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* [[Trope Codifier]]s:
** Shoujo: ''Attack No. 1'' (''Atakku Nanbaa Wan'') based on the 1968 manga and airing starting in 1969. Kozue Ayuhara comes to college and joins the volleyball team, shows talent that impresses the coach and eventually the other players, and through intense training rises to become one of Japan's Olympic champion volleyball team. [[Trope Maker]] for many of the shoujo sports anime tropes, including having a crush on the male coach.
** Romantic: ''[[Touch]]''. One of Mitsuru Adachi's first major works. ''Touch'' established him as dominating the subgenre of sports with romance, which he continues to today with recent works like ''[[Cross Game]]''. It also established as obligatory the tragic background story for the hero and the use of sports as a catharsis for the complications of life and romance.
* [[Deconstruction]]: ''[[Yakitate!! Japan]]'' In the world of ''Yakitate!! Japan'', bread is [[Serious Business]] and baking is a high-stakes sport.
 
 
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