A story which uses incorporates a competitive event as a primary component of the story line, but which is not of a martial-arts or violent nature. While both being cooking based series, Yakitate!! Japan and Chuuka Ichiban are good examples of this genre.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
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| A | ||
 Ace wo Nerae! (TV) |
On her first day at Nishi High School, the first year Hiromi Oka is inspired by one her sempais, Ryuuzaki Ochoufuji Reika to join the tennis club. The arrival of the new (Davis Cup winner) tennis coach Munakata Jin upsets the varsity team line up, and Oka finds herself as a member of the competing team. New to the game of tennis and unsure of herself, Oka has to struggle against the torments of the rival whom she displaced and severe challenges of the new coach to find her place on the awarded Nishi tennis team. |
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| Aim for the Ace! (TV) | See Ace wo Nerae! (TV) | |
| F | ||
| Freshly Baked!! Ja-pan! | Buy | See Yakitate!! Japan |
| H | ||
 H2 |
Buy |
Kunimi Hiro is a high school student, who is forced to give up his ambitions as a professional baseball player due to a serious injury. Now at a new high school, Hiro gets involved with Haruko and her goals of reviving that school's baseball team. At first they must overcome the refusal of school principle, who still remembers a dishonorable defeat that the school's baseball suffered some ten years earlier. Even with permission to form a school baseball team, there are still the players to recruit and train, and the challenges of building a reputation of the team within the high school baseball circuit. |
| I | ||
| Initial D - Project D (stage 4) | Buy | See Initial D - Stage 4 |
 Initial D - Stage 4 |
Buy |
Takumi is now a member of the "Project D" racing team, a group that is intent on setting speed records for all of the mountain roads in the area. The team is headed the elder Takahshi brother, with Takumi and his supercharged(actuall |
| Initial D Fourth Stage | Buy | See Initial D - Stage 4 |
| Y | ||
| Yakitate Japan | Buy | See Yakitate!! Japan |
 Yakitate!! Japan |
Buy |
A young six-year-old boy learns the wonders of baking bread and has grown to aspire to create the “bread that will define Japan”. But can this young man, born with gifted golden (or solar) hands, craft the yeasts and sugars of a simple bread dough and create a chewy manna from the heavens succeed? Only a battle of faith and culinary creativity can decide, as a young Kazuma accepts the challenge to create the most ultimate BREAD OF JAPAN!!! |
| エースをねらえ! | See Ace wo Nerae! (TV) | |
| 焼きたて!! ジャぱん | Buy | See Yakitate!! Japan |
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