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Top 5 Sports Anime to Watch, According to IGN

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Look, Bundesliga is back and we’re getting a little sports talk here and there, but now is the time for exploration while our normal TV habits are upended. Akeem Lawanson from IGN is here to expand those horizons by discussing the top five sports anime to watch right now.

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I’ll be the first to tell you I don’t watch a lot of anime. However, I am intrigued by the Captain Tsubasa game, and I have wondered for some time now why there are not more sports game-anime crossovers. Perhaps there is not enough crossover between the two audiences in market testing, but I feel like with the success of all the Mario-centric sports games, we’d see more attempts at anime sports games. I know I’m open to them, and I think it would be a good avenue to get me more into the source material via the video games.

Be that as it may, Captain Tsubasa does not make the IGN list, but this gave me a lot of insight into other anime shows out there that could potentially become sports games down the line.

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Chase has written at Operation Sports for over 10 years, and he's been playing sports games way longer than that. He loves just about any good sports game but gravitates to ones that coincide with the ongoing real seasons of the NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL, and so on. As of now, he's gearing up for EA Sports College Football 25 and what should be a wild summer while still dabbling in the latest Top Spin and MLB The Show.