Top 20 Sports Anime ranked by Japenese Otaku

Chihayafuru is an anime that depicts the youth of high school students who are passionate about competitive karuta. Sixth-grader Chihaya Ayase believes that if she continues playing karuta, she will be reunited with Arata and establishes the Mizusawa High School Karuta Club.

Yuuri Katsuki was about to be eliminated from the Grand Prix Finals in his first appearance in his fifth year as a senior. 23 years old, Yuri's career opportunities were getting smaller and smaller. One day, Yuuri was lazily soaking in a hot spring at his parents' home when Victor Nikirov, a five-time world champion from Russia, appears in front of him and offers himself as a mentor. As one of his biggest fans, Yuuri eagerly accepted, and so began his journey of reinvention on the world stage.

Mamoru Endou, captain of a weak team, aims to participate in the Football Frontier, a national junior high school soccer tournament. This is the passionate story of a group of soccer boys who aim for the national tournament while overcoming many difficulties together with their friends.

The Hakone Ekiden (relay race) is held every year in January, where university students compete in a fierce battle. This is the story of unknown university students trying to participate in the event.

My twin brother, Kazuya, is a serious person who takes his studies and sports seriously. His older brother, Tatsuya, is a bit lazier than his younger brother. Kazuya, a high school student, devotes himself to baseball in order to keep his childhood promise to take his childhood friend to Koshien. Tatsuya, on the other hand, joins the boxing club.

Sora Kurumatani has a small frame, which is not an advantage when it comes to basketball, and although she was never selected as a starter because of her height, she enters Kuzuryuu High School with high hopes for the high school basketball team. How will the members of the basketball team face all the difficulties they will face one after another...!

Ren Mihashi is a pitcher who cries easily. he was an ace in junior high school because he was the grandson of a business owner, and his teammates hated him because he didn't yield the mound for three years. His guilt over the baseball team's constant losses because of him led him to distrust people. But Ren's feet eventually find their way to the baseball field.

Junior high school student Tatara Fujita has spent her days in agony, unable to find anything she wants to do. Welcome to the Ballroom is a one-of-a-kind youth dance anime that depicts Tatara's growth with an overwhelming amount of passion.

Toshihiko Tanaka enrolled in the newly established Kakekawa High School to play with Yoshiharu Kubo, the 'number 10'. Tanaka was active in middle school but was fed up with not being able to see Kubo in the hospital and being forced to do chores every day. However, Tanaka's manager, Kazumi Endo, has a plan to get him into a match with a second-year student.

The protagonist, Takeshi Tatsumi, was a star player for Japan's national soccer team until Tatsumi suffered a crippling injury that forced him to give up his soccer career. However, he becomes the manager of the soccer team he once played for and struggles to win the league championship.