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Type: TV

Episodes: 24

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 2, 2022 to Sep 24, 2022

Premiered: Spring 2022

Broadcast: Saturdays at 17:30 (JST)

Producers: Yomiuri TV Enterprise, Poplar Publishing

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Nippon Animation, OLM

Source: Novel

Genre: Sports

Theme: School

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.50¹ (scored by 10,315 users)

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Ranked: #6359²

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Popularity: #3433

Members: 36,917

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In junior high, Ryou Mizushima and his friends join the badminton club on a whim. As he grows fond of the sport, Ryou works tirelessly to improve his badminton skills until he qualifies in the prefectural tournament. Lacking a coach who can bring out his full potential, he does not consider entering a high school with a strong badminton team. Instead, he plans on attending a local high school where he can play badminton for fun.

However, Ryou's perspective changes when Yokohama Minato High School's badminton coach scouts him. Not only does the institution have one of the strongest badminton teams in the region, but it also has Kento Yusa, a player Ryou admires. Though hesitant at first, Ryou decides to enroll with the support of his sister. Possessing a firm ambition, he begins to gain experience with the proper guidance of a coach—all in hopes of surpassing Yusa one day.

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Mizushima, Ryou

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Hanae, Natsuki
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Mizushima, Rika

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Kotobuki, Minako
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Uchida, Akira

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Kaji, Yuuki
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Sakaki, Shouhei

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Azakami, Youhei
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Matsuda, Kouki

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Furukawa, Makoto
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Yusa, Kento

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Taniyama, Kishou
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Watanabe, Yuta

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Nakamura

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Yokokawa, Yuusuke

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Takahashi, Hiroki
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Higashiyama, Youji

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Kakihara, Tetsuya
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Kama, Hideki

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Nakata, Hiroya

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Yamamoto, Heiseki

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Takeuchi, Hiroshi

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	1: "Haru Tsubame (春玄鳥)" by Hey! Say! JUMP (eps 1-13)
	2: "Thunder Sonia (サンダーソニア)" by Hey! Say! JUMP (eps 14-)

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	1: "Lyra (ライラ)" by Longman (eps 1-13)
	2: "Kaze no Naka (風の中)" by Rei Yasuda (eps 14-)

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Sep 24, 2022

KANLen09

Not Recommended

Love All, No Play. Piss off.

To wait more than a decade for a relatively unknown and underground work to get adapted, I really question who was in the right mind to green-light this project, given that there were already better alternatives like Liden Films's repertoire of badminton anime. This is novelist Asami Koseki's only work that was in Poplar Publishing (which publishes very old kids IPs from the 90s to the late 2000s) that was seralized from 2011 to 2014, and I'm just gonna assume that the sales figures for this were decent to OK (since it's "big" enough to get an anime adaptation), or ... is that some big shot wanted to see this come to fruition, and such is the case of Love All Play here. The only problem: Liden Films has redefined what to expect for badminton anime going forward with Hanebado! and Ryman's Club, and animation prowess certainly beats story elements to a point where the current trend has been stuck ever since.

Love All Play presents itself as your sterotypical school sport, chock full of characters that are meant to grow on you as the series progressed from start to finish, and in the space of 24 episodes covering the entirety of the 4-volume novel (which is best assumed since this is a one-and-only job), it certainly has done that. The issue is that why is this only released now is just as baffling, as if it was released right at the tailgate of the novel's end in 2014 would be just about perfect to have an anime adaptation on it, but given how long this took to get one, I would assume that it's the connection to the recent Tokyo Olympics (which sure isn't the case) to then finally have a use case for this anime to come out, it sure was "years in the making" that got stale when it came out, and staying the same when it finishes this season. And even if it was released in the past, it would've been doomed from the start to be largely forgotten in time to come.

Just about the only good part of the show was in its characters, which in their portrayal, were actually period-correct to the time when the novel came out: the bunch of newbies entering high school for the first time, being rookies at a sport for the first time, hanging out with friends and family, and especially the matches which help everyone progress a step further. And to be fair, this is old-school storytelling at its finest, though these days people (even myself) don't really care for the allure of the oldies and classics, unless if it's a well-regarded one (e.g. Rumiko Takahashi's Urusei Yatsura (All Stars) next season). And here to tag the story is the new group of rookies with Ryo Mizushima, Shohei Sakaki, Koki Matsuda, Taichi and Yuji Higashiyama, and Akira Uchida, the 6 newbies who found themselves being chosen by their school Yokohama Minato's badminton team, going through the normal pacing of practice after practice to improve and make themselves useful in making their school a household name from the ashes of sunkenness. Oh, and also enjoy their youth. I do find that the badminton team seniors, mostly Kento Yusa and Yusuke Yokokawa are both an annoying dirtbag and a respectful Senpai respectively, though overtime they do show well of their camaraderie with one another that's been in the works since they joined the badminton team. But the whole love interest section of the boys being cheered on by their classmates which raises the aspects of romance, while that is also period-correct to the setting, it unfortunately becomes a sore sight that I'd wish the focus went onto the actual badminton instead of the slice-of-life elements. But then again, this is school life at its most humble, so it's there. And most certainly is the whole "school goddess" thing of Ryo's sister Rika being the flower worth only the attention of Yusa. Again, no faults there, it's just how everything is brought up in the dailyness of school life.

