#like every sports anime

[lets-go-banana-fishing]

Jumping onto the 'Misato is Asheijis love child' bandwagon way too late but at least I'm jumping

#he inherited the looks and the mental illnesses of his dads too !! #go watch bakuten it's cute and gay #like every sports anime #also i FINALLY got around to watch the movie HEHEHE #banana fish #ash lynx #eiji okumura #asheiji #bakuten movie #bakuten!! #backflip!! #it's canon in my dreams #misato ryouya #mimi posts

[july-19th-club]

i think there's horse sexism in the kentucky derby . field of twenty horses, right? plus a couple more runners-up that can swap in if somebody has to drop out . not a single filly in the lineup. which obviously doesn't mean i think that like ... the HORSES are sexist . but i imagine that in a field where most of the top trainers are men themselves, there's more of a focus on training the colts that come across their paths, and perhaps even more colts being selected to be trained towards these big races in the first place . a horse is a horse is a horse, they all go fast, but there's probably an unconscious bias from breeders, trainers, owners, etc that prevents the field from being more diversified

#most jockeys are very small men also . as opposed to average-small women #you'd think there'd be more women jockeys . simply because of the odds of being short or slim enough to ride a horse fast #but it's mostly guys #okay scratch that . most of the small-time people i know who are horse people are women. the local tracks are probably full of em #but the guys whose names you see every year? are guys . glass ceiling like any field but it's extra stupid in this one #because not only does it cover the human people involved in the sport. it extends to literal farm animals #starting to think the thoroughbred series lied to little old sixth grade me you guys ........ #lkajsldkfj . i read those books and i was like . okay so the american horse racing culture is flooded with plucky young women . babe no #q

[surelyskyrocket]

ur WELCOME!!!

#bllk #blue lock #ego jinpachi #tumblr sexyman #sports anime #fifa world cup 2022 #soccer #i had to share this #the evidence is overwhelming like #he fits every trait #blue lock fandom rise up we can make this a reality #kylo ren #sherlock #raymond

[darkwood-sleddog]

Lmao I hate when people compare dog sledding and horse racing as if they are equivalents in animal abuse.

Horse racing centers on gambling. Dog sledding does not.

Race horses are owned by the wealthy who have trainers, grooms, and jockeys to do the work for them while they cash in on an insane amount of money from gambling/stud fees/breeding. Mushers work a second job, take sponsorships from regular joes, live off the land and get frostbite on the regular just to afford to keep their dogs fed, fit and healthy.

These are not the same.

#dogblr #dog sledding #sled dogs #like lmao in NO WORLD is anybody racing sled dogs for money and money alone #in horses yes #but racing sled dogs has to be your lifestyle your passion your art #for it to be even a bit bearable #race horse owners are the 1% #Iditarod winner Brent sass does almost everything himself on his homestead. #Iditarod winner lance mackey has had financial trouble and mental health struggles for YEARS #every day I see people who feed their dogs before themselves #like. what race horse owner goes hungry for their animals? not a single fucking one #like highly successful mushers are middle class only under certain circumstances #my low end sled an IKEA equivalent was like 500-600 usd #my new sled was 1500+ #this sport ain’t cheap and we’re all pretty poor as fuck

[hella1975]

why pay for a gym membership when you can go back to the countryside and move bags of concrete for FREE 😍

#my life at home is so glamorous btw #so the thing about my mum is that we have almost 2 acres of land and obviously the upkeep of that is INTENSE #but her attitude - justifiably - is 'if i can do it myself then why would i pay someone to do it?' #so me and my sister have gone our whole lives used to just helping with the chores #like that's not a big deal i really think it's a bit grim how a lot of teenagers just Dont Help with the chores #BUT my point is for me and my sister 'helping with chores' isnt just like. washing up and doing laundry lmao #like we have LAND and ANIMALS and there isn't exactly a man about the house that does all the heavy lifting #so it's my mum powered by sheer rage and stubborness telling me and my sister what to lift and where to put it #and that's just how it is like we move bricks and poles and fence panels etc etc the list goes on #literally a free work out and it's then so funny bc my friends know me to be quite lazy when it comes to activity #like i dont do any sports and i refuse to go gym with them and i like my little bed etc #BUT when put in a position where it's actually shown i will typically be stronger than my friends #including the ones paying extortionate amounts for gym memberships LMAO #like me and two of my mates did ninja warrior not long ago and one of them is a proper gym lad #and i left her in the DUST and she was acc a bit fuming about it? like it made her really insecure i was like how fucking offensive is that #like she was basically insecure bc 'how can i possibly be less fit than [my name] when she does fuck all' LMFAOOOO #i giggled #it's me and my sleeper countryside build against the corporations #BUT since coming uni it has slipped a bit bc ive gone from doing an hour of intense heavy lifting at least every? two days? ish? #to doing fuck all for weeks on end and then doing short bursts of it when i come home #so doing it today was a bit sad bc i cant lift nearly as much as i used to. like i can still lug 15kg dog food bags on my shoulder #like a little farmer boy but icl i was SWEATING today with that concrete when normally i'd do it pretty easy #so maybe i'll get more into my fitness again idk. like as lazy as i am working out does give you that little rush of endorphins #and the kind of workout i do as well gives me that very human satisfaction of simple manual labour #like truly satisfies ten generations of factory workers and farmers in my bloodline lmao they r smiling down on me #hella goes home

