Top Cheerleading Anime Recommendations

Kill la Kill

Also known as Kill la Kill.

Studio: TRIGGER
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi

After the murder of her father, Ryuuko Matoi has been wandering the land in search of his killer. Following her only lead—the missing half of his invention, the Scissor Blade—she arrives at the prestigious Honnouji Academy, a high school unlike any other. The academy is ruled by the imposing and cold-hearted student council president Satsuki Kiryuuin alongside her powerful underlings, the Elite Four. In the school's brutally competitive hierarchy, Satsuki bestows upon those at the top special clothes called "Goku Uniforms," which grant the wearer unique superhuman abilities.

Tags: Henshin , Female Protagonist , Revenge , Nudity , Surreal Comedy , Class Struggle , Parody , Dystopian , Super Power , Tomboy , Aliens , Coming of Age , School , Cosmic Horror , Primarily Teen Cast , Military , Anti-Hero , Cult , Orphan , Incest , Psychosexual , Age Gap , Bullying , Tsundere , Villainess , Delinquents , Ensemble Cast , School Club , Meta , Tokusatsu , Exhibitionism , Found Family , Ojou-sama , Yuri , Tragedy , Gore , LGBTQ+ Themes , CGI , Butler , Cosplay , Urban Fantasy , Yandere , Cheerleading , Space

Lucky☆Star

Also known as Lucky☆Star.

Studio: Kyoto Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

What’s the best way to eat dessert? Do twins really have a psychic connection? What kind of guys are into moe girls? These are the kinds of questions that float through the inquisitive mind of anime super-fan Konata Izumi. When she’s not lost in her favorite manga or logging hours in one of her online games, she’s debating the mysteries of the universe with the best friends a girl could ask for.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Otaku Culture , Parody , School , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Episodic , Meta , Coming of Age , Philosophy , Video Games , Twins , Tsundere , Kuudere , Ojou-sama , Cheerleading , Shounen , Shrine Maiden , Baseball , Mixed Media

Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku

Also known as Akebi’s Sailor Uniform.

Studio: CloverWorks
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

It’s Komichi Akebi’s first year of junior high and she has her heart set on one thing: Robai Private Academy’s sailor uniform. As the next chapter of her life gets closer, she dreams of all the exciting new experiences she’ll get to have—school lunches, classes, club activities, and of course, making lots of friends! With her favorite outfit on, Komichi feels ready for anything.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , School , Iyashikei , Rural , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , LGBTQ+ Themes , Ensemble Cast , Episodic , Primarily Child Cast , Yuri , Family Life , Seinen , Boarding School , Dancing , School Club , Slapstick , Cheerleading , Swimming , Photography , Tennis , Badminton , Basketball , Body Image , Tomboy , Volleyball , Fishing

Vigilante: Boku no Hero Academia ILLEGALS

Also known as My Hero Academia: Vigilantes.

Studio: bones film
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

Kouichi Haimawari is a dull college student who aspires to be a hero but has given up on his dream. Although 80% of the world’s population has superhuman powers called Quirks, few are chosen to become heroes and protect people. Everything changes for Kouichi when he and Pop☆Step are saved by the vigilante Knuckleduster and get recruited to become vigilantes themselves!



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Urban , Super Power , Superhero , Shounen , Crime , Male Protagonist , Idol , Anti-Hero , Fugitive , Cheerleading , Ensemble Cast

Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen

Also known as Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card.

Studio: MADHOUSE
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Romance

The power of the Clow is back! As Sakura settles into a normal routine, she prepares to face her newest challenge - junior high! While her classes are challenging, things start looking up when Xiaolang Li reappears and says he'll be staying for good. But when she has a strange dream about a mysterious figure and wakes to find her Clow Cards completely clear, she must return to her duty as Cardcaptor.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Shoujo , Magic , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Henshin , Coming of Age , Food , Bisexual , Time Manipulation , Heterosexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Female Cast , Dissociative Identities , Cheerleading , Kemonomimi

Ookiku Furikabutte

Also known as Big Windup!.

Studio: A-1 Pictures
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

Na-Nare Hana-Nare

Also known as Narenare -Cheer for you!-.

