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OVA SportsCheer Danshi!! OVA
MANGA SportsCheer Danshi!!: Go Breakers

REVIEWS

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  RottenOrange

  88/100
  Cheer Danshi!! is certainly not the best sports anime, but it certainly could be the best underrated one.

  If what you are looking for is an anime with an interesting cast and you don't mind a somewhat predictable development for its genre, this is for you.

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  1. Originality: 8
  Personally, I consider that any sports anime that moves away from the overexploited baseball, basketball and soccer already acquires a higher level of originality.
  However, the idea that the show tries to capture (to recognize cheerleading as a current sport) is something that I consider quite new. That, and the fact that cheerleading is not really a sport for men normally.
  That's why, although the story is inspired by a team of cheerleaders of real life, I can't help feeling that Cheer Danshi!! is a sports anime with one of the most original plots that I have seen in this genre in a while. However, of course some things in its development look somewhat generic, so I can't allow a 10.

  2. Story Development: 8
  Although it seems impossible to develop a good sports anime in 12 episodes, Cheer Danshi!! is the exception.
  Fortunately, this is an anime that could be said to have almost no filler. Each episode, although it may seem a filler episode at the beginning, ends up showing how important it is in the main plot and in the development of its characters. In addition, I have to rescue how all sixteen members of Breakers receive development or, at least, a background story that allows us to empathize with them and keeps them away from being simple extras.

  3. Characters: 9
  Its diverse cast, and the different points of view on why to be in the group, makes you get interested in the characters both inside and outside the training for the routines.
  If there is something that managed to get my attention as the episodes progressed, it's how the new personalities that were adhered to the team affected it as a whole both positively and negatively. Although at the beginning our seven original members may seem a bit simple, we can recognize their peculiarities later when we meet the other nine members and their varied personalities.

  4. Enjoyment: 10
  Although it's a little obvious at this point, I think it's worth emphasizing again that I really enjoyed this show in its entirety.
  If there is something to highlight about this show as the "most enjoyable thing" that it has, it has to be the characters and their development not only as a team but as people. Obviously, watching them strive to follow their new dream is exciting, but it's even more so to see them strive to improve in their personal lives. Even more with that final episode, in which each of them define themselves while talking about that task that the coach had commissioned them at the beginning of the season. It really works like the end of a trip.

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  I decided to watch Cheer Danshi!! thinking it would be bad, and that I could laugh at it. Obviously, I didn't expected to come across a catching story and interesting characters who you want to know more about after every episode.

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  Kalladry

  83/100
  In the timeless tradition of sports stories, a colorful story about a group coming together for Sports Friendship

  _Disheartened with judo, college student Haruki “Haru” Bando was invited by his childhood friend Kazuma Hashimoto to create “BREAKERS”, an unprecedented boys’ cheerleading team. Can their motley group of amateurs pull it off?_

  Sometimes I pick up a show because I’m hoping for something mild to only pay half attention to, and sometimes that backfires because it turns out the show is really good. That’s what happened here.

  Loosely based on the real-life Waseda University all-male cheer team Shockers, (and how loosely I don’t know, maybe just that Cheer Boys!! is also about an all-male university team) this was a sweet and colorful story about, in the timeless tradition of sports stories, a group of people coming together to Do a Sport With Friendship.

  

  One thing I really enjoyed was that the characters are all in college (university), so they’re a bit older than the usual sorts shows I’ve seen, and that gives the characters a great reason to be independent of their families.

  Our main character is Haru, college freshman and shy boy from a judo family with a judo sister and who really doesn’t want to do judo anymore. So when his best friend and fellow judo teammate Kazu suggests they both quit and start a cheerleading club, Haru is…well, not on board with the second half of that idea.

  But he comes around. Like we knew he would, because it’s the idea behind the entire show.

  

  First order of business: recruiting additional members so they can actually perform a routine. First recruit: this dork:

  

  Wataru was my favorite character: a serious guy who likes to quote famous lines and makes up for his initial lack of skill with dedication and an inability to feel embarrassed. He ended up with some great lines.

  

  The fact that they end up with recruits, put on a decent show at a school festival, and end up with more recruits and a goal of a regional competition isn’t a surprise–it would be surprising if none of that happened. Instead, the tension in the story comes mainly from personality clashes and individual worries.

  Haru doesn’t face pushback from his parents, but his sister seems to resent him for giving up judo. Club members have differing levels of commitment, and irritate each other. Another cheer team gets offended that a bunch of newbies decided they wanted to cheer, because you can’t have a sports story without someone judging you for, heaven forbid, not dedicating every breathe and thought in your entire life to Sport.

  

  oh no, people in my sport have more enthusiasm than talent

  

  I did get irritated in the middle when one of the inter-group personality clashes was getting out of hand. Luckily it only lasted for a few episodes but one member of the team was not only annoyed with, well, everyone else for not taking it as seriously as he did, but he also started lecturing others and making the team an unpleasant place to be.

  I just wanted to be like, Dude, there is a way to bring up your issues and criticizing others to their face, when you are not a leader and haven’t taken this to leadership, is not it.

  (It resolves, because this is a sports anime about the Power of Teamworkfriendship, but ugh.)

  

  But overall, it was a very fun show. I loved the character interactions–there are some great, funny lines, and it really did sounds like a bunch of college friends talking and joking a lot. Plus, even in animated form, cheer and gymnastics is fun to watch!

  

  Verdict

  English dub? Yes!

  Visuals: Light and pretty! I was surprised when I started the first episode and found that it has a more shoujo style, but it’s very nice to watch.

  Worth watching? Yes! It’s fun just to watch the characters interact, and the routines, but it’s also fun to watch a sports show that has fairly low stakes (this is an extracurricular club, no one’s life depends on them winning) and wraps up nicely (12 episodes).

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