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Yowamushi Pedal

Studio: Toho , TMS Entertainment , Half H.P Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

Otaku Sakamichi Onoda has just entered high school and plans to join the anime club. In middle school, Onoda didn’t have any friends with whom he could talk about anime, games, Akihabara and other otaku things, and he is hoping he can make such friends in the anime club, but he finds out it's been disbanded. In order to reestablish the club he tries to find 4 other people who would like to join.

Since he was a little boy, Onoda has ridden his mamachari—a bulky bicycle with a step-through frame mainly used for short rides, such as for casual fun or to pick up groceries—to go to Akihabara every week to check out or buy otaku things. Fellow freshman Shunsuke Imaizumi and bicyclist, while training, notices a boy (Onoda) riding his mamchari up a steep road.

Freshman and road racing cyclist, Shokichi Naruko visits Akihabara to get some Gundam plastic models for his younger brothers and meets Onoda who catches his attention because of the his cycling skill on the mamachari and later find out they go to the same school. Later on, both Naruko and Imaizumi try to convince him to join the bicycle racing club, but will he?

Tags: Cycling , Shounen , School Club , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Male Cast , CGI , Otaku Culture

Nasu: Suitcase no Wataridori

Also known as Nasu: A Migratory Bird with Suitcase.

Studio: MADHOUSE
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

Team Pao Pao Beer travel east to participate in the Japan Cup in what is very likely to be their final season together. Pepe Benengeli and teammate Jean Luigi Ciocci face an uncertain future and are also yet to come to terms with the suicide of one their heroes, Marco Rondanini. What follows is an introspective into the important things in life from the perspective of the professional cyclist.

Tags: Cycling , Seinen

Nasu: Andalusia no Natsu

Also known as Nasu: Summer in Andalusia.

Studio: MADHOUSE , VAP , Telecom Animation Film , Oh! Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Pepe is a Spanish cyclist competing in the Vuelta a España, a multi-stage Iberian cycling race similar to the Tour de France. He is a support rider for one of the teams competing in the race, and his role is to assist the team's top rider in winning the overall race. As the story unfolds, the racers are set to ride through Pepe's home town in Andalusia on the same day as the wedding of his elder brother Ángel to his former girlfriend Carmen. Their relationship was a factor in his decision to leave the town to pursue professional cycling, and the wedding is a frustrating reminder that his career hasn't turned out as he would have liked. Now, with the sponsor planning to drop him from the team and his family and friends cheering him on, Pepe abandons his assigned role and strives for glory.



Tags: Cycling , Primarily Adult Cast , Foreign , Primarily Male Cast , Outdoor Activities , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Bar

Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru

Also known as Run with the Wind.

Studio: Production I.G , Nippon Television Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

Former ace runner of Sendai Josei High School, Kakeru Kurahara is chased away from a convenience store for shoplifting. Shaking off his pursuer, he runs into Haiji Kiyose, another student from his university. Haiji is impressed by Kakeru's agility and persuades him to live in Chikusei-sou, the run-down apartment where Haiji resides along with eight other students. Having lost his entire apartment deposit at a mahjong parlor, Kakeru accepts the offer reluctantly. However, Haiji reveals a secret during Kakeru's welcoming party: the apartment is actually the dormitory of the Kansei University Track Club. He unveils his ultimate goal of participating in the Hakone Ekiden—one of the most prominent university marathon relay races in Japan. Unfortunately, all the residents apart from Haiji and Kakeru are complete running novices. Worse still, none of the inhabitants are even remotely interested in being involved with Haiji's ridiculous plan! With only months before the deadline, will the fourth-year student be able to convince them otherwise and realize his elusive dream of running in the Hakone Ekiden?

Tags: Athletics , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , School Club , Fitness , Rehabilitation , College , Outdoor Activities , CGI , Twins , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Heterosexual , Tanned Skin , Trains , Food

Long Riders!

