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List of sports anime and manga

This is a list of sports anime, manga, OVAs, ONAs, and films.

Year Title Creator(s) Sport Original medium Ref(s)
2006 81diver Yokusaru Shibata Shogi Manga [1]
1973 Abu-san Shinji Mizushima Baseball Manga [2]
2006 Ace of Diamond Yuji Terajima Baseball Manga [3][4]
1973 Aim for the Ace! Sumika Yamamoto Tennis Manga [5][6]
2002 Air Gear Oh! great Inline skating Manga [7]
1970 Akakichi no Eleven Ikki Kajiwara, Mitsuyoshi Sonoda Association football Manga [8]
2012 All Out!! Shiori Amase Rugby union Manga [9]
2008 Amanchu! Kozue Amano Scuba diving Manga [10]
1999 Angels in the Court Pinpai Volleyball Video game [11]
2016 Anima Yell! Tsukasa Unohana Cheerleading Manga [12]
1928 Animal Olympic Games Yasuji Murata various Short film [13]
2017 Animation x Paralympic Parasports Anime
2015 Aoashi Yūgo Kobayashi, Naohiko Ueno Association football Manga [14]
1977 Arrow Emblem: Hawk of the Grand Prix Rintaro Auto racing Anime [11]
2011 Asahinagu Ai Kozaki Naginata Manga [5]
1995 Ashen Victor Yukito Kishiro Motorball[a] Manga [7]
1976 Ashita e Kick-off Ikki Kajiwara American football Manga [15]
1968 Ashita no Joe Asao Takamori, Tetsuya Chiba Boxing Manga [5]
1968 Attack No. 1 Chikako Urano Volleyball Manga [5]
1977 Attack on Tomorrow Fumio Kurokawa Volleyball Anime [16]
1984 Attacker You! Jun Makimura, Shizuo Koizumi Volleyball Manga [17]
2007 Baby Steps Hikaru Katsuki Tennis Manga [18]
2008 Badminton Girl Mari Asabuki Badminton Manga [19]
2008 BaggataWay Iroha Kohinata Lacrosse Manga [20]
1991 Baki the Grappler Keisuke Itagaki Martial arts Manga [21]
2021 Bakuten!! Toshimasa Kuroyanagi, Toshizo Nemoto Rhythmic gymnastics Anime [22]
2004 Bamboo Blade Masahiro Totsuka, Aguri Igarashi Kendo Manga [23]
2009 Basquash! Shōji Kawamori, Thomas Romain Basketball Anime
1986 Bataashi Kingyo Minetarō Mochizuki Swimming Manga [24]
2004 Big Windup! Asa Higuchi Baseball Manga [25]
2022- Birdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story Takayuki Inagaki Golf Anime [26]
1983 Blazing Transfer Student Kazuhiko Shimamoto Boxing Manga [27]
2018 Blue Lock Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura Association football Manga [28]
1987 Break Shot Takeshi Maekawa Billiards Manga [21]
2015 Burning Kabaddi Hajime Musashino Kabaddi Manga [29]
1997 Buzzer Beater Takehiko Inoue Basketball Manga [30]
2005 Capeta Masahito Soda Kart racing Manga [4]
1981 Captain Tsubasa Yōichi Takahashi Association football Manga [4][5]
2011 Cheer Boys!! Ryō Asai Cheerleading Novel [31]
2007 Chihayafuru Yuki Suetsugu Competitive karuta Manga [3][10]
2003 Crimson Hero Mitsuba Takanashi Volleyball Manga [7]
2012 Cross Game Mitsuru Adachi Baseball Manga [32]
2012 Cross Manage KAITO Lacrosse Manga [32]
1995 Dan Doh!! Nobuhiro Sakata Golf Manga [21]
2006 Dash! Isaku Natsume Cheerleading Novel [33]
1979 Dash Kappei Noboru Rokuda Basketball Manga [30]
2013 Days Yasuda Tsuyoshi Association football Manga [9]
1989 Dear Boys Hiroki Yagami Basketball Manga [30]
2007 Dive!! Eto Mori Diving Novel [34]
1972 Dokaben Shinji Mizushima Baseball Manga [5]
2000 éX-Driver Kōsuke Fujishima Street racing Anime
2002 Eyeshield 21 Riichiro Inagaki, Yusuke Murata American football Manga [4]
1985 F Noboru Rokuda Auto racing Manga
2022 Fanfare of Adolescence Horse racing Anime [35]
2016 Farewell, My Dear Cramer Naoshi Arakawa Association football Manga [36]
1978 Football Hawk Noboru Kawasaki American football Manga [15]
2013 Free! Kōji Ōji Swimming Light novel [10]
2022 Futsal Boys!!!!! Futsal Anime
1994 Ganba! Fly High Shinji Morisue, Hiroyuki Kikuta Gymnastics Manga [37]
