History Manga / YowamushiPedal

* TheTeam: Sohoku, Hakone, and every other team competing at Interhigh.

* SenpaiKohai: These relationships exist for most of the cast.

* SempaiKohai: These relationships exist for most of the cast.

And thus begins ''Yowamushi Pedal'' ("The Weakling's Pedal"), a manga by Watanabe Wataru, published in ''[[Magazine/ShonenChampion Weekly Shonen Champion]]'' since 2008. A Creator/TMSEntertainment-produced anime was released as part of the [[Main/Fall2013Anime Fall 2013 lineup]], follow by a second season called ''Grande Road'' in 2014, a third season called ''New Generation'' in 2017, and a fourth called ''Glory Line'' in 2018.

* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: The bikes alternate between hand-drawn and CGI, as does Makishima's hair during a race. The difference is glaringly obvious.

* SurpriseCreepy: Midosuji loves pulling these. It helps that he sports a near-permanent SlasherSmile, but he has a knack for showing up suddenly with his insanely creepy looking face.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: During the training camp, Kinjou alters Onoda's bike so that it's more difficult to climb hills. He doesn't tell Onoda about the change saying that he should learn how to [[UpToEleven face adversity and figure it out on his own. Note that this is ''despite'' Onoda being the most inexperienced member of the club]]. Makishima states though that Kinjou knew that if he told Makishima in detail what he did, Makishima would eventually inform Onoda, which he does after Onoda struggles through 25km.

* TrainingFromHell: The cycling camp. 1000km[[note]]620 miles[[/note]] in four days. And Imaizumi, Naruko and Onoda all have [[UpToEleven handicaps]].

->''"[[TemptingFate I'd never join a sports club even if they asked me to.]]"''

And thus begins ''Yowamushi Pedal'' ("The Weakling's Pedal"), a manga by Watanabe Wataru, published in ''[[Magazine/ShonenChampion Shonen Champion]]'' since 2008. A Creator/TMSEntertainment-produced anime was released as part of the [[Main/Fall2013Anime Fall 2013 lineup]], follow by a second season called ''Grande Road'' in 2014, a third season called ''New Generation'' in 2017, and a fourth called ''Glory Line'' in 2018.

And thus begins ''Yowamushi Pedal'' ("The Weakling's Pedal"), a manga by Watanabe Wataru, published in Shonen Champion since 2008. A Creator/TMSEntertainment-produced anime was released as part of the [[Main/Fall2013Anime Fall 2013 lineup]], follow by a second season called ''Grande Road'' in 2014, a third season called ''New Generation'' in 2017, and a fourth called ''Glory Line'' in 2018.

* NotSoDifferent: Imaizumi and Naruko, to the point of [[SpeakInUnison Speaking In Unison]] - much to their discontent.

[[PunnyName Sakamichi Onoda]] is your [[OrdinaryHighschoolStudent everyday teenage]] {{otaku}} just starting high school. Having [[FriendlessBackground hidden his otaku tendencies]] while he was in middle school, he dreams of joining this school’s anime club in order to indulge in his passions. And hey, if he can [[TrueCompanions make some friends]] on the side, [[IJustWantToHaveFriends that’ll be a bonus!]]

* ThreeDEffectsTwoDCartoon: The bikes alternate between hand-drawn and CGI, as does Makishima's hair during a race. The difference is glaringly obvious.

* ConspicuousCG: The bikes alternate between hand-drawn and CGI, as does Makishima's hair during a race. The difference is glaringly obvious.

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[[PunnyName Sakamichi Onoda]] is your [[OrdinaryHighschoolStudent everyday teenage]] {{Otaku}} just starting high school. Having [[FriendlessBackground hidden his otaku tendencies]] while he was in middle school, he dreams of joining this school’s anime club in order to indulge in his passions. And hey, if he can [[TrueCompanions make some friends]] on the side, [[IJustWantToHaveFriends that’ll be a bonus!]]

* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The 3rd OP is sung by Team Sohoku, and Team Hakone sings the 3rd ED.

