When will sports anime be good again?

>Yawara
>Ping Pong
>good

Yawara is not a good anime.

>>154723712
>ping pong
>yowapeda
>haikyuu
>kuroko no basuke
>baby steps

this is literally the best decade for sports anime

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>>154723811
Fuck off, yes it is. Yawara is the most precious girl in history.

>>154723855
>Kuroko no Basuke
It's time to kill yourself.

>>154723855
The only good thing you posted there is Ping Pong, the rest is garbage for anti-intellectuals.

>>154723855
>>kuroko no basuke

>>154723877
>Sports
>intellectuals

I'm being ruses again, aren't I?

>>154723877
>le ping pong fans are pretentious XD
Don't falseflag.

WE NEED TO HYPE CHIHAYAFURU

I heard all out was pretty good aka new rugby anime

>>154723948
nah, it's shit

>>154723712
When it stops catering to fujoshits

>>154723983
do you want it to stop getting made or something?

>>154724003
None of the series in the OP cater to fujoshit, and they are classics.
I'd rather have a show that attracts than a show that caters.

>>154724031
that's why they are all shit, except for ping pong

>>154723902
Sports series are not about sports. You just outed yourself as a moron.

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>>154723712
The fuck are you talking about?
We're in the golden age of sports anime.

>>154723855
>kuroko no basugay
>instead of Ookiku Furikabute

What a fag. I bet you eat cum like a champ.

>>154723983
Except YOI is one of the best sports anime of recent years, since it's about adult professionals doing an individual performance based sport and took a big step away from typical sports shounen cliches. The real cancer is sports that are high school level and team based, they will never get away from garbage tropes and repetitive, formulaic structuring if they don't start picking more interesting premises/settings.

Giant killing is great

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>>154724080
you got me. Here I was watching them to enjoy the sports. I must be some kind of retard

>>154724141
I don't care about gayseball

but diamond no ace was pretty good

>>154724190
>figure skating
>sport

Hokey is a sport. Figure skating is to sports what sucking your boyfriend's dick is to heterosexuality.

>>154724274
Well. Considering YowaPedal is not really about cycling you're quite the idiot if you're watching it for that. He's is correct.

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>>154724305
what is it about then?

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>>154724296
Diamond no Ace is disgustingly bad.
Stop believing in /a/ memes and watch Oofuri - it's actually about baseball. As in like legitimate baseball not magical japanese baseball.

>>154724317
Superheroes on bicycles.

People on /a/ or anime viewers in general don't give a shit about sports anime unless it has waifu's. The average anime viewer and sports enthusiast have zero overlap. By all rights sports "anime" shouldn't even exist.

Chihayafuru

That is all.

>>154724305
Figure skating is a competitive physical activity, how the fuck is it not a sport? It's in the Olympics. Even if every single skater was gay, that wouldn't make any difference to the fact that it's a sport and they are athletes.

And how is Yowapeda not about cycling? It's non fucking stop cycling. Stop making retarded arbitrary judgements about simple things you somehow struggle to comprehend.

We have Haikyuu right now at least.

>>154724396
Sports anime is just a shounen fightan but instead of fighting there's "sports" events.

It's hilarious when some obvious shut in like you says this kinda shit. I mean come on, as if sports anime has anything to do with actual sports. Open up your eyes you fat retard.

Well. I suppose you wouldn't know either way. I doubt you've held a ball, rode a bike, or climbed a hill once in your life.

>>154724432
Slam Dunk is about basketball. It's about a story about a red headed delinquent guy.

>>154724432
Yowa pedal is about cycling about as much as Gundam is about war.

Not really.

>>154724453
Another normalfag that doesn't understand sports series. Isn't it a little early for this many morons to be on /a/?

>>154723811
Shit taste

>>154724432
I know Free! and YOI were laid on the fujo fanservice thick, but the way people try to deny that they are sports anime is ridiculous considering how heavily focused they were on the sports.
You can say there is a difference between fujosports and shonen sports but they are still both, at their core, about sports.

