Anime like MIX: MEISEI STORY

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

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

H2

Studio: Ashi Productions , Asahi Housou , Toho , ASATSU
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Sports

Hiro has two loves: baseball and porn, but due to an elbow injury, gives up baseball, choosing a school with no baseball team. His childhood friend Hikari attends a different school with baseball ace Hideo. The two of them wish that Hiro had not given up baseball. Hiro joins the soccer team and meets Haruka, a very clumsy girl who is also the daughter of his father's boss. Haruka is the manager of the unofficial baseball club at Hiro's school. When the soccer team challenges the baseball club to a game, with hopes of humiliating them, the baseball club nearly loses until Hiro, disgusted by the soccer team's arrogance, switches to the baseball club.



Tags: Shounen , Baseball , Love Triangle , School Club , Football

Diamond no Ace act II

Also known as Ace of the Diamond act II.

Studio: MADHOUSE
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Picking up the next year after the end of the fall tournament, Seidou High School baseball team battle it out with new and old faces as they begin their tournament run at Koshien.



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

Ookiku Furikabutte

Also known as Big Windup!.

Studio: A-1 Pictures , TBS , Aniplex , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Movic , Kodansha
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

After a falling out with his middle school team, Mihashi enters Nishiura high school with no social skill, a warped opinion of himself, and every intention to quit baseball. The newly formed Nishiura baseball team, however, needs a pitcher, and they welcome him. Most enthusiastic is Abe, a domineering catcher with his own game issues.

And so a battery every bit as complementary as it is dysfunctional is formed. If they can figure out how to work together, they might be the answers to each other's problems-and the team might be able to win.

Tags: Baseball , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Bullying , Cheerleading

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

Ookiku Furikabutte: Natsu no Taikai-hen

Also known as Big Windup! 2.

Studio: Aniplex , A-1 Pictures , Mainichi Broadcasting System , TBS , Kodansha , Movic
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

Picking up where the original series left off, Ren Mihashi, the ace pitcher of the newly-formed Nishiura High School baseball team, and his teammates face the Sakitama High School team in the next round of the High School Baseball Invitational Tournament as they aim to play in the finals at legendary Hanshin Koushien Stadium.



Tags: Baseball , Primarily Male Cast , Seinen , School Club , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Cheerleading , Coming of Age

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 , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Rehabilitation

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 , Time Skip , Adoption , Parenthood , School , Primarily Male Cast , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Unrequited Love , Language Barrier , Bullying , Marriage

Haikyuu!!

Also known as HAIKYU!!.

Studio: Production I.G , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

Inspired after watching a volleyball ace nicknamed "Little Giant" in action, small-statured Shouyou Hinata revives the volleyball club at his middle school. The newly-formed team even makes it to a tournament; however, their first match turns out to be their last when they are brutally squashed by the "King of the Court," Tobio Kageyama. Hinata vows to surpass Kageyama, and so after graduating from middle school, he joins Karasuno High School's volleyball team—only to find that his sworn rival, Kageyama, is now his teammate.

Thanks to his short height, Hinata struggles to find his role on the team, even with his superior jumping power. Surprisingly, Kageyama has his own problems that only Hinata can help with, and learning to work together appears to be the only way for the team to be successful. Based on Haruichi Furudate's popular shounen manga of the same name, Haikyuu!! is an exhilarating and emotional sports comedy following two determined athletes as they attempt to patch a heated rivalry in order to make their high school volleyball team the best in Japan.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Tags: Volleyball , School Club , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Coming of Age , Fitness , Kuudere , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things