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]
1928	Animal Olympic Games	Yasuji Murata	various	Short film	[12]
2016	Anima Yell!	Tsukasa Unohana	Cheerleading	Manga	[13]
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[lower-alpha 1]	Manga	[7]
1976	Ashita e Kick-off	Ikki Kajiwara	American football	Manga	[14]
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	[15]
1984	Attacker You!	Jun Makimura, Shizuo Koizumi	Volleyball	Manga	[16]
2007	Baby Steps	Hikaru Katsuki	Tennis	Manga	[17]
2008	Badminton Girl	Mari Asabuki	Badminton	Manga	[18]
1991	Baki the Grappler	Keisuke Itagaki	Martial arts	Manga	[19]
2004	Bamboo Blade	Masahiro Totsuka, Aguri Igarashi	Kendo	Manga	[20]
1986	Bataashi Kingyo	Minetarō Mochizuki	Swimming	Manga	[21]
2004	Big Windup!	Asa Higuchi	Baseball	Manga	[22]
1983	Blazing Transfer Student	Kazuhiko Shimamoto	Boxing	Manga	[23]
1987	Break Shot	Takeshi Maekawa	Billiards	Manga	[19]
1997	Buzzer Beater	Takehiko Inoue	Basketball	Manga	[24]
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	[25]
2007	Chihayafuru	Yuki Suetsugu	Competitive karuta	Manga	[3][10]
2003	Crimson Hero	Mitsuba Takanashi	Basketball	Manga	[7]
2012	Cross Game	Mitsuru Adachi	Baseball	Manga	[26]
2012	Cross Manage	KAITO	Lacrosse	Manga	[26]
1995	Dan Doh!!	Nobuhiro Sakata	Golf	Manga	[19]
2006	Dash!	Isaku Natsume	Cheerleading	Novel	[27]
1979	Dash Kappei	Noboru Rokuda	Basketball	Manga	[24]
2013	Days	Yasuda Tsuyoshi	Association football	Manga	[9]
1989	Dear Boys	Hiroki Yagami	Basketball	Manga	[24]
2007	Dive!!	Eto Mori	Diving	Novel	[28]
1972	Dokaben	Shinji Mizushima	Basketball	Manga	[5]
2002	Eyeshield 21	Riichiro Inagaki, Yusuke Murata	American football	Manga	[4]
1978	Football Hawk	Noboru Kawasaki	American football	Manga	[14]
2013	Free!	Kōji Ōji	Swimming	Light novel	[10]
1994	Ganba! Fly High	Shinji Morisue, Hiroyuki Kikuta	Gymnastics	Manga	[29]
1978	Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!!	Hisaichi Ishii	Baseball	Manga	[30]
2007	Giant Killing	Masaya Tsunamoto, Tsujitomo	Association football	Manga	[5]
2003	Ginban Kaleidoscope	Rei Kaibara, Hiro Suzuhira	Figure skating	Manga	[31]
1999	Girl Got Game	Shizuru Seino	Basketball	Manga	[7]
1991	Go!! Southern Ice Hockey Club	Kōji Kumeta	Ice hockey	Manga	[32]
2010	Gurazeni	Yūji Moritaka, Keiji Adachi	Baseball	Manga	[33]
1992	H2	Mitsuru Adachi	Baseball	Manga	[34]
2012	Haikyu!!	Haruichi Furudate	Volleyball	Manga	[35]
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	[36]
1994	Harlem Beat	Yuriko Nishiyama	Basketball	Manga	[24]
1985	Hikari no Densetsu	Izumi Aso	Rhythmic gymnastics	Manga	[19]
1999	Hikaru no Go	Yumi Hotta, Takeshi Obata	Go	Manga	[3]
2014	Hinomaru Sumo	Kawada	Sumo	Manga	[3]
2016	How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?	Yabako Sandrovich, MAAM	Weightlifting	Manga	[37]
1995	I'll	Hiroyuki Asada	Basketball	Manga	[24]
1952	Igaguri-kun	Eiichi Fukui	Judo	Manga	[38]
2008	Inazuma Eleven	Level-5	Association football	Video game	[9]
1995	Initial D	Shuichi Shigeno	Street racing	Manga	[19]
2000	Inu Neko Jump!	Mitsuru Hattori	Long jump	Manga	[39]
2017	Iwa-Kakeru! -Climbing Girls-	Ryūdai Ishizaka	Climbing	Manga	[40]
1994	Jaja Uma Grooming Up!	Masami Yuki	Horse racing	Manga	[41]
1971	Karate Master	Ikki Kajiwara, Jiro Tsunoda, Jōya Kagemaru	Karate	Manga	[8]
2005	Kenkō Zenrakei Suieibu Umishō	Mitsuru Hattori	Swimming	Manga	[42]