>>154723749
>yawara
>not good
Time to kill yourself

>>154724473
Yowapeda is literally nothing but cycling. There are no subplots. There are sport series that are not really about sport (for example, One Outs is about Gambling, Adachi's baseball manga are about romance, Free is about friendship drama), but Yowapeda is not one of them.

>>154724396
>unless it has waifu'

Most sports animay are gay tier. They barely have any waifu material at all.

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>>154723712
>cute girls doing martial arts

I could go for that.

>>154724476
I understand them perfectly.
The problem is you've not done a single physical activity in your whole life.

That's the fucking problem you immobile slab of tallow and lard.

>>154724452
They said good sports anime, not overhyped kiddie shit.

>>154724498
It's not about cycling.
I can assure you.
I've been cycling for 15 years. I should know.

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Is wrestling a sport?

>>154724527
Right, so the audience just collectively hallucinated all those scenes of cycling.

>I've been cycling for 15 years.
Kek, of course you are. How else would you be enough of an elitist to think a series about cycling is not 'enough' about cycling? Nobody is saying it's realistic, if people wanted that they'd watch televised sports events. But it is factually, objectively, as a work of fiction, about cycling and the vast majority of screen/panel time is dedicated to people doing it. Sorry, I know you wanted to feel superior about it for some reason.

>>154724453
>as if sports anime has anything to do with actual sports
What the fuck is the point of sports anime if it's not actually about sports? And no it's not like shonen fighting, it's about playing a sport.

My post was simply saying the average /a/ user only cares about cute girls so sports anime is not appealing. I never said I didn't like sports anime but talking about them on /a/ always goes like this.

>>154724513
>overhyped
Literally every thread that mentions Haikyuu has someone bashing it. And what the hell does kiddie shit mean? It has the same high school setting tons of other sports series have so are they all kiddie shit too?

>>154724619
Sports series are not about sports. If you really don't understand, you might be clinically retarded and should honestly shoot yourself.

>>154724527
>>154724473
Your argument would work for something like Free or Faggots on Ice where the main focus is the SoL or drama/romance. Yowapedal is literally just japanese teenage boys cycling.

>>154724645
>Sports series are not about sports.
That depends of the anime, retard. Not every sport anime is like Ping Pong or Free.

>>154724726
You once again prove yourself to be a retard. You don't even understand what I mean when I say they aren't about sports.

I just realized it's the weekend so there will just be more and more idiots like yourself all day. I'm done replying to you.

>>154724503
And yet every time there is sports anime thread people it's mostly waifufags wanking over whichever female character had 2 seconds of screentime rather than the relevant stuff.
I know that is typical /a/ but if you want waifu's there are better alternatives.

>>154724766
>wahhh why isn't sport anime exactly like real life sport, which is already available to watch elsewhere
>I don't understand what fiction is but I'm going to throw a tantrum and pretend I know better than everyone else

>>154724510
You seem upset. Are you sure you aren't the one who hasn't been doing any physical activity in their life? No one who is in good shape would be this butthurt about meaningless shit on /a/ of all places.

>>154724766
I'm different anon, you fucking mong. If you don't like sport anime then fuck off to reddit, you cockscuker.

>>154724768
>And yet every time there is sports anime thread people it's mostly waifufags wanking over whichever female character had 2 seconds of screentime
Same can be said of any series, really. You must have forgotten this is /a/.

>>154724768
You can always go back to /r/anime anon.

>>154724633
People only started bashing it because of people acting like it was a revolutionary masterpiece when it's just standard shonenshit. Abusing the word "hype" over the most mundane shit is obnoxious.

It's not kiddie because it's a high-school setting but haikyuu's humor and characters are immature and not as deep as haikyuufags like to believe. Like a kiddie pool.

Baby Steps S3 when?

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>>154724954
>Complex characters
>Masterpiece
Anon, people only praise the animation, I've never seen anyone on /a/ saying that HQ is that amazing.

