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Haikyu!! (2014)
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Haikyu!! (2014)
Original name: ハイキュー!!
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 Kageyama. So, Hinata joins Kurasuno High School's volleyball team, vowing revenge against Kageyama. However, Kageyama is also on Kurasuno's team. The former rivals form a legendary combo with Hinata's mobility and Kageyama's precision ball-handling. Together, they take on the local tournaments and vow to meet Kurasuno's fated rival school in the nationals.
Style: anime, realistic, captivating, exciting, humorous, disturbing, shounen, mind blowing, super sentai, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: volleyball, rivalry, stubbornness, friendship, high school, friends, sport team, lgbtq, hopes, follow your dream, athlete's life, contests and competitions, youth, prodigy, against the odds, ambition, adaptation, power relations, competition, teamwork, high school life, high school student, tournament, high school sports, training ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: japan, asia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, captivating, shounen and humorous films and TV series with plots about friendship, high school, rivalry, high school life, ambition, tournament and contests and competitions mostly in Animation, Sport and Drama genres. Some movies like Haikyu!!: Kuroko's Basketball (2012), Ace of Diamond (2013), Ao Ashi (2022), Yuri!!! on Ice (2016), Free! (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Kuroko's Basketball (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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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, tense, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: basketball, friendship, contests and competitions, youth, rivalry, hopes, teenager, lifestyle, sport competition, ambition, champion, adaptation ...
Place: japan
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Ace of Diamond (2013)
Genre: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
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Story: Eijun Sawamura is a pitcher who joins an elite school with a brilliant catcher named Kazuya Miyuki. Together with the rest of the team, they strive for Japan's storied Koushien championships through hard work and determination.
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Haikyuu!! Movie 3: Talent and Sense (2017)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Recap film focusing primarily on the match against Aoba Jouhsai from the second season.
Style: disturbing, humorous, captivating, anime, shounen
Plot: volleyball, competition, school club, training, rivalry, sport team, contests and competitions, high school life, ambition, showdown, teamwork, school ...
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Haikyuu!! The Movie 2: The Winner and the Loser (2015)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Second Haikyuu!! recap movie.
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating, humorous, intense ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
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Story: Kimichika Haijima was a strong junior high school volleyball team member. After getting into trouble with the team, he moved to his mother's hometown and reunites with his childhood friend, Yuni Kuroba. The two become an ace pair at volleyball, ...
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating, josei
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Ao Ashi (2022)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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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, captivating, disturbing, entertaining ...
Plot: football player, soccer, football team, tournament, football, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, slice of life, competition, coach, teamwork, playing football ...
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Yuri!!! on Ice (2016)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: Yūri Katsuki carried all of Japan's hopes on his shoulders to win at the Gran Prix Finale ice skating competition, but suffered a crushing defeat. He returns home to Kyushu and half feels like he wants to retire, and half feels like he wants ...
Style: anime, captivating, yaoi, humorous, exciting ...
Plot: training, dream, rise to the top, figure skating, friendship, rivalry, coach, skating, lgbt, gay, male nudity, competition ...
Time: 21st century
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Free! (2013)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: The story revolves around Haruka Nanase, a boy who has always loved to be immersed in water, and to swim in it. Before graduating from elementary school, he participated in a swimming tournament along with his fellow swimming club members, Makoto ...
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Audience: teens, teen drama
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Haikyuu!! The Movie 1: The End and the Beginning (2015)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: First Haikyuu!! recap movie.
Style: anime, captivating, humorous, entertaining, motivational ...
Audience: teens
Plot: volleyball, teamwork, rivalry, adaptation, school, team, sport team, high school, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, ambition, professional rivalry ...
Place: japan
Similarity:
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Captain Tsubasa (2018)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
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Style: anime, captivating, exciting, disturbing, inspirational ...
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Haikyuu!! Movie 4: Battle of Concepts (2017)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Recap film focusing primarily on the match against shiratorizawa from the third season.
Style: anime, shounen, entertaining, satirical, captivating ...
Plot: volleyball, competition, high school, teamwork, adaptation, sport team, ambition, direction and purpose, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, satire, determination ...
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Duration: 23 min.
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Style: anime, captivating, seinen, super sentai
Plot: marathon, school club, track and field, rivalry, high school life, training, tournament, friendship, teamwork, youth, human spirit, adaptation ...
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