 If you liked
Free!
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 ...then you might like
Haikyuu!!
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I love these two anime because I practiced both sports
Both series shows passion for sports, Swimming and Volleyball.
They value friendship and teamwork its important to win. Both have a lots of humor, beautiful men and bromance.
SPORTS + BROMANCE: Both shows passion for sports, Swimming and Volleyball, for only high school students.
Lots good humour, bromance, beautiful men, and badassery.
Both main characters start off as rivals in both shows, but in the end, good teamwork and friendship empowers all. You'll learn to love all the characters as well. :3
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Recommended by knightdreaming
The art in both is similar. They are both about sports and have two main characters who are friends and rivals at the same time. There is a LOT of bromance in these two anime.
Both have adorable characters that you will fall in love with and are about sports.
If you love the up-beat feel and adorably hilarious characters of Free!, you will enjoy the close friendships and on-point comedy of Haikyuu!!
Haikyuu!! has significantly less fanservice and little more focus on the team as a whole, and overall is the best sports series I've seen to date.
I'm pretty new to Anime and especially MAL, so this is my first recommendation but I honestly cannot stress it enough. I came straight into Anime and Free! was one of my first choices, I loved it, especially the whole slice-of-life and friendship story lines, they're really relatable. I told my friend I was desperate to find another Anime just like it with the same ideas of coming together as a team and breaking down walls to salvage and build new friendships and she recommended Haikyuu!!
If I'm being honest when I first started watching it, I wasn't too sure if it was my kind
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With a sports theme as well, Haikyuu!! is a great anime for anyone who saw Free and liked due to also be with a load loaded with involvement and characters well built beyond the sport.
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Recommended by Nownownownow
Both animes show a passion for sports, volleyball and swimming. They both show the importance of friendship and teamwork that makes them win as well as some nice bromance to top it off
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Recommended by DianaIceflame
-Both involve sports
-They feature an all-male cast and they're in highschool
-THey both have great animation
-Most/all characters are likeable
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Recommended by LeonhartAugust
Im not a sports anime fan to begin with, so this is written from a non-sports anime fan's perspective.
Despite sports is not my favourite genre, I still found Free! and esp Haikyuu! entertaining.
They both share:
-endearing characters
-awesome bromance
-spot-on humours and jokes
-teamwork comes first
-beautiful animation
-catchy songs (op&end)
there are not much fan services in Haikyuu! compared to Free! , but I personally find Haikyuu! more well-developed in terms of story and characters than Free!
Don't worry if you hate volleyball, I guarantee you'll be obsessed with volleyball in just a matter of few Haikyuu! episodes (cuz I was one of them...)
so if you want to watch more teamwork
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Recommended by fujiappleharuka
+ Both are sports animes
+ Both are based around boy high school sports teams
+ Involve easily likable characters
+ Great character development
Free and Haikyuu are both fun sports animes. They both have great teamwork, characters, and rival teams.
I just think that you might like Free if you've seen Haikyu, or the other way around. They're both pretty enjoyable, depending on what you prefer.
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Recommended by MXTXEnthusiast
We all love a good sports anime! And Haikyuu is one of the most popular of them, If you liked Haikyuu I really recommend you watch Free! The characters are super lovable and their development is crazy! I really enjoyed this anime and I think Haikyuu fans will like it too.
- One of the main characters is a prodigy (Nanase Haruka & Kageyama Tobio), the other works hard (Matsuoka Rin & Hinata Shouyou)
- Similar vibes as learning to work as a team
- Fanservice
- Everyone's driven to win
- You end up adopting all of them
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Recommended by tappdancing786
First its about teamwork, the progress of the characters.
Its about rivals that are friends and friends that are rivals one of the strongest point in these kinds of anime.
You can see the progress of each individual and the teams.
Even though I first watched Free than watched Haikyuu, and Haikyuu is really great Free has its own path but it will keep you wanting more and in touch with each episode and each story development just like Haikyuu.
And yes both are sports anime even though I wasnt a fan of sports anime these two totally got me rethink that they are both fantastic anime.
They
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Both are really entertaining sport animes. Even though they are sport animes they keep you excited and on your feet. Both very emotional and show the value of teamwork/friendship.
both are about school clubs and sports
and there is same character types in free! and haikyuu
both series are about Sports, Free may be not as good as haikyuu but the Solidarity is the same.
The main cast are all male, both of the plots are about their dreams, accomplishments, and goals.
All the characters are very likeable, so it's not hard to pick a favorite character.
Also, a lot of fan service (and ships if yer want lol)
[you can do the opposite too lol, if you liked haikyuu you can watch free!]
same upbeat, comedic tone with very likeable and distinct characters. a major theme in both is rivalries. kageyama and haru look like the same person.
Both are sport animes that have a group of students from a highschool work together to make their goals and dreams come true. Teamwork and understanding, and trust and the main traits that stick out in the two animes.
both have male high schoolers passionate about a sport ( volleyball / swimming )
-teamwork
-bromance
-great animation
Two great Animes about two different sports, both with a touching story about friendship, teamwork, success, up and downs and so much more.
To start this off, they are both sports anime. The main characters strive to be one of the best if not the best. As they are both sports anime, they are moving along with their team.
explains how competition motivates sportsmen to improve every day.
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Recommended by kithenyoma
Although they're both sports anime, they're different in character development. While Free focuses more on interpersonal relationships & character development, Haikyuu is more focused on the drama of the sport.
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Recommended by katnissmaezie
Both are sports anime about boys sports club, shenanigans ensue. They've both got comedy, competition, and GOOD DUB!! (I highly recommend the Haikyuu Dub) Something lighthearted yet engaging!
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Recommended by Squishy_Panderz