Hinomaru Sumo

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1. Ping Pong The Animation

   2014 · Drama, Anime, Sports · ended

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

   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.

2. Yuri!!! on Ice

   2016 · Drama, Anime, Sports · ended

   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.

3. Blue Lock

   2022 · Anime, Sports · returning

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   Japan keeps loosing the World Cup, over and over. After Isagi Yoichi, a forward for a high school team, gets eliminated in the last game in the qualifier for nationals, gets invited to a program called "Blue Lock" Their coach will be Ego Jinpachi, who intends to "destroy Japanese loser football" by introducing a radical new training regimen: isolate 300 young forwards in a prison-like institution called "Blue Lock" and put them through rigorous training aimed at creating "the world's greatest egotist striker."

4. Inazuma Eleven

   2008 · Drama, Anime, Sports · ended

   Recommended for similar Anime / Sports profile.

   Mamoru Endou is the perfect example of a typical football fanatic who seeks to follow the footsteps of his grandfather. His grandfather was the former coach Raimon's Football Club where he is today. The scenario takes place at Rimon Gakuen college and the story revolves around Teikoku antagonistic college celebrates its strength, speed and total cruelty. The author shows how Endou and his friends overcome obstacles, how they face a lack of enthusiasm, discouragement and fighting against other teams to achieve their goals!

5. Haikyuu!!

   2014 · Comedy, Anime, Sports · ended

   Recommended for similar Anime / Sports profile.

   Inspired after watching a volleyball ace nicknamed "Little Giant" in action, small-statured Shouyou Hinata revives the volleyball club at his middle school. After finding new members, they set out for the middle school tournament, where they cross paths with a formidable school with the "King of the Upper Court", Tobio Kageyama. Hinata vows to surpass Kageyama, and so after graduating from middle school, he joins Karasuno High School's volleyball team—only to find that his sworn rival, Kageyama, is now his teammate.

6. Hajime no Ippo

   2000 · Comedy, Action, Anime, Sports · ended

   Recommended for similar Anime / Sports profile, hidden gem.

   Makunouchi Ippo is an ordinary high school student in Japan. Since he spends most of his time away from school helping his mother run the family business, he doesn't get to enjoy his younger years like most teenagers. Always a target for bullying at school (the family fishing business grants him a distinct odor), Ippo's life is one of hardship. One of these after-school bullying sessions turns Ippo's life around for the better, as he is saved by a boxer named Takamura. He decides to follow in Takamura's footsteps and train to become a boxer, giving his life direction and purpose. Ippo's path to perfecting his pugilistic prowess is just beginning...

7. The Prince of Tennis

   2001 · Comedy, Anime, Sports · ended

   Recommended for similar Anime / Sports profile.

   Echizen Ryoma is a young tennis prodigy who has won 4 consecutive tennis championships but who constantly lies in the shadow of his father, a former pro tennis player. He joins the Seishun Gakuen junior highschool, one of the best tennis schools in Japan, and there along with his teamates he learns to find his own type of tennis in an attempt to defeat his biggest obstacle of all: his father as well as himself.

8. Charlotte

   2015 · Adventure, Anime · ended

   Recommended for similar Anime profile, hidden gem, also on Tokyo MX.

   Special abilities occur among a small percentage of boys and girls in puberty. Yū Otosaka uses his power without others knowing, and lives a fairly normal, average school life. Before him suddenly appears a girl, Nao Tomori. Due to his meeting with her, the fate of special power-users will be exposed.

9. Slam Dunk

   1993 · Drama, Comedy, Action, Anime · ended

   Recommended for similar Anime profile.

   Hanamichi Sakuragi, an entering Shohoku high school freshman, holds a record for being rejected by 50 girls during middle school. His nearly 2 meters height and bright red hair causes most students to write him off as a delinquent.One day, a girl named Haruko Akagi approaches Hanamichi without any fear. When she asks Hanamichi "do you like basketball?" Hanamichi falls head over heels for the girl of his dreams. Without missing a beat, Hanamichi tells her he loves basketball, and the two head to the gymnasium where Hanamichi learns about the slam dunk. He also learns of Rukawa, one of the country's top basketball prospects, also a freshman at Shohoku.

10. Violet Evergarden

    2018 · Anime · ended

    Recommended for similar Anime profile, also on Tokyo MX.

    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.