Movies and TV shows like Fighting Spirit

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Fighting Spirit (2000)
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Fighting Spirit (2000)
Original name: はじめの一歩
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: Ippo, the son of a fishing boat tour owner, takes up boxing to increase his confidence. Through intense training and willpower Ippo claims the Japanese featherweight title.
Style: anime, captivating, realistic, humorous, semi serious, shounen, scenic, adult animation, manga, exciting
Audience: teens
Plot: boxing, athlete's life, youth, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, rise to the top, championship, athlete and trainer, tournament, kickass, rags to riches, rivalry, misfit, high school life, teenage life, social misfits, high school, coming of age, social relations, power relations, fight back, stadium, fighting
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: japan, asia
Keyword: sport, fighting movie

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Most similar movies to Fighting Spirit

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, captivating, semi serious and humorous films and TV series with plots about youth, rivalry, ambition, high school, school, high school life and athlete's life mostly in Animation, Comedy and Sport genres. Some movies like Fighting Spirit: Fighting Spirit: Champion Road (2003), Ao Ashi (2022), Kengan Ashura (2019), Yowamushi Pedal (2013), Kuroko's Basketball (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fighting Spirit: Champion Road (2003)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Makunouchi Ippo is the new Featherweight champion of Japan and is now ready for his first title defense. His opponent, the former Jr. Featherweight champion and a medical student, Sanada Kazuki. In addition to this feud, Sanada is being coached by ...
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating, humorous, shounen
Plot: boxing, boxer, boxing champion, competitor, rivalry, fight, athlete's life, battles, militant, professional rivalry, champion, contests and competitions ...
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100%
Fighting Spirit: New Challenger (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Ippo continues to defend his title and training to reach his goal, Ichiro Miyata. While Takamura goes for the world, and faces the world champion, Brian Hawk. In what is to become his toughest fight so far.
Style: anime, tense, captivating, exciting
Plot: boxing, boxing champion, title bout, prizefighter, boxer, direction and purpose, militant, boxing match, ambition, desire for fame, combat, fight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Kenichi is always getting picked on and needs motivation if he hopes to graduate, Miu’s the perfect motivation.
Style: anime, exciting, captivating, inspirational, entertaining ...
Audience: manly
Plot: martial arts, motivation, training, athlete and trainer, master warrior, friendship, high school life, fight scenes, stubbornness, fistfight, human spirit, contests and competitions ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Ao Ashi (2022)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Ashito Aoi is a young, aspiring soccer player from a backwater town in Japan. His hopes of getting into a high school with a good soccer club are dashed when he causes an incident during a critical match for his team, which results in their loss and ...
Style: anime, semi serious, entertaining, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: soccer, tournament, competition, slice of life, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, football player, football team, coach, football, sport team, soccer coach ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Kengan Ashura (2019)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sport
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Since the Edo periods of Japan, gladiator arenas exist in certain areas. In these arenas, wealthy business owners and merchants hire gladiators to fight in unarmed combat where winner takes all. Toki Taouma, nicknamed "Ashura," joins these ...
Style: anime, suspense, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: martial arts, arena, rivals, fight, determination, politics, master warrior, rivalry, fight to the death, secret organization, boxing, warrior ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Yowamushi Pedal (2013)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Sakamichi Onada is a wimpy high school freshman who loves anime. He initially wants to enter the anime club, but winds up joining the cycling club after meeting two classmates who are already famous cyclists. He undertakes the grueling training to ...
Style: anime, exciting, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cycling, rivalry, tournament, training, high school, high school life, contests and competitions, friendship, ambition, sport team, follow your dream, stubbornness ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Kuroko's Basketball (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: In the story, Kagami Taiga has just enrolled into Seirin High School when he meets Kuroko Tetsuya of the school's basketball team. Kuroko happens to be the shadowy sixth member of the legendary Generation of Miracles basketball team. Together, ...
Style: anime, captivating, exciting, uplifting, tense ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: basketball, youth, contests and competitions, friendship, teenager, rivalry, hopes, lifestyle, ambition, sport competition, champion, adaptation ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Haikyu!! (2014)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Shōyō Hinata began playing volleyball after seeing the "small giants" who played the sport when he was in elementary school. He suffers a crushing defeat in his first and last tournament in middle school at the hands of his rival Tobio ...