Studio: Actas
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Sports

The manga follows Ami Kurata, a first year college student with no special qualities. One day she happens to notice someone riding a folding bike, immediately falls in love with it, and uses all her savings to buy one. She eventually gets introduced to the world of long-distance bicycling and road racer bikes, and she forms a cycling team called Fortuna with four other female college students from the same school. Their goal is to ride in a "brevet" or long-distance event called "Fresh."



Tags: Cycling , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Outdoor Activities , College , Fitness , Food , CGI , Work , Shounen , School Club

Hajime no Ippo: THE FIGHTING!

Also known as Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting!.

Studio: MADHOUSE , VAP , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

Makunouchi Ippo has been bullied his entire life. Constantly running errands and being beaten up by his classmates, Ippo has always dreamed of changing himself, but never has the passion to act upon it. One day, in the midst of yet another bullying, Ippo is saved by Takamura Mamoru, who happens to be a boxer. Ippo faints from his injuries and is brought to the Kamogawa boxing gym to recover. As he regains consciousness, he is awed and amazed at his new surroundings in the gym, though lacks confidence to attempt anything. Takamura places a photo of Ippo's classmate on a punching bag and forces him to punch it. It is only then that Ippo feels something stir inside him and eventually asks Takamura to train him in boxing. Thinking that Ippo does not have what it takes, Takamura gives him a task deemed impossible and gives him a one week time limit. With a sudden desire to get stronger, for himself and his hard working mother, Ippo trains relentlessly to accomplish the task within the time limit. Thus Ippo's journey to the top of the boxing world begins.



Tags: Boxing , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , Martial Arts , Coming of Age , Fitness , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Delinquents , Bullying

Monkey Turn

Studio: OLM , VAP , AIC , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , Bandai , TV Tokyo Music
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Based on Kawai Katsutoshi's manga of the same name, published in Weekly Shounen Sunday, Monkey Turn is a sports anime based around professional speed boat racing. The anime's protagonist, Tadano Kenji, is too short to follow his dream of becoming a professional baseball player, but his baseball coach recommends him to boat racing. One day Tadano-san unexpectedly meets his old girlfriend and they exchange promises: in return for her being faithful to him, he is charged with becoming Japan's best racer within three years. The eponymous "Monkey Turn" is a boat maneuver Kenji-san thought up while visiting his girlfriend. The Monkey Turn gives Kenji quite the advantage over other boaters, but is it enough for him become the best?



Tags: Ships , Male Protagonist , CGI

Blue Lock

Also known as BLUE LOCK.

Studio: 8-bit , Bandai Namco Filmworks , Kodansha , Bandai Namco Music Live , TV Asahi , Crunchyroll , BANDAI SPIRITS , Toy's Factory
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Japan’s desire for World Cup glory leads the Japanese Football Association to launch a new rigorous training program to find the national team’s next striker. Three hundred high school players are pitted against each other for the position, but only one will come out on top. Who among them will be the striker to usher in a new era of Japanese soccer?



Tags: Football , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Athletics , Primarily Male Cast , Battle Royale , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , Revenge , Augmented Reality , Super Power , CGI , Boys' Love , Tragedy , Language Barrier , Acting

Minami Kamakura Koukou Joshi Jitensha-Bu

Also known as Minami Kamakura High School Girls Cycling Club.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Crunchyroll , A.C.G.T.
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

The story begins with Hiromi Maiharu, a girl who moved from Nagasaki to Kamakura. She begins her new life in Kamakura and her first day in high school by bicycling to her school, but she has not ridden a bicycle since she was young. On the way to the ceremony for the first day, she meets Tomoe Akitsuki, and Tomoe helps her train to be better at bicycling.



Tags: Cycling , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , School , School Club , Shounen , Photography

Dear Boys

Also known as Hoop Days.

Studio: OB Planning , Bandai Entertainment , Avex Entertainment , A.C.G.T.
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

Dear Boys is a story about determination to excel in a sport in which you love and also have fun at the same time. The tension as underdogs in the whole prefecture with only 5 players. How this team struggle to win, setbacks, teamwork, a purpose in life. This story relates to our lives as we strive to do our best, not just in sports, school but also relationships between friends and ones we love.



Tags: Basketball , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Shounen , School