Blue Lock

Genres: Action, Drama, Shounen, Sports

Description : The story begins with Japan's elimination from the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which prompts the Japanese Football Union to start a programme scouting high school players who will begin training in preparation for the 2022 Cup. Isagi Youichi, a forward, receives an invitation to this programme soon after his team loses the chance to go to Nationals because he passed to his less-skilled teammate —who missed— without trying to make the game-changing goal by himself. Their coach will be Ego Jinpachi, who intends to “destroy Japanese loser football” by introducing a radical new training regimen: isolate 300 young strikers in a prison-like institution called “Blue Lock” and put them through rigorous training aimed at creating “the world's greatest egotist striker.”

Grand Blue

Genres: Comedy, School life, Seinen, Slice of life, Sports

Description : From MangaHelpers: A new life begins for Kitahara Iori as he begins his college career near the ocean in Izu city, full of excitement for his new life. He will be moving into his Uncle's diving store "Grand Blue." There he finds the beautiful ocean, beautiful women, and men that love diving and alcohol. Will Iori be able to live his dream college life? This manga centers on the budding youthful drama of a college student living along in a coastal city who meets a scuba-diving and fun-loving upperclassmen.

Sangatsu no Lion

Genres: Comedy, Cooking, Drama, Psychological, Romance, Seinen, Slice of life, Sports

Description : A youth named Kiriyama Rei, who lost his family as a child, endures loneliness to become a professional shogi player. Then, through a chance meeting, he develops a relationship with the three Kawamoto sisters (Akari, Hinata, Momo), who hail from a working-class district of the city, and little by little his frozen heart begins to thaw. --- - **Won the 4th Manga Taisho Award in 2011** - **Won the Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 2011, which it shared with Space Brothers** - **Won the 18th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Grand Prize in 2014** --- The following links are to AnimeNetwork for the anime: (https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=18166) (https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=19356) (https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=18862)

Ao no Hako

Genres: Romance, School, Shounen, Sports

Taiki Inomata is on the boys' badminton team at sports powerhouse Eimei Junior and Senior High. He's in love with basketball player Chinatsu Kano, the older girl he trains alongside every morning in the gym. One Spring day, their relationship takes a sharp turn ... And thus begins this brand-new series of love, sports and youth!