Studio: P.A.WORKS
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life , Sports

Misora Kanata is a first-year student on the Takanosaki High School cheerleading team. She won a national championship in middle school, but can’t jump after a mistake in a competition. She befriends Suzuha, Shion, Anna, Nodoka, and Megumi to form the PoMPoMs. Their new team goes beyond cheerleading to reach the hearts of the people they cheer on. They might just change the world!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Cheerleading , Primarily Teen Cast , Acrobatics , Coming of Age , Rehabilitation , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Disability , Parkour , Iyashikei , CGI , School , Rural , Baseball , Yuri

Anima Yell!

Studio: Doga Kobo
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

The story follows Kohane Hatoya, a 1st year high school student who is a bit clumsy and scared of heights but who has a very bubbly and outgoing personality. Kohane decides to join the cheerleading club to try to make friends and overcome her weaknesses.



Tags: Cheerleading , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , School Club , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Dancing , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Yuri , Fitness , Seinen , Basketball , LGBTQ+ Themes , Twins , Body Image , Football , Tomboy

Cheer Danshi!!

Also known as Cheer Boys!!.

Studio: Brain's Base
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Sports

Haruki Bandou was born into a family of Judo marital artists and expected to continue the family legacy. But he’s about to trade Judo for... cheerleading?! When his childhood friend Kazuma Hashimoto invites him to join the BREAKERS, a male cheerleading club, Haru finds himself amongst a quirky group of boys. Can this squad of slightly odd and cute members make a breakthrough in college athletics?



Tags: Primarily Male Cast , Cheerleading , School Club , Male Protagonist , College , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Boys' Love

Ookiku Furikabutte: Natsu no Taikai-hen

Also known as Big Windup! 2.

Studio: A-1 Pictures
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

HUGtto! Precure

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo

Nono Hana is an 8th grade student who wants to be a stylish and mature big sister like figure. She always puts on a lovely smile and loves to search for exciting things. One day, Hana meets a baby named Hug-tan and her guardian fairy named Harry who had fallen from the sky. At that exact moment, an evil organization called Dark Tomorrow suddenly appeared! They're trying to forcefully take Hug-tan's Mirai Crystal! In order to protect Hug-tan, Hana wishes to do something to help her, and her wish is granted, as she gains a Mirai Crystal and transforms into Cure Yell. The world is overflowed with Tomorrow Powerer, which is the power to create a brilliant tomorrow, which is crystallized into the Mirai Crystals. If it's stolen, everyone's future will not exist. To protect Hug-tan and everyone's future, Cure Yell will do her best!



Tags: Magic , Primarily Female Cast , Henshin , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Time Manipulation , Tokusatsu , Superhero , Memory Manipulation , Family Life , Rehabilitation , Heterosexual , Isekai , Super Robot , Fairy , Parenthood , Super Power , Kemonomimi , Nekomimi , Swordplay , Archery , Martial Arts , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Urban , Artificial Intelligence , Cheerleading , Bullying , Urban Fantasy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Anthropomorphism , CGI , Primarily Child Cast , Acting , Crossdressing , Animals , Kids , Episodic , Age Regression , Robots , Idol , Kuudere , Adoption , Educational , Tragedy , School , Mermaid , Ice Skating , Crossover

Battle Programmer Shirase

Studio: AIC
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Sci-Fi

Battle Programmer Shirase, also known as BPS, is a free programmer with super hacking abilities who doesn't work for money. What he does work for is certainly something that only people like him would appreciate. But, his demeanor certainly doesn't suit the jobs he is hired for. With the evil King of America causing trouble via the internet, Shirase is nothing but busy as each new adventure brings even more interesting people into the picture.




Tags: Hikikomori , Software Development , Male Protagonist , Age Gap , Episodic , Terrorism , Teacher , Transgender , Cheerleading , Drugs

Hiatari Ryoukou!

Also known as Sunny Ryoko.

Studio: Group TAC
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Sports

Kishimoto Kasumi, a 15-year-old girl, was supposed to live at her auntie's house in order to go to high school since April. However, when she moved to the house she was surprised with the fact that there were already four new male students living in the same house. To make the matter worse, that day while she was taking a bath, Takasugi Yusaku, one of those boys, came into the bath and saw her naked. This is how Kasumi's troublesome high school days started.



Tags: Love Triangle , School , Heterosexual , Cohabitation , Baseball , Cheerleading , School Club , Athletics , Shoujo , Primarily Teen Cast , Delinquents

Anima Yell! Ouen Douga

Studio: Doga Kobo
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Sports

Special shorts of Anima Yell! released on YouTube.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Chibi , Cheerleading

Nine 2: Koibito Sengen

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

Second part of the Nine TV movies.

