Eyeshield 21

I have watched sports anime before and this is nothing like it. Sports anime suffer from character clichés that you've seen before. It's boring. But this is different.

My friend suggested me this anime and I was skeptical. I was expecting nothing special from this anime. After 10 episodes I loved it immediately. The story is your typical underdog story. But what stands out in this anime are the CHARACTERS. MY GOD I just love them. They're freaking hilarious. It's like I knew them personally. Most of the characters in the football team were properly developed. Even the bullies in the first few episode, I loved them in later episode. I sympathize with them when they're going through harsh times and I felt happy when they succeeded.

People who know football really well might be off put with unrealistic football game-play but still it's worth a watch just for the characters. I really recommend this to people looking for well fleshed developed characters. This anime is amazing.