Ping Pong the Animation
Tsukimoto Makoto (nicknamed Smile) is a quiet high-schooler who's been friends with the loud and energetic Hoshino Yukata (nicknamed Peko)....
Short Sports anime series around 12 episodes
Short sports anime recommendations for viewers who want a focused one-cour watch without a long commitment.
This guide narrows sports anime to compact series. The picks favor titles with a focused arc, strong early direction, and enough payoff for a short watch plan.
Short Sports Anime Series Around 12 Episodes
Grand Blue Dreaming
A new life begins for Kitahara Iori as he begins his college career near the ocean in Izu city, full of excitement for his new life. He will be...
SK8 the Infinity
Reki, a high school sophomore and skater, is addicted to “S,” a highly secret and dangerous downhill skateboarding race that takes place in an...
Medalist
Tsukasa Akeuraji, a frustrated skater, meets a girl called Inori Yuitsuka, who is yearning to enter the world of figure skating. Motivated by...
Yuri!!! on ICE
Yuri Katsuki makes his way to the Grand Prix ice skating competition as Japan’s top representative with his eyes on the prize. However, instead of...
Stars Align
Due to the apparent incompetence of its members and lack of results, the boy's soft tennis team is on the verge of being shut down.
Tsurune
Minato played Japanese archery in middle school, but after a certain incident, he ran away from the sport. In high school, Minato meets new...
Dance Dance Danseur
Danseur noble--a ballet dancer qualified to dance the role of the prince. Second-year junior high school student Murao Junpei was fascinated by...
Girls und Panzer
You may have heard of kung fu, but the girls at Oarai High School practice gun-fu—really, really BIG 75mm gun-fu, in fact. It's called Sensha-do,...
Umamusume: Pretty Derby
In a world very much like our own, great race horses of the past have a chance to be reborn as "horse girls"—girls with the ears and tails of...
Backflip!!
Each laugh takes them higher. Each tear makes them stronger. The final summer of middle school, Shoutarou Futaba discovers boys gymnastics and is...
Rising Impact
A young boy, Gawain, lives in a mountainous, rural area with an incredible love for baseball and making the ball really fly. One day he runs into...
OVERTAKE!
Haruka Asahina is a 16 year old high school boy racing F4 cars while staying at Komaki Motors, an auto-body shop in Shizuoka prefecture. Komaki...
KENGAN ASHURA Part I
Since the Edo periods of Japan, gladiator arenas exist in certain areas. In these arenas, wealthy business owners and merchants hire gladiators to...
Tsuritama
You can't catch fish if you don't go fishing, and you can't make friends if you don't at least try. Which is how relationship-challenged student...
Oblivion Battery
Iron-armed pitcher, Haruka Kiyomine, and the shrewd catcher, Kei Kaname, AKA the "Skilled General," were considered to be an unrivaled, monstrous...
Negative Positive Angler
The anime's story centers on Tsunehiro Sasaki, a university student with a large debt and is told by his doctor that he only has two years left to...
BIRDIE WING -Golf Girls' Story-
The story centers on two young women golfers named Eve and Aoi Amawashi. The two come from completely different backgrounds, and have the...
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