* ApologyGift: [[spoiler: Fukutomi gives Kinjou Hakone steamed buns as a way to [[MustMakeAmends start to apologize]] for injuring him during the previous year's Interhigh.]]
** [[ObsessedWithFood Tadokoro]] thinks it's a [[CrowningMomentOfFunny very acceptable gift]].

* ConspicuousCG: The bikes alternate between hand-drawn and CGI.
** As does Makishima's hair during a race. The difference is glaringly obvious.
* CoolBike: {{Inverted}}, as the bicycles are portrayed to be more cool than motorized vehicles like mopeds.
** However, everyone except Onoda has a very cool (and expensive) bike.

* EnemyMine: Cooperation between opposing teams is common, though obviously temporary, in road race. Sohoku and Hakogaku adopt it during the third day of Interhigh for a while.
** Also specifically [[spoiler: Onoda]] races along with [[spoiler: Arakita and Manami]] so the three of them can drop the pack and go after [[spoiler:Hiroshima Kureminami]]. The trope is notably PlayedStraight here since they team-up against a common opponent.

** WhosWatchingTheStore: Touji spends an awful lot of time helping with team practices and races, using the store's van no less.
*** It is most likely their parents own it; ''someone'' must of been doing the work when they were kids.
* [[{{Fangirl}} Fangirls]]: Several characters have them.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Teshima and Aoyagi.
** Onoda and Naruko are convinced Teshima is psychic because he can hold seemingly one-sided conversations with [[TheSilentBob Aoyagi]], even when texting each other.

* ImagineSpot: Makishima when he imagines Tadokoro gaining or losing weight.
** Onoda also has one when he tries to figure out how Naruko will "pull him along" while they're riding, imagining a coupler attaching their two bikes together.

* JapaneseSchoolClub

* NotSoDifferent: Imaizumi and Naruko, to the point of [[SpeakInUnison Speaking In Unison]] - much to their [[CrowningMomentOfFunny discontent]].
* OddFriendship: Makishima and Toudou.

* {{Omake}}: The end of each anime episode features a one or two minute side-story about the characters. They're [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarious]].
* [[spoiler: PassingTheTorch]]: [[spoiler: After the 41st Interhigh, the third years in all the schools graduate and move onto college, so positions within all the cycling clubs change to some degree; such as Kinjou passes [[TheCaptain the captain title]] to Teshima, and likewise at Hakone, Fukutomi makes Izumida TheCaptain.]]
* PastelChalkedFreezeFrame
* ProductPlacement: There are posters with the cast advertising Pocari Sweat.
** Pocari Sweat even shows up in the anime (season 1, episode 12).

** Also between Kinjou and Fukutomi [[spoiler:to determine the true winner of their race honorably, after Fukutomi causes the crash with Kinjou.]]

* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Imaizumi's view on previously finishing second in a major road race.

* SeriousBusiness: Cycling

* SoProudOfYou: Multiple people say this throughout the series:
** Touji to Tadokoro
** All of Sohoku to Onoda
** Tadokoro to Aoyagi and Teshima

* ThemeSongPowerup: PlayedWith. They have a theme song, and it powers them up, it's just... [[ShowWithinAShow Love]] [[MagicalGirl Hime]]'s theme song, rather than their own.
* ThrowingTheFight: [[spoiler: Fukutomi tells Kinjou that he would lose the race if Kinjou asked him to. Kinjou [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen refuses his offer]].]]

* UnnecessaryRoughness: [[spoiler: Fukutomi unconsciously grabs Kinjou's jersey in desperation during a race, causing them to both fall. Fukutomi comes out of it relatively unscathed, but Kinjou breaks some of his ribs and is bleeding through his jersey by the end of the day's race.]]
** [[spoiler: Midousuji also tries to knock over Imaizumi on purpose, but he managed to stay upright.]]

* VitriolicBestBuds: [[RedOniBlueOni Naruko and Imaizumi]] fall into this dynamic pretty quickly. On the track, they're practically blood brothers. Off it, it's made very clear that Imaizumi [[CrowningMomentOfFunny is perfectly willing to let Naruko drown in his own bath.]]

