“Former basketball prodigy coaches five elementary girls to revive his passion and create a championship team.”
Ro-Kyu-Bu ~ Fast Break!
ロウきゅーぶ!
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Synopsis
Former basketball prodigy coaches five elementary girls to revive his passion and create a championship team.
Subaru Hasegawa has the ambition to become one of the best basketball superstars of all time. However, this comes to an apparent halt when his school's basketball team ceases activities for a year. Shocked by the news, he decides not to involve himself in basketball anymore. One day, his aunt Mihoshi Takamura invites him to coach the Keishin Academy girls’ basketball team on how to play the sport, and he reluctantly agrees. He meets sixth-graders Tomoka Minato, Maho Misawa, Airi Kashii, Hinata Hakamada and Saki Nagatsuki, and begins training them in the sport with one goal: to defeat all strong opponents along the way. Ro-Kyu-Bu! follows the effort of five elementary girls and their coach as they improve their cute style of playing basketball.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 21 sampled reviews
What 21 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.71 · some divergence
4.3 pts
Recommenders 8.3 · others 4.0
↓ 2.52
Running avg · Jul 2011 → Apr 2026
- 10 “This basketball anime delivers entertainment that appeals to all ages, showcasing a dominant girls' team that fearlessly accepts any challenge on the court. The supportive coach on the sidelines...”
- 10 “at first its hard to get started but for someone who does not like sport its amazing exciting the character development is so well paced its hard to believe this isn't in the 1000 rankings cons:...”
- 8 “RKB is a fast paced, very satisfying and rollicking good time show. The plot device of a teen being getting stuck coaching a girls basketball team is funny enough. That the girls really don't know...”
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- Format 12 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 48m all episodes
- Aired Jul 2011 – Sep 2011 Summer 2011
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-6255 catalog
Produced by
- AT-X Producer
- Barnum Studio Producer
- Magic Capsule Producer
- Warner Bros. Japan Producer
- KlockWorx Producer
- ASCII Media Works Producer
Licensed by
- Sentai Filmworks Licensor