>>154725025
You obviously don't go on /a/ much then, I'm not that anon but I see it all the time.

>>154725025
You must be new because all I remember is everyone talking about how amazing the character development is and how every character is likable. Or getting so easily impressed by regular plays to the point of refusing to read the manga because it kills the hype.
I don't think it would be as shitted upon if it were only praised for it's animation.

>>154724110
Golden Age of Shitness maybe. Shakunetsu was the only good sports show we've had since Ping pong.

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>>154724503
Watching the wrong sports shows

>>154725100
>>154725109
The few times I remember someone mentioning HQ was to call it fujoshit or to praise the sakuga, but then, I don't join sport anime threads that often, so maybe I'm wrong.

>>154725203
There hasn't been an actual haikyuu thread that was decent since season 1 aired. For some reason s2 and s3 attracted the most annoying of both it's fans and it's haters. Especially that one faggot who kept trying to police threads or wank about haikyuu in every vaguely sports anime thread. That guy is probably the reason haikyuu gets so much hate around here now to be honest.

>>154723712
>he didn't watch Shakunetsu no Takkyu Musume

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Football will be great again with mai ball and this

>>154725884
>Milner is her favorte footballer

kek

>>154724553
It's theater, not sport. It's not competitive.

>>154724305
No sports anime is 'really' about sports.

>>154725967
>hating on the best LB in the premier league
this is how you spot a pleb

>>154726338
>James Milner
>Best lb in the league

Get out scouse scum

All Rounder Meguru is the best. That is all.

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>>154723712

They'll become great once the fujoshit/SoL features is removed/downplayed and there is an emphasis on the mechanics and tactics of the sport.

Football is objectively the best sport because it allows for a wide variety of playstyles as well as being the most inclusive sport in terms of height.

You can be a manlet with good dribbling ability and you can be a lanklet with good heading ability but it would make no difference because both contribute to winning.

An anime about club football would go into things like corruption, betrayals and revenge. Pic related set in motion a chain of events which led to /sp/'s finest hour -- their greatest ever meme; >Torres.

>>154726739
Football always looks retarded in fiction, never mind anime. Too much dribbling is usually the downfall.

>no mention of Overdrive or One Outs
Man, what th fuck

>>154726739
you must watch giant killing

All modern sports anime are the same shit.

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>>154723749

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>>154723712

>>154724110
>>154723855
>Pedal
>Anything but shit

That is not fucking sports, that is a shitty shonen disguised as a sports series. Watch Nasu if you want to see what a cycling cartoon can do. Even Overdrive was more realistic than this.

>>154726338
>Milner
>Good at all

Nah mate, he's shite. He's what the Germans call an "English player", always tries his hardest but lacking in any flair, exceptional talent or real skill.

>>154727224
Some of those running animation were nightmare material

>>154728258
>realism in anime
you watch anime for the wrong reason pal

Yoi had a good premise and is a direction all sport anime should go, unfortunately it got lost in a romance subplot. More adults and professional athletes, less high schoolers and team sports which over time turn into shounen shits

>>154723712
>When will sports anime be good again?
>Ping Pong
>2014
>When

>>154723855
Haikyuu and Ping Pong are good, everything else is just sad.

>>154728324

You're an idiot if you didn't get what I meant with that. Go back to watching your battle shonen.

>>154726739

Real divegrass is shit. A game that bases it's tactics on crying like a little girl at the slightest contact is as entertaining as watching paint dry.

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>>154723749
Are you implying that today's sports anime aren't on par with the old ones?

>>154723855
The Baby Steps anime would be alright if it didn't look like garbage. The manga is terrific, so much wasted potential.

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>>154723855
>no mention of DnA.
Now I've lost it.

>>154724619
> And no it's not like shonen fighting, it's about playing a sport.
That's exactly how it is though. In battle shounens the "battles" are just the means to an end for all the other dumb shit with the story & characters happening. It's the same in sports series. In a lot of series the sport itself makes up a lot of what the characters are but the overall principle is the same.

