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The 10 Best Sports Anime,

According To IMDB
Sports anime as the name suggests is anime
with sports as a crucial part of their narrative.
Here are some of the best according to IMDb.

BY CECILIA RIVIERE
PUBLISHED JAN 21, 2020
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Animes have the very particular talent of

taking any subject and turning it into a
gripping, emotional and unique story that will
have you begging for more. A perfect example
of this is the sports anime genre. From an
outsider's point of view, the idea of watching
an anime about sports may sound
uninteresting, boring even but if one takes the
time to give it a chance, they will soon realize
that the sports theme is often but a tool in a
coming-of-age story that has the power to
move anyone to tears.

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The heroes of those animes prove themselves

to determined, passionate and ready to
overcome anything obstacles and any
hardships to find happiness in playing a sport
that fuels their very souls. One or two life
lessons can be taken from those animes and
it's not surprising to see them rated high. To
get you started in this genre, here is a list of
the 10 highest rated Sports anime, according
to IMDb:

10 / 10

Kukoro's Basketball - 8.3

A team of basketball prodigies rose at Teiko

Middle School and earned the school
countless victories. The five-star members of
this team were so good that they earn
themselves the name of "Generation of
Miracles". After graduation middle school, all
five players were accepted to prestigious high
schools known for their amazing basketball
teams.

However, most people have forgotten about

the sixth player of the Generation of
Miracles, Tetsuya Kuroko, who joined a
powerful, yet little-known, team
at Seirin High. When Kuroko meets Taiga
Kagami, a student who spent most of his life
in America, the two vow to make Seirin's
team the best in Japan and take down all five
of Kuroko's old teammates.

9 / 10

Capeta - 8.4

Kappeita Taira, otherwise know as "Capeta",

is a 10-year-old boy with a passion for racing.
He lives with his father who unfortunately
cannot afford to buy his son a kart. However,
his job as in a paving company brings him
one day to accept a job at the local
racing track where he convinces the owner to
let him take parts on some of the old,
discarded karts.

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Thanks to those parts, Capeta's father builds

him a kart and brings him to the tracks for
the very first time. Capeta reveals himself to
have a natural talent for racing and catches
the attention of nearby spectators when he
manages to unnerve another talent young
racer who happened to be testing his new kart
that day.

8 / 10

Yuri!! On Ice - 8.4

After a defeat at the Grand Prix Final,

professional figure skater Yuri Katsuki
reconsiders his place in the figure skating
world and puts his career on hold. A strange
turn of event puts him in the spotlight when a
video leaked showing Yuri performing a
perfect mimic of his long-time idol's routine,
Victor Nikiforov.

This video catches Victor's attention who

travels to Japan with a one-in-a-lifetime offer
for Yuri: to coach him and revive his skating
career. Things seem to brighten up for Yuri
until another skater by the name Yuri
Plisetsky shows up unexpectedly claiming
that Victor already promised to coach him.

This anime is a must-see, even though fans

are still waiting for season 2.

7 / 10

Captain Tsubasa - 8.4

Tsubasa Oozora, an 11-year old elementary

school student, has a passion for soccer and
dreams of one day winning the FIFA World
cup for Japan. Luckily for him, Tsubaba is a
soccer prodigy and he will stop at nothing to
see his dream come true.

Captain Tsubasa is an absolute classic in the

sports anime genre and has been around for
so long that it doesn't need any introduction
anymore. It is a sweet, funny and truly epic
anime that absolutely deserves to be on this
list. The anime was so well-loved it even got
itself a reboot in 2018, same story, new
design, just as much epicness.

6 / 10

Haikyuu!! - 8.6

Middle school student Hinata Shouyou fell in

love with volleyball after watching an epic
national championship game on TV.
Determined to follow in the footsteps of those
amazing volleyball players, Hinata joins his
school's volleyball club as the only member
and after much effort, manages to assemble a
team that is chosen to compete against
another school. There they face off a star
player called Kageyama Tobio who instantly
becomes Hinata's rival.

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The two later find themselves attending the

same high school and to their horror, joining
the same volley team. They must put their
differences aside if they want to realize their
dream of winning the next championship.

5 / 10

Ping Pong The Animation - 8.6

The show combines a gripping storyline with

a truly unique and atypical graphics that
instantly sets it apart from any other sports
anime out there. The story follows 5 prodigy
ping-pong players from different high schools
as they learn to navigate the challenges of
being professional players and being
teenagers. The story doesn't have one main
character but rather 5 distinct storylines with
their own main character.

Each storyline relates the story of a player

and puts in light the difficulties that come
with being at times a normal teenager as well
as a professional player and how the two
combined can make finding what one expects
from one's life after high school complicated.

4 / 10

Slam Dunk - 8.7

Sakuragi Hanamichi is a freshman in high

school and an eternal romantic. When he falls
in love with his fellow student Haruko, he is
determined to do everything to make her fall
in love with him, including joining the
school's basketball team despite having no
previous experience as a basketball player.

Sakuragi's goal is to become the best player

on the team in hopes that Haruko will fall out
of love with her current boyfriend, who also
happens to be on the team, and take an
interest in Sakuragi. To everyone's surprise,
Sakuragi turns out to be a great player and
quickly becomes a strong asset to the team.

3 / 10

Hajime No Ippo - 8.8

Makunouchi Ippo is an ordinary high school

who is often bullied by his comrades. He
spends most of his time outside of school
helping the family business and barely has
time for any other normal teenager activities.
On the day the school bullies decided to give
Ippo a serious beating, serendipity finally
smiles upon Ippo and he is rescued by a local
boxer named Takamura.

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The boxer brings Ippo to the boxing gym

nearby and is introduced to this new world.
Having been allowed to take out his
frustration on a sandbag, Ippo found in
himself a love for boxing which gives a new
meaning and purpose to his previously bland
and empty life.

2 / 10

Initial D 8.8
initial d final stage

Takumi Fujiwara is an ordinary 18-year-old

student with a boring job at the local gas
station and as a delivery guy for his father's
tofu business. Every morning before school,
Takumi takes his father's car and delivers a
package to a hotel at the top of Mt. Akina
which unwillingly gave him a strong
experience as a mountain-pass-drift-racer. A
freak encounter with the second-best racer of
the Redsuns team, Keisuke Takahashi,
changes Takumi's life forever.

He is somewhat forced to enter the

racing life and take part in one of the most
dangerous races in the Gunma prefecture.
With the help of his friends and some local
racers, Takumi will do his best to not only
make it out alive of this race but win it.

1 / 10

Tomorrow's Joe 2 8.8

After running away from the orphanage, Joe

Yabuki wanders the streets of Tokyo and
encounters a former boxing trainer, Danpei,
who introduces him to the boxing world.
However, Joe is a troubled young man and he
is later arrested and sent to a temporary jail
where he will continue to get into trouble.
After fighting with a fellow inmate, Joe is sent
to a high-security Juvenil jail where he
meets Rikiishi, a former boxer.

The two instantly become rivals and have

their first fight. A strange turn of event cuts
the fight short and the two vow to fight again
once they are both out of prison, this time as
professional boxers.

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