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Gaming and Sports Anime & Manga
(aka: Sports Anime)

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Gaming and Sports Anime & Manga

An anime or manga in which, rather than fighting, the characters play a game or sport. Said game or sport will be Serious Business sometimes resulting in physically unwarranted pain, injury or death. Expect a lot of Mundane Made Awesome. Frequently leads to a Tournament Arc. Sometimes overlaps with Mons and To Be a Master.

Because the vast majority of characters are male, sports anime and manga have become synonymous with fangirl fodder along with otome games and Yaoi. They also have a huge following of 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 Les Yay or even go into outright Yuri territory.

Due to Japan's success in the console market in the mid-to-late-'80s, there was a brief period when video gaming mangas about kids playing real life titles were fairly common. But being built on trend-chasing when simply adapting video games to comics was an experiment in progress, the genre would not become as ubiquitous as gaming itself. At some point it became more common to tell a story about in-universe, fictional video games where the author could dictate the rules and mechanics.

Not to be confused with RPG Anime.


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