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katachikumo
If you're reading this, I'd dare to assume you're planning to watch this anime or are still deciding whether you should watch it or not.
I'm going to give my opinion, though I'm not a professional reviewer.
Plot
In this (almost) 27 years old anime we are unfolded the history of Akari and her efforts to reach her dream, her goal, achieved previously by her mother. Shy, honest and caring Akari isn't your average op character. You could even say she's mid in terms of power, agility, speed etc. But she makes up for it with her heart. Despite that, she does grow in the anime, both as an athlete and as a character, together with the other participants who inhabit the same dormitory as her. Together they go through mischievous mishappenings, where they redefine friendship, struggling to be bett…
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I discovered Battle Athletes Victory when I asked a guy at an anime convention “Do you know any good anime that are really obscure?” and he responded “Have you seen Battle Athletes?” I want to dedicate this to that guy.
Every so often one might choose to watch a random anime that you have never heard of before and know next to nothing about. Sometimes you will discover a hidden gem, sometimes its a huge piece of crap, but more often than not it’s something serviceable but fairly unremarkable. I am pleased to say, that for me, Battle Athletes Victory was the first option.
There are two anime productions in the original Battle Athletes franchise, a 6 episode OVA and a 26 episode television series. For my part I prefer Victory, the television series, to its OVA counterpart. Not only are the…
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The year is 4999 AD. A very long time ago, the planet was knocked off of it’s axis by a devastating event that left mankind teetering on the brink of extinction, and the full nature of which has been lost to history. In their efforts to rebuild society from the ground up, mankind has decided to abandon war and instead settle their differences through athletic competition. This may sound like the Olympics to you, but the nature of their Great Competition is almost nothing like the gladiatorial events that we know today. For just over 1000 years, young women from all over the world have been flocking to a special school in Antarctica, to train and compete against each other, with the the top three students from each year being sent to the University Satellite! But that’s not all, because ove…
Read at the sourceUnagi-san
Good title about sport and desire to win. Anime begins quite skin-deep, but after 4 episodes it gathers momentum developing characters, showing their motivations and fears as well as the skeletons in the clothets.
What is this anime about?
Anime turns from light comedy into quite serious spokon with drama about girls who try to overdo their own abilities, with blood, jealousy, broken bones and rivalry until the end. Sometimes serious scenes are mixed with slice of lifecomedy parts.
Anime pays particular attention to such kinds of sport as running and swimming, and also pole vaulting, tennis, air hockey and so on.
Also near to the end you will be surprised by some entertaining plot twist.
Plot
Mankind was nearly destroyed 3000 years ago, but then Earth was recovered and humanity coloni…
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Battle Athletes is a comedy sci-fi sport anime by Hideyuki Kurata, a manga by Nakano Yuki came out at roughly the same time as the original OVA. It later turned into a longer television series both with the same basic story. I'll be looking at the longer series from AIC, the eclectic studio with works ranging pretty widely in quality with Oreimo on the low end and Sasameki Koto on the high end. My biggest concern is simply that it's a sport anime and most sport anime are as dull and monotonous as the games they're based on. But who knows, maybe this is one of those rare exceptions that does something unique and/or has really compelling characters. Or it could be your typical story of a group of one-dimensional underdogs pulling together and managing to grasp victory. Let's take a look and…
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