Skate-Leading Stars
I don’t know if you have a chance to hear about or are among the few who have seen skate-leading stars. If you can’t guess by the title this is an anime about skating. Because why not there is an anime about many kinds of different sports so why not one for skating. This is a newer anime so if you have not heard about it don’t feel bad because I found it while looking for something else.
In this anime, our main protagonist is Kensei Maeshima. He is a former child ice skating star, as a child, he was seen as the second-best child skater in the county only losing to his self-proclaimed rival Rio Shinozaki. During a competition, Kensei challenges Rio to compete to see who would be number one in the competition and the loser would leave the world of ice skating. Because Kensei is the main character, of course, he does not claim the victory spot. And this is the place where our story starts.
Fast forward a few years in the future we find that Kensei no longer is an ice skater and is now in high school and is trying to find his place in a world where he is no longer competing to be the best. This is a sports anime but this is not a real-life sport, the creator Goro Taniguchi made it up. From watching the show it seems like a mashup of figure skating and synchronized swimming. I watched season 1, it is a short watch because it is only 12 episodes but it has an ongoing manga. I will not say that it is going to take the sports anime world by storm because it started in January 2021 and ended in March 2021 and if I did not stumble over it I would have never watched it.
So far this is not the anime that is a frontrunner in the anime world from what I can see, but it is definitely worth the watch. There is a tone of team growth moments and great player evolution. And the soundtrack is not bad, I don’t know if we will get a season 2 for this show but if we do I will be watching it and I suggest that you do the same.
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