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9	An anime or manga in which, rather than [[FightingSeries fighting]], the characters play a game or sport. Said game or sport '''will''' be SeriousBusiness sometimes resulting in physically unwarranted pain, injury or death. Expect a lot of MundaneMadeAwesome. Frequently leads to a TournamentArc. Sometimes overlaps with {{Mons}} and ToBeAMaster.
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11	Because the vast majority of characters are male, sports anime and manga have become synonymous with [[YaoiFangirl fangirl]] fodder along with {{otome game}}s and {{Yaoi}}. They also have a huge following of [[LGBTFanbase gay men]] for obvious reasons. That's not to say there isn't {{fanservice}} for straight men either: manga featuring girls playing sports are similarly prime fanboy material (especially those for the {{seinen}} demographic) and may include blatant [[HoYay Les Yay]] or even go into outright {{Yuri}} territory.
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13	Not to be confused with RPGAnime.
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15	!!Examples
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17	[[index]]
18	* ''Literature/TwoPointFourThreeSeiinHighSchoolBoysVolleyballTeam'' is a light novel turned anime series about a boys' volleyball team.
19	* ''Literature/AccelWorld'' is about an augmented reality MMO fighting game.
20	* ''Manga/AceOfTheDiamond'' is about baseball.
21	* ''Manga/AfterSchoolDiceClub'' is about board games, with every game played a real game.
22	* ''Manga/AimForTheAce'' is about tennis players, about thirty years earlier than ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis''.
23	* ''Manga/{{Akagi}}'', which is a manga about TabletopGame/{{Mahjong}}.
24	* ''Manga/AoAshi'' is about club football.
25	* ''Manga/AoharuXMachinegun'', is about a three-man team playing airsoft.
26	* ''Manga/AllOut'', a series about rugby.
27	* ''Manga/AllRounderMeguru'' is about Martial Arts.
28	* ''Manga/AnimaYell'' is about cheerleading. However, unlike most works in this index, it's a SliceOfLife series.
29	* ''Manga/AreaNoKishi'' (''Knights Of The Area''): The story of a high school [[UsefulNotes/FootyRules football]] club manager who seeks to overcome his fear of inadequacy to once again play the sport he loves.
30	* ''Anime/AttackerYou'', an influential Volleyball manga, it inspired lots of girls into playing volley-ball in both Japan and Europe at the time the manga was published and the anime aired.
31	* ''Manga/AttackNumberOne'' is the first televised female sports anime ever, about volleyball.
32	* ''Anime/AttackOnTomorrow'' is about volleyball.
33	* ''Anime/AyanesHighKick'' follows a would-be [[ProWrestlingIsReal professional wrestler]] and her debut in the world of competitive kick-boxing.
34	* ''Manga/BabySteps'' is the tale of a nerdy high-school student who trains to become a tennis player both to prove to himself that he can, and to get closer to the girl that has caught his eye.
35	* ''Anime/{{Backflip}}'' follows a men's high school rhythmic gymnastics team.
36	* ''Manga/BakiTheGrappler'' is about martial arts.
37	* ''Manga/BambooBlade'' and its spinoffs, which are about kendo.
38	** ''Manga/BambooBladeB''
39	** ''Manga/BambooBladeC''
40	* ''Anime/Barangay143'' centers around Philippine street basketball.
41	* ''Anime/{{Basquash}}'' is about basketball. [[RuleOfCool In 30-foot tall giant robots!]] It also may be about [[FanService the jiggle factor.]]
42	* ''Literature/{{Battery}}'' is about baseball.
43	* ''Manga/BattleBDaman''
44	* ''TabletopGame/BattleSpirits'' is a card game by Bandai, which spawned several anime series. It did get a limited run in English but Bandai's lack of advertising, and the failure to even bother giving stores the cards to sell led to it being a wasted effort and discontinued in English after only the first set. It's still going strong in Japan, though.
45	** ''Anime/BattleSpiritsShonenToppaBashin''
46	** ''Anime/BattleSpiritsShonenGekihaDan'' and its sequel ''Battle Spirits Brave''
47	** ''Anime/BattleSpiritsHeroes''
48	** ''Anime/BattleSpiritsSwordEyes''
49	** ''Anime/BattleSpiritsSaikyoGingaUltimateZero''
50	** ''Anime/BattleSpiritsBurningSoul''
51	* ''Manga/BeachStars'': Is about beach volleyball
52	* ''Franchise/{{Beyblade}}'' is about tops, with a {{mon}} twist
53	** ''Anime/BakutenShootBeyblade''
54	** ''Anime/BeybladeMetalFusion''
55	** ''Anime/BeybladeShogunSteel''
56	** ''Anime/BeybladeBurst''
57	** ''Anime/BeybladeX''
58	* ''Manga/BigWindup'' - Baseball anime about probably the wimpiest pitcher in history.