Style: anime, exciting, realistic, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: volleyball, stubbornness, friends, friendship, youth, prodigy, rivalry, against the odds, sport team, athlete's life, follow your dream, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Prince of Tennis (2001)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Prince of Tennis follows the story of a 12 year old boy Ryoma Echizen who won four consecutive titles in the American Junior Tennis tournaments. He's an amazing tennis player and is considered a prodigy. He moved from America to Japan and ...
Style: anime, stylized, semi serious, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prodigy, contests and competitions, tennis, athlete's life, ambition, friendship, youth, lifestyle, superhuman powers, power relations, friends, high school life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Dream Eater Merry (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Dream Eater Merry is a Japanese action fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Ushiki Yoshitaka. The series is serialized in Houbunsha's seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Forward. The manga was adapted into an anime television ...
Style: anime, humorous, exciting, seinen, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, parallel world, imaginary, youth, high school life, heroes, a vision, life turned upside down, nightmare comes true, human host, good versus evil, sleeping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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REBORN! (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Hitman Reborn is the story of Tsunayoshi Sawada, a spineless teenager nicknamed 'No Good Tsuna.' One day a baby hitman shows up & tells Tsuna that he's to become the new boss of a powerful international mafia family. Over time he ...
Style: anime, shounen, humorous, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hitman, young heroes, teenage life, disorder, rivalry, life turned upside down, supernatural, youth, mafia, superpower, assassin, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 756
Genshiken (2004)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Sasahara Kanji is a college freshman who decides to join a student society to share his hidden thoughts on manga, anime and gaming. As he participates in club activities such as visiting dojin shops and anime festivals he opens his mind and resolves ...
Style: anime, semi serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: anti conformity, first love, student life, loser, social misfits, everyday life, youth, college life, lifestyle, friendship, boyfriend, shyness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.1
 51
Over Drive (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Mikoto Shinozaki is a high school student lacking in social awareness. In addition, due to his untidy appearance and low self-esteem, he is an easy target for bullies. Regardless, any misfortune that falls upon Mikoto is partly his own fault—at ...
Style: anime, semi serious, psychological, captivating
Plot: cycling, cyclist, aspiration, direction and purpose, ambition, bicycle, athlete's life, ambitious man, championship, athlete and trainer
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Upotte!! (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: At Seishou Academy, girls don’t just wield guns— they ARE guns! In a school where every girl is a lethal weapon gunning for the chance to get their own personal serviceman, more than a few shots are about to be fired between Funko and her ...
Style: anime, exciting, semi serious, stylized, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: teachers and students, teenage life, youth, academy, super weapon, imaginary, school, female protagonist, violent content, power relations, strong female presence, student life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Psychic Squad (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: They're cute, adorable and three of the most powerful Espers the world has ever seen: Kaoru, the brash psychokinetic who can move objects with her mind; Shiho, the sarcastic and dark natured psychometric able to pick thoughts from people's ...
Style: anime, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: kids, teens
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39%
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Yamato Akitsuki travels to Tokyo alone to study in one of the high schools located within the area. He lives in with his aunt who operates a public bath solely for the ladies in the local district and begins his normal high-school life. One day, he ...
Style: anime, sincere, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night, teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.6
 74
Hoop Days (2003)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: A defunct high school basketball team finds a new student and things may start looking up for them.
Style: anime, captivating, inspirational, light, exciting ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.5
 732
Eyeshield 21 (2005)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Eyeshield 21 is a Japanese manga series written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Yusuke Murata. The series tells the story of Sena Kobayakawa, a introverted boy who joins an American football club as a secretary, but after being coerced by ...
Style: anime, humorous, semi serious, exciting, disturbing ...
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Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Paradise Kiss (2005)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Top high-school student seeks some purpose in life. A group of fashion design students ask her to be the front model for their clothing label "Paradise Kiss". Although she finds them weird, she accepts and soon blossoms as a person.
Style: realistic, anime, shoujo, adult anime, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, fashion, youth, rise to the top, lifestyle, high school life, high school, fashion model, social climbing, fashion designer, designer, slice of life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Pani Poni Dash! (2005)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: The girls of Class 1-C are starting their tenth-grade year with a new teacher: Becky Miyamoto, an 11-year-old MIT grad! She’s an intellectual titan—but can she handle the temperamental teens and idiotic aliens that await her instruction?
