Shoujo Sports Anime Started Here (Attack no. 1) - Anime Alphabet
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Attack No. 1 (Mila Superstar in Germany), ended nearly fifty years ago, and was the first-ever shoujo sports anime. Its influence has been felt all over anime history.
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Music sources & explanations:
0:00 - ♫Haikyuu! OST
(The most modern and popular volleyball anime; one of the biggest Shounen Jump titles of the 2010s and the first sports anime big enough in the US to have merch in major retailers.)
0:58 - ♫Attack no. 1! OP
(When this single debuted, the record went to #1 on the Japanese charts.)
1:50 - ♫Attacker You! OST
(A volleyball series created in the the 80s, clearly directly inspired by Attack no. 1.)
4:22 - ♫Attacker You! OST
6:32 - ♫Mobile Suit Gundam OST
(Watanabe Takeo, who provided the score for Attack no. 1, also soundtracked the original Gundam, filling me with no end of nostalgia as I got to use the music for this video. I ended up turning the soundtrack of this video into a sort of tribute to Watabane, using as much as I could easily find from some of his classic soundtracks.)
8:33 - ♫Pokemon Johto OST
(Just a cool-sounding rival song because Midori is a rival)
10:42 - ♫Mobile Suit Gundam OST
12:16 - ♫Kyojin no Hoshi OST
(One of the few sports anime to pre-date Attack no. 1, it also sports a Watanabe Takeo OST)
14:06 - ♫Cutey Honey OST
(Among the most foundational magical girl shows, Go Nagai's Cutey Honey was also soundtracked by Watanabe-san)
16:36 - ♫Zambot 3 OST
(An old-school mecha show scored by Watanabe-san)
17:29 - ♫Zambot 3 OST
19:08 - ♫Zambot 3 OST
20:07 - ♫Tiger Mask OST
(Another classic sports anime which went to air the same season as Attack no. 1, and has enjoyed a more enduring legacy.)
21:32 - ♫Ping Pong OST
(One of the best sports anime of the 2010s, and probably the closest in tone to Attack no. 1, though much easier to recommend.)
23:23 - ♫Baby Steps OST
(Another of the best sports anime of the 2010s, this one does a better job of following the long career of a sports hero across its ongoing manga.)
24:28 - ♫Dr. Slump OST
(One of Akira Toriyama's influential classics, whose adaptation was scored by Watanabe-san.)
25:52 - ♫Mobile Suit Gundam OST
27:22 - ♫Mobile Suit Gundam OST
28:28 - ♫Alps no Shuojo Heidi OST
(Yet another classic scored by Watanabe-san, this one is part of the World Masterpiece Theater series.)
30:26 - ♫Alps no Shoujo Heidi OST
32:35 - ♫Mobile Suit Gundam OST
33:31 - ♫Mobile Suit Gundam OST
34:32 - ♫Mobile Suit Gundam OST
36:00 - ♫Candy Candy OST
(Another 70s classic scored by Watanabe-san.)
38:24 - ♫Zambot 3 OST
41:12 - ♫Dokaben OST
(One of the oldest long-running baseball anime.)
41:48 - ♫Hajime no Ippo OST
(One of the best sports anime of the 2000s, following the career of a boxer in the adaptation of an incredibly long-running manga.)
43:07 - ♫Ashita no Joe OST
(One of the earliest and most influential boxing anime, covered in depth on youtube by Caribou-kun.)
44:46 - ♫Ashita no Joe OST
45:25 - ♫Ashita no Joe OST
49:18 - ♫Ashita no Joe OST
50:21 - ♫Ashita no Joe OST
52:13 - ♫Cutey Honey OST
54:07 - ♫Candy Candy OST
55:36 - ♫Candy Candy OST
55:57 - ♫Cutey Honey OST
58:40 - ♫Cutey Honey OST
1:01:00 - ♫Tiger Mask OST
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