Buzzer Beater (2007) felt somewhat more enjoyable than the 13 eps of the 2006 installment, but overall there's still little going for this series. If one has watched any "standard' sports animes, then Buzzer Beater doesn't quite fit into them. - there's no intense training, secret techniques. The storyhas basically become one boy's magical run as a basketball-superchild in a league of aliens. I thought i'd note: it's kinda amusing how inter-galactic league seems to involve a bunch of planets that ae only populated with two species: Humans and superior Gorans... hah... Filled with minor-plot holes this series is all about the 1-shot jokes; futuristic-alien world and basketballwhich is about as impressive as being able to animate a forrest grow: it's great you can do it; but what's the point?

Cliche lines, annoying lead/s (that girl is soooo argh!) show how heavily child-oriented this series is.
It shows poverty and seems to have it bordering as a theme - yet never realyl explores it. This kind of slide-along storytelling can make it hard to watch.

I tended to find that there was an increased lack of attention given to the rivalries between Hideyoshi and the other "stars". Not that I missed it.

The matches got even less build-up and attention than before. - Now the teams just turn up one episode and they play. There's no proper commentary, suspense.... it's just not good watching.

The major example was one match - the goodguys come back round and win by one point. - they win with a buzzer beater. Noone mentioned that the match was almost over. Noone mentioned that if they didn't get a basket they'd lose the match.
They score; the buzzer goes. and you see the score 91 - 92 and you're like... "oh... so noone cares who wins the match".
And that's exactly it. - there's just no innovation or effort: no real spark in this series.

For me, there was little good about this series; some of the chars were interesting/amusing, some of the plays were alright, but surely there has been nothing in the whole 26 eps of Buzzer Beater that made it worth animating. No.. not even the colourful aliens with their horns and amaazing hair-dos.