I've been on a sports anime binge for the last month and I'm reminded of why I will always love sports anime better than any other kind of anime.
1) Male dominated cast like most anime but at least there's a justification for it. Also, barring a few exceptions, there's more fanservice for women than men since it's a bunch of sweaty guys in locker rooms, with like one token female manager here and there. feminism.
2) Male dominated relationships but it's fine because it's justified. Also gives them the opportunity to be gay as fuck, and it's justified because sports are gay as fuck. gay rights.
3) no goddamn love subplots because it's sports, goddamnit. fuck your romance subplots. we ball.
4) it's an action story without stupid dimension warping world breaking super powers that get yanked out of someone's ass when the author writes himself into a corner. now they still pull shit out of their asses but at least it's just some new dumbass pass or whatever.
5) no one fucking dies, they just lose the game and come back to narrate the next game.
6) because it's centered around sports, there's no threat of the author running out of ideas or fucking up their plot by going the wrong way. you either do the tournament arc or character development. either way, it's hard to fuck up.
also addendum: I love character focused stories more than anything. sports anime might focus on the sport but it's also very much about the characters and their relationships to each other and the sport.
so.
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No one dies? Really?