Style: anime, semi serious, humorous, shounen, parody
Plot: high school life, youth, high school, power relations, prodigy, child as adult, mischievous children, teachers and students, teacher, school, child prodigy, gag humor
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Princess Princess (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: The boy-school Ryo transferred has a strange system, “Hime” (princess). a student who is chosen as Hime must be disguised in woman’s clothes at every opportunity in order to add beauty to manly life. Ryo is selected as the candidates for Hime. ...
Style: anime, semi serious, humorous, captivating, stylized ...
Audience: kids
Plot: boarding school, teenage life, physical appearance, youth, leaving home, cross dressing, young adult, occupation, gender bending, boarding school life, social relations, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Sabagebu! Survival Game Club! (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Momoka is a high school student who's mastered the art of blending in after transferring from one school to another several times. Despite her ability to fly under the radar, she finds herself recruited by her new school's survival game ...
Style: anime, entertaining, semi serious, captivating, shoujo ...
Plot: girl heroine, sport team, female gunfighter, ambition, professional rivalry, young girl, schoolgirl, shooter, women, battles, athlete's life, female protagonist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Love All Play (2022)
Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: A young badminton star aims to break through to the inter-high tournament!
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating
Plot: badminton, contests and competitions, ambition, sport team, tournament, professional sports, championship, school club, school, athlete's life, rivalry, leadership ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Boarding School Juliet (2018)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Grigio Academy Boarding School. Students who attend this school in two countries and reside in their own dormitories. Inazuka and Persia are rival dormitory leaders, but in secret they love each other. Now, they have to keep their relationship a ...
Style: anime, sentimental, entertaining, light, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, school, couples, rivalry, social relations, youth, everyday life, love triangle, high school life, coming of age, teenage love, dormitory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Tiger Mask W (2016)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Two young wrestlers face each other in a recently revived underground wrestling organization, the Tiger's Lair, which destroyed the wrestling dojo they grew up in. One took over the training facilities of Naoto Date at the foot of Mount Fuji, ...
Style: exciting, captivating, uplifting, intense, inspirational ...
Plot: fight, wrestling, follow your dream, ambition, pride and honor, rivalry, contests and competitions, rivals, championship, human spirit, determination, character study ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Taisho Baseball Girls (2009)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: When a local player arrogantly states that girls should become housewives instead of going to school, teenage firebrands Koume and Akiko respond by forming their own baseball team. It's shocking. It's scandalous. And yet, in a nation in ...
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: baseball, rivalry, youth, society, sport team, feminism, ambition, underdog, athlete's life, high school life, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Aria the Scarlet Ammo (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: In response to the worsening crime rate, Japan creates Tokyo Butei High, an elite academy where "Butei" or armed detectives hone their deadly skills in hopes of becoming mercenary-like agents of justice. One particular Butei is Kinji ...
Style: anime, exciting, semi serious, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: escapades, supernatural ability, high school, imaginary, master warrior, rescue, rivalry, heroes, teachers and students, superpower, crime investigation, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.2
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Long Riders! (2016)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Ami Kurata, a first-year university student who has no athletic ability, suddenly falls in love with a folding bicycle after seeing it in front of a train station. Inspired by her newfound love, she starts saving up to buy a bicycle and to learn ...
Style: anime, captivating, entertaining, iyashikei, shounen ...
Plot: cycling, slice of life, tournament, teenage life, teenager, competitor, young girl, cyclist, ambition, rivalry, bicycle, student ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Beelzebub (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Ishiyama High is a school populated entirely by delinquents, where nonstop violence and lawlessness are the norm. However, there is one universally acknowledged rule—don't cross first year student Tatsumi Oga, Ishiyama's most vicious ...
Style: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious, offbeat ...
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Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Hip Whip Girl: Keijo!!!!!! (2016)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Kaminashi Nozomi (17) is an exceptional gymnast. So much so that colleges with some of the best gymnastic programs are trying to recruit her. Unfortunately for them, she has other plans. Due to her family being extremely poor, money is everything to ...
Style: anime, ecchi, feel good, captivating, humorous ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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