| Are you interested in sports anime and do you play sports yourself? Has anime ever motivated you to engage in any physical or athletic activity? Or even just to become interested in any sporting discipline. Counting technically non-sports shows that still realistically and in detail show some martial arts or sport lifestyle. For example, I've always liked anime about track and field, martial arts, and other "summer" sports, but right now things like cycling and swimming are temporarily out of my reach, so "certain" shows just make me depressed, if you get what I want to say. Uma Musume has really motivated me to start running again, but I can't find the right place yet. |
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| Sports anime in general suck ass and absolutely opposite of everything what any competitive sport represents. As a massive sports lover I hate sports anime to the core. Except rare exceptions. Uma musume is good because it's meta approch while still respecting the original sport in contrast cow dunks like Blue lock (biggest offender) which completely disrespects the greatest invention of humanity to a point it's boils my blood. I pray nothing but misfortune to the creator of that horrible shit. Another good one was the ball park one last season which shows and respects sports culture, informative while still being fun. |
I tried volleyball once because of Haikyuu and it was embarrasing but I also naruto ran down the beach and submitted an isekai rap as my music asignment, I love being weeaboo. However, the sport I'd like to try most doesn't seem to be available anywhere. |
| Most fictional sports matches bore me out. |
| I've always considered myself unathletic and rarely thought the fun was worth the physical exhaustion and tedious practice. Run with the Wind was an eye-opener, showing me the actual experience of running and the pure joy and satisfaction of it. It got me to pick up running more regularly and more seriously. I'm hoping the upcoming Hyakuemu can reignite that. Don't know what to expect, but the trailer gets me hyped. I've never understood the appeal of watching sports either, but Haikyuu gave me a taste. I don't think I've ever teared up over a match before that. Still don't watch sports, but I at least understand a little better now. |
I really love sports anime btw, not sure why so many people hate it, it's the best. I like it when there's sports scenes in regular anime too. |
| I just love sports in general, whether I play them or watch them be played. So sports animes just enhance that love I have. Things like Blue Lock, Ao Ashi and Slam Dunk have reminded me of why I love to both play and watch football and basketball. I played volleyball for a couple of years in school so Haikyuu was also amazing to watch having previous experience with that. But I also love the idea of sports so even when I watch an anime that revolves around a sport I don't personally play/watch I still love the ideas it conveys. |
| "Those words are meant for those that dare defy god's final warning... An epigraph of their stubbornness" - Maho Hiyajo (Steins;Gate 0)    |
| I am interested in Sports anime, such as Running with the Wind and Haikyuu!!. I played tennis. Anime has sparked my interest in volleyball. |
| Major is my favorite sports anime and baseball is fun to play. Also the Major League baseball player Shohei Ohtani feels like a real life version of the main character from that anime. |
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| I love it when sports anime actually go in-depth with its tactical and technical aspects regardless on whether or not i've played it before, especially if they're able to make it actually interesting and easy for beginners to digest rather than being boring and tedious. Ao Ashi is the perfect example for this, i really love that series and i can't really wait any longer for the 2nd season. |
| I played futsal for a decade and did well in PE classes at school. Nowadays, I focus on swimming and padel tennis. Having played at a high level for many years, it was strange to watch sports anime for the first time. There are many differences between anime and real life, but I understand where they are coming from. There are several nuances and details surrounding each sport, and not all players are brilliant, so if we were to replicate real life exactly as it is, we would end up with a boring product. Not every game in real life is thrilling and exciting. The only way to keep our attention is through moments of tension, hype, and gifted characters; something that we can relate to, and at the same time, recognise how brilliant it would be if something like that happened in real life. |
| The one sport I have experience playing is soccer; and I didn't even make it through the first episode of BlueLock. I thought the concept of that show was so stupid, and the characters ugly. There possibly are better soccer anime out there, but a lot of team sports anime seem to be about competing between each other, with a specific character who has attitude because "the MC isn't taking this seriously enough" and someone has a tragic backstory..... basically the exact opposite of what you'd want to see. The reason I liked Free! was because it emphasized the importance of THE TEAM, and the comraderie of team sports- which is what I''d like in a soccer anime. |
