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Cheer Boys!!

“Two university friends quit judo to create Japan's first all-male cheerleading team, overcoming stereotypes and personal struggles.”

Cheer Boys!!

6.66
6,668 rank · 66,529 viewers · 122 favorites
Sports Adult Cast Performing Arts
12 episodes · 24 min per ep min · Summer 2016 · Brain's Base · PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
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Synopsis

Two university friends quit judo to create Japan's first all-male cheerleading team, overcoming stereotypes and personal struggles.

After suffering from a shoulder injury, shy first-year university student Haruki Bandou gladly takes the opportunity to give up judo, failing to find happiness in the sport regardless of his family owning a dojo. He did not expect, however, that his best friend Kazuma Hashimoto would also decide to leave their university's judo club at the same time as him. Despite Haruki's protests, Kazuma already has plans for a new and revolutionary activity: a cheerleading team made up of only men. Although heavily reluctant, Haruki ends up helping his friend set up the team. Through sheer determination, and with support from their newfound club members, Haruki and Kazuma persist in founding the Breakers, the first ever all-male cheerleading team of Meishiin University, slowly making history in spite of the feminine tag attached to the sport of cheerleading and the prejudices, physical challenges, and self-doubts that inevitably follow.

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Community consensus

Derived from 29 sampled reviews

6.6 /10

What 29 viewers settled on.

81% recommend
Score distribution
median 7 mode 7 σ 1.87
1510
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σ 1.87 · split reception

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The polarity gap

4.4 pts

Recommenders 7.9 · others 3.5

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Score over time

↓ 2.41

Running avg · Aug 2016 → Aug 2025

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A Tv Production · Summer 2016

Brain's Base.
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Bandai Visual · Lantis

  • Format 12 × 24′ eps × min
  • Total runtime 4h 48m all episodes
  • Aired Jul 2016 – Sep 2016 Summer 2016
  • Source Tv media type
  • Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
  • Ref. BS-11018 catalog

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