Run with the Wind

Tsurune

★ 7.1 · Animation · Drama · 2018

After target panic drives him from archery in middle school, Minato decides to return to the sport when his friends join the high school kyudo club.

Ahiru no Sora

★ 8.4 · Animation · Drama · 2019

Sora joins the high school basketball club, but his unmotivated teammates don't care about the game. To get anywhere, he has to change their minds.

2.43: Seiin High School Boys Volleyball Team

★ 7.4 · Animation · Drama · 2021

Kimichika Haijima moves back to his hometown in Fukui and reunites with childhood friend Yuni Kuroba on the volleyball court.

HANEBADO!

★ 7.0 · Animation · Drama · 2018

Ayano Hanesaki, a first-year student at Kanagawa Prefectural Kitakomachi High School, has a badminton ability able to surpass others effortlessly yet avoids playing the sport. She meets Nagisa Aragaki, a third-year student who practices day and night aiming to become the best player in Japan. Encouraged by coach Tachibana Kentarou, supported by club colleagues, and fired up by various rivals, the two engage in their youth and adored sport so thrilling like a shuttle flown at high speed!

Hinomaru Sumo

★ 6.8 · Animation · Action & Adventure · 2018

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 any inch, but this guy goes and does what...!? Ushio and the small sumo club climbs its way to the top! The goal is Hinoshita Kaisan, a title for the highest rank in professional sumo, equivalent of Yokozuna.

Stars Align

★ 8.4 · Animation · Drama · 2019

Toma Shinjo has one mission: save his school’s tennis team. And his only hope rests on the talent of Maki Katsuragi, who’s reluctant to part from his studies. This will be the team’s last summer together unless they convince Maki to step on the court!

Yu Yu Hakusho

★ 8.5 · Animation · Action & Adventure · 1992

After dying to save a boy, delinquent tough guy Yusuke Urameshi is granted another chance at life by redeeming himself as a "Spirit Detective."

Chihayafuru

★ 7.6 · Animation · Drama · 2011

Chihaya Ayase has spent most of her life supporting her sister’s model career. When she meets a boy named Arata Wataya, he thinks Chihaya has potential to become a great karuta player. As Chihaya dreams of becoming Japan's best karuta player, she is soon separated from her karuta playing friends. Now in high school, Chihaya still plays karuta in the hope that she will one day meet her friends again.

The Piano Forest

★ 6.6 · Animation · Drama · 2018

A tranquil tale about two boys from very different upbringings. On one hand you have Kai, born as the son of a prostitute, who's been playing the abandoned piano in the forest near his home ever since he was young. And on the other you have Syuhei, practically breast-fed by the piano as the son of a family of prestigious pianists. Yet it is their common bond with the piano that eventually intertwines their paths in life.

Ace of the Diamond

★ 7.8 · Animation · 2013

Scouted for his potential, brash left-handed pitcher Eijun Sawamura joins baseball powerhouse Seido High to become the undisputed ace of the team.

Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life

★ 7.4 · Animation · Drama · 2019

Since the graduation of the senior members of the club, Takezou ends up being the sole member of the "Koto" (traditional Japanese string instrument) club. Now that the new school year has begun, Takezou will have to seek out new members into the club, or the club will become terminated. Out of nowhere, a new member barges into the near-abandoned club room, demanding to join the club. How will Takezou be able to keep his club alive and deal with this rascal of a new member?

The Fruit of Grisaia

★ 6.8 · Animation · Drama · 2014

Mihama Academy—on the surface, a closed learning environment established to nurture students who find themselves at odds with the world around them; in actuality, an orchard-cum-prison built to preserve fruit that has fallen too far from its tree. Yet with the arrival of the institute's first male student, the nearly preposterously opaque Kazami Yuuji, the students at Mihama begin to fall out of step with their predetermined rhythms. Will Yuuji prove to be the element the girls around him needed to take hold of their lives once more, or will the weight of their pasts prove too steep a wall to overcome?