1985 Ganbare, Kickers! Noriaki Nagai Association football Manga
1978 Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! Hisaichi Ishii Baseball Manga [38]
2007 Giant Killing Masaya Tsunamoto, Tsujitomo Association football Manga [5]
2003 Ginban Kaleidoscope Rei Kaibara, Hiro Suzuhira Figure skating Manga [39]
1999 Girl Got Game Shizuru Seino Basketball Manga [7]
1991 Go!! Southern Ice Hockey Club Kōji Kumeta Ice hockey Manga [40]
1994 Goal FH Association football Anime
2018 Golden Sakura Sayaka Okada, Kazuo Maekawa Mahjong Manga [41]
2010 Gurazeni Yūji Moritaka, Keiji Adachi Baseball Manga [42]
1992 H2 Mitsuru Adachi Baseball Manga [43]
2012 Haikyu!! Haruichi Furudate Volleyball Manga [44]
1989 Hajime no Ippo George Morikawa Boxing Manga [4][5]
1996 Hana-Kimi Hisaya Nakajo Track and field Manga [7]
2013 Hanebado! Kōsuke Hamada Badminton Manga [45]
1994 Harlem Beat Yuriko Nishiyama Basketball Manga [30]
2015 Harukana Receive Jizai Nyoi Beach volley Manga
1985 Hikari no Densetsu Izumi Aso Rhythmic gymnastics Manga [21]
1999 Hikaru no Go Yumi Hotta, Takeshi Obata Go Manga [3]
2014 Hinomaru Sumo Kawada Sumo Manga [3]
1989 Honō no Tōkyūji: Dodge Danpei Tetsuhiro Koshita Dodgeball Manga
2019 Hoshiai no Sora Tennis Anime
2016 How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? Yabako Sandrovich, MAAM Weightlifting Manga [46]
1995 I'll Hiroyuki Asada Basketball Manga [30]
2005 Idaten Jump Toshihiro Fujiwara Cycling Manga
1952 Igaguri-kun Eiichi Fukui Judo Manga [47]
2008 Inazuma Eleven Level-5 Association football Video game [9]
1995 Initial D Shuichi Shigeno Street racing Manga [21]
2000 Inu Neko Jump! Mitsuru Hattori Long jump Manga [48][better source needed]
2017 Iwa-Kakeru! -Climbing Girls- Ryūdai Ishizaka Competition climbing Manga [49]
1994 Jaja Uma Grooming Up! Masami Yuki Horse racing Manga
2019 Kandagawa Jet Girls Jet Race Anime
1971 Karate Master Ikki Kajiwara, Jirō Tsunoda, Jōya Kagemaru Karate Manga [8]
2005 Kenkō Zenrakei Suieibu Umishō Mitsuru Hattori Swimming Manga
2014 Keppeki Danshi! Aoyama-kun Taku Sakamoto Association football Manga
2015 King of Prism Avex Pictures Prism show[b] Anime [50]
1978 Kinnikuman Yudetamago Professional wrestling Manga [21]
1992 Kizuna: Bonds of Love Kazuma Kodaka Kendo Manga [7]
2008 Kuroko's Basketball Tadatoshi Fujimaki Basketball Manga [3][10]
2021 Little Hands Shouya Hosokawa Handball Manga [51]
1985 Mahjong Hishō-den: Naki no Ryū Junichi Nojo Mahjong Manga [21]
1994 Major Takuya Mitsuda Baseball Manga [4]
2007 March Comes in Like a Lion Chica Umino Shogi Manga [21]
1996 Mars Fuyumi Soryo Motorcycle racing Manga [7]
2018 Megalo Box Chikara Sakuma Boxing Manga [52]
2017 MF Ghost Shuichi Shigeno Auto racing Manga
1994 Midori no Makibaō Tsunomaru Horse racing Manga [53]
1988 Miracle Giants Dome-kun Shotaro Ishinomori Baseball Manga
1991 Moero! Top Striker Association football Anime
1996 Monkey Turn Katsutoshi Kawai Hydroplane racing Manga [11]
1981 Musashi no Ken Motoka Murakami Kendo Manga [5]
2002 My Heavenly Hockey Club Ai Morinaga Ice hockey Manga [7]
2010 Nana Maru San Batsu Iqura Sugimoto Quiz bowl Manga [54]
2007 Nononono Lynn Okamoto Ski jumping Manga
1987 Offside Natsuko Heiuchi Association football Manga
2014 Oi! Tonbo Ken Kawasaki, Yū Furusawa Golf Manga [55]
1998 One Outs Shinobu Kaitani Baseball Manga [56]
1987 One-pound Gospel Rumiko Takahashi Boxing Manga [7]
2005 Over Drive Yasuda Tsuyoshi Cycling Manga [21]
1996 Ping Pong Taiyō Matsumoto Table tennis Manga [4][10][5]
2010 Pretty Rhythm Mari Asabuki Prism dance skate[b] Video game [19]
