Shakunetsu Kabaddi (Burning Kabaddi)

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Japanese: 灼熱カバディ

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 3, 2021 to Jun 19, 2021

Premiered: Spring 2021

Broadcast: Saturdays at 01:23 (JST)

Producers: TV Tokyo

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: TMS Entertainment

Source: Web manga

Genres: Comedy, Sports

Themes: School, Team Sports

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.04¹ (scored by 37,606 users)

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Ranked: #3899²

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Popularity: #1952

Members: 96,035

Favorites: 735

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Tatsuya Yoigoshi, a once nationally recognized soccer player, is now a first-year student at Noukin High School. Due to his developed hatred for sports, he has abandoned his previous aspirations to become a famous livestreamer on the internet. One day, Souma Azemichi, a first-year on the kabaddi team, seeks to recruit Yoigoshi and spontaneously interrupts his livestream.

Without any expectations, Yoigoshi follows Souma to the school gym, where he witnesses second-years Kyouhei Misumi and Shinji Date engaged in the primal contact sport of kabaddi. Despite ridiculing the rules of play, Yoigoshi is stunned by the intensity of the round. Because of an enticing deal and slight coercion, he agrees to settle the prospect of his recruitment through the most invigorating way: a battle of kabbadi, a team sport played empty-handed.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Oujou, Masato

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Okamoto, Nobuhiko
Japanese

Yoigoshi, Tatsuya

Main

Uchida, Yuuma
Japanese

Iura, Kei

Main

Furukawa, Makoto
Japanese

Azemichi, Souma

Main

Satou, Gen
Japanese

Date, Shinji

Main

Takeuchi, Shunsuke
Japanese

Misumi, Kyouhei

Main

Suzuki, Tatsuhisa
Japanese

Hitomi, Yuuki

Supporting

Murase, Ayumu
Japanese

Seki, Ryuuta

Supporting

Komada, Wataru
Japanese

Sakura, Manabu

Supporting

Hanae, Natsuki
Japanese

Takaya, Ren

Supporting

Suzumura, Kenichi
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Matsumoto, Takuya

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Kaneiwa, Motoko

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Nishimae, Shuka

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Ichikawa, Kazuya

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Opening Theme

"FIRE BIRD" by Shunya Ohira (大平峻也)

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"Comin' Back" by Yuuma Uchida (内田雄馬)

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Jun 18, 2021

IrrelevantGuy

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Kabaddi is a fairly popular sport in South Asia, particularly the Indian subcontinent where it is often played by rural kids during the summer. In my country Bangladesh, kabaddi is officially recognized as the national sport, and I myself used to play it a lot few years ago. All of this makes the sport seem very favorable, but when you go past South Asia, you begin to realize how obscure it actually is. Outside the boundaries of Asia, it is extremely difficult to find someone who has even heard of kabaddi, let alone someone who has played it. Guess how surprised I was then, when ...

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Jun 18, 2021

ESER10

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This had potential to be amazing. Instead, it's just…. Decent. Don't get me wrong, I still really enjoyed this show quite a bit, but it just does not hit anywhere near the potential because of the extreme lack of animation.

But before getting into that further, what is this show about? Shakunetsu Kabaddi is about the sport of Kabaddi, which I knew absolutely nothing about. It's a sport that's most popular around India, and to oversimplify the rules drastically: two teams of 7 on each side of the court take turns to send one person to the other side and tag others out, while trying not ...

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Jun 18, 2021

ren0080

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Let me get this straight. This is the 3rd best anime this season in my opinion. Just behind Fumetsu no Anata e and Shaows House.
That's a pretty bold statement I know, but hear me out.
I'll explain myself in this review.

The story is just the typical sports plot where team finds MC, then get themselves stronger as they go to the Nationals. You know, the basic stuff.
But the way this anime handles this just reminds me of Slam Dunk. You know, arguably the best Sports Anime of All Time.
Why do I compare this mediocre-looking series to a legendary series you may ask?
Simple. Because unlike every ... other sports anime where they basically speedrun the entire shounen sport formula, this anime treats it's story not just going from plot a to plot b, but treats it carefully with natural progression either from the character themselves or because of the plot.
It gives out reason as to why things are happening, and it gives enough breathing room for the audience before a hype match comes so they wouldn't feel rushed or something.
Although there are problems like forgotten plot points (the vtuber thingy and the soccer drama sh*ts, etch.) but it's only the first season, so they might tackle those said topics in the future season.

The characters are one of this anime's greatest strength. Just the way it handles every character reminds me greatly of Slam Dunk. Yes, I compared it again to Slam Dunk.
But hear me out, Slam Dunk essentially had one of, if not, the best cast in anime. And this anime had the potential to even rival Slam Dunk's cast.
But the cast is just that great. Basically all of them had enough characterization that I'm really invested to them as a whole. Though the new characters introduced halfway through the story aren't as developed, they would probably get their time to shine in the next season. So I'm looking forward to that.
Enough about the main cast. The rival teams are also developed enough for them to leave impacts to the viewer's mind. And one thing that this anime does well is that it gives out not just the ace, but also the captains, their own time to shine.
Mostly in sports anime, rival teams are basically one man team. But not here. Even though the ace are strong, the captains are just as strong seeing how the anime portrayed them.
Seems familiar? Yes, Slam Dunk also had some of the best rival teams of any sports anime. So yeah, another similarities.
Also, the MC here reminds me of fusion of Sakuragi and Rukawa. And I love it lmao

The animation is decent. It rarely had any off-models for important fights, which is pretty hard since all of them are buff af. I imagined it'd be hard for the muscles to stay in their size consistently. But they pulled them off.
Even more impressive because everyone can tell that this is a low-budget anime. Yet, it knows where to use and not use still-frames. So it doesn't look like slideshow. Pretty impressive.
But still can't deny how mediocre the animation is.

The music however are phenomenal. I forgot who composed the OST but d*mn it's good. Also, the OP and ED are just pure bangers and it gives me hype everytime. Gives me enough hype to actually start doing Kabaddi.

Overall, just a solid sports anime that definitely is the most underrated anime this season. I'm looking forward for Season 2 if it'd happen (I hope so).
Also, I just realized that half of my review is just praising Slam Dunk lmao
(7.6/10)

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