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Action Drama/2005/Sports Titles

Action Drama: (Genre) Much like "Action" (lots of shooting, explosions, and the like) except it has "Drama" thrown in as well.

Sports: (Story/Location) Self-explanatory. These titles should deal with sports.

Title Rating Synopsis
B

Buzzer Beater (2005)
Watch Based on the manga of Inoue Takehiko (who published the SLAM DUNK series), this series follows an eclectic and strange collection of basketball players (set in a futuristic time,) who aspire to create a team to join the Intergalactic Basketball League to play against the alien (devil horned) Gorans, and challenge their apparent mastery of this earth-sport.
C

Capeta
Taira Kappeita, or Capeta, was a 4th grader boy. He had lost his mother when he had been very little. Although he pretended to be tough in front of his father, actually he felt lonely. One day, his father brought junk parts home from his workplace and made a racing cart. Soon, they went to a circuit to drive the cart. However, Capeta found that its frame was bent and it could hardly run straight. But, with his technique he managed the cart. Furthermore, he followed soon after the fast cart and he could nearly leave it behind. The driver in the cart was Minamoto Naomoi, the champion of the East Japan Junior Cart. Looking at their chase, Naomi’s mother, Minamoto Nanako, advised Capeta to take part in the official race.
E

Eyeshield 21
Kabaykawa Sena has always been looked after by Mamori-neechan (his older sister) and with her help, he was able to pass the entrance exam for the high school that she is currenlty attending. Being smaller in size, Sena has always been bullied by other students and his new school is no different. One day, while trying to escape from three school bullies, he shows an incredible ability in running and dodging through a crowd, which is noticed by one of his fellow schoolmates. Sena finds himself forcibly recruited to play on the high school’s (American) football team as a running back. Not wanting to loose a player of his ability to another school, the team decides to hide his identity, demanding that he participate as a mystery player, and give him a nickname of “Eyeshield 21”.
G

Ginban Kaleidoscope
Sakurano Azusa is a beautiful and gifted figure skater, but her haughty and aloof attitude cause her to be hated by those around her. Troubled by a lack of support, she is unable to reach her full potential and true ability. And then one day, she is visited by a ghost…..
I

IGPX -Immortal Grand Prix-
Watch In the year 2048, people’s fascination for fast cars and roller-ball action have merged into a fighting race event called the called “Immortal Grand Prix”, or IGPX. Moving at speeds greater than 400km/h (250miles/hour), a team of three high-tech racing mechanoids battle another team while making three laps over a 60-kilometer course. Victory will be rewarded to only the best pilots, best machines and strongest team. IGPX follows the adventures of Takashi and the other members of the ‘Team Satomi’ as they struggle to prove that they are the best on the circuit.
Initial D - Project D (stage 4) Buy See Initial D - Stage 4

Initial D - Stage 4
Buy Takumi is now a member of the "Project D" racing team, a group that is intent on setting speed records for all of the mountain roads in the area. The team is headed the elder Takahshi brother, with Takumi and his supercharged(actuall­y it is N/A racing engine with an 11K redline)86 being the downhill driving specialist, while the younger Takashi brother and his FD turbo car being the uphill specialist.
Initial D Fourth Stage Buy See Initial D - Stage 4
M

Major 1st Season
Shigeharu Honda is a Major League batter on the rise. His son Goro is a Little League pitcher who one day hopes to follow in his father`s footsteps. Momoko Hoshino is Goro`s schoolteacher, and the first woman Shigeharu has been interested in since the death of Goro`s mother.The destinies of these three individuals will become intertwined as father and son experience both heartbreak and triumph on the baseball diamond. But when an unspeakable tragedy visits the family, it will take everything they have to pick up the pieces and reclaim their dreams.

Major 2nd Season
The story stars when Goro is in the 3rd grade in junior high, he comes back to Mifune-cho. Not long after the reunion of childhood friend including Komori, Goro learns that the baseball club of the school is about to cease to exist. Noticing Komori, who is the leader of the club, works hard to continue the club, Goro joins the soccer club.
P

Play Ball
Taniguchi Takao was a good baseball player when he was in junior high. But he broke his finger and couldn’t play baseball anymore.
S
Skating Ring Kaleidoscope See Ginban Kaleidoscope

Suzuka
Buy Moving from the Hiroshima area to Tokyo as to attend high school there, Akizuki Yamato finds himself having to live in a house run by his aunt Fujikawa Ayano and her daughter Miho. He doesn't have to pay a rent but in exchange he has to help the residence. Besides having a public bath it's also occupied by three young and pretty female tenants - Saotome Yuka, Matsumoto Megumi and Asahina Suzuka. Yamato falls quickly for the charm of the beautiful and sporty Suzuka (a talented track&field high jumper going to attend the same class as Yamato) but alas for him everything separates them - and don't forget Yamato's pal Hattori Yasunobu (the ladies' guy), Hashiba Miki (the sprinter girl), and Sakurai Honoka (another female classmate and childhood friend of Yamato). Well, life isn't easy when you're young and inexperienced...
カペタ (Japanese) See Capeta
涼風 Buy See Suzuka
Genre
Action(5) Action Comedy(1) Drama(4) Romance(2)
Setting
Fantasy(1) Modern(8) Sci-Fi(1)
Demographic
All Ages(2) Children(2) Shounen(4)
Style
Keywords
Adventure(1) Competition(3) Fighting(1) Friendship(2)
High School(3) Mecha(1) Slice of Life(1)
Type
TV(10)
Release Year
2006(1) 2004(1)
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