Follow the adventures of Mao, a Japanese teenager and aspiring runner, as she travels back to ancient Greece to learn about the Olympic Games.
Heroes of the ancient Olympic Games has finished airing and it has 5 Episodes. It is also Known as: Heroes
Genres: Historical , Sports
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Top 5 Anime Like Heroes of the ancient Olympic Games (Heroes) [2026 List]
5. Cestvs: The Roman Fighter
54 AD. Cestus, a young boy orphaned by the Roman empire and made a slave, is placed into a training school for pugilists. It is here that he begins his journey to defy fate and fight for his own freedom.
CESTVS -The Roman Fighter- has finished airing and it has 11 Episodes. It is also Known as: セスタス-The Roman Fighter-, Cestus: The Roman Fighter, Kentou Ankokuden Cestv, Cestus: The Legend of Boxing in the Dark Ages
4. Shoubushi Densetsu Tetsuya
In the year 1947, the people of Shinjuku are down on their luck. With little money to buy food or necessities, some resort to gambling in order to survive. Traveling Tetsuya chooses to spend his time at Mahjong parlors where he is wiping the floor clean with his adversaries. However, when Tetsuya meets the intensely skilled Boushu-san, he realizes that his skills are still lacking.
Shoubushi Densetsu Tetsuya has finished airing and it has 20 Episodes. It is also Known as: 勝負師伝説哲也, Legendary Gambler Tetsuya
3. Abarenbou Rikishi!! Matsutarou
Matsutarou Sakaguchi is a giant roughneck man with strength far beyond ordinary people. He never uttered words like "work hard," "strive," and "dream" like the typical shounen manga protagonist. However, he is stronger than anyone and peerless in sumo wrestling. His greatest weakness is his own carefree personality. He grows into a full-fledged sumo wrestler.
Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro!! has finished airing and it has 23 Episodes. It is also Known as: 暴れん坊力士！！松太郎, Roughneck Sumo Wrestler!! Matsutarou
2. Extra Olympia Kyklos
Demetrios, a timid and kind vase painter in Ancient Greece who dislikes sports and competitions, is one day forced to come up with a game to compete with the mayor of the neighboring town in order to save his village. While hiding inside a large vase outside his workshop, lightning strikes the vase Demetrios is in, transferring him to Tokyo, Japan, during the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Extra Olympia Kyklos has finished airing and it has 24 Episodes. It is also Known as: Bessatsu Olympia Kyklos, 別冊オリンピア・キュクロス, Extra Olympia Kyklos
1. Taishou Yakyuu Musume.
In 1925 (year 14 of the Taisho era) baseball is still quite unknown in Japan and there are only a few male teams. After being told by a baseball player that women should become housewives instead of going to school, 14-year-old Akiko invites her friend Koume to start a baseball team in order to prove him wrong. During this time, when even running was considered too vulgar for women, baseball is known as "what the boys do" and they face many difficulties when having to find enough members, to get permission from their parents and also when learning about the sport itself, which they soon discover to be more difficult than expected.
Taisho Baseball Girls has finished airing and it has 12 Episodes. It is also Known as: 大正野球娘。, Taishou Era Baseball Daughters, Taishou Era Baseball Girls
