A story which uses incorporates a competitive event as a primary component of the story line, but which is not of a martial-arts or violent nature. While both being cooking based series, Yakitate!! Japan and Chuuka Ichiban are good examples of this genre.
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| B | ||
 Buzzer Beater (2007) |
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 and play against the alien (devil horned) Gorans, and challenge their apparent mastery of this earth-sport. |
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| G | ||
| Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji | See Kaiji | |
| Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor | See Kaiji | |
| H | ||
 H2 |
Buy |
Kunimi Hiro is a high school student, who is forced to give up his ambitions as a professional baseball player due to a serious injury. Now at a new high school, Hiro gets involved with Haruko and her goals of reviving that school's baseball team. At first they must overcome the refusal of school principle, who still remembers a dishonorable defeat that the school's baseball suffered some ten years earlier. Even with permission to form a school baseball team, there are still the players to recruit and train, and the challenges of building a reputation of the team within the high school baseball circuit. |
| K | ||
 Kaiji |
Itou Kaiji is a bum who steals car emblems and slashes tires on what seems to be a regular basis. This routine changes one day when he is paid a visit by a man in a trench-coat. Once the two get talking, it seems that the visitor (Calling himself Endou) is a debt collector. The reason for his visit is an unpaid loan which kaiji had previously co-signed for a work-mate (Furuhata Takeshi). The original loan was 30000 yen and once Takeshi had disappeared, the loan then fell on Kaiji. |
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| Princess 9 | Rent | See Princess Nine |
 Princess Nine |
Rent |
Ryo Hayakawa had made her choice to not attend High School to help her single mother run the family Oden restaurant. But her miraculous efforts as a pitcher for a community sandlot team, has come to the attention of someone special. Ryo is offered a full scholarship to the prestigious and elite Kisaragi Girls' High School, but with a condition that she agree to pitch for an all girls high school baseball team. And so Ryo gets involved in a scheme to upset the baseball status quo, to allow an all girls baseball team to attend the Koshien High School play off game |
| T | ||
 Tenjho Tenge:The Past Chapter |
Rent | A condensed version of the flashback scenes that make up most of episodes 10-23 of the TV series of the same name. |
| Tenjou Tenge:The Movie | Rent | See Tenjho Tenge:The Past Chapter |
| Tenjou Tenge:The Past Chapter | Rent | See Tenjho Tenge:The Past Chapter |
| TenTen: The Past Chapter | Rent | See Tenjho Tenge:The Past Chapter |
| Tsuyokiss | Watch | See Tsuyokisu Cool X Sweet |
| Tsuyokisu | Watch | See Tsuyokisu Cool X Sweet |
 Tsuyokisu Cool X Sweet |
Watch | Sunao Konoe has transferred to a new school. Dreaming of being an actor all her life, she is trying to form a new theater/drama club there. But she runs into all kinds of problems, most notably with the arrogant "princess" Kiriya Erika who's a rich family's daughter and undisputed head of the school council (and would have to give her the license to form a new club) and her bunch of friends, plus the "kendo girl" Kurogane Otome who's the discipline enforcer of the school council. And to her surprise Sunao meets her childhood friend Tsushima Leo at this school again who had been the only one to support her with her theater project at school ten years ago while at the same time nicknaming her "radish" (which has a side meaning of "bad actor")... but Sunao is a dedicated girl and will do whatever it takes to form her theater club, with Otome soon beginning to support her. And slowly but surely she earns the respect of those who considered her a mere theater freak at first... |
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| Ultimate Survivor Kaiji | See Kaiji | |
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