Like Team Spirit: What Makes Sports Anime So Exciting?

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Often but not always a subset of the Shonen genre, sports anime have been around for a very long time. As such, we've had a proliferation of titles from various sports of various kinds. Titles like Ashita no Joe, Hajime no Ippo, Slam Dunk and Captain Tsubasa are iconic titles that have come to define the genre in various ways.

Their impact of sports anime on the medium is immense, and they garner a huge following and community. Just what is the special X-factor found in sports anime that makes them so gripping and particularly satisfying to follow all the way through? From the traditional to the avantgarde, the fictional and the realistic, sports anime have proven to be capable of captivating fans, whether they and many of these titles are incredibly well-received. However, we have to pick apart the sports anime phenomenon and how it has presented at different points in time to come up with a possible discernible constant that makes sports anime, particularly the great ones, as good as they can be.

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Due to the sheer variety in sporting codes represented in anime, it is redundant to look for a specific formula that would fit each or most examples; however, there are obvious categories that emerge when one analyses the central objective and themes of the anime in question. Sports anime are diverse, but they, like any other genre, have tropes and tendencies that can better assist our understanding of the X-factor that garners them the cult followings to which they are prone.

One of the most captivating aspects of sports anime in general is the idea that the main characters of the series are working towards a goal or ambition, be it an individual one, a collective one or some