Tags: School , Baseball , School Club , Athletics , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Shounen , Heterosexual , Firefighters , Cheerleading , Coming of Age , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast

Cheer Danshi!! OVA

Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Unaired OVAs bundled with the fourth Blu-ray and DVD volume.

The first OVA, titled "Iroiro Danshi!!" (Various Boys!!) is four minutes long and is about Wataru Mizoguchi suggesting that the Breakers' cheerleading team members quit and become different kinds of boys.
The second OVA is titled "Kantan!! Cheer Danshi to Issho ni Up Dance" (Simple!! Up Dance Together with Cheer Boys) and is 19 minutes long.



Tags: Primarily Male Cast , Cheerleading , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Crossdressing , School

Natsu ga Hajimaru.

Status: Finished
Genres: Music , Sports

A CalorieMate web movie directed by Takumi Shiga featuring the song "Surges" by Orangestar, with vocals by Kase and Loin. The video carries an eclectic animation style, as the story follows high school students from various clubs pouring their effort into sports in the second year of the coronavirus pandemic.



Note: Initially published on the Otsuka Pharmaceutical Official YouTube channel in July 2021, it was later reuploaded on Orangestar's YouTube channel under the song title "Surges", republished on August 12, 2021.

Tags: Pandemic , Basketball , Tennis , Table Tennis , Advertisement , Swimming , Football , Cheerleading , Martial Arts , Baseball , Volleyball , Archery , School

Tabidachi no Uta

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy

Music video directed by Hidane for the song Tabidachi no Uta by Karasuya Sabou feat. Hatsune Miku. This song and corresponding music video is a part of "Project VOLTAGE", a collaborative project between Pokémon and Hatsune Miku.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Vocal Synth , Travel , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Animals , Primarily Teen Cast , Cheerleading , Dancing , Ghost

Elysium

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Sci-Fi

In In the year 2113 A.D., a team of scientists is dispatched to Antarctica to investigate the region's abnormal seismic activity. Near the epicenter of the activity, the expedition discovers vast land markings akin to the Nazca paleoglyphs drawn in the Peruvian desert. Stranger still is the presence of an enormous underground cavern below these symbols. At the bottom of the chasm, a portion of a tremendous tower juts from the ground. Armed with ultra-digital cameras, the scientific team transmits their findings to the Command Center. One explorer traces the image of a star chart engraved on the tower's exterior. The tower begins to emit a sinister howling as if possessed by demonic forces. One by one, the members of the expedition writhe in pain and die. Those observing the scene at the Command Center watch helplessly. As the high-frequency noise suffuses their headquarters, they too succumb and die in agony. When the waves of the frequency are analyzed, they are discovered to be a beacon directed at the planet Elysium, which lies beyond Earth's solar system.

Van, the reluctant hero of the story, is an 18-year-old pizza delivery boy in Manhattan. He competes in the most popular sport of the 22nd century -- turbo jai alai racing. These races are fast paced and deadly affairs that integrate virtual reality into the competition. He's deeply in love with Lydia, a talented ballerina. In the chaotic futuristic metropolis, they only have each other and their dreams. Van and Lydia desperately want the chance to escape the polluted city-scape. Despite the dangers, Van enters a turbo jai alai race in the hopes of winning first prize -- two tickets to a galactic resort where Lydia can audition for the Jupiter Ballet.

Meanwhile, earth's deep space observation vessel, the Odyssey, patrols the planet's orbital perimeter. The Odyssey is confronted by an armada of sophisticated alien spacecraft from Elysium. The awed human crew prepares to receive the Elysian ambassador, Yaspe. Without warning, the Odyssey loses control of its weapons, fires on the ambassador's vessel and destroys it. This tragic misunderstanding results in brutal retaliation by the Elysian fleet, culminating in the destruction of the Odyssey and a full-scale attack on Earth.

Van's deadly sport of choice turns deadlier when the stadium he is competing in comes under fire from the Elysian barrage. Van struggles through the chaos on his turbo-cycle to rescue Lydia from the collapsing stands. The indiscriminate Elysian onslaught scorches cities worldwide. Van and Lydia flee through the burning streets of Manhattan seeking safety. After a series of harrowing escapes, they find refuge in a claustrophobic fall-out shelter.



Tags: Full CGI , Cheerleading , Bowling , Tsundere