All Out!!

Rugby is a sport where anybody can be a star when they hold the ball. The rules are simple: one player has to carry the ball past the goalposts across the field while avoiding the other team, who are allowed to use all their force to knock the enemy down. However, the player can pass to a teammate behind them or kick the ball before they are tackled. Unlike other sports, the game continues even when the person holding the ball is taken down.

Kenji Gion is a short but feisty high school freshman at Kanagawa High School. Right after the school's opening ceremony, he meets the tall and timid Sumiaki Iwashimizu, and the two of them get an invitation to observe the rugby club.

When Gion watches the match, he realizes that even though big and tall guys have an advantage, there are positions for people of all shapes and sizes. Immediately convinced that he has found a sport he can excel at despite his short stature, he signs up, though Iwashimizu declines. Gion is unable to accept Iwashimizu's excuses and drags him back into the sport. Their training becomes intense as they aim to become the champions of Hanazono, the national high school rugby championships.

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Gion, Kenji Main

Chiba, Shouya Japanese

Iwashimizu, Sumiaki Main

Adachi, Yuuto Japanese

Sekizan, Takuya Supporting

Hosoya, Yoshimasa Japanese

Ebumi, Masaru Supporting

Murata, Taishi Japanese

Ooharano, Etsugo Supporting

Ono, Kensho Japanese

Komori, Shingo Supporting

Hashi, Takaya Japanese

Osaka, Sunao Supporting

Hanae, Natsuki Japanese

Hachiouji, Mutsumi Supporting

Oosaka, Ryouta Japanese

Miyuki, Atsushi Supporting

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

Hoakari, Umeno Supporting

Yoshimura, Haruka Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Kamei, Hiroshi Producer

Aoi, Hiroyuki Producer

Kouda, Takahiro Producer

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Jul 10, 2024

CBMiura

Recommended

All Out!! it's really good in the beginning and little by little starts to fall.

It's a decent sport anime centered around rugby. It's refreshing to see something different.

About the characters, even though they've put some effort developing them, still lacking in some points.

The story itself begin really good with a good pace, but after a few episodes you can see the narrative changing and becoming kinda a preparation(?)... It looks like they're doing this for a possible sequel or for make the viewer read the original material. It didn't work that well to be honest.

The animation it's pretty solid, there's nothing major to ... point. It's a decent job.

I'm a huge sport anime fan, so in the end I've watched and enjoyed. I would recommend this only if you like the genre.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Feb 21, 2025

ajw215799

Mixed Feelings

Now, I don’t mind a paint by the numbers sports anime. In fact, it’s a pretty decent way to spend a few hours in an afternoon. Plot wise; this is very by the numbers and actually it’s very competent. But, it’s very difficult to get on board with this cast of characters. At the start, we’re introduced to these two main characters; a cowardly tall guy and a short tempered selfish short guy. With these two characters at the lead, it can certainly be very hard to continue watching as pretty much all the characters aren’t very well written. And I have no idea of ... the rules of rugby (I’ve never watched it and I’ve only seen half a dozen American football games) but this show definitely gives the impression that rugby is a very violent game with lax rules that is not suitable for children to play. This definitely seems like a one season anime destined to fade into obscurity.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Apr 6, 2017

SalarymanRambles

Not Recommended

After 7 episodes I thought I had found a great anime. I was intimidatingly disappointed.

Gion is established as the out-going, charismatic, yet humble on the account of his limits lead; approximately 8 ep in, the show is not about Gion anymore, but instead it's a backstory of the week on other members of the rugby club, some of which play no part in the story and whose names you can't recall towards the end of the series. Later, Gion takes center stage again for 2 episodes, but is quickly overlooked by the story, and I'm not joking when I say that I think that, out ... of the last 5 episodes, Gion probably didn't even get 20 minutes of screen-time.

It starts off very well. There are some minor issues, like the obviously low budget this project had; it shows all the symptoms of being under-funded: shots that are overly long and drawn out to fill time; shaky-cam tricks to give the illusion of motion, as well motion and emphasis lines to elude to movement like mangas do...
The other aspect I'd consider a flaw is how every character - except Gion, the coach and a character with yellow eyes and a sweet tooh - is annyoingly effeminate. It doesn't really matter until it's just absurd and irritating.

It's a real let-down, since at the beginning it seemed like it was going to be a particularly good story about overcoming limits, and what it meants to live a life going "all out". This not just in the context of sports or personal goals, but also in terms of duty, since there's a great quote about the role of teachers, "Abandonment doesn't foster independence..." (I'm paraphrasing)...

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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