59	* ''Anime/BirdieWing'' - is about golf from the female perspective.
60	* ''Literature/BofuriIDontWantToGetHurtSoIllMaxOutMyDefense'' takes place in a VRMMORPG.
61	* ''Manga/BreakTheBorder'' is a basketball manga.
62	* ''Manga/{{Buyuden}}'' is about boxing.
63	* ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'' is centered around soccer. It's inspired a lot of people worldwide in playing soccer, and is the most influential among sports manga, right up with ''Manga/TomorrowsJoe'' and ''[[Creator/IkkiKajiwara Kyojin no Hoshi / Star of the Giants]]''.
64	* ''Anime/CardfightVanguard'', a more realistic take on card games (at least, when compared to the ''Anime/YuGiOh'' anime's absurd level of SeriousBusiness).
65	** ''Anime/FutureCardBuddyfight'', from the creators of ''Anime/CardfightVanguard'', a less realistic take on card games comparable to the ''Anime/YuGiOh'' anime's absurd level of SeriousBusiness.
66	** ''Anime/CardfightVanguardG'', the continuation and spin-off of the original Cardfight Vanguard.
67	** ''Anime/CardfightVanguardVSeries'', the reboot of the original Cardfight Vanguard.
68	** ''Anime/CardfightVanguardOverdress'', a spin-off with a new cast using cards based on Planet Cray 3000 years after the conflicts in the previous series.
69	* ''Manga/TheCherryProject'': By ''Manga/SailorMoon'' author Creator/NaokoTakeuchi, about ice skating.
70	* ''Manga/{{Chihayafuru}}'' is about karuta, which is basically a card game but the Japanese refer to it as "competitive sport on a tatami."
71	* ''Manga/CleanFreakAoyamakun'' mostly involves football but includes characters playing UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} and basketball.
72	* ''Manga/{{Countach}}'' is about professional car racing.
73	* ''Manga/CrossGame'' is about baseball
74	* ''Manga/DashKappei'' is about basketball. One of the first parodies of this genre.
75	* ''Manga/{{DAYS}}'' is about a boy who joins his high schools' soccer team despite never playing soccer before.
76	* ''Manga/DestroyAllHumankindTheyCantBeRegenerated'' is about two middle school students in the 90s who bond over their love of ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''.
77	* ''Literature/{{Dive}}'' is about diving.
78	* ''Anime/DogDays'' turns ''War'' into a sports festival.
79	* ''Manga/{{Dogsred}}'' focuses on a former figure skater who decides to take up ice hockey instead.
80	* ''Manga/{{Dorabase}}'' is, as the name suggests, baseball played by robot cats (referenced as [[Manga/{{Doraemon}} ''Dora'']] robots cats in the series).
81	* ''Franchise/DotHack'' is probably the TropeMaker in relation to online games. [[Anime/DotHackSign SIGN]] might be the UrExample.
82	* ''Anime/DuelMasters'', something of an AffectionateParody of GamingAndSportsAnimeAndManga, revolves around the titular card game.
83	* ''Manga/TheExoDriveReincarnationGames'': An AffectionateParody of the {{isekai}} genre where reincarnating into other worlds and saving them has been turned into a spectator sport.
84	* ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'' is about American football.
85	* ''Manga/{{F}}'' is about UsefulNotes/FormulaOne.
86	* ''Manga/FarewellMyDearCramer'' is about girls' soccer.
87	* ''Anime/{{Free}}'', AKA "Swimming Anime".
88	* ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula'' is about futuristic Formula racing, in which race cars are equipped in AI computers.
89	* ''Manga/GambleFish'' focuses on a series of gambling matches at an elite high school.
90	* ''Manga/GamblingEmperorLegendZero'' is, as the title suggests, about gambling.
91	* ''Manga/GanbareKickers'' is about soccer.
92	* ''Manga/GiantKilling'' is about soccer.
93	* ''Anime/GingaEKickoff'' is about soccer.
94	* ''Manga/GirlGotGame'' [[MarketBasedTitle aka.]] ''Power!!'' is about a girl starting on a new school to join the basketball team... [[SweetPollyOliver disguised as a boy]]. Why? Her father wanted to become a basketball star but got injured, so he wants her to take his place.
95	* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' -- the "sport" here being tank-on-tank combat!
96	** ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzerDerFilm''
97	** ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzerDasFinale''
98	* ''Manga/GoodDayToYouHowAboutAGame'' is about a group of girls at a prestigious school playing an mobile game version of mahjong.
