Shows Like Hungry Heart: Wild Striker

If you liked Hungry Heart: Wild Striker (2002), a animation and comedy series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

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RE-MAIN (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and comedy
Minato is a boy who stopped playing water polo due to a certain incident in the winter of his third middle school year. He picks the sport back up again with a new team when he starts in high school, but the fledgling…
2
BLUE LOCK (2022)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and drama
High school soccer players from across Japan gather for a controversial project designed to create the best — and most egoistic — striker in the world.
3
Umamusume: Pretty Derby (2018)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and comedy
In a world very much like our own, great race horses of the past have a chance to be reborn as "horse girls"—girls with the ears and tails of horses as well as their speed and endurance. The best of these horse girls…
4
HANEBADO! (2018)
★ 7/10Also animation and drama
Ayano Hanesaki, a first-year student at Kanagawa Prefectural Kitakomachi High School, has a badminton ability able to surpass others effortlessly yet avoids playing the sport. She meets Nagisa Aragaki, a third-year…
5
Heroines Run the Show (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and comedy
What would you do to pursue your passion? For Hiyori Suzumi, it’s leaving her simple rural hometown for the bustling city of Tokyo to join Sakuragaoka High School’s track team. Between being a manager-in-training for…
6
Love Live! School Idol Project (2013)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and comedy
Otonokizaka High School is planning to close within three years. However, nine female students come together with one thing in mind—form a pop idol group to revive the school’s popularity and keep it from shutting…
7
Burning Kabaddi (2021)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and comedy
Yoigoshi Tatsuya was a star soccer player known as "Yoigoshi the Unstoppable," but when he entered high school, he severed all involvement with sports. Now, he has been invited to a certain sports team. In these…
8
Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and comedy
Tomozaki is one of the best gamers in Japan, and in his opinion, the game of real life is one of the worst. No clear-cut rules for success, horribly balanced, and nothing makes sense. But then he meets a gamer who’s…
9
Kageki Shojo!! (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and drama
The curtain rises on Sarasa Watanabe, a starry-eyed 5'10" student who hopes to perform as a male lead role in the all-female Kouka Acting Troupe. She forms a friendship with her new roommate, a former idol. Together…
10
DON'T TOY WITH ME, MISS NAGATORO (2021)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and comedy
"A girl in a lower grade just made me cry!" One day, Senpai visits the library after school and becomes the target of a super sadistic junior! The name of the girl who teases, torments, and tantalizes Senpai is…
11
More than a Married Couple, but Not Lovers (2022)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and comedy
The story centers on third-year high school student Jiro Yakuin, who gets saddled with his gyaru classmate Akari Watanabe for the class's "marriage training" project about practicing to be a married couple. Jiro is the…
12
Iwa Kakeru! Sport Climbing Girls (2020)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and comedy
Sport climbing is a sport that makes use of both the body and the brain to climb walls. Kasahara Konomi, a master at puzzles, just happens to discover her school’s climbing wall, and it looks almost like a colorful…
13
Yowamushi Pedal (2013)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and animation
A timid, anime-loving teen gets drawn into a school cycling club, where his new friends help him face tough challenges to develop his racing talent.
14
Haikyu!! (2014)
★ 8.6/10Also animation and comedy
Inspired by a small-statured pro volleyball player, Hinata creates a volleyball team in his last year of middle school. Unfortunately the team is matched up against the "King of the Court" Tobio Kageyama’s team in…
15
My Clueless First Friend (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and comedy
One lonely, gloomy fifth-grade girl is the target of her classmates' relentless bullying and teasing—that is, until a new kid arrives on the scene. Friendly Takada is as clueless as he is well-meaning, but somehow he…
16
Ai Yori Aoshi (2002)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and comedy
Kaoru is a college boy with everything going for him. He lives in a mansion with his beautiful fiancé, Aoi, all his roommates are babes, and they all have the hots for him. There’s just one hitch: due to family…
17
Great Teacher Onizuka (1999)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and comedy
A former gang member wants to be Japan's best teacher. When he's hired to supervise a class of hopeless cases, it's his chance to prove himself.
18
Beelzebub (2011)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and comedy
Violent delinquent Oga encounters a baby one day, which crawls onto his back and immediately forms an attachment to him. Though he doesn't know it yet, this baby is named Kaiser de Emperana Beelzebub IV, or "Baby Beel"…
19
LoveLive! Superstar!! (2021)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and comedy
Yuigaoka Girls High School is a newly established school that lies between the Omotesando, Harajuku, and Aoyama neighborhoods of Tokyo. The story centers on its first batch of students. With no history, no…
20
Eyeshield 21 (2005)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and comedy
In Tokyo, a weak, unassertive boy named Sena Kobayakawa enters the high school of his choice, Deimon Private Senior High School. Sena's only remarkable physical abilities are his running speed and agility, which are…