Princess Nine: Kisaragi Joshikou Yakyuubu

Includes: tennis, soft tennis, table tennis/ping pong.

Welcome to my Obscurity series, which I hope will help you delve deeper into the depths of anime, particularly the classics.

The criteria here is simple: Anime released in 2001 or earlier, with under 35,000 MAL Members, and which I've rated a 7 or higher.

I'm also not including anything that I've already included on my Good Stuff list: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9517

It is perhaps worth noting that I rate things entirely on gut feeling. It's just, "I like that, that was good, it gets a 7.", that's the whole process. I can also find enjoyment in just about anything and there's very little that bothers me.

Ascend: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9834
Descend: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/9615

Tags: Old, Obscure, Oldtaku, Retro, Underrated, Hidden Gems

Competitive girl sports

source: boredpanda.com

Most expected sports animes won't appear. Purely subjective, duh.

And yes, the three first animes are adapted from the same magazine.

551-558. And finally done. Whew. That was a lot of fun. To think that this interest stack topic would lead to me to basically add nearly half of my completed list. Lol. Glad to realize that I can connect so much anime together. Then there's my on-hold... Lol. That's for another time. Time to continue watching Heartcatch Precure! lol. Its OP and ED are neat.


First part: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/18851
Second part: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/18950
Third part: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/18951
Fourth part: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/18954
Fifth part: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/18956
(Now to 1 in-between. Neat.)

First part of an exaustive list of all kinds of sports anime.
Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/49228

Here, you will find anime about:

- Football
- Rugby
- Basket
- Baseball
- Volley
- Beach volley

A baseball is involved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xETGvVi7n4o

I tried to put together a list of sports (or sports-style) anime featuring women's and girls' sports that don't lean overly much into fanservice/ecchi stuff. Pickings were . . . Slim.

It would be nice if manga like Crimson Hero, Aozora Yell, Girl Got Game/Power!!, and other girls' sports manga got anime.

A cool list of some Shojo and Josei sports manga: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/55928

List of pre-2000 anime available on Crunchyroll. Every anime listed began airing prior to Winter 2000.

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/63326

*Not all may be available in every region.
*Not all are available in completion (missing sequels, etc.). Generally, Crunchyroll puts sequels under the same entry as the first season.