Manga and anime cover a wide variety of genres, including sports! Even if you aren't a big sports fan, these titles still have great characters and often page-turning plots! From volleyball and basketball to figure skating, cycling, and competitive card games, there's a title for just about everyone!
Updated 02/09/2026
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(Teen) Always assumed to be trouble and never having participated in extra curricular activities, Kinichiro finds himself friendless at his high school graduation. But when an serious accident knocks him back in time to the start of his first year…
(Adult) Ashita No Joe is a highly influential classic sports series about Joe Yabuki, a down on his luck drifter who is recruited to become a professional boxer by former coach Danpei Tange. At first Joe refuses, but after being thrown into juvenile…
(Teen) Blade Girl is a shōjo sports manga that follows 16-year-old Rin who after losing her right leg to osteosarcoma trains to use the carbon fiber "blade" prosthetics used by athletes in order to compete in the Paralympics. While the manga does…
(Teen) Taiki Inomata has a crush on Chinatsu Kano, a girl in a grade above him. He's an average badminton player, but she's the star of the girls' basketball team. Will he be able to work up the courage to confess his feelings, especially after a…
(Teen) Blue Lock leans more into the traditional shonen tournament arc storytelling style than your average sports manga. It's about Jinpachi Ego who wants to become an ace striker in football (soccer) and joins the Blue Lock tournament. Designed…
(Adult) This isn't your traditional sports anime - even if the characters are all playing a traditional game! Chihayafuru has all the hallmarks of a great sports anime - tournaments, team work, and great character development! The story is about…
(Teen) After the tragic passing of his mother and an outburst that bans him from figure skating, fifteen-year-old Rou Shirakawa upends his life and moves with his sister to Hokkaido. There Rou is recruited to play ice hockey with some local kids who…
(Teen) A sports manga classic, Eyeshield 21 follows Sena, a smaller than average high schooler, as he joins the American football team at his school. What he lacks in size, he'll make up in speed. The first hurdle, however, for the football club is…
(Teen) The ridiculously popular series about school volleyball. Similar to Slam Dunk, Haikyu!! is beloved by both sports fans and non-sports fans. Despite having 45 volumes in the series, the engaging story and loveable characters keep the story…
(Teen) Before there was The Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift, there was Intial D, a classic sports manga from the late 90s and early 200s that focused on illegal street racing in the mountains of the Gunma prefecture. Our protagonist Takumi Fujiwara is…
(Teen) Kuroko's Basketball blends the sports manga and battle shonen genres to achieve an unforgettable, fast-paced series. The manga series was also adapted into an anime which is also an excellent place to pick up the series. The library owns the…
(Teen) Inori is a young girl wanting to become a professional figure skater, but she fears she may be too old to begin training. But with the help of a former ice dancer Tsukasa Akeuraji, she might just have a chance to take home the gold! If you're…
(Adult) The anime follows a boxer named Junk Dog who fights in boxing matches called Megalobox. In the past he's glided through his matches thanks to rigging them. However, when he loses a fight to Megalobox Champion Yuri, he finds himself thrust…
(Teen) After a terrible accident leaves Shouta Kikuzato with a prosthetic leg, he thinks his days of being an athlete are over. However, when he meets Chidori, a prosthetic specialist who has taken an interest in Kikuzato after witnessing him…
(Teen) The manga series that popularized basketball in Japan, Slam Dunk follows Sakuragi as he attempts to join his school's basketball team. What started out as just an attempt to impress a pretty girl, turns into a passionate past time. This is a…
(Teen) An untraditional sports manga, this one follows characters learning about and competing in ballroom dancing. After being saved from delinquents by dance instructor Kaname Sengoku, middle-schooler Tatara Fujita may have finally found a hobby…
(Teen) Unable to start an anime club during his first year at Sohoku High School, Onoda Sakamichi wonders if he'll ever get the chance to make any friends who share his interests. Then he meets Imaizumi Shunsuke and Naruko Shoukichi, both cycling…
(Adult) An overnight hit that took the anime world by storm, Yuri!!! on Ice needs no real introduction. It's portrayal of competitive figure skating was so well-received that many real-life Olympic figure skaters gushed over the series, with a few…