[ozymoron]

no more buff men!!!!!!!!!!!! no more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cant takr it anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#⚠️ #my friend keeps showing me men from their animes and theyre all buff why are they always buff why are they always buff why are they always b #not a problem with them just a problem i have with media in general HE. DOES. NOT. NEED. ABS. #PUT THE PEN DOWN. HE DOES NOT NEED ABS. #also going up to every actor ever and gently taking the weights from their hands touching their abs and going... who did this to you.... #please stop... sniff.... for me... #i think i could convince a good lot of them if i wet my big stupid eyes enough #i can sorta cry on command so #im on a mission to save the world #why is being buff and shit the ideal why do people find it attractive like why are you strong what are you fighting #other men? why?? for what. its 2024 the only reason to be doing that is gay sex or wrestling which is also just gay sex #or like boxing i guess or whatever other sports but i dont give a shit

[rubberbandballqueen]

About your tags: is there more that you can share about the OW fandom and fics? This was a phenomenon I wonder about too. It was one of the most popular fandoms around 2017-2018, but the way the fandom stopped on its tracks around 2019 was hard not to notice. Especially from people who didn't play the game but were aware of it's fandom.

oh! overwatch is one of about 50-ish fandoms i track for this one spreadsheet project i do as a hobby (which i Technically blog about @fandom-data-scientist, but i've been too lazy to do a proper writeup to explain what the hell it is i do), wherein i try to answer the age-old question: when did the weebs move to ao3?

(the answer is late 2015/early 2016. most likely this was in large part a result of undertale and sports anime, but that's currently just my own conjecture)

According To My Research(tm), the overwatch fandom peaked in late 2016/early 2017 when it comes to the number of new fics posted per month. after this, it declined quite rapidly, as it didn't even get to enjoy a plateau period.

(there's a reason why the plots are really wonky towards the end of this graph-- it's bc i found the past dates for number of fics archived to a particular site via the wayback machine. since those snapshots are typically bot crawls, the number of fics shown on the fandoms listings will not include fics that have been archive-locked. although i technically started this project in august 2022, i did not add overwatch to my tracking list until this june/july or so. my current guess for the small uptick in the rate of ow fics published to ao3 in october 2022 is that the sequel came out? and then the rate plunged for january 2023 bc of the ai scraping scare that happened at around that time-- nearly every single fandom i track had a significant drop right then bc everyone was archive-locking their fics. the rate shooting up in like july 2023 on this chart is bc like i said, that's when i added ow to my list of tracked fandoms; because i'm logged into my own ao3 acct when checking these numbers live, i get access to the archive-locked fics and so the display number goes up.)

in my experience, fandoms will generally kind of plateau in their fic production after their peak, which will ofc normally gradually taper off. games that receive regular lore or story updates probably have fairly long or stable plateaus, although i haven't made scatterplots or made any comparing analyses to prove this rigorously. this plateau period generally represents a time of fandom stability as the fair-weather, casual, or migratory slash fans run off to the next big thing.

if we ignore the fact the plague and quarantine happened, we can see a nice, steady, and very consistent plateau period for the danganronpa fandom from about 2018-2020!

let's look at an older fandom, like my archnemesis final fantasy:

granted, the ao3 numbers are kind of all over the place these days, but you kind of get my point by now, right? that healthy fandoms tend to plateau as the wind carries away the faintly-interested and leaves the long-haulers behind to form their communities.

overwatch struck me as unusual when i was on one of my long wayback machine trips because of the way there was a net increase of only two fics published from 1 july 2021 to 1 october 2021, when before then it had usually been in the hundreds or so. i then went on a work tangent n googled around n more or less concluded it had Something to do with some kind of scandal with the development company, but otherwise i don't really have any more comments on it hahaha.

