Hoop Days
ディア・ボーイズ
“Former star captain revives defunct high-school basketball team, inspiring five teammates to chase national tournament dreams.”
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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
Agreement
SplitPolarized
σ 2.48 · split reception
The polarity gap
6.3 ptsRecommenders 8.3 · others 2.0
Yes
8.3
No
2.0
Score over time
0.83Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 33%
Long · 33%
Snap verdicts · shortest highly-rated reviews
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- 8/10 “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...”
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A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — Hoop Days begins and ends here.
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Reel · 01 Cat. №BS-0269
- 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