Top 10 Sports Anime
There is something about sports anime that just satisfies me. I enjoy the clear and simple format of a sport. It has rules, room for improvement, rivalry, and goals. Anime is able to capture and show different sports that can be interesting even though you have no interest in that particular sport what so ever. From the moment a character falls in love with a sport, the team mentality, competitiveness and their passion for the game, to aspiring to improve and beat an opponent in a simple game of win or lose.
10. Shin Tennis no Ouji-sama
Episodes: 13
Prequel: Tennis no Ouji-sama
Seishun Academy Tennis Club has been invited to the exclusive Under 17 training camp along with their rivals. This is a first, as the camp has never invited a middle school team. The training staff has devised a plan to narrow the list of potential campers (synopsis from Crunchyroll). Compared to the other anime on the list where the main characters fall in love with a sport and start from there or are experienced but have players that are on a higher level than them, Echizen is put on a pedestal known as a young prodigy tennis player.
9. Tsurune
Episodes: 13
Archery, something I personally have experience with and really enjoy seeing in anime. Especially in Tsurune where the animation and sound really captivate the satisfying feeling of drawing a bow and shooting an arrow along with the frustration of the inconsistent aim. Our main character is struggling with archery and is in a slump. Tsurune really shows the struggles and the dedication that comes with loving a sport.
7. Yuri!!! on ice
Episodes: 12
A sports anime that for once is post-high school and the main character is professionally pursuing a career within the sport. In this case, Yuuri is already competing on an international level representing Japan. More about the coach and skater relationship between Yuuri and Viktor. As their relationship develops so does Yuuri's skating.
6. Days (TV)
1. Haikyuu
Episodes: 25
Sequels: Haikyuu!! 2nd season, Haikyuu!!: Karasuno Koukou vs. Shiratorizawa Gakuen Koukou
This one is probably my favorite because of the different teams and the funny moments that both happen in and out of the game. One of the few where I pay more attention to other teammates aside from Hinata and Kageyama and also the opponents in their matches that they even befriend their enemies, thus forming some nice rivalries.
These are the sports anime I would really recommend to watch if you're looking for some hotheaded clashings between different individuals or teams.
10. Shin Tennis no Ouji-sama
Prequel: Tennis no Ouji-sama
Seishun Academy Tennis Club has been invited to the exclusive Under 17 training camp along with their rivals. This is a first, as the camp has never invited a middle school team. The training staff has devised a plan to narrow the list of potential campers (synopsis from Crunchyroll). Compared to the other anime on the list where the main characters fall in love with a sport and start from there or are experienced but have players that are on a higher level than them, Echizen is put on a pedestal known as a young prodigy tennis player.
9. Tsurune
Archery, something I personally have experience with and really enjoy seeing in anime. Especially in Tsurune where the animation and sound really captivate the satisfying feeling of drawing a bow and shooting an arrow along with the frustration of the inconsistent aim. Our main character is struggling with archery and is in a slump. Tsurune really shows the struggles and the dedication that comes with loving a sport.
8. Chihayafuru
Episodes: 25
Sequels: Chihayafuru 2
Maybe you wouldn't consider a card game a sport, but even chess is and so is Karuta. Chihaya Arase meets Arata Wataya that introduces her to competitive karuta. She is captivated by Arata's passion and falls in love with the world of karuta. Bringing it with her to high school she aims to compete in the national championships.
Episodes: 25
Sequels: Chihayafuru 2
Maybe you wouldn't consider a card game a sport, but even chess is and so is Karuta. Chihaya Arase meets Arata Wataya that introduces her to competitive karuta. She is captivated by Arata's passion and falls in love with the world of karuta. Bringing it with her to high school she aims to compete in the national championships.
7. Yuri!!! on ice
A sports anime that for once is post-high school and the main character is professionally pursuing a career within the sport. In this case, Yuuri is already competing on an international level representing Japan. More about the coach and skater relationship between Yuuri and Viktor. As their relationship develops so does Yuuri's skating.
