Entertainment Review: YowaPeda Is Sports Anime at Its Finest

By Will Boswinkel

Staff Writer

YowaPeda is a unique anime because it is about cycling, a rare topic for shows in general. However, it is a comedy, which is an overused topic in anime. I like this combination; it takes two different genres (sports and comedy) and throws them into a very entertaining show.

This anime was produced by long running TMS Entertainment starting this past fall.

It comes out once a week, on Crunchyroll.com and the episodes are 24 minutes long.

TMS has helped produce animes like Ashita no Jo, Buzzer Beater, and D.Gray-Man. So for an anime, it is in fairly good hands.

The story centers around freshman Sakamichi Onoda and the Akihabara High School cycling team. Sakamichi is still trying to find his place in this world, which he finds when he races cycling star Shunsuke Imaizumi, and he is thrown into something he only dreamed of doing.

Sakamichi then meets freshman cyclist Shokichi Naruko, another cycling prodigy. The two prodigies convince Sakamichi to join the cycling team and to fulfill their dream of winning the Inter-High tournament.

The show is fun to watch because I enjoy watching the characters grow -- at first they were weak, but they are changing into cyclists who can challenge the best. In addition, the cast is great, and the story is full in the sense that is has no plot holes.

Do not pass this show up, it is an underrated gem.

*** Special thanks to Staff Writer Liam McNeil for proofing the story.