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[7 Aug 2009 | No Comment | ]

EPISODES: 26
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: On the planet Earthdash, its inhabitants gaze on its moon and the technologically advanced lunar city of Mooneyes with awe. Dan JD, a boy living in Rollingtown on Earthdash’s surface, gets caught up in Bigfoot Basketball — a fast-paced sport played with giant Bigfoot robots.

shounen, sports »

[27 Nov 2008 | No Comment | ]
Inazuma Eleven

EPISODES: 78
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: Inazuma Eleven is based off of the soccer sports and role-playing game developed for the Nintendo DS. The game is currently only available in Japan.

comedy, school life, slice of life, sports »

[19 Oct 2007 | One Comment | ]

Bamboo Blade videos and clips
Links: Bambooblade.jp | TV-Tokyo
Toraji Ishida is a high school kendo teacher. His friend and fellow kendo teacher makes him a bet: if Ishida can assemble a girls’ kendo team that can defeat his girls’ team in a practice match, he’ll treat Ishida to free meals at his father’s sushi restaurant for a whole year. Now Ishida must find five girls to join the team.

auto racing, drama, shounen, sports »

[15 Aug 2007 | No Comment | ]

Main Article: Wangan Midnight

comedy, drama, shounen, sports »

[8 Jul 2007 | No Comment | ]

Main Article: Major Season Three
Shigeharu Honda’s son Goro continues to follow after his father’s footsteps in aiming for the major leagues of baseball. But strangely, in his second year of highschool, Goro transfers from Kaido, a school famous for its baseball team, to Seishuu, a school which has never had a male baseball team team before.

comedy, drama, shounen, slice of life, sports »

[29 Jun 2007 | No Comment | ]

Main Article: Ookiku Furikabutte
Ren Mihashi, who had bad experiences with his middle school baseball team, is dragged into joining the high school baseball team. Although he has talent, Ren is timid and lacks confidence in himself. But with the new team comes new friends and teammates who will help Ren improve himself in baseball and in character.

comedy, romance, school life, sports »

[12 Jun 2007 | No Comment | ]

From ANN:
Kaname Okimura, a student of Prefectoral Umineko Shougyou High (”Umisho” for short), joined the school’s swimming club in order to learn how to swim, but the club is filled with weirdos, let alone teaches him swimming. Then, a sunny, happy-go-lucky girl named Amuro Ninagawa who was transferred from Okinawa joined the club. Her extraordinary underwater speed and unorthodox swimming style (plus her personal habit of nude swimming—a powerful magnet to teenage boys) surprised every club member, especially Okimura, because she reminds him of a mermaid-like creature he saw only …

remake, science fiction, shounen, sports »

[11 Jun 2007 | No Comment | ]

Buzzer Beater (2007) is a remake of the original 1997 anime based on Takehiko Inoue’s original manga.  The stroy takes place in ther future.  Hideyoshi, who once made a living hustling others for money with his basketball skills, now is recrutied into a professional team.  He and his teammates are to compete in the Space League, where physically superior aliens have all but pushed human players out of the pro basketball circuit.
http://www.ntv.co.jp/buzzer/

school life, shounen, sports »

[4 May 2007 | No Comment | ]

Main Article: Over Drive
A sports anime about about bicycle racing; adapted from the manga by Tsuyoshi Yasuda.

action, comedy, harem, shounen, sports »

[12 Nov 2006 | One Comment | ]

Main Article: Air Gear
Anime Synopsis:
Air Gear is a fighting and sports based shonen anime with a good mix of comedy. The protaganist is a fifteen year old boy named Minami Itsuki, his friends call him “Ikki”. The story of Air Gear follows Ikki’s discovery and fascination with the urban sport of Air Trek (abbreviated AT). AT are highly advanced forms of inline roller blades. They are equipped with powerful electric motors which allow an Air Trek user to achieve incredible speeds and jump to tremendous heights. Air Trek users …