6. Days (TV)
Episodes: 24
Sequel: Days (TV): Touin Gakuen-sen!
Days, an anime about soccer that really focuses on the story of Tsukamoto and his battle of starting a sport from the very beginning. To catch up to be on par with the members of a team that is notoriously known as one of the top high schools in soccer, where each club member have previous experience.
5. Free!
Episodes: 12
Sequels: Free!: Eternal Summer, Free!: Dive into the Future
Swimming, boys in swimming trunks in the sexiest depiction of water seen. Here we have the main characters starting the swimming club in school from scratch. On the side we also have the back story of Haru's, Makoto's and Nagisa's childhood where they swam their first relay with Rin who now attends a different school with the intent of wanting to surpass Haru.
4.Ballroom e Youkoso
Episodes: 24
Long necks, unnecessarily long necks with neck tilts almost as intense as the infamous Shaft (an animation studio) head tilt. Dancing is more intense than you probably thought. The animation makes the dancing look so intense but beautiful. Tatara stumbles upon a ballroom dance studio and things happen to lead him to start ballroom dancing where he turns out to be a hopeless case when it comes to learning.
3. Kuroko no basuke
Episodes: 25
Sequels: Kuroko no Basuke 2nd season, Kuroko no Basuke 3rd season
Here we have a group of five that in middle school were known as prodigies known as "The Generation of Miracles", among them was also a sixth phantom member, Kuroko. All of these separate as they enter different high schools where Kuroko enters Seirin where he starts playing with Kagami. Together they play against powerful schools with players that play as if they have superpowers.
Sequel: Days (TV): Touin Gakuen-sen!
Days, an anime about soccer that really focuses on the story of Tsukamoto and his battle of starting a sport from the very beginning. To catch up to be on par with the members of a team that is notoriously known as one of the top high schools in soccer, where each club member have previous experience.
5. Free!
Sequels: Free!: Eternal Summer, Free!: Dive into the Future
Swimming, boys in swimming trunks in the sexiest depiction of water seen. Here we have the main characters starting the swimming club in school from scratch. On the side we also have the back story of Haru's, Makoto's and Nagisa's childhood where they swam their first relay with Rin who now attends a different school with the intent of wanting to surpass Haru.
4.Ballroom e Youkoso
Long necks, unnecessarily long necks with neck tilts almost as intense as the infamous Shaft (an animation studio) head tilt. Dancing is more intense than you probably thought. The animation makes the dancing look so intense but beautiful. Tatara stumbles upon a ballroom dance studio and things happen to lead him to start ballroom dancing where he turns out to be a hopeless case when it comes to learning.
3. Kuroko no basuke
Sequels: Kuroko no Basuke 2nd season, Kuroko no Basuke 3rd season
Here we have a group of five that in middle school were known as prodigies known as "The Generation of Miracles", among them was also a sixth phantom member, Kuroko. All of these separate as they enter different high schools where Kuroko enters Seirin where he starts playing with Kagami. Together they play against powerful schools with players that play as if they have superpowers.
2. Yowamushi Pedal
Episodes: 38
Sequels: Yowamushi Pedal: Grande Road, Yowamushi Pedal: New Generation
Onoda a cheerful otaku who's been getting around with a bulky city bike takes a round trip to Akihabara where he meets cyclist Imaizumi that uses the steep incline for practice. He challenges Onoda to a race where if Onoda wins he'll join the school's anime club that's been disbanded. From there on Onoda will be entering a world of bicycle races.
Sequels: Haikyuu!! 2nd season, Haikyuu!!: Karasuno Koukou vs. Shiratorizawa Gakuen Koukou
This one is probably my favorite because of the different teams and the funny moments that both happen in and out of the game. One of the few where I pay more attention to other teammates aside from Hinata and Kageyama and also the opponents in their matches that they even befriend their enemies, thus forming some nice rivalries.
These are the sports anime I would really recommend to watch if you're looking for some hotheaded clashings between different individuals or teams.
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