#asks #Anonymous #long post #i was too lazy to open my other spreadsheets in the project but i probably could've gotten clearer/longer plateaus #out of some of the western tv shows i've been tracking. like glee. or spn. #glee is INCREDIBLY funny to me bc of the way it just DIES right after the finale. like a bubble POPPING #although frankly maybe naruto would've been a better example for a peak n a plateau bc of how steady its fandom is #anyway this felt kind of like an odd ask to answer on this blog bc i keep it Very Separate from my fandom blog(s) hahaha #anyway i also looked at the rate of fic postage for the kingdom hearts fandom n although i didn't talk abt it here in this reply #i thought it interesting how it seemed to plummet on ffn around when ao3 n tumblr started getting a foothold #and then after the weebs moved to ao3 post-undertale/sports anime boom it had a nice steady 300-ish fics/month there #ANYWAY the reason final fantasy is my archnemesis for this project is bc ffn has each game split into its own category #and so i have to count them all up every single time n when doing that for every single fucking date i have marked in the wbm #for 20 YEARS' WORTH OF DATES. well. it upsets a man just a little bit. #BUT I'M DONE I DID MY TIME ON THE FINAL FANTASY BACKLOG I'M FREE NOW I JUST HAVE TO DO IT EVERY THREE MONTHS WHEN I RECORD LIVE DATA #i talk abt this shit at parties btw. people love to hear me talk abt my fandom spreadsheets at parties.

[crazy-fangirl2524]

Shrek reminds me of aftg

#listen listen listen #not the plot or character or the vibes but as in how Shrek is this thing that animators indulge in making it as fucked up as possible not #making any sense at all yet unexpectedly everyone loves it and it’s literally everyone’s favourite #even though u gotta admit the plot is complete bonkers and unlike usual animations (like ofc the deeper meaning make sense but like aftg if #u JUST think about the plot it doesn’t like gay mafia fictional sports ?? orges and a princess that turns into an ogre at night and a fairyt #fairytale town and every single story is somehow mashed into it?! #it’s ridiculous but people love it because it’s so so real and relatable and funny just like aftg is #so therefore it concludes that if u hail Shrek as a masterpiece u too cannot shit on aftg because it’s basically the same form #Nora didn’t expect this to grow this big and yet here I am dedicating the rest of my life to aftg #aftg #all for the game #tfc #the foxhole court #andrew minyard #aftg series #neil josten #aftg fandom #andrew joseph minyard #aftg incorrect quotes #Shrek #tfc incorrect quotes #incorrect tfc #incorrect aftg quotes #incorrect aftg #nora sakavic #aftg headcanon #aftg textpost #aftg kevin #aftg trilogy #aftg shitpost

[icewindandboringhorror]

this is not the exact one I watched but I saw one of these "dish scape" things at someone's house who actually has TV (like they pay for dish/cable instead of just watching stuff online) and I think they're meant to be relaxing atmospheric stuff that you mostly ignore, but I sat there for 35 minutes watching absolutely engrossed.. further proof that I genuinely think my brain is incapable of experiencing boredom lol..

