Audience reviews
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CaptainSmoke
This review applies to the first and second seasons, as they are the same arc.
Yowamushi Pedal doesn't do anything new or innovative, and what it does do, other shows have done better. With that said, if you are like me and enjoy sports anime and the "underdog kid finds his new passion and dedicates his life to it" theme, you will enjoy this show. For whatever reason, the episodes fly by while watching this show.
There are some issues with the show, the main one is consistency. For example, during a race, someone pulled "4 seconds" ahead, and the lead was considered nearly insurmountable, but later people closed gaps of multiple kilometers, and even 15 minutes. Some of the situations the team is put in also come off as a bit forced for dramatic effect, especially considering the solutio…
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This was quite the unexpected joy ride. What I like so much about this is that it feels like a breath of fresh air in a cluttered anime space. I really like shonen anime like this, especially multi-cour series with this series being paced quite perfectly. But what I find quite strange about this series is that it is surprisingly sadistic. Every episode, it seems to relish in bringing these characters down into despair, especially when sometimes it doesn’t make logical sense in the story. Would definitely recommend this series to others and I can’t wait to continue on to future seasons.
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I had this on my plan to watch, and it was a listed anime for a Summer Stack Challenge so I ended up watching it. Sports anime are ones I've not watched a great deal of, but I have watched a few and am aware of the cliches and tropes. Well, for the most part. Plenty cliches were overused, but, still, didn't really retract from the entertainment of it.
This anime has majority of the cliches and tropes that are in sport anime, but they didn't necessarily subtract from the anime. Yowamushi Pedal has the same recipe as the rest, but it does it well. That said, what messed up the anime for me was storytelling and pace - which I assume was the same in the manga. Overall, I would recommend viewers who like such genres to watch it, but I have mixed feelings due to how the second half of the seaso…
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(This review is for the first 2 seasons of Yowamushi Pedal)
This anime is what happens when you throw all the typical shonen characters into an anime about road racing. It’s pretty hilarious at times. It might be a weird comparison to some people, but my experience watching this was similar to the Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Some (most) of the characters are complete stereotypes. They’re also mostly stupid. They say things that are either blatantly obvious or completely wrong like 75% of the time, the rest of the time they’re usually being stupid over-the-top. There were times when it was a little bit touching or exciting, but mostly I kept watching it for two reasons: 1) Funny. 2) I like cycling and it made me want to ride my bike real bad.
There are a lot of issues with this show. Yowa…
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So I've noticed no one has talked about how Yowamushi Pedal utterly fails to portray cycling as a sport, so that's what I'll briefly cover here.
As an avid road cycling viewer I have found it impossible to ignore how any real world logic and strategy was completely thrown out the window for this series, how the teams are fully organized 100% of the time during races, how no one drafts off of anyone who isn't their teammates(I especially found this straight up insulting) and how there apparently is no such things as break-aways or random attacks to try and push an advantage. This anime makes road cycling look like a stupid and simplistic sport, with no depth and very little strategical elements.
The fact that having a really strong upper body makes you faster makes no sense at all (just…
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Yowamushi Pedal, what an anime!
I am going to be clear, I have watched several animes but this is by a considerable amount, my favorite one.
Let's start with the story,
To be honest, it is quite simple. It is just Onoda and his team racing with bikes. But this is not negative, it is absolutely amazing! The simplicity of the story allows you to quickly understand the different scenarios and enjoy the intensity of the anime. The results for every race are very distinct and you never really know what is going to happen. I believe that the wins and losses are fairly split. Despite this, there is some really interesting and profound parts of the story. For example, Sugimoto's evolution and the story of Koga. The author understands how to surprise and entertain you.
Story: 9
In terms of…
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AFTER WATCHING EPISODE 1 REVIEW | I am watching 3 sports anime right now: this series, kuroko no basket, and haikyuu!!. What I noticed is this similarity: they all have a duo kind of team with a significant difference in height. Kuroko and Kagami, Hinata and Kageyama, and now, maybe Sakamichi and Shunsuke.
I like how Sakamichi likes anime, being a character in an anime himself. And how he is calm and collected even when climbing a hill. Though he got, by accident, off his saddle at least thrice already, he still appears to be in a positive mood. That's rare. That's where Shunsuke comes in, a professional athlete who's obviously envious of Sakamichi's attitude on a, using Shunsuke's words, mommy bike. I think Shunsuke was the rational mind in this first episode.
