Buzzer Beater

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Japanese: BUZZER BEATER

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Type: TV

Episodes: 13

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Feb 5, 2005 to Apr 30, 2005

Premiered: Winter 2005

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: TMS Entertainment

Source: Web manga

Genres: Shounen, Sports

Duration: 25 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Ranked: #5221²

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Popularity: #3905

Members: 10,658

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Winter 2005TVTMS Entertainment

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Hideyoshi is a homeless boy living in New York in the near future, who survives by hustling other kids in basketball games. But now he's been drafted into a pro team-a pro team with a very unique goal. There once was a time when humans dominated the game of basketball. But times have changed, and now the physically superior alien players have taken over the game, and there are barely any human players left. But Hideyoshi's team-the first all-human team to compete in the Space League-intends to change all that, and bring the championship back home to Earth.

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Adaptation:	Buzzer Beater
Sequel:	Buzzer Beater 2nd Season

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Hideyoshi

Main

Takimoto, Fujiko
Japanese

Ivan

Main

Inada, Tetsu
Japanese

Cha-Che

Main

Kobayashi, Sanae
Japanese

Main

Ueda, Yuji
Japanese

Han

Main

Nakao, Ryusei
Japanese

Maru

Main

Kosugi, Juurouta
Japanese

Main

Nakata, Jouji
Japanese

Rose

Main

Fujita, Daisuke
Japanese

Lazuli

Supporting

Asakawa, Yuu
Japanese

Yoshimune

Supporting

Ishimori, Takkou
Japanese

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Miya, Shigeyuki

Director, Character Design

Namura, Hidetoshi

Episode Director, Animation Director

Tonokatsu, Hideki

Episode Director

Ooba, Hideaki

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"Hideyoshi no Theme (ヒデヨシのテーマ)" by Kouichirou Kameyama

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"Azayaka na Mono (Acoustic Version) (鮮やかなもの（Acoustic Version）)" by Every Little Thing

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Jan 19, 2009

13 of 13 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 5

Ckan (All reviews)

18 people found this review helpful

Buzzer Beater is an anime centred around the young basketball genius Hideyoshi and his attempt to take on the inter-planetary basketball league which is currently dominated by the physically superior Aliens.

Buzzer Beater was an anime with a fair amount of potential, but it is in my opinion lacking what makes a good sports anime.
There is a lack of effort put into the series and although I have not watched the sequel ( Buzzer Beater 2007 ), this first installment was not satisfactoy in terms of "sports action" nor noticeably entertaining (thus renegating it to the level of timekiller).

Story - 6/10
The anime mainly focuses on the read more

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Jan 7, 2009

13 of 13 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

Ilyaoh (All reviews)

10 people found this review helpful

Buzzer Beater, a Basketball anime, I love basketball, never thought this anime would work, the first time I saw it, I shared that opinion, the second time too, but now I've watched it for the first time I really enjoyed it.

So it's about Basketball, intergalactic basketball that is. Which is a pretty cool idea, if they used basketball like it would be in real life, it would've been just as good as now, but perhaps the intergalactic part brings the anime more out to the public, sin...ce it's something special.

I really enjoyed the characters, the main character is like most shonen-kids, loud, irritating and cocky, but since it's a regular thing, you probably won't mind it. The other characters are really cool too, they look normal, some even plain, but that's a cool think, I wished they would've worked them out more, but maybe that'll happen in the sequel(?) "Buzzer Beater 2007". But how they want to create a human team to enter the intergalactic league is cool, since we got underrated too much by those stupid aliens.

Oh, the aliens, that part could've been better too, it's an intergalactic match, but in the entire show, we get to see 2 races, Gorans and Humans. They should've expended that view on races more.

The art is good, at first I got annoyed by it, because when they spoke or awed, their lips hung out, that's kinda annoying. But if you get further to the end that dissappears, or I just got used to it. The animation itself is from mediocre level, and in the field/matches/games it's entirely different, sometimes they use CG/3D art, for example the ball or if they shoot hoops. And sometimes they use this special form of camera work.

The motion is smooth yet simple, and the envirment moves like crazy, which makes it look like a drunk is holding the camera, this was weird once I saw it, but sometimes it gives out a cool scene, the matches itself are sometimes simple, but exciting. The normal things you see in these kinds of anime's, the training and the result of training, can't be seen in this anime. The end of the last match was a bit too.. weird? It didn't fit the character that much, nor the anime itself.

We can see the main character en the head point guard train in one episode, but there's no result left to be seen, not enough, but that could be that the opposing team was just to strong. Kind of disappointing, the length of this anime could've been increased too.

It's just 13 episodes, and how the story goes now it's fine, I don't know if the viewingrate was good, but when it was, they should've lengthened it, maybe to the mediocre 26. Since now it still ended in the smaller league.

Besides that it's actually a quite enjoyable anime, there are funny sequences, but also tense one's. For a basketbal-lover, it might be a bit disapointing, but it should be watched since it's pretty good.

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Jul 13, 2009

13 of 13 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

lyza (All reviews)

5 people found this review helpful

They tried...Just another basketball-based anime. Though unlike slam dunk and dear boys which leaves a huge impact on the audience, it is somehow entertaining. i read some reviews about this anime and saying that it suck is totally unfair. It is not as exciting as those i have mentioned earlier but it's entertaining or maybe i'm just a huge fan of basketball. hehe i'm not a fan of its art but it has some attratctive guys or gorans there.

The story obviously revolves around a blue-haired kid (hideyoshi) with extraordinary talent he always bad mouth his opponents saying he'll win and he makes sure read more

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