, but with all the older students gone, the team is all girls, including Mutsuko. With a group of peculiar newcomers, the new Fuurin Academy baseball club is off to a new start!

How strong are these baseball girls?! It's the beginning of the "middle school chapter" of the endlessly passionate baseball tale!



Tags: Baseball , School Club , Primarily Female Cast , Shounen , Coming of Age , School

Major S4

Studio: NHK , SynergySP
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

Having finished high school, Gorou Honda sets his sights on becoming a professional baseball player. His dreams are much more ambitious than becoming a Japanese Baseball League player, so he instead decides to move to the birthplace of his beloved sport, America, in order to play in the Major League.

However, Gorou finds that the Major League players are much faster, stronger, and more driven than he is. Nonetheless, he is eager to catch up with them. In order to do so, Gorou must first conquer the ranks of the Minor League, where numerous skilled players compete in the grueling rise to the Majors.

Gorou learns that he will have to adapt to the stark differences of American culture and push himself to new extremes as his race to join the Major League begins.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Tags: Baseball , Shounen , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Foreign , Revenge , Language Barrier , Adoption

Major S6

Studio: NHK , SynergySP
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

The sixth season begins after the "Baseball World Cup" has ended. Goro regained his passion for baseball in Japan thanks to his friends, and left to join the Hornets baseball team in preperation to the new season. When he arrives in America he starts to celebrate his role as a Major League pitcher at last! Goro's family and friends gathers in groups in Japan to watch Goro's debut in the Major League. However, Goro's debut is the beginning of a line of surprising happenings, that has an outcome no one expected...

Tags: Baseball , Primarily Adult Cast , Rehabilitation , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Foreign , Heterosexual , Adoption

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

Boukyaku Battery (TV)

Also known as Oblivion Battery.

Studio: MAPPA , KADOKAWA
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

Iron-armed pitcher, Haruka Kiyomine, and the shrewd catcher, Kei Kaname, AKA the "Skilled General," were considered to be an unrivaled, monstrous battery duo in the middle-school baseball world. They were both scouted by various powerhouse high schools across the nation, but somehow, they both ended up at Tokyo Municipal Kotesashi High School, which wasn't known for baseball at all. On top of that, other star players who had lost to that duo in the past and completely strayed from baseball coincidentally also enrolled at that school, and…

Their meeting sets everything into motion once again.

Their high school baseball story begins now!



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

Tamayomi

Also known as TAMAYOMI: The Baseball Girls.

Studio: studio A-CAT
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Sports

In her Junior High years, the pitcher Yomi Takeda was not able to get very far in a cross-school baseball tournament. Since the catcher on her team wasn't at her level, she couldn't use her signature move, the "Magic Throw," and eventually regretted not being able to use it. After Junior High, she decided to stop playing baseball and went to Shin Koshigaya High School, a school without a baseball club.

There, she found her long lost childhood friend, Tamaki Yamazaki, who used to play catch ball​ with her when they were kids. Tamaki also played baseball during her Junior High years as a catcher, and could even catch Yomi's "Magic Throw!"

Their promise with each other during their childhood could now be fulfilled! Walking together on the road of baseball once again...

The first episode pre-aired on March 8.

Tags: Baseball , School Club , Primarily Female Cast , School , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Outdoor Activities , Female Protagonist , CGI , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Seinen , Twins