My idea of a mommy bike is…
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tldr; Onoda is an irritating MC with plot armor that saves the team from difficult situations, but 3 characters save the day by being consistent.
I initially watched almost the entirety of the anime's first season 2 or 3 years ago, but I couldn't watch anymore of it once they introduced Midousuji, so I dropped it at the time. But with the pandemic and all, I gave it a second try, and surprisingly enough, I was finally able to finish the anime (the first season at least, at the time I'm writing this). Midousuji still gives me the creeps, with all the disgusting sounds that he makes whenever he's wiping his sweat off or looking like the snake he is.
Out of the main characters/the Souhoku team, there are three consistent characters: the captain - Kinjou, the redhead Naruko, and our darling…
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Should you watch the show? It depends mostly on your interests I would say, this show won't make you interested in the sport unlike Haikyuu or something similar, but it does deliver some enjoyment to people who has done some cycling before.
Compared to other sport animes it does have similar moments, where they go indepth to the sport which is cool, but the 2 main problems in the show in my opinion are the fact that most of the action made by the characters were purely achieved by "friend power", pride or something similar, also some of the scenes were dragged out too much, since 400m race could last for 10 minutes needless to say it got kinda boring at some points. The second problem or maybe third problem in the show was some of the characters. Mostly it was the main character who was s…
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Yowamushi Pedal is just your regular sports anime. As this is my first time trying to review an anime, I am just going to give it my honest opinion on it. As someone who is a fan of sports anime's in general, I find that Yowamushi Pedal is probably the best bicycle racing anime. But that doesn't mean that it was amazing. Anyways lets jump right on in (Warning, Minor Spoilers)
Story: 7
I actually thought the story was very original in some unique aspects. Even though it is your classic talented individual (Sakamichi) who never recognized he had a talent for bicycle racing, I thought that the beginning was a very good refresher. I also enjoyed the development of his skill. He was already pretty good to begin with and the training throughout the series made him into a pretty decent racer. Th…
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Let me tell you one thing, I watched this whole series while biking, in about 3 days. I can't even describe how much it helped me bike faster and for a longer amount of time. If you have a static bike or a base for it, I strongly recommend watching this anime.
The story itself is very inspiring at first, even though they make it seem like people with "mom bikes" are aliens. After the 7th or so episode, we stop seeing significant character evolution but it's still kind of good.
I really hated how the focus goes from a critical point for the main character to someone else and we don't get to see what happened to the main for 2 whole episodes. That purely depends on you but I wanted the main character to be under the spotlight more.
I was surprised by how they would talk about details onl…
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Story: (8/10)
The storyline is common for a sports anime but it is done better than others. It has more strategy (fewer super-powers, when they do exist they are properly explained and make sense) and better setup than any other sports anime I have seen.
Art: (7/10)
Art can be good at times are better at others, the background can either be breathtaking or decent, the character art looks great and gets better the farther in you go.
Sound: (10/10)
Wonderful OPs and EDs, you will want to re-listen to all of them. Voice acting is great, really in-character and fits the characters well.
Characters: (8/10)
Some cliches but there is real character development and the cliches are thrown away (and not overnight, they actually have reasons for their character development)
Enjoyment: (10/10)
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My Rating Model: 7/10 ~ MAL Rating Model: 6/10
Note: To say one needs an athletic disposition to enjoy Sport-Genre anime is quickly proved wrong in the first few episodes of Yowamushi Pedal. In fact, I believe the very foundation of Sport-Genre anime is what creates strong character-building. Stories that challenge the very nature of rejection vs. achievement is what allows Champions to be born.
For what starts off as an entertaining anime quickly turns into an unbearable mental test - rather a test of your durability in patience & suspense. I'm fairly disappointed with what began as a 9/10 story but for me - ended at 4/10. If i may alike it to any analogy I'd certainly pick One Piece or the Freeza Ark of DBZ where a single event/fight/challenge is stretched-out frustratingly long. I da…
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With the announcement of the 3rd season, I decided to check out Yowamushi Pedal and see whether the ride was worth it (pun intended). I wasn't exactly expecting anything special out of it, so I can with a heart full of love say that Yowamushi Pedal is everything I thought it would be before I watched it. In a nutshell, it's just another sports anime...