2015	King of Prism	Avex Pictures	Prism Show[lower-alpha 2]	Anime	[43]
1978	Kinnikuman	Yudetamago	Professional wrestling	Manga	[19]
1992	Kizuna: Bonds of Love	Kazuma Kodaka	Kendo	Manga	[7]
2008	Kuroko's Basketball	Tadatoshi Fujimaki	Basketball	Manga	[3][10]
1985	Mahjong Hishō-den: Naki no Ryū	Junichi Nojo	Mahjong	Manga	[19]
1994	Major	Takuya Mitsuda	Baseball	Manga	[4]
2007	March Comes in Like a Lion	Chica Umino	Shogi	Manga	[19]
1996	Mars	Fuyumi Soryo	Motorcycle racing	Manga	[7]
2018	Megalo Box	Chikara Sakuma	Boxing	Manga	[44]
1994	Midori no Makibaō	Tsunomaru	Horse racing	Manga	[45]
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	[46]
2007	Nononono	Lynn Okamoto	Ski jumping	Manga	[47]
1998	One Outs	Shinobu Kaitani	Baseball	Manga	[48]
1987	One-pound Gospel	Rumiko Takahashi	Boxing	Manga	[7]
2005	Over Drive	Yasuda Tsuyoshi	Cycling	Manga	[19]
1996	Ping Pong	Taiyō Matsumoto	Table tennis	Manga	[4][10][5]
2010	Pretty Rhythm	Mari Asabuki	Prism Dance Skate[lower-alpha 2]	Video game	[18]
2011	Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream	Avex Pictures	Prism Show[lower-alpha 2]	Video game	[49]
2012	Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future	Avex Pictures	Prism Show[lower-alpha 2]	Video game	[50]
2013	Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live	Avex Pictures	Prism Show[lower-alpha 2]	Video game	[50]
2013	Pretty Rhythm: All Star Selection	Avex Pictures	Prism Show[lower-alpha 2]	Video game	[50]
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]
1999	Real	Takehiko Inoue	Wheelchair basketball	Manga	[24]
2003	Rideback	Tetsurō Kasahara	Motorsports	Manga	[31]
2015	Rifle is Beautiful	Salmiakki	10m air rifle	Manga	[51]
1977	Ring ni Kakero	Masami Kurumada	Boxing	Manga	[19]
1987	Rough	Mitsuru Adachi	Swimming	Manga	[52]
2015	The Ryuo's Work is Never Done!	Shirow Shiratori	Shogi	Light novel	[53]
2010	Sabagebu!	Hidekichi Matsumoto	Airsoft	Manga	[54]
2006	Saki	Ritz Kobayashi	Mahjong	Manga	[55]
2004	Shion no Ō	Masaru Katori, Jiro Ando	Shogi	Manga	[56]
2005	Shōjo Fight	Yoko Nihonbashi	Volleyball	Manga	[5]
1993	Slam Dunk	Takehiko Inoue	Basketball	Manga	[4][5]
1986	Slow Step	Mitsuru Adachi	Softball	Manga	[19]
1966	Speed Racer	Tatsuo Yoshida	Auto racing	Manga	[11]
1966	Star of the Giants	Ikki Kajiwara, Noboru Kawasaki	Baseball	Manga	[57]
2010	Stella Women's Academy, High School Division Class C^3	Ikoma, Getsumin, Kokudō 12-gō	Airsoft	Manga	[58]
2005	Sugar Princess	Hisaya Nakajo	Figure skating	Manga	[19]
1997	Super Yo-Yo	Takashi Hashiguchi	Competitive yo-yo	Manga	[59]
2011	Supinamarada!	Satoru Noda	Ice hockey	Manga	[60]
2004	Suzuka	Kōji Seo	High jump	Manga	[7]
1968	Tiger Mask	Ikki Kajiwara, Naoki Tsuji	Professional wrestling	Manga	[61]
1981	Touch	Mitsuru Adachi	Baseball, gymnastics	Manga	[11]
1993	Tough	Tetsuya Saruwatari	Martial arts	Manga	[19]
2016	Tsurune	Kotoko Ayano	Kyūdō	Light novel	[62]
2017	Uma Musume Pretty Derby	S. Kosugi	Horse racing	Manga	[63]
2014	Waiting for Spring	Anashin	Basketball	Manga	[31]
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]

Notes

1. A fictional sport appearing in Battle Angel Alita by Yukito Kishiro.
2. A fictional sport in the Pretty Rhythm series that combines elements of figure skating and dance.[43][49] Also referred to as "Prism Dance Skate" in the 2010 Pretty Rhythm manga.[18]

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