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.
Self-explanatory. High school (grades 10-12) should play a major role in the title. Azumanga Daioh is an excellent example of this category. A typical High school series will include a Sports Festival, a Cultural Festival, and a school Trip.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
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 Tenjho Tenge |
Rent |
Nagi Souichirou and best friend, Bob, are both tough street fighters, but when they transfer to a new high school, they get their a**es kicked by the local gangs. They find out that their new high school is dedicated to refounding the martial arts, and combat ability is rated higher than academic skills. And what is with the cute Natsume Aya, who has decided to become his girlfriend (without even bothering to ask him)? But Souichirou is a glutton for punishment, with a fighting spirit that cannot be kept down for long. |
| A | ||
 Ace wo Nerae! (TV) |
On her first day at Nishi High School, the first year Hiromi Oka is inspired by one her sempais, Ryuuzaki Ochoufuji Reika to join the tennis club. The arrival of the new (Davis Cup winner) tennis coach Munakata Jin upsets the varsity team line up, and Oka finds herself as a member of the competing team. New to the game of tennis and unsure of herself, Oka has to struggle against the torments of the rival whom she displaced and severe challenges of the new coach to find her place on the awarded Nishi tennis team. |
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| Aim for the Ace! (TV) | See Ace wo Nerae! (TV) | |
 Airmaster |
Watch |
The red-haired, muddle headed, ex-pro-gymnast Aikawa Maki has found a new sport to keep herself entertained in her first year of high school. She has gotten involved in the back-alley street-fighting scene, and they are now calling her the undefeated airmaster'. At a new high school, she finds new friends brave enough to support her as she meets new combatants, as she struggles to refind that spark of inspiration that drove her to her first success as a gymnast. Maki's story of her combative adventure moves from the martial arts into the mystical arts, as she struggles to find even stronger opponents. |
| Azusa will help | See Azusa, Otetsudaishimasu! | |
| Azusa, Helps! | See Azusa, Otetsudaishimasu! | |
 Azusa, Otetsudaishimasu! |
In a future time, the lowest ranked baseball team in the league, Karumgamo High School, decides to pool their money to buy a baseball robot, (which is allowed under the rules.) With what little money they had, they could not afford a special baseball robot, and Haruhei had to accept buying a very old model domestic assistant robot named Azusa. It turns out that Azusa has never heard of the game of baseball, but she is always willing to help. Her ability to learn and her success as the pitcher of the team changes the Karugamo Baseball team for the better. |
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| B | ||
| Battle Vixens (manga title) | Rent | See Ikki Tousen |
| C | ||
 Cosplay Complex |
Buy | Chako and her friends can't wait for the Cosplay World Series! Their East Oizuki Academy team has earned quite a reputation throughout Japan, and she knows they can also win the world championship. Only one thing stands in their way--a lack of interest. The team doesn't have an adult sponsor, and can't keep up enrollment. As a result, they must fight rivals, find new members who want more than to see the girls disrobe, and learn to change costumes in a flash. |
| 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”. |
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| 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. |
| Heaven and Earth | Rent | See Tenjho Tenge |
| I | ||
 Ikki Tousen |
Rent |
In the Kanto Plain of Japan, high schools in the area are little more than fronts for what appear to be nothing more than gangs who all wear a strange earring. Within these schools, students fight to be the top-rated fighters in order to represent their school at the very unofficial Great Fighter's Tournament. However, what appears to be nothing more than thugs fighting street battles is in reality ancient Chinese history coming back to replay itself in modern times with students having names of various warriors from that time. |
| Ikkitousen | Rent | See Ikki Tousen |
| K | ||
| Kujian | Rent | See Kujibiki Unbalance |
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