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.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| 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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| P | ||
| 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 |
| U | ||
| Ultimate Survivor Kaiji | See Kaiji | |
| カイジ (Japanese) | See Kaiji | |
| 逆境無頼カイジ Ultimate Survivor | See Kaiji | |
| 零秒出手 (2007) | See Buzzer Beater (2007) | |
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