Shakunetsu Kabaddi
English title: Burning Kabaddi
Japanese title: 灼熱カバディ
Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Premiered: spring 2021
Source: Web manga
Genres: Comedy, Sports
Studios: TMS Entertainment
Producers: TV Tokyo
Duration: 23 min per ep
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Tatsuya Yoigoshi, a once nationally recognized soccer player, is now a first-year student at Noukin High School. Due to his developed hatred for sports, he has abandoned his previous aspirations to become a famous livestreamer on the internet. One day, Souma Azemichi, a first-year on the kabaddi team, seeks to recruit Yoigoshi and spontaneously interrupts his livestream.

Without any expectations, Yoigoshi follows Souma to the school gym, where he witnesses second-years Kyouhei Misumi and Shinji Date engaged in the primal contact sport of kabaddi. Despite ridiculing the rules of play, Yoigoshi is stunned by the intensity of the round. Because of an enticing deal and slight coercion, he agrees to settle the prospect of his recruitment through the most invigorating way: a battle of kabbadi, a team sport played empty-handed.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]