Sport anime is pretty much self explanatory where the shows are all about sports, whether its soccer, basketball, running, or lifting. The different art and writing styles put creative ways to enjoy the sport while also not changing the rules of the game. The amount of knowledge intertwined with the plot of the show keeps the realism of the sport even if there is an impractical side to the show.
There are not many sport-related movies that do not have a tv show connected to them one way or another. Normally a popular anime show would have between one to five movies depending on how long the tv show is. The normal ratio would be for every one season there is one movie after the second season. The following recommendations are all tv shows that have either just started, just ended the first season, or have several seasons and movies.
Breakers
Starting in January 2019 this show has just started and as of February 12th 2019 has only 5 episodes airing every Saturday on Kissanime.
This inspiring tv show is about four para-athletes who find their potential through a shut-in sport scientist. This show is four separate stories connected by this one scientist. The first story is about an aspiring basketball player who started with regular basketball before getting introduced to wheelchair basketball, the second is a handball superstar who loses his leg in a car accident and learns about how he can use his skill in high jump and running. The other two, the swimmer and goalball player, have yet to be formally introduced.
How Heavy are the Dumbbells You Lift
This one season tv show aired in July 2019 consists of 12 comedic but extremely informative episodes that will either leave you sore from laughing or working out.
A high school student with an outrageous appetite becomes self conscious when her clothes start to tighten and decides to enroll in her local gym. She is turned off at first by the large mass of macho men but is soon convinced by the trainer of the gym and one of her classmates with a muscle fetish. They are soon joined by a friend who competed in boxing as well as a professional arm wrestler.
These four, with the help of the comedic trainer, take themselves as well as the viewer on a knowledgeable journey of weightlifting. This includes information on the equipment, what body part it helps exercise and how to properly use them in real-life scenarios.
Inazuma Eleven
This long-acting tv show consists of 65 episodes plus a handful of movies. It also has a follow up show and movies with after all the characters have grown up. Airing in 2008 its based on soccer but has a unique twist to it where the soccer players have super powers.
Starting in a soccer club on the brink of disbandment, a happy-go-lucky goalkeeper Mamoru attempts to gather four more players in order to keep the club in the works. They are faced against the Teikoku Gakuen, the number one team in Japan, and have to win in order to keep the team going. Faced with many challenges the team band together to overcome each one and pick eachother up.
It is a long show but for the love of soccer the plot does not run dry and continuously keeps the viewer entertained.
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