2011 Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream Avex Pictures Prism show[b] Video game [57]
2012 Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future Avex Pictures Prism show[b] Video game [58]
2013 Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live Avex Pictures Prism show[b] Video game [58]
2013 Pretty Rhythm: All Star Selection Avex Pictures Prism show[b] Video game [58]
2012 Prince of Stride Shuuji Sogabe Running, Parkour Novel [59]
1999 The Prince of Tennis Takeshi Konomi Tennis Manga [4][5]
1998 Princess Nine Tomomi Mochizuki Baseball Anime [9]
1974 Pro Golfer Saru Fujiko Fujio Golf Manga [11]
2021 RE-MAIN Masafumi Nishida Water polo Anime [60]
1999 Real Takehiko Inoue Wheelchair basketball Manga [30]
2009 Redline Takeshi Koike, Katsuhito Ishii, Yōji Enokido, Yoshiki Sakurai Auto racing Anime
2003 Rideback Tetsurō Kasahara Motorsports Manga [39]
2015 Rifle Is Beautiful Salmiakki 10m air rifle Manga [61]
1977 Ring ni Kakero Masami Kurumada Boxing Manga [21]
1987 Rough Mitsuru Adachi Swimming Manga
2006 Run with the Wind Shion Miura Running Novel
2015 The Ryuo's Work Is Never Done! Shirow Shiratori Shogi Light novel [62]
2010 Sabagebu! Hidekichi Matsumoto Airsoft Manga [63]
2006 Saki Ritz Kobayashi Mahjong Manga [64]
2009 Sayonara, Football Naoshi Arakawa Association football Manga [65]
2016 Shakunetsu no Takkyu Musume Yagura Asano Table tennis Manga
2004 Shion no Ō Masaru Katori, Jiro Ando Shogi Manga [66]
1990 Shoot! Tsukasa Ooshima Association football Manga
2005 Shojo Fight Yoko Nihonbashi Volleyball Manga [5]
2021 SK8 the Infinity Longboard Anime
2021 Skate-Leading Stars Goro Taniguchi Ice skating Anime
1990 Slam Dunk Takehiko Inoue Basketball Manga [4][5]
1986 Slow Step Mitsuru Adachi Softball Manga [21]
1994 Soccer Fever Association football Anime
2015 Soukyuu Boys Kyuu Sakazuki, Fuwai Handball Manga [67]
1966 Speed Racer Tatsuo Yoshida Auto racing Manga [11]
1966 Star of the Giants Ikki Kajiwara, Noboru Kawasaki Baseball Manga [68]
2010 Stella Women's Academy, High School Division Class C3 Ikoma, Getsumin, Kokudō 12-gō Airsoft Manga [69]
2005 Sugar Princess Hisaya Nakajo Figure skating Manga [21]
1997 Super Yo-Yo Takashi Hashiguchi Competitive yo-yo Manga
2011 Supinamarada! Satoru Noda Ice hockey Manga [70]
2004 Suzuka Kōji Seo High jump Manga [7]
2020 Taisou Zamurai Gymnastics Anime
2009 Tailenders Hisashi Sasaki, Makoto Ohta, Masaru Kawahara, mebae Auto racing Anime [71]
2016 Tamayomi Mountain Pukuichi Baseball Manga
2006 The Knight in the Area Shin Kibayashi, Kaya Tsukiyama Association football Manga [72]
1968 Tiger Mask Ikki Kajiwara, Naoki Tsuji Professional wrestling Manga [73]
1981 Touch Mitsuru Adachi Baseball, gymnastics Manga [11]
1993 Tough Tetsuya Saruwatari Martial arts Manga [21]
2022 Tribe Nine Kazutaka Kodaka Baseball Anime
2018 Try Knights Shunsaku Yano (Story), Chizuka Erisawa (Art) Rugby union Manga
2017 Two Car Motorcycle racing Anime [74]
2016 Tsurune Kotoko Ayano Kyūdō Light novel [75]
2017 Uma Musume Pretty Derby S. Kosugi Horse racing Manga [76]
2012 Victory Kickoff!! Association football Anime
2014 Waiting for Spring Anashin Basketball Manga [39]
1990 Wangan Midnight Michiharu Kusunoki Street racing Manga [citation needed]
2020 Wave!!: Surfing Yappe!! Surfing Anime
2011 Welcome to the Ballroom Tomo Takeuchi Ballroom dancing Manga [3]
1998 Whistle! Daisuke Higuchi Association football Manga [7]
1986 Yawara! Naoki Urasawa Judo Manga [5]
2008 Yowamushi Pedal Wataru Watanabe Cycling Manga [3][10]
2016 Yuri on Ice Sayo Yamamoto, Mitsurō Kubo Figure skating Anime [4][10]
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