#IT'S BECAUSE there's so many little details that like you can spend minutes just scanning every corner of the image and taking it all in and #you keep finding new things! like 'oh I didn't know that blade of grass moved!' or 'I didnt see that bucket before!'. And then on top of #so many details - some things genuinely do change. The one I saw was a Beach house scene and sometimes a bird would fly by or ONE TIME kite #came out of nowhere. a sandcastle built and unbuilt itself. there's a firepit and it comes on when the sky changes from day to afternoon!! #this is like watching a sports game to me. I need weird detail oriented friends who will sit for 20 minutes staring at a barely moving pict #ure & cheer and clap with me when a seagull flies across the screen ghgj.. THERE HE IS!!!! etc!! and there's just so much to think about!! #Like how the images are layered or animated and the choices that were made (like I think the sunrise and sunset sky background images for t #e beachouse are just the same picture flipped and recolored) and trying to predict what's going to happen next (will the lights in the hous #turn off for night time? will another bird show up??) etc! I even got up at one point to walk close to the screen and get a better view of #hese paintings that were visible through the beachhouse windows. and then thinking about building a similar home in the sims! OR ALSO THIS #WOULD BE SUCH A COOL medium I think to tell a story! Like you upload a video to youtube that is framed just as a completely average moving #screensaver ambiance type of thing. It's like 7 hours long and mostly loops the same still image. However. over time at certain points you #can see some thing happen like watching characters interact through the windows. animals or people walk across the screen. certain elements #in the environment morph or change. etc. In such a way that an entire like plot is conveyed. maybe like fantasy mystery sort of thing. I WI #SH I could do this style of art / had friends who could or had money to pay somebody to. I would LOVE to collaborate on a weird surreal #It's Just Your Average Slowly Looping Moving Screensaver Video I Promise' type story.. jjhhgHH.. Or even just making one of these set in so #me of my fantasy world environments. not as a secret thing with easter eggs that tell a story but just literally an image like this tha #moves over time and etc. HHRRGRGHhhhhGG.. ANYWay!! I had to actually turn it off not because I was bored but because it was distracting me #. which is funny since again. I think for most people it's meant to be a 'just leave it on in the background' type of thing that's bland an #neutral . But it was just making me think too much ghjgh.. This is why I can't go to amusement parks or nightclubs bars or concerts like.. #a moving screensaver image is too overstimulating to my brain. Could you imagine me going to an environment just full of sensory informatio #like loud noises poeple talking flashing lights etc. etc. ? hghghb... Visiting a grocery store at a slightly busy hour is like my upper lim #it... Anyway.. everything is just so interesting to me. Even if I was locked in a room alone I would have plenty to think about & amu #se myself. I am also a hater definitely like I'm a very analytical person who is critical of society and systems & everything that exists #and even generally am just very opionated and have distinct preferences - so just because everything is INTERESTING does not mean I LIKE or #enjoy everything or never get tired of/annoyed by situations or ideas or etc. But it's more just like.. I literally dont think I could ever #be bored because of the way my brain works and also I approach life with elements of childlike whimsy and constant obsessive curiosity and #attention to detail. so as much as I am an analytical bore I also love everything and the world is fascinating at all times. lol.. duality #of man. if you get it then you get it. ANYWAY.. wanted to ramble abt it. I don't like the above video as much as the one I actually saw but #I couldn't find the beach one online.. BUt.. aaHH! best viewed whilst talking to yourself narrating/cheering! ALSO I want to make one!!!

[ria-starstruck]

learned abt the existence of the white plumed moth

#makes me so mad that i dont know every cool bug that exists on this planet and im not capable of knowing of every cool bug that exists on #this planet and RRUAURHGHGH #art #moth #white plume moth #white plume moth character #bug_world #hale_cale #character design #oc #or whatever. idfk #character design process #im planning 2 draw some more outfits for her later....my middleschool self would hunt me for sport for the crime of drawing lady in leotard #armor + heels. this i know #MOTH GOT LONG LEGS THO. LONG SPIKY LEGS!! WHAT TF ELSE AM I SUPPOSED 2 DO!!!!! #ya ya ill see abt alt outfits which still convey long spiky legs. LATER. #also i keep flip flopping on the hair like. the spiky sticky out ponytail version kinda helps convey the t shape of the moth but like i wro #like i wrote it DOES tend to look too anime which i dont vibe with... #on the other hand some of those early sketches look p okay with that hairstyle #i just dont know! #still gotta figure out colors but thats easy its like mostly whites n grays #for some reason sometimes my brain tries to autofill a kinda muted red for parts of her cape #having many thoughts about her cape. didnt draw any of them right....the usual! #what if i added her to af. jk jk....unless? i mean. im jk. but then again....what if..... 😳 noooo im joking im joking...but then again. wha

[tired-biscuit]

I don’t know if you’re still in a fluffy moods butttttt kibas reaction to y/n naming their soon to be born son after him (kiba jr!!) there’s absolutely no way he’d be able to hide his emotions. He’d feel all the feels. He may even shed a tear or two 🥹

omg yes, him trying to blink away the tears, like looking up towards the ceiling and sniffling a little cos he's trying so hard not to show what a softie he is when it comes to family. his heart is so much bigger than he tends to show and he just gets so emotional over things concerning his wife and kids :(

imagine as the years go by and the kid grows a bit older, you call out their name and they both do the same little head tilt as they look at you hdhshdhshsgs IT'D BE SO CUTE!!