And thus begins ''Yowamushi Pedal'' ("The Crybaby's Pedal"), a manga by Watanabe Wataru, published in Shonen Champion since 2008. A Creator/TMSEntertainment-produced anime was released as part of the [[Main/Fall2013Anime Fall 2013 lineup]], follow by a second season called ''Grande Road'' in 2014, a third season called ''New Generation'' in 2017, and a fourth called ''Glory Line'' in 2018.

And thus begins ''Yowamushi Pedal'', a manga by Watanabe Wataru, published in Shonen Champion since 2008. A Creator/TMSEntertainment-produced anime was released as part of the [[Main/Fall2013Anime Fall 2013 lineup]], follow by a second season called ''Grande Road'' in 2014, a third season called ''New Generation'' in 2017, and a fourth called ''Glory Line'' in 2018.

And thus begins ''Yowamushi Pedal'', a manga by Watanabe Wataru, published in Shonen Champion since 2008. A Creator/TMSEntertainment-produced anime was released as part of the [[Main/Fall2013Anime Fall 2013 lineup]]. It's also streaming on Crunchyroll under the name [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/yowapeda Yowapeda]]. A sequel, ''Grande Road'', was released as part of the [[Main/Fall2014Anime Fall 2014 lineup]].

A [[http://yowapeda-movie.com/ feature film]] was released in Japan on August 28th 2015.

And thus begins ''Yowamushi Pedal'', a manga by Watanabe Wataru, published in Shonen Champion since 2008. A Creator/TMSEntertainment-produced anime was released as part of the [[Main/Fall2013Anime Fall 2013 lineup]]. It's also streaming on Crunchyroll under the name [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/yowapeda Yowapeda]]. A sequel, "Grande Road", was released as part of the [[Main/Fall2014Anime Fall 2014 lineup]].

* OddFriendship: Makishima and Toudou.
* OldHeroNewPals: As [[GraduateFromTheStory graduation]] effectively [[PutOnABus writes the entire third year cast out of the plot]] after the first Interhigh, going into the second Interhigh a brand new set of characters (in the form of new first and second years) are introduced to serve as their replacements.

* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Midousuji whips this out on occasion.
** He belittles Imaizumi for being "weak" when he [[spoiler: gives up his position in a race because Midousuji told him that Imaizumi's mother had been hit by a car]].
** He gives Imaizumi another one on the second day when [[spoiler: Imaizumi briefly thinks about joining forces with Kyoto Fushimi to reach the front.]]
** He criticizes Shinkai for letting something as "simple" as [[spoiler: the memory of running over and killing a rabbit prevent Shinkai from passing Midousuji]].

* ShoutOut:
** Izumida's pecs are named after the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A4nk_Schleck Schleck]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Schleck brothers]], famous cyclists.
** TheStinger of episode 26 has one to Manga/BlackButler. Onoda is watching a movie scene in which a HornedHumanoid in butler outfit says "I'm just a sheep" [[note]]In Japanese sheep (hitsuji) sounds like butler (shitsuji)[[/note]]
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Love Hime''. [[spoiler: Even has a movie.]]
* ShownTheirWork: The manga and anime represent cycling extremely accurately, and correctly explain the strategy and mechanics behind it. Although some aspects are over-the-top (such as Makishima's dancing), and there is a warning after each episode saying that some of the more dramatic stuff can be dangerous to do in real life and to practice safe cycling.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Implied and [[PlayedForLaughs Played For]] [[EvilLaugh (Evil)]] [[PlayedForLaughs Laughs]] when Kinjou volunteers Imaizumi for his magic trick and Imaizumi screams right as the omake ends.

* VariationsOfAThemeSong: The lyrics for the ''Love Hime'' theme song in the manga were adapted into two different versions of the song. The first version of the song was used in the stage adaptation and live-action television series, while the second version was used for the anime.

And thus begins ''Yowamushi Pedal'', a Creator/TMSEntertainment-produced anime released as part of the [[Main/Fall2013Anime Fall 2013 lineup]]. It's also streaming on Crunchyroll under the name [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/yowapeda Yowapeda]]. A sequel, "Grande Road", was released as part of the [[Main/Fall2014Anime Fall 2014 lineup]].