| Big time, Hikaru no Go actually got me started on learning how to play Go, but I eventually stopped because the learning curve is just so steep, and I don't have a mentor to guide me every time I make a mistake. I also got interested in the sports of baseball through anime, but unfortunately I don't think we play baseball in my country. I play badminton, table tennis, basketball, squash, swimming, and cycling before I even got into anime. Competed in some of them when I was in school. I have gotten lazier though lmao, so watching sports anime do motivate me to go out and play more. |
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| No, I have no interest in watching or participating in sports aside from low-effort ones like going bowling occasionally. I don't watch very many Sports anime either. The ones I have seen are: |
KruszerSep 3, 2:00 PM
| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97"  |
| watch all kinds of sports anime, and play/watch football in real life. |
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| I did watch and enjoy some sports anime but I do not play sports myself and it never really motivated me to engage in atheltic activity. |
| Not anime, but a VN. I took up running for a while after Katawa Shoujo. |
| Are you interested in sports anime and do you play sports yourself? I like sports anime and it doesn't matter if I was playing it before. I was playing in a football club and I also was playing Basketball and Volleyball during my time in school. I'm not the best at them for sure and I was never that athletic as well, but they were a lot of fun for sure. Furthermore, I also watching Snooker and F1 races in the past. They really should make an anime about Snooker. This could be interesting. |
| "Sports anime and real life sports activities" My impression is that sport shounen is 70% melodrama and 30% yaoi bait. As the real life aspect of it, for example a well researched show like Freedom (and I know a thing or two about swimming) had most of the elements right, but many were hilariously wrong. So yeah. One should watch sport anime mostly for the melodrama. (Which means I don't watch sport anime.) |
alshuSep 4, 12:31 AM
| I kinda hate sports as I don't like doing any of them. Just kinda boring and I can't run cause of my shitty hip. Also I can't for the life of me understand watching sports. Unless it's like motor sports as that has a technical aspect to it as well. I do read sports manga and have watched some sports anime as that's just dramatized fun. It's less about the sports most of the time and more about the rivalries and stupid ass special moves. Which is entertaining |
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| I used to play football and a bit of basketball before anime but I tried Volleyball after watching Haikyuu. I am a member of my Uni team now. |
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| Spokon never had anything to do with real sports, except as an inspiration that is. I know because I watched the first of its kind (Attakku No. 1), except for the deamon teacher and the fact that a team of women under his tutelage won the olimpyc games it had ZERO to do with Volleyball. Was the anime less good, at least the first half? nope. |
RobertBobert said: It's one of my favourite genres, and yeah I do. Granted I never got to be as involved in youth sports as I wished as a kid, however, I do enjoy playing badminton. Are you interested in sports anime and do you play sports yourself? RobertBobert said: I think Yowamushi no Pedal got me to bike more. I actually ended up going too fast, and got a bad cut on my arm. Still have a scar from it. Has anime ever motivated you to engage in any physical or athletic activity? |
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RobertBobert said:
Are you interested in sports anime and do you play sports yourself?
It's one of my favourite genres, and yeah I do. Granted I never got to be as involved in youth sports as I wished as a kid, however, I do enjoy playing badminton. Are you interested in sports anime and do you play sports yourself?
RobertBobert said:
Has anime ever motivated you to engage in any physical or athletic activity?
I think Yowamushi no Pedal got me to bike more. I actually ended up going too fast, and got a bad cut on my arm. Still have a scar from it. Has anime ever motivated you to engage in any physical or athletic activity?
| @BilboBaggins365 So, in some sense, you were traumatized by anime? :D |
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Nah it gave me a funny story to talk about. |
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Nah it gave me a funny story to talk about.
| @BilboBaggins365 I just remembered how Eva indirectly contributed to my nervous breakdown due to the fact that I watched it in its entirety for the first time in a very nervously exhausted state. |
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@BilboBaggins365 I just remembered how Eva indirectly contributed to my nervous breakdown due to the fact that I watched it in its entirety for the first time in a very nervously exhausted state.
| @RobertBobert Is that......funny looking back on it lol? |
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@RobertBobert Is that......funny looking back on it lol?
| @BilboBaggins365 If you forget about the fact that my head was out of place for about half a year, then now in a sense yes. But now I'm more careful about works that want to establish an intimate relationship with my brain, lmao. |
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| Keijo would be of great interest to me, but alas that only works in anime. |
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