Top 10 Sports anime
With the vastness and increasing popularity of the anime industry, you will find an anime on every Sport possible! Ping pong, boxing, running, racing, swimming, tennis, volleyball, basketball, football, Rugby, ice skating, cycling and what not! This never-ending list serves us with the best hyperkinetic visuals and energy all jampacked in one category! Teamwork and hard work are the keys to success not only in a sport but also in real life! So, get ready for the real adrenaline rush that is going to strike you hard, and let’s begin with the list!
Megalo Box
Megalo Box is one of the most intense and action-packed shows on this list! This anime will definitely prove to be a good watch for you as it’ll keep your eyes peeled to the screen. This amazing anime follows the story of Joe, who fights the strongest fighters in order to become the number one boxer. With TMS Entertainment’s unique animation and a story filled with amazing twists and turns, this anime is a must-watch on this list.
Run With the Wild
Run with the Wind is the anime that catches your attention with its beautiful art and animation! The show manages to give life to the smallest possible details of characters and has got an amazing character development that resonates within you! This is a character-driven story, and each of them has their own motives and reasons to run. Kakeru, while being chased off for shoplifting, runs into Haiji who gets impressed with his running skills and make him join the track club where whole new adventures open up!
Yowamushi Pedal
This show features cycling and that sounds pretty boring, but once you start watching the show, you realize the fun jampacked in it! Sakamichi Onoda is a hopeless otaku with no friends to share his hobby with. Every weekend he cycles his way to the anime paradise on his rusty bicycle. This makes him realize his skills in cycling that leads him into the school’s cycling club. Onoda teaches us how to enjoy the sport for what it truly is, and how to make bonds with people and to achieve so much more while you’re at it!
Slam Dunk
This anime is the classic of Sports sub-genre, premiered in 1993; it still manages to make its way into the top lists! The animation at times looks quite rough and outdated compared to today’s art, but still, this show is a fun watch! Contrary to the animation, the comedy is on-point, and none of the jokes sound outdated which makes the viewers enjoy the show! Sakuragi is a hot-tempered guy who has a record of being rejected by the girls 50 times consecutively! Now, Sakuragi desperately needs a girlfriend and enters the basketball club to impress his love interest!
Yuri On Ice
We don’t get anime on figure skating, so this show came like a fresh breeze of air with its amazing animation that gets you all immersed in the beautiful visuals of figure skating on the ice rink! Yuuri Katsuki is a 23 years old boy who is really good at what he does, figure skating. Yuuri idolizes Victor who decides to become his mentor and gets him back on the ice rink! This anime depicts the blossoming romance in the two with figure skating as their way of expression!
All Out!!!
It has got simples rules where one has to take the ball beyond the boundary with many chasing him. This Sport gets a bit to the violent side as the chasers can use their all force to stop the carrier! Rugby is said to be the game of robust and tall men, but our protagonist is going to prove that it is a sport for all sizes and shapes! Kenji Gion, despite his short stature, aspires to become the best of the best in Rugby. This anime teaches us the very difference between hard work and smart work!
Kuroko No Basket
Kuroko no Basket will provide you with the most insane basketball moves in the history of sports that make it unrealistic to some extent, but this is the fun point of this show! The cast of characters with their godlike skills in basketball provide you with an intense adrenaline rush that leaves your spine tingling with excitement! Fluid animation and incredible art make this show very appealing. Tetsuya and Taiga are two newly recruited freshmen who will prove their worth in the world of basketball by their unique skills!
Ping Pong: The Animation
The main selling point for this anime show is its unorthodox art that is crude and misshapen. The lines are wavy, and the art is very simple, yet it holds an unexplainable charm to it that makes this anime stand out among all the other shows! The story is about two friends Yutaka and Makoto who are polar opposites of each other and bond with each other through their love for Ping Pong! The pacing of the show is perfect and does not saturate the viewers with information, but gives them piece by piece information that keeps them engaged to the show!
Hajime no Ippo
75 episodes of boxing! Yes, you heard that right! This show is still going to leave wanting more of it! Ippo Makunouchi has been a victim of bullying all of life, and he has this strong urge within himself to change himself for good and protect himself and his mother from the cruel world! Mamoru teaches him boxing, and we see Ippo grow as a person and as a professional boxer. This show is going to make you jump out of seats and cry with excitement as if you were a part of the whole action!
Haikyuu
Shouyou Hinata is inspired by the ‘‘Little Giant’’ that makes him passionate about being a volleyball player despite his small stature! He revives his school’s volleyball club but faces a terrible defeat in their first and last match, but that is just the beginning of his craze for volleyball! The main catch point that stands out in this show is its character development that makes you feel invested in the characters personally, and you can feel their struggles to a whole another level! This sports anime is going to take you on the most thrilling adventure of your life!