Anime like Shin Kyojin no Hoshi

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 , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Shounen , School , Time Skip , Primarily Child Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Language Barrier , Bullying

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

Tiger Mask Nisei

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Second season to the original Tiger Mask, with a different cast of characters.

Tags: Wrestling , Martial Arts , Shounen

Gou-Q-Chouji Ikkiman

Studio: Toei Animation , Yomiuri Advertising
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sci-Fi , Sports

Ikkiman is super human alien , but he doesn't know it. He was raised in a farm by an old couple. When his girlfriend dumps him to become a star, Ikkiman swears to himself that he will become a super star even more famous then her so they can get back together, and so he leaves the farm for the city. There he interupts the match of the Battle-ball team "Blue Planets", the battle-ball champions of the earth, and decides to join them with his superhuman discovered abilities. With the Blue planets, Ikkiman will play against alien enemy's for the title of champion, and for the sake of the planet earth.

Tags: Aliens , Baseball , Male Protagonist

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 , Delinquents , Primarily Male Cast , Samurai , Suicide

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 , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Foreign

Major S5

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

After the baseball season was over, Goro returned to Japan. There he learned from Toshi that there is going to be a Baseball World Cup the following year hosted in America.



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

Major S4

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

Next season of Major.

After the final game of his Seishuu team against the goal he set himself, Kaidou - the team he left to play against, Gorou has no feelings of remorse anymore. Again he decides to take a step forward and challenge himself.

Saying one more time good bye to Shimizu and his friends, he leaves for the USA, where he plans on competing in the Minor League.

This is where Season 4 starts, in a country thats foreign to him, a baseball style thats unknown to him and new friends and strong rivals who share the same love to the game as him. Accompany Gorou in his neverending quest for new challenges.



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

Major S2

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

This series picks up a few years after season one. Goro is now older, and has come back to his original home town. As if nothing changed, he starts off right where he left with his old friends and tries to fit back in.

Tags: Baseball , Shounen , Male Protagonist , School Club , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Time Skip

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