Blue Lock

Series Similar to Blue Lock

If you enjoyed Blue Lock, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Hinomaru Sumo

   2018 · Anime, Sports · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Sports profile, hidden gem.

   A "small" new student, Ushio Hinomaru, appears before the weak little sumo club of Oodachi High School. The words "big" and "heavy" are the rules to this sport, which does not fit this newbie one bit, but Ushio surprises everyone. Ushio and the small sumo club climbs its way to the top with a goal to reach the highest rank, Hinoshita Kaisan.

2. Ping Pong The Animation

   2014 · Drama, Anime, Sports · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Sports profile, highly rated (8.2), hidden gem.

   Makoto Tsukimoto (nicknamed Smile) is a quiet high-schooler who's been friends with the loud and energetic Yukata Hoshino (nicknamed Peco) since childhood. They're both in the local table tennis club and both have a natural talent for it, although Smile's personality always enables him from winning against Peco. The club teacher, however, notices Smile's talent and tries to make him gain some sportive tenacity.

3. Yuri!!! on Ice

   2016 · Drama, Anime, Sports · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Sports profile.

   The show's story revolves around Yuuri Katsuki, who carried all of Japan's hopes on his shoulders to win at the Gran Prix Finale ice skating competition, but suffered a crushing defeat. He returns home to Kyushu and half feels like he wants to retire, and half feels like he wants to continue ice skating. With those mixed feelings swirling inside him, he confines himself inside his parents house. Suddenly the five-time consecutive world championship ice skater Viktor Nikiforov appears before him, and along with him is Yuri Plisetsky, a young Russian figure skater who is already defeating his seniors. Viktor and both Yuris take up the challenge on an unprecedented Gran Prix series.

4. Violet Evergarden

   2018 · Anime · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Anime profile.

   In the aftermath of the continent-spanning, four-years-long war that gripped the industrial fantasy land of Leiden, Violet Evergarden, a 14-year old former child-soldier, is trying to find her place in civilian life as an Auto Memory Doll, a professional ghost-writer of letters for the poor and the rich alike.

5. Berserk of Gluttony

   2023 · Anime · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Anime profile.

   Fate Graphite is one of the forsaken. Cursed with the skill "Gluttony," he is ever starving, never sated…until the day he kills a dying thief and devours the man's strength—and his soul. The true hunger of Fate's Gluttony has awakened, and if he can learn to control his power, he will at last be the master of his own destiny.

6. 7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy!

   2024 · Anime · ended86% match

   Recommended for similar Anime profile.

   Rishe Irmgard Weitzner, a duke's daughter, has a secret: she died at the age of 20 and returned to the moment five years prior when her engagement was called off. She has already experienced this time loop six times and lived out those five years a different way each time, as a merchant, a doctor, a maid, a knight, and more. Now, on her seventh go-around, she's determined to live to a ripe old age and spend it relaxing. But the moment she flees the castle with that decision in her heart, she runs into the infamously cruel crown prince of a rival kingdom, Arnold Hein. He happens to be the one who killed her during her life as a knight, but now, he seems to have taken a bizarre liking to her... and begs her to become his wife. Thus, in order to stay alive and prevent a war, Rishe utilizes her previous experiences to kick off her seventh life as the bride of an enemy nation's crown prince.

7. Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Bakuen wo!

   2023 · Anime · ended86% match

   Recommended for similar Anime profile.

   Crimson Magic Clan members Megumin and Yunyun are at the top of their class, but they still have a lot to learn. Yunyun's begun learning advanced magic, but Megumin has gone down a different path-the path of explosion magic! Despite being warned of its limited usefulness, Megumin believes explosion magic is the way for her to become a great, voluptuous wizard, and she won't be convinced otherwise!

8. Shangri-La Frontier

   2023 · Anime · returning86% match

   Recommended for similar Anime profile.

   Second year high school student Rakurou Hizutome is interested in one thing only: finding "shitty games" and beating the crap out of them. His gaming skills are second to none, and no game is too bad for him to enjoy. So when he's introduced to the new VR game Shangri-La Frontier, he does what he does best—min-maxes and skips the prologue to jump straight into the action. But can even an expert gamer like Rakurou discover all the secrets that Shangri-La Frontier hides...?

9. Suicide Squad ISEKAI

   2024 · Anime · returning85% match

   Recommended for similar Anime profile.

   Harley Quinn, The Joker, and the Suicide Squad cause havoc in ISEKAI, an all-new original anime series from Warner Bros. Japan and WIT Studio. 

10. NieR:Automata Ver1.1a

    2023 · Anime · ended85% match

    Recommended for similar Anime profile.

    Animated adaptation of NieR: Automata (2017), where a long-running war on post-apocalyptic Earth between androids and machines soon unveils the truth of the world.