If you're able to not get too anal about categorizing everything for no reason it's easy enough to understand.

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>>154728087
when's Keijo fighting game?

>>154728741
>Inazuma eleven
>Free!
>Keijo
Not sport anime

I wish Teppu didn't get canned.

>>154723966
I'm enjoying it

>>154726739
speaking of inclusiveness and variety of playstyles, video games (or board games) are even more inclusive (as there's less focus on physical characteristics or performance, save for when execution is involved, and generally more focus on the decision making as a result); it's disappointing to be the better decision maker in sports and still lose because you can't execute your gameplan/strategy in a sport, but looking at them another way, it could be said that when the "resources" such as physical characteristics, stamina, etc, are balanced enough between two players/teams, it's a different type of game.

>>154723712
Ping Pong is the only really good one on that list, and even then it's not great. "Sports" is a bad genre.

>>154729949
What's wrong with Ashita no Joe?

>>154723712
>sports
>ever being good

>>154729962
Most things, I guess. The writing in an average episode is poor, and the story is melodramatic and meandering. Lots of boring or outright bad characters, bad acting, and certainly terrible production values. I acknowledge its historical value of course, but even then I think its most influential quality is its popularity.

>>154724190
Why should they need more interesting premises or settings. An original premise has nothing to do with the quality of the execution.
You can write a shitty story about adult professionals just as easily as a shitty story about teenage amateurs.
Most good sports series are coming of age stories that focus on character development. Nowadays it's all an excuse to introduce a menagerie of cute boys to cater to every fujoshit taste.

>>154730134
I've only read the manga and only relatively recently at that, and didn't feel that it was just a case of "it's just historically important at all". It's a pretty solid story of a guy who deep down is more wild animal than man who crawls up from the bottom of society and then keeps going and ultimately destroys himself on his own terms fighting to the end/living how he wants to live. The support characters did a decent enough job of grounding/humanizing the guy when needed and indicating the changes in Joe as a person further into the story. A couple of his "rivals" could've been fleshed out more perhaps but they were all pretty memorable atleast.

It's probably the most complete-feeling story in that picture the OP posted, was just wondering why you singled out Ping Pong of all things instead.

>>154723712
I mean, it's not like Ping Pong came out so long ago that they're hasn't been a good sports anime in a while.

Semi-relevant, did anybody watch that show about the pitcher and the catcher? It looked kind of promising but I never checked it out.

>>154730134
>no actual or specific criticisms, just generic cookie-cutter opinions
You didn't actually watch it did you?

>>154730322
I can only really speak to the quality of the show, I imagine the manga is better. I picked Ping Pong for that same reason. Short and to the point, felt like a complete story, sizable cast of characters who all contribute to the development of the main themes, mostly great visual style.

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>>154723712
Sweaty Ping Pong was pretty fun

>>154730216

Honestly, that's just what I thought about All Out right at the start, with everyone fucking blushing, that blonde guy acting gay as fuck and the captain's fabulous hair. But digging a bit more into it, I actually like it. The team has a whole bunch of silly character designs, like they would do back in the day, and even as silly as they are, they are still presented as valuable team members, each with their strengths and weaknesses. And, well at least so far, there haven't been any shitty super power moves for simple things like running, dodging or whatnot.

>>154730452
I don't really care to give an in depth critique, I'm just explaining why I don't love it. If that guy likes the show, as I know a lot of people do, then more power to him.

>>154730322

I could argue Sakuragi was also pretty well fleshed out by the end of the manga though. Have not read AnJ though, so take that as you will.

>>154730481
This

>>154730216
would Akagi (which has virtually no character development but focuses deeply in decision making, geniosity and insanity needed to perform his strategies) be considered an exception?

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>>154728954
>Inazuma Eleven
>not sport

>>154723712
When japan makes an ice hockey anime

>>154730920
Well-written character development is one thing that could make a story good. There are many other things. The key word here is "well-executed".