also, imo if he had a son, the lil' guy would be his perfect copy by the time he grows older. right down to the way he walks and smiles, the temper and all sorts of little mannerisms would be stolen like that, so the name wouldn't be the only thing they'd have in common. he'd look up to his dad so much!!

i also think the kid would even be really happy when his friends would start using the same nickname that his dad has. like his best friend starts calling him 'ki 2.0' or something like that at some point, and it's just pure joy and kiba notices it and is over the moon too hahahshhags <3

#i always imagined him as a girl dad but he'd be so good with a son too #def plays sports with him from the moment the kid can walk #and he's like 'LET'S GO FISHING' cos he thinks it's proper bonding exercise or sumn hsjdhahdhs #they'd probs never catch anything #except for sunburns LMAOOOO #he also takes him camping!!!! #and like when the kid is still little every single picture of them together keeb has him on his shoulders lol <3 #also gets him a dog of his own the moment the kid expresses the wish #but he actually teaches him how to properly take care of animals cos no way is he letting neglect happen to puppies #also calls him stupid nicknames like buddy #champ #buster #LMAOOOOO

[emeritusterzo]

decided to close twitter and open tumblr because I was thinking way too much about cmjf and the first thing I see is codymaxpunk how am I supposed to stay a sane person like that .

#“stay a sane person” I say like I haven’t gone through ten phases of insanity ranting about every old wrestling reference in the cmjf feud #the few mutuals who have my twitter priv and have barely an idea of what wrestling is looking at me like a wild animal in a far away cage #also with cody being everywhere codymax has been taking some of my brainspace #but yeah you can say I’m normal about this sport

[nevergeneralize]

“Nice try but I’m not adulting today”: the Millennials of Sk8

It’s really delightful to me that the grownups in Sk8 are recognizably millennials and I was really pleased by the way the show employs the visual hallmarks of my teen years to establish the flashbacks to the youth of the last generation. Feels like Officially becoming a Media Adult

Like obviously I am no longer the shonen target demo / main character being well out of my teens and that is not new, but I’ve been in a weird gap because Media Grownups have still seemingly been gen-Xers, aesthetically and values-wise (retro = the 80s, for seemingly forever), and that’s not me. But these Manic-Panic-haired Hot-Topic-shopping X-Games-watching sk8er bois absolutely are:

Kaoru was edgier in his youth than I would’ve dared in my own but I sure did have those bangs. Look at his eyeliner you could cut glass with those wings!!! He’s serving Avril Lavigne and I just know he’s got Death Cab or his local equivalent playing in his (wired, on-ear) headphones. This is ostensibly a school uniform but I wanted identical trendy skinny plaid pants so bad

Note the wallet chain and the aggressive side part which TikTok would have me believe is no longer cool?? This nice young man will go get a Godsmack shoulder tattoo at chef school and it will become part of his personal brand when he moves back to his hometown and decides to maintain a quirky high school hobby at great personal injury risk and what must be a disastrous sleep schedule situation. He’s somehow the best-adjusted man in all of shonen

And I know there’s not even a full generation between the two groups of main characters (as the show itself constantly jokes by way of Shadow’s objections to being called an old man) but they are separated by life-phase-dependent narrative trajectories: Reki and Langa and Miya are in coming of age (cough first love) stories, Kaoru is in a healing from old wounds story, Kojiro is a mentor figure (does he have character development or just a rockin bod?? Who’s to say) and Shadow is also mentor/supporter/team-mom. (Ainosuke is an important exception which I will discuss in a separate post; he’s in some ways belatedly coming of age.)

So the older group feels narratively/functionally like The Grownups but they are aesthetically My Peers. It’s kind of wild! “Feel old yet?” Yeah I do, finally, thanks! Congrats on graduating to anime adulthood my fellow millennials!

