Ahiru no Sora

An excellent anime for basketball lovers-very entertaining and fun, with clear explanations of plays and well-developed character stories.

It is a clone of Slamdunk with worse characters, poorer graphics, and a more depressing storyline. If you like to watch excellent teams and better players beat up an already disadvantaged team with only seven player only three or four of which can play decently, no proper coach, no proper adviser, non existent training, a dissolved club, this is the show for you. The main character is short, has a sick mom, and poor foundations. It is supposed to be uplifting somewhere but it only ends up being depressing. We are supposed to root for the main team, but one cannot help but be embarassed by their game. Neither the players not the student manager/coach knows what they are doing. You will root for their opponents, who are generally more interesting, trains harder, have better skills, and are more committed. You will wish the Kuzu team gets dissolved.

I just want to watch it till end nothing more nothing less.... Just loved it.. Hope to see more in future.

I have watched so far 24 episodes and I can tell you that it is really great! I can say the mix of haikyuu because the protagonist is short but its not logic because Ahiru no Sora manga release in 2004 while Haikyuu is 2012. So, let say Haikyuu got inspiration from ANS (Maybe!) and all the yakuza-like character was an inspiration from Sakuragi Hanamichi. A lot of people talk about connection to Kuroko No Basuke too but never watch Kuroko so I dont really care. For me, its full with action, nice character development, great comedy and awesome! Lets watch together!

Too much zoom in still picture, slide picture in this is barely sports anime. The motion are horrible.

At the beginning this anime are quite good, but it's became horrible to watch.