99	* ''Manga/GoodNightWorld'' is about a virtual reality online role-playing game.
100	* ''Manga/GreenGreenGreens'' is about golf.
101	* ''{{Manga/Haikyuu}}'' is about volleyball.
102	* ''Manga/HajimeNoIppo'' is about Boxing, thus overlapping with FightingSeries - but with a heavy focus on training and rules, it's more about the sport than anything else.
103	* ''Manga/{{Hanebad}}'', about badminton.
104	* ''Manga/HarlemBeat'', about a basketball team.
105	* ''Manga/HarukanaReceive'', about beach volleyball.
106	* ''VideoGame/HeroBank''
107	* ''Manga/HighScoreGirl'' is about an arcade gamer boy who meets an unexpected rival in the form of an {{Ojou}}.
108	* ''Anime/HighspeedEtoile''
109	* ''Manga/HikariNoDensetsu'' is about a girl trying to emulate Bulgarian gymnast Diliana Georgieva.
110	* ''Manga/HikaruNoGo'' is centered around the traditional Japanese board game of ''TabletopGame/{{Go}}''.
111	* ''Manga/HinomaruZumou'' is about Sumo Wrestling.
112	* ''Manga/HowHeavyAreTheDumbbellsYouLift'' has some athletic events such as track and field and arm wrestling contests.
113	* ''Anime/HungryHeartWildStriker'' is about soccer.
114	* ''Manga/IceRevolution'' is about a tomboyish girl who takes up figure skating since she wants to be seen as more feminine.
115	* ''Manga/IganoKabamaru'' is about baseball and nijitsu.
116	* ''Anime/IGPXImmortalGrandPrix'' is about motor racing.
117	* ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'' is about fantastical football complete with special moves.
118	** ''Anime/InazumaElevenAres'' is an AlternateContinuity of the first season.
119	* ''Literature/InfiniteDendrogram'' is a light novel about a VirtualReality MMO that hold a complete virtual world that carries a unique feature for players to use
120	* ''Manga/InitialD'': to be a master in ''illegal mountain pass racing''.
121	* ''Manga/IpponAgain'' is about a high school judo club.
122	* ''Manga/IwakakeruSportClimbingGirls'' is about rock climbing.
123	* ''Anime/JinzoKonchuKabutoBorgVXV'' is an anime series about borg battles, where each player fight their opponents using their kabuto borgs (or borg machines), palm-sized machines that look like beetles.
124	* ''Manga/{{Kaiji}}'', which is about gambling. However, the gambles tend to be games that you wouldn't normally associate with gambling, such as playing rock-paper-scissors.
125	* ''Manga/{{Kakegurui}}'' is also about gambling, though in high school, and through multiple non-standard games like RockPaperScissors.
126	* ''Manga/KarateShoukoushiKohinataMinoru'' focuses on a high school karate club.
127	* ''Manga/{{Keijo}}'', which is about a fictional sport named "Keijo", where women in swimsuits use speed and strength to kick the opponent off a platform floating on the water... [[FanService and they can only use their bust or butt as weapons]].
128	* ''Manga/KenganAshura'', Martial Arts in organized, but very shady, MMA matches.
129	* ''Manga/KenkoZenrakeiSuieibuUmisho'', which is about swimming... and {{fanservice}}.
130	* ''Manga/KokounoHito'', which uses mountain climbing as a metaphor for social isolation and connections with other people.
131	* ''Manga/KurenaiSanshiro'' focuses on judo.
132	* ''Manga/Kurogane2011'' is a manga about UsefulNotes/{{Kendo}}.
133	* ''Manga/KurokosBasketball'' is about Basketball too, but enters in the {{fanservice}} territory.
134	* ''Manga/{{Lady}}'' Season 2 is about equestrian horse-riding and the Olympics.
135	* ''VideoGame/LBXLittleBattlersExperience'' is about children (and adults) dueling with each other via futuristic gunpla called LBX. It overlaps somewhat with the HumongousMecha genre but the LBX are still essentially toys.
136	* ''Manga/TheLegendOfKoizumi'' is about Mahjong.
137	* ''{{Manga/Legendz}}'' revolves around a ''Pokémon''-esque monster fighting video game. The focus of the series is more on the monsters themselves, but most people in the series (at first) only know about the game and not that the creatures are real.
138	* ''Literature/LogHorizon'' takes place in an MMORPG
139	* ''Manga/LongRiders'': Cute girls do road cycling cutely. Although largely a relaxed SliceOfLife series, the girls form a cycling team and compete in the second half.