I’m sure there’s tons of other media where my generation is represented this way but this is the first one I’ve really noticed, maybe because it touches on a specific subculture that evokes my experience of youth, or maybe I don’t watch that many things set in the present anyway. Who knows. I think my particular delight in this experience also has to do with how Sk8 treats coolness and how the adults (at least The Founders) still get to have it. Maybe also the fact that the show’s characters get to be generationally differentiated but not at odds for that feels fresh to me; there are clearly marked aesthetic/narrative differences but they’re not hinging the conflict on the grownups being out of touch or the kids being immature. That feels a little bit utopian, actually, and opposed to a particular strain of discourse that paints Gen Z/The Youth as incomprehensible to the “olds” and separate from millennials, who should implicitly start to identify instead with more traditional values and attitudes, i.e. those of our parents. In fact I would argue that Sk8 actually models that identification with outdated parental values via Ainosuke and his family, and frames it as sad and toxic and villain-making, but we see a healthier alternative in the core squad, where Reki jokes about Shadow being an old man, and Joe and Cherry bemoan the kids joining vacation, but it’s lighthearted and we get to have fun joking about age/generational differences without it creating conflict! Found family/intergenerational dynamics without manufactured parent-child tension, except for fun at the beach! Neat! (Also the actual parent-child dynamics of Langa and his mom are pretty great)

So it’s cool to see my specific peer group’s aging represented without any suggestion that it should necessarily mean generational conflict or value-stagnation, or even uncoolness or the trope of inevitable adult boredom and the loss of youthful freedom and joy. We can have our own millennial culture AND separate adult narratives/problems AND solidarity with younger people AND empowered fully-realized maturing selves with fun hobbies! I can see myself in the Media Adults in a piece of media that’s got a pretty optimistic view of what adulthood means and I think that’s neat.

#sk8 the infinity #good luck with those student loans kaoru and kojiro #they’re just like me fr #meta #sk8 meta #which I did not expect to be writing lol #I’m joking about joe’s tattoo being a godsmack tattoo … or am i #i just thought of a whole bunch of stuff about skating as fandom what with tadashi and reki’s scene but #this post is long enough already #what have i wrought #i came here to bully joe and cherry for being stereotypes (out of aesthetic envy obvs) and now #here we are #hundreds of words of this #too many thoughts but head still empty #also thinking about miya and how gaining competency can be painful #this show has a lot going on for being a sports anime that disregards almost every fact about its sport and also physics

[neonsbian]

i need to stop watching so many bl dramas im like writing yaoi in my head while watching wayvs content video 😭

#literally i was abt to take screenshots and be like ten? interested in women? #and then theres a moment later where ten said he joined the club bc of kun like okay....thats what every gayboy says in every sports anime #like am i writing the yaoi or is wayv writing it 😭 #vinnie talks

[millecrepe]

i need sports anime watchers to get on mou ippon!!! girls are amazing, their characters building are well done and endearing, and you learn about the art/sport that is judo!!! the yuri undertones are also lovely but are never qbaiting, only there if like me you want to look into it and the high school girls aren’t sexualized woozers! it’s really all about enjoying yourself through effort and healthy competition and building friendship, a real good sports anime!!

#ready to rumble #ik nobody will get into it bc it's not yaoibait and that's all some of yous want to see in sports anime #don't get me wrong i love many ships in popular sports series but like i'm begging fujos to look at girls too #sorry for being a raging lesbian as if it's my fault #it's so fresh in 2023 to see girls portrayed respectfully and passionate about sports #for the shoujo lovers i'm pretty sure more male characters that could be love interests if that's what you want have appeared in the manga #tho it's categorized as shounen like any other sports manga #i'm watching every episode with a big smile the story is good and the sports stakes intersting and girls!! thriving!! #mou ippon #txtp

[automatic-midnight]

There’s too many sports manga where the protagonist has rough around the edges skills but has some secret talent that propels them to victory. Where’s my sports manga about someone who’s just absolutely terrible, no dormant ability, no hidden skill, just completely horrendous at the sport. I need a protagonist who’s fighting for their life the entire time and at the end of the story they go to college and play intramural sports.

#anime #manga #I know I know no series like this exists because it would be boring but so many sports mangas have some gimmick to give the protagonist #an edge #Isagi has it #Hinata has it (he easily has the best development though so he kinda gets a pass) #btw I’m talking out of my ass the only series I’m caught up with is blue lock and it annoys me endlessly #I think Aoi from Aoi ashi has some Birds Eye ability and he’s also super good #and BTW I’m not saying these protags don’t put in effort I just wish there were more sports manga out there that cater to people like me #who are terrible at every sport they play #sports manga #this post is a joke but if anyone has recs hmu #better yet ignore my post and give me a series about some 30 year old playing community soccer