If this anime came out in the mid-2010s, then Nippon Animation and OLM's Team Yoshioka's collab would've served a nice niche since there wasn't anything to compare to at the time. But this is the 2020s, and it looks awfully outdated by today's standards with such a lack of emphasis on the badminton segments, which is the core function of the show. Even the OST sounds unimpressive at best (though I loved the 1st Cour's OP, that was really nice coming from composers from sumika).

It's all-in or go home. Wholesome camaraderie aside in a competitive sports show that exists only on the school level, there's just not much going for Love All Play now, and I'm willing to bet that this show would be easily forgotten, both in its source novel and the anime in time to come, which is never a shame. What's a shame is that I felt like I've wasted 6 months of time watching this mid-tier show that should've came out a pretty long time ago, and then only to be left in its forgotten state. It's just boring by today's standards, and I want my precious time back.

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Sep 27, 2022

ARiceBall

Not Recommended

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Love All Play is an anime that fails in telling a compelling story and portrays badminton without conveying the qualities that make it a great sport. The animation, while wasn't expected to be anything great, manages to make glaring mistakes to someone who plays badminton and makes the sport feel sluggish, accompanied by a plot that is just plain wrong about badminton. Character "development" only occurs in characters realising they're just have to believe in themselves without exploring anything meaningful which further disregards the fundamentals of badminton as a sport. The main cast of characters are merely cliché "personalities" that appear uninteresting and ... typical; such as how Sakaki is loud and "straightforward" in his play, with the side cast and most other players being forgettable and bland.

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The main rival Yusa is an enigma - the way he is presented is bewildering to say the least as he constantly flips between being the "rotten prince" and being a general prick to everyone weaker than him (which by itself, would have made a decent character); and immediately simping for Mizushima's sister. As such, he's a very confusing character which the viewer is unsure whether or not to take him seriously. At the start, he's completely cold to our protagonist (again, would have made the plot more interesting if say, Mizushima had to win his respect) but then slowly becomes more of a rival/friend to him for practically no good reason after the first 2 episodes. It also doesn't help that his VA sounds pubescent with how many times his voice cracks.

Lastly, we have Mizushima who manages to be a bland main character with no real traits or playing style for the viewer to latch onto. The only things we know are that he enjoys badminton (wow) and never gives up which is the most boring an unoriginal a protagonist can be which we have to be told or he'd be as bland as a book on the different shades of beige.

To elaborate further on the animation - it wasn't anticipated to be anything special but I was taken aback by just how lifeless it was. Most of the shots are shown as stills with the CGI shuttle sliding across the screen, with the few points where the characters are moving being animated on two's or three's which makes the action look both incredibly slow and hard to follow. The most egregious example of this comes in episode 6 where one of the twins has a "rally" right at the net (which is utter nonsense in a real game) and it's just the two players moving in the laziest motion ever witnessed. In addition, the positioning of both players and shots lead me to believe that the animators have never seen or played a single game of badminton. There are many mistakes to point out, but the most common offender is how a lot of the lift shots are right at the net or in the middle of the court which is always a huge mistake when playing as the opponent can just smash it with ease.

In general, the plot seems to only revolve around just straight up believing in yourself to improve your skill which is to disregard the excessive amount of interesting development and ideas you can get from playing styles, technique etc. The matches are hardly shown and are over quickly which, along with the excessive number of tournaments, makes the matches boring, repetitive and lacking a sense of weight. The only good points I can say about the show is the soundtrack by Hayashi Yuki who also did the amazing Haikyuu!! soundtrack which manages to lift up the final few matches, including the match between Mizushima and Misaki which was also animated much better than any other match for some unknown reason. Misaki himself was an interesting character who had previously lost his sense of identity to Yusa which then lit his passion for badminton leading up to Nationals which, combined with his VA's stellar performance, elevated his match against Mizushima greatly. Too bad it was only shown for a grand total of about 5 minutes and was still riddled with animating mistakes veiled thinly behind the positives mentioned previously.

As a badminton player of 10 years and as an anime fan, I'd like my time back.

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Sep 25, 2022

syl__via

Mixed Feelings

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this is the first anime which focuses on badminton that i have watched. however i have mixed feeling about it. in general, i don’t think the anime is terrible but i do think the execution just feels very rush and some things are pretty repetitive.

like for example, they keep on showing the characters' names in every single episode. i think for people who watched the anime right from the start, halfway through, they would have remembered the characters' names already. if they are introducing some random characters then i understand, but even for the main characters' school, it just keeps showing.

another thing is the competition ...

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