Titles: Taiso Samurai Genre: Sports!, family Episodes: 11 Studio: MAPPA Joutarou Aragaki is a bit of a legend. He is the one and only gymnastics samurai. He even has a moved named after him. Once upon a time, he was the future of the sport and even managed a silver at the Olympics. But ever…
Titles: SK Eight, SK∞ Genre: Sports!, comedy, drama, school, action Episodes: 12 + recap Studio: bones Reki loves skating. Skateboarding that is. Like Langa, I’m Canadian and if you say skating here, it’s got to be on ice. Oh, who’s Langa you ask? OK, so Langa is Reki’s new classmate and he’s never been on…
Titles: 3-gatsu no Lion, Sangatsu no Lion Un marzo da leoni, March comes in like a lion Genre: Slice of Life, drama, school, sports! Episodes: 22 Studio: Shaft Rei is all set to be the next meijin. After all, he is only the 5th person to ever become a professional shogi player in middle school….
Titles: Number 24, number24 Genre: Sports!, drama, comedy, Episodes: 12 Studio: PRA Natsusa is in the prime of his life. He’s attending a pretty nice catholic university, he’s got a bunch of great friends and most of all, he gets to play on his college league Rugby team. That’s really all that matters. Natsusa absolutely…
Titles: Prince of Stride: Alternative Genre: Sports!, comedy, school Episodes: 12 Studio: MADHOUSE Riku is going to have so much fun in high school. Since he’s always been good at studying, grades shouldn’t be an issue, so he can just enjoy himself. Talk to some pretty girls. Pretty girls like Nana for instance. He can…
Titles: Star-Crossing Skies, Hoshiai no Sora Genre: Sports!, school, drama Episodes: 12 Studio: 8-bit The soft tennis team is in real danger. If they don’t win a match soon, the club might get shut down. I guess it’s not that big a deal. After all the members don’t seem to care all that much. But…
Titles: Battle Doll Angelic Layer; Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer Genre: Drama, action, sports(?), school Episodes: 26 Studio: BONES Misaki Suzuhara is discovering a lot of new things. She’s in Tokyo for the first time for one. Ever since her mother left for work 6 years ago, she’s had to rely on others and now, her…
Titles: Oofuri; Ohkiku Furikabutte; Swing Big! Genre: Sports!, school, comedy, anxiety Episodes: S1 25, S2 13 Studio: A-1 Pictures All his life Ren Mihashi has wanted one thing, to stay on the pitcher’s mound. Being the grandson of his middle school principal that was surprisingly easy. Regardless of the fact that the rest of the…
Titles: Bamboo Blade Genre: Comedy, Sports!, School, Episodes: 24 Studio: AIC ASTA For as long as she can remember, Tamaki has been swinging a shinai around. It’s not that she has a huge passion for kendo or anything but when your parents own a dojo and have been teaching you kendo since you were born,…
I have been seeing more female-led sports anime in the last few seasons and I’m really happy about that. Still, it’s very much a nice genre and when I looked it up it seems rather unpopular. The five most popular lady sports anime on AniList are all Girls und Panzer and that seems like a…
What’s good guys? I’m not going to lie I’m pretty pumped because by the time you read this, I’ll probably have started playing Cyberpunk 2077 which is released in 4 days! But this post isn’t about gaming, so I’ll save my excitement for my next PS4 best games post. As you can see in the…
The fat lady has sung, all’s well that ends well and all good things… In case you didn’t pick up on it, I found Haikyuu!! To The Top to be an exceptional season of anime. In fact, after going back to older episodes, I will even go as far as to say that I prefer…
Aside from Haikyuu, I’m currently watching two other sports anime. I like all of them but Haikyuu is the best. And this season is fantastic. But it has gotten me thinking about what I like about sports anime so much. I’ll probably go one about it in some other post but the short answer is,…
This week’s episode of Haikyuu!! To The Top was titled “Pitons”. This confused me a lot. Mostly because I was sure that piton was only a French word, and a slang one at that. You see, what piton actually means is those metal spike things use in climbing to secure the rope to the cliff…
This evening has been a rollercoaster of anime and Haikyuu was at the finishing line. First I watched the latest episode of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? III. If you’ve read my review with Crow, you know it was not a big hit for me. So not the…