If you're a newcomer to either the world of anime or the sports genre, you may get far more out of YP than I did. It has everything that enticed me into this genre at first: over the top animation, plethora of characters with special abilities, rivalries, etc. It's entertainment in its purest form, and I can't fault it for that alone. In reality, I enjoyed my time with Yowamushi Pedal quite a lot. That is, if I ignore the fact that I've ski…
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Personally I was never a fan of sports anime. They just didn't interest me what so ever. Free was okay but it wasn't my favorite, but then I found this masterpiece. Once upon a time I was in my dorm trying to find an anime to watch and i was on a manga fanpage on facebook and they posted a comparison meme of Imaizumi to Haru from Free. I saw in the comments the anime was called yowamushi pedal. I went on google and looked it up and I knew from just the summary I would enjoy this show. I never had so much fun watching an anime since I first got introduced to the genre as a whole. Now on to the technical stuff.
Story: 10/10- The story itself is amazing. A lonely otaku who just wants to make friends and finds them in the most unique way, by riding a bicycle and getting noticed by someone on…
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Oh, the story of the underdog.
Onoda is a total otaku that finds his true calling as a road racer climber. Through his high school bike club, he meets friends and rivals, and begins his journey as a road racer.
I particularly love shounen sports manga because they are so much fun. And there is something to be said about an underdog to comes out on top. You can't help but hope and pray they make it. And yes, part of the enjoyment is finding out how they do it.
2/3 of the first season sets the stage: we find out how Onoda is dragged into this world and his training as a road racer. We begin to meet rivals and friends and see subtle moments where Onoda's mysterious power as a climber come out. The last 1/3 begins the Interhigh competition and I enjoyed this part the most. We've got interes…
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It's not the best anime, I know, but it has made me feel so much during the 2014, that's why Yowamushi Pedal it's one of my favorite animes.
It introduce us a history where an otaku guy,Onoda Sakamichi it's his first year in high school. As it's a new school he wants to make friends with common interests but instead of achieving that he joins the cycling club.
What I like so much about this anime is how it can make us have interest about what's going on and it's not a predictable shit like Kuroko no Basket where we see the Seirin Team always winning. Here we see a main team who has trained but doesn't always win in the competetions that were implemented during the Inter High. It also has a lot of emotions and we can feel the empathy that is put in the characters even if I didn't felt muc…
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Story 10: Yowamushi Pedal is a sport anime. Generally speaking, this is not my type because the genre I usually watch is either mystery or action. But because of my curiosity of this anime, I give a shot for this. This is a cycling-based sport anime and I thought it is a boring one because it is just about pedaling a bicycle but this anime exceeds my expectation. The story is about an otaku first year student who wants to join anime club however the anime club in that school was abolished due of lack of members. As the story goes, he met some people who help him polished his hidden potential which is cycling. As I continue watching this, the intensity I feel is rising every episode. A lot of intense episodes which drawn me into its world. I feel like I am one of those spectators. Overall,…
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i am a big fan of sports anime, so im always looking for one, then i found yowamushi pedal. the first episode really took me away, it was really cool and made me say " this anime's really interesting!"
STORY-10
it follows the usual shounen-sports routine where a seemingly ordinary hs boy was introduced to a particular sport (in here it's biking) which he knows little about. he eventually starts enjoying the sport, becoming dedicated and meeting lots cool people (interesting characters). it has a nice-warm atmosphere which is common in shounen animes.
even though it follows the routine, yowamushi pedal has its own uniqueness making it different and more exciting from other sports anime. There is never a boring part and it'll always wanna make you crave for the next episode.
ART-7
for m…
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This was an enjoyable anime that gives one a great glimpse into cycling and its peculiarities. While giving you information about the sport you also get a pretty common but well build story that is, in its format, quite often used. The main character find a new passion and happens to have a talent because of something he had to do up until now. (This is similar to Initial D and others.)
So the story isn't a deep masterpiece but fits perfectly for the theme of cycling and allows for exposition.
The art and sound design are fine and allow for easy watching and support the action well.
My verdict: Nice Anime, solidly build and well made about a topic that is interesting and known to many. If you want an anime thats fun to watch, you don't want a deep story but would like to know more about…
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