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“Former star captain revives defunct high-school basketball team, inspiring five teammates to chase national tournament dreams.”
Hoop Days
ディア・ボーイズ
6.81
6,331 rank · 23,704 viewers · 55 favorites
Drama
Sports
Team Sports
Shounen
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Crunchyroll
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Synopsis
Former star captain revives defunct high-school basketball team, inspiring five teammates to chase national tournament dreams.
Aikawa Kazuhiko was the captain of Tendoji high school prestigious basketball team. He moves into a new town to attend Mizuho high school and joins its basketball team. However, Mizuho high's basketball team is far from being prestigious, in fact, it's now defunct. Nevertheless to say, Kazuhiko's persistence, passion and basketball skills inspired other team members of the dysfunctional basketball team to gear up and start practicing again. The goal is to play in the national tournaments where all young basketball players meet their opponents to compete with them. The tale of youth of the five protagonists: Fujiwara Takumi, Ishii Tsutomu, Dobashi Kenji, Miura Ranmaru and Aikawa Kazuhiko have just began along with the live of Mizuho high school basketball team. (Source: AnimeNfo)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 6 sampled reviews
6.8
/10
What 6 viewers settled on.
80%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 8
σ 2.48
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.48 · split reception
The polarity gap
6.3 pts
Recommenders 8.3 · others 2.0
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No
Score over time
↑ 0.83
Running avg · Aug 2007 → Jul 2020
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
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- 8 “Dear Boys focuses on the main characters and their emotions encompassed around the game of basketball. Hints of comedy and romance are noticed through out the anime. Watching this anime made me...”
- 8 “This anime is centered around basketball, where a team of 5 players try to prove their worth and skills and play the basketball they love, overcoming the many obstacles they had to face. Despite...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 33%
Long · 33%
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- Format 26 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 10h 24m all episodes
- Aired Apr 2003 – Sep 2003 Spring 2003
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-0269 catalog
Produced by
- OB Planning Producer
Licensed by
- Bandai Entertainment Licensor