140	* ''Manga/MarchComesInLikeALion'' centers on the life of a professional shogi player.
141	* ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaINNOCENT'' has the ''Nanoha'' cast dueling through card games.
142	** ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'' involves competitive magical combat with a strong leaning towards mixed martial arts.
143	** ''Anime/VividStrike'' is more traditional MMA.
144	* ''Manga/MaiBall'' is about soccer.
145	* '' Manga/{{Major}}'' follows a young baseball prodigy from his days in Little League to the professional leagues.
146	** ''Manga/MajorSecond'' is a SpinOffspring manga starring Goro's son Daigo as he aims to be like his father.
147	* ''Anime/MegaloBox'': Boxing with powered exoskeletons.
148	* ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior2002'' has Megaman.EXE and his friends destroying viruses on the net. 'Jack in, Megaman. Execute!'
149	** This one is more of a half example. While Navis can (and often are) used for the "Gaming" aspect of the thing (Net Battles), they are also used for system administration, security, business and just about everything in-between. Being a Gaming Anime, naturally, the Net Battling gets more focus.
150	* ''Manga/MFGhost'' offical sequel to ''Manga/InitialD'' about racing in the age of electic and self-driving cars.
151	* ''Literature/{{Moshidora}}'': A girl buys Drucker's Management and uses its strategies to apply to baseball.
152	* ''Manga/NineDragonsBallParade'' is an underdog baseball story following a team trying to recreate their school's once legendary baseball team.
153	* ''Literature/NoGameNoLife'' is mostly about classic board games and video games set in an alternate world.
154	* ''Manga/{{Nononono}}'' is about ski jumping and... loads of {{squick}}s... (not the way you would [[AmusingInjuries expect]], more like in ways... you [[AttemptedRape don't want]] to see...)
155	* ''Manga/NotariMatsutarou'' is about Sumo Wrestling.
156	* ''Manga/OiTonbo'' is about a girl named Tonbo and an ex-golfer named Igarashi doing golf in the Tokara Islands.
157	* ''Literature/OnlySenseOnline'' is a SliceOfLife series about a VirtualReality MMORPG player and his adventures in-game.
158	* ''Manga/OverRev'' is about street racing.
159	* ''Anime/{{Overtake}}'' is about F4 racing in Japan.
160	* ''Anime/PhantasyStarOnline2TheAnimation'' is about... ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2''. This is because the anime [[TheAnimeOfTheGame adapts the game]] by [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment featuring it as a game... in the anime.]] [[spoiler:[[LogicBomb While taking place in the world of the game.]]]]
161	* ''Manga/PlusSizedElf'', is about a health consultant who ends up working on fantasy beings.
162	* ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'' is about, well, tennis players.
163	* ''VisualNovel/PrinceOfStride Alternative'' is about a fictional version of LeParkour with relay elements.
164	* ''Manga/PrincessArmy'' follows a female judoist.
165	* ''Anime/PrincessNine'' focuses on an all-girls baseball team attempting to win the (formerly male-only) national high school-level baseball championship.
166	* ''Anime/PuraOrePrideOfOrange'' is a SliceOfLife series about a girls' ice hockey team.
167	* ''Manga/RainbowNishaRokubouNoShichinin'': Both Anchan and Mario dream of being boxers. Mario's subplot after escaping the Boys Dormitory centers on him getting his debut match against an American boxer on a U.S. military base.
168	* ''Anime/ReMain'' is an anime about water polo, picking up after the main character wakes up from a 203 day coma with no memory of the last three years - including the sport they excelled in during junior high.
169	* ''Manga/{{Rideback}}'' is about MiniMecha motorcycle racing, ballet and LaResistance movements against a former LaResistance.
170	* ''Manga/RingNiKakero'': By Creator/MasamiKurumada from ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' fame.
171	* ''Manga/RobotXLaserbeam'', despite its name, is about golf.
172	* ''Manga/RokudenashiBlues'' focuses on boxing.
173	* ''Manga/{{Rookies}}'' is about a teacher's efforts to improve a high school baseball team full of delinquents and bullies.
174	* ''Manga/{{Rough}}'' is about swimming.
175	* ''Manga/{{RRR\|2007}}'' focuses on boxing.
176	* ''Literature/RunWithTheWind'' is well, about running, yet focuses a lot on character development.
177	* ''Manga/{{Sabagebu}}''
178	* ''Manga/{{Saki}}'' is about Mahjong. [[YuriGenre Lesbian Mahjong]]. In the future.
179	* ''Manga/SayonaraFootball'' (and its sequel, ''Manga/FarewellMyDearCramer'') is about girls soccer.