>>154724190
>and took a big step away from typical sports shounen cliches
and leapt into shoujo cliches instead. Which I know /a/ loves nowadays but it's not any better.

Does 3-Gatsu no Lion count? You could argue that it's more of a straight up drama instead but I'm seeing people mention Chihayafuru after all and it's board game is both more in the background and more nonsensical than the one in 3-Fatsu

>>154728741
>Any of that shit
>On par with Joe
>Anything in general
>On par with Joe

>>154728741
Keijo is a modern masterpiece.

>>154728378
2014 was 7 years ago, anon.

>>154730481
>fun
Fun is not good. That's just your opinion.

>>154731293
Do the elevens even play hockey? I'm still waiting for a good surfing series.

>>154729949
>Ping Pong is the only really good one on that list
More like Ping Pong is literally the only thing you've seen on that image.

>>154729949
>Giving judgement of value to Ashita no Joe

>>154732532
should be implicit that that's are just how I feel about the shows / genre, and not a judgement of intrinsic value

>>154723861
She herself is precious. The series she's in gets too repetitive though.

>>154726385
It's also stuck in scanlation hell though.

>>154724190
The only thing that seperates YOI from the usual romance-sports series is that it fully panders to fujos. That's it. It's different but not better.

>>154725109
>>154724954
Are you done?
Haikyuu is good and It's definitely better than Kyoani trashes /a/ always hyping for.

>>154723712
When Inoue goes back to writing about them.

>>154733128
He is right though. HQ is utterly unimpressive narrative-wise, character-wise and thematically. The only good aspect of it are the visuals.

>>154733101
>The series she's in gets too repetitive though.
I haven't seen the anime, but the manga is really quite good and concise. Urasawa really can do anything well imo.

>>154731960
>i hate fun
>look guys im an elite I like joe!
fuck off

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>>154723712
Maybe someday
>>154724505
>Someone beat me to a Bamboo Blade post
Well this is a first

>>154734325
It's not "utterly unimpressive." It just doesn't belong in the same tier as stuff like Joe, Slum Dank, etc.

>>154732301
It's really weird that there isn't a single anime/manga dedicated to that sport. Bizarre considering Japan is a great place to surf.

>>154723712

There is going to be a huge glut of sports anime come the Olympics in Tokyo 2024.

At least, I reckon so.

>>154724342
there are no superpowers in yowapeda. those are just metaphors

>>154735935
TO be honest, I just hope there's something to do with Akira.

>>154724190
Figure Skating is not a sport. Its a performance competition. Its like saying band competitions are sports.

>>154724553
Real wrestling yes. Greco-Roman. Not WWE.

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>>154728741
Yes

>>154724553
Not that type of wrestling, but I wish anime about is was more common. There are a couple recent ones but none of them are well-animated at all.

>>154732916
Using declarative statements usually leaves impression of the latter.

>>154736880
Nothing is Sports: The Thread

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>>154724190
>YOI
>not repetitive
>half the episode run time dedicated to showing off the exact same skate routine

End the meme of YOI being anything particularly original. Outside of decent (for Jap standards) representation of a gay relationship and not being based on a preexisting material it's trite garbage.

>tfw waiting for new episodes of ace wo nerae 2

>>154723948
>>154723966
>>154729115
If anything, All Out!! is seriously underrated.

>>154736279
Otomo would probably have a stroke at the mere mention.

>>154723712
What about Super Campeones?

>>154738679
Nah it's actually nothing special, the animation quality drops at times and there are way too many episodes about personal sob stories instead of rugby games. I remember the first few episodes being really boring too. I personally like All Out, but then again I like everything that has cute boys.

>>154738295
I feel your pain.

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>>154739068
I love All Out but this Anon makes a point, It really does have too many sob stories for a Sports show.

Like some of the irrelevant characters even got a sob story episode.

When we get a blood bowl anime.