High school soccer players from across Japan gather for a controversial project designed to create the best and most egoistic striker in the world. After Isagi Yoichi, a forward for a high school team, gets eliminated in the last game in the qualifier for nationals, he 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. The program isolates 300 young forwards in a prison-like institution called Blue Lock and puts them through rigorous training aimed at creating 'the world's greatest egotist striker.'
Inazuma Eleven follows the story of a young boy named Mark Evans, who is passionate about soccer. With the help of his friends, Mark forms a soccer team called Inazuma Eleven and embarks on a journey to compete in various tournaments. Along the way, they face powerful opponents, develop new skills, and discover the true power of teamwork. Will Mark and his team be able to overcome all challenges and become the best soccer players in the world?
Slam Dunk is a TV show about a delinquent student named Hanamichi Sakuragi, who joins the Shohoku High School basketball team in order to impress a girl. Despite his lack of basketball skills, Sakuragi's athleticism and passion for the game help him become a valuable player. Alongside his teammates, Sakuragi faces various challenges on and off the court as they strive to become the best in Japan.
Haikyu!! follows the story of Shoyo Hinata, a high school student with a height disadvantage but a burning passion for volleyball. After witnessing a legendary player in action, Hinata joins the Karasuno High School volleyball club. With the goal of competing in the national championship, Hinata and his teammates face various challenges and rivalries as they strive to become the best volleyball team.
Kuroko's Basketball follows the journey of Tetsuya Kuroko as he joins Seirin High School's basketball team. Despite his lackluster appearance and lack of basketball skills, Kuroko possesses a unique ability to pass the ball silently, making him an invaluable asset to the team. Together with his talented teammates, Kuroko aims to take on the top teams in Japan and become the best basketball player in the nation.
Ahiru no Sora follows the story of Sora Kurumatani, a passionate and short high school student who joins the basketball club. Despite his height disadvantage and a club with no proper members, Sora dreams of reaching the top and leading his team to victory in a school tournament. With determination, hard work, and the support of his teammates, he faces various challenges both on and off the court.
Twins Kazuya and Tatsuya, and their neighbor Minami have played together since they were children and built an unbreakable bond. But with puberty, the twins realized something: Minami is a girl, and three is a crowd. As the trio tries to preserve their relationship, Kazuya's pledge to make Minami's dream come true by taking her to Koshien with his baseball pitching skills makes the slackerish Tatsuya wonder about himself, and his own goals. But Minami has another dream she wants fulfilled, and as the twins continue to push themselves, with Minami in the middle, a life-changing tragedy leads one twin down a path he once never would've considered...
Badminton player Taiki has always admired basketball star Chinatsu from afar. But one spring day, a surprising turn brings them unexpectedly close.
Ashito Aoi is a young, aspiring soccer player from a backwater town in Japan. His hopes of getting into a high school with a good soccer club are dashed when he causes an incident during a critical match for his team, which results in their loss and elimination from the tournament. Nevertheless, he catches the eye of someone important who happened to be visiting from Tokyo. How will things turn out for Ashito?
After losing their star player, a high school basketball team rooted in Native American culture must unite to keep their state championship dreams alive.
Because of the legend left by Tatsuya Uesugi, Meisei Academy High School was well-known for their strong baseball team. But 26 years after their glory, the team has not been able to keep their record and has since lost their fame. Two stepbrothers, Souichirou and Touma Tachibana, aim to revive of the once-strong Meisei Academy baseball team and enter the National High School Baseball Championship. Souichirou and Touma are second years in Meisei Academy Middle School. Both boys are talented baseball players. Souichirou has shown excellent skill as a catcher and batter. Though having an extraordinary skill as a pitcher, Touma no longer pitches due to a certain reason. Once the two enter high school, they pair as a battery and aim to enter the National High School Baseball Championship!
Kō Kitamura, whose family owns a sporting goods store, has known the Tsukishima girls since he was born. The Tsukishima family runs a batting center and cafe, and they have four daughters. There's Ichiyo, the responsible eldest; Wakaba, Kō's cheerful best friend; Aoba, who doesn't get along with Kō; and Momiji, the energetic youngest daughter. When Kō enters high school, he aspires to lead his baseball team to the Koshien National High School Championship as their ace pitcher and make Wakaba's dream come true.
Kunimi Hiro is a high school student, who is forced to give up his ambitions as a professional baseball player due to a serious injury. Now at a new high school, Hiro gets involved with Haruko and her goals of reviving that school's baseball team. At first they must overcome the refusal of school principle, who still remembers a dishonorable defeat that the school's baseball suffered some ten years earlier. Even with permission to form a school baseball team, there are still the players to recruit and train, and the challenges of building a reputation of the team within the high school baseball circuit. This is a story of group of high school students and their love of the game of baseball. Hiro is national class pitcher and batter, with his best friend who is a catcher and with Haruko as the team manager, together they struggle to build a baseball team worthy of the national championship.
A wild and overzealous baseball player is scouted and trained by the Yomiuri Giants as their new star pitcher.
Star pitcher Haruka Kiyomine and skilled catcher Kei Kaname were an unstoppable duo—until Kei was hit with a curveball: amnesia. Now they have a second chance to play at a no-name high school with a team of past rivals. Can they overcome Kei’s memory loss and rekindle their baseball dreams? With hilarious hijinks and fierce competition, get ready for a strikeout.
With no soccer accomplishments to speak of during the entirety of Suou Sumire's junior high school years, the young wing gets an odd offer. Suou's main rival, Soshizaki Midori, invites her to join up on the same team in high school, with a promise that she'll never let Suou "play alone." It's an earnest offer, but the question is whether Suou will take her up on it. Thus the curtain opens on a story that collects an enormous cast of individual soccer-playing personalities!
Giant Killing follows a ragtag bunch from East Tokyo who are struggling in Japan's top football league. Nearing the bottom, they have lost 5 matches in a row which hasn't done much to team morale. Even with the fan's turning their backs on the team, it seems as if the end is near. East Tokyo United can only blame their coach right now. However, their Coach is going to do something drastic to prove to his team and fans, that against the biggest club in the nation, he can make this team win...
“Kung Fu Soccer” is about the soccer world intwined with talented people. Each character has a special Kung Fu talent that they use to play soccer. Lam Chung Fu was once a great soccer player in China. While at the top of his soccer-playing career, his brother sets him up and he is forced to give up soccer. One day, Lam meets a young man named Shun aka Little Sun and is impressed by his kung-fu and kicking skills. Lam immediately comes up with an idea to form a Kung-Fu soccer team and apply martial arts skill to the game of soccer. However, things do not go as smoothly as he thinks.
Minato is a boy who stopped playing water polo due to a certain incident in the winter of his third middle school year. He picks the sport back up again with a new team when he starts in high school, but the fledgling team runs into many problems.
In rugby, there is no ace striker, there is no number four batter, so who is the star of the team? The story begins at school entrance ceremony of Kanagawa High School where Kenji Gion, a small but gutsy go-getter joins the rugby club. He joins with his classmate, Iwashimizu, who has a complicated past and sub-captain Hachiouji, who always takes good care of his Club members. Lastly, there is Captain Sekizan, who has overwhelming powers but keeps his cards close to his chest. With such differences in both personality and physical performance, the team must learn to work and grow together so they can become the best.