180	* ''Anime/SelectorInfectedWixoss'' is about a collectable card game that, unusual for its genre, is played mostly by girls and features a female protagonist.
181	* ''Anime/ShippuIronLeaguer''' is a Super Robot series where robots participate in sports.
182	* ''Manga/{{Shudan}}'' is about soccer.
183	* ''Anime/SK8TheInfinity'' is about a secret downhill skateboarding race held in an abandoned mine.
184	* ''Manga/SlamDunk'', which is about (of course) basketball. It made basketball known in Japan, and is considered a classic in the sports genre.
185	* ''Manga/{{Softenni}}'' is about tennis.
186	* ''Anime/SpeedRacer'' is about racing.
187	* ''Anime/StarsAlign''
188	* ''Manga/StellaWomensAcademyHighSchoolDivisionClassC3'' focuses on UsefulNotes/{{Airsoft}}.
189	* ''Manga/StraightenUpWelcomeToShikaHighsCompetitiveDanceClub''
190	* ''Manga/{{Swan}}'' is about ballet.
191	* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' is about a virtual-reality series of online role-playing adventure games. The original starts by going [[DeadlyGame way too far]] to achieve success.
192	** ''Literature/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline'' switches to a virtual-reality first person shooter.
193	* ''Literature/TaishoBaseballGirls'' also deals with all-girl baseball team, but this time taking place during the Taishō period (e.g. in 1920s Japan).
194	* ''Manga/TenTheBlessedWayOfTheNiceGuy'', like Nobuyuki Fukumoto's other works, focuses on mahjong.
195	* ''Manga/{{Teppu}}'' is about martial arts, particularly MMA.
196	* ''Manga/TetsuwanGirl'' is about an all-girls baseball in Post-War Japan in 1949.
197	* ''Manga/TomorrowsJoe'' A manga about boxing and one of the most highly acclaimed and influential spokon of all time. Its most recent incarnation is a live action film, with the popular IdolSinger Tomohisa "Yamapi" Yamashita playing Joe.
198	* ''Manga/Touch1981'' is about baseball.
199	* ''Anime/TribeCoolCrew'' is about professional hip-hop dancing.
200	* ''Literature/{{Tsurune}}'' is about Japanese archery a.k.a kyudo.
201	* ''Anime/TwoCar'': Motorcycle sidecar racing on a fictional island in Tokyo Bay.
202	* ''Anime/UmaMusumePrettyDerby'': is about horse racing, featuring anthropomorphized racing horses.
203	* ''Manga/UmeharaFightingGamers'' is about the Japanese competitive fighting game circuit, and features professional gamer Daigo Umehara as the protagonist.
204	* ''Manga/{{Usogui}}'' is about high stakes gambling.
205	* ''Anime/WalkureRomanze'' revolves around competitive jousting.
206	* ''Manga/WanganMidnight'' Similar to ''Initial D'' above, but the focus is on highway racing around Tokyo rather than [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tōge mountain pass racing]].
207	* ''Manga/WannaBeTheStrongestInTheWorld'' is about pro wrestling.
208	* ''Anime/WaveLetsGoSurfing'' is about competitive surfing.
209	* ''Manga/WelcomeToTheBallroom'' is about ballroom dancing.
210	* ''Manga/{{Whistle}}'' focuses on a high school soccer team.
211	* ''Manga/YakyukyoNoUta'' is about baseball, with the main character trying to battle sexism to be the first female player of the Mets.
212	* ''Franchise/YuGiOh''. The [[Manga/YuGiOh manga]] featured several different games (the title actually translates to "Game King"), most notable being card games (duh), board, dice, and role-playing games. The [[Anime/YuGiOh anime]] universe settles on the exclusive use of the trading card game ''Duel Monsters''.
213	** The [[Anime/YuGiOhGX anime]] and [[Manga/YuGiOhGX manga]] versions of OddlyNamedSequel ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' -- at least, [[MindScrew that's what they want you to think...]]
214	** ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds''. [[MemeticMutation Card Games On Motorcycles]].
215	** And a ''third'' one, ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'', which brings card games into AugmentedReality.
216	** ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV''; card games as more traditional sports entertainment.
217	** ''Anime/YuGiOhVRAINS''; card games into VirtualReality.
218	** ''Anime/YuGiOhSEVENS''
219	** ''Anime/YuGiOhGORUSH''
220	* ''Manga/YawaraAFashionableJudoGirl'' is all about Judo.
221	* ''Manga/YowamushiPedal'' is about competitive cycling.
222	* ''Anime/YuriOnIce'' is about male figure skating ([[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas despite what]] [[YuriGenre the title]] [[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas might make you think]]).
223	[[/index]]

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