Anime about very specific activties (WIP)
One of my favorite types of anime is the inside look at some extremely specific hobby or profession. They're just always interesting to me and a fun way to learn new things.
I'm not including sports anime because that would make the list ridiculously long, but I have made a "Chihayafuru exception" for some sports-adjacent anime if the "sport" is obscure enough and/or they aren't taking the shonen sports anime approach of focusing almost exclusively on the competitive aspect.
Eventually I plan on organizing these by type of activitiy but haven't decided what kind of categories to do yet (considering: music, performing arts, sports/games, includes romance, jobs, hobbies, school clubs, visual arts, traditional japanese stuff)... I also want to write a sentence or two for each one explaining the premise and my opinion.
- Shirobako: Anime production
- A place further than the universe: Travelling to and then living in Antarctica
- Chihayafuru: Karuta (japanese card game)
- Sound! euphonium: School concert band
- Silver spoon: Farm school
- Food wars: Insane horny cooking
- Girlish number: Seiyuu/japanese voice acting industry
- Kageki shoujo: Girls' theater school
- Keep your hands off eizouken: Amateur anime production
- Sore ga seiyuu: Seiyuu/japanese voice acting industry
- Rakugo shinjuu: Rakugo (traditional japanese storytelling)
- Blue period: Art school
- Kono oto tomare!: Koto (japanese string instrument)
- Uramichi oniisan: Children's TV
- Dressup darling: Cosplay
- Aquatope on white sand: Running an aquarium
- Thermae romae novae: Hot springs
- Mashiro no oto: Shamisen (japanese string instrument)
- Sakura quest: Running a small town tourism campaign
- Skull face bookseller honda-san: Working in a book shop
- Smile down the runway: Fashion design and modelling
- The great passage: Making dictionaries
- Yakitate japan: Insane bread baking
- Bakuman: Making manga
- Beck: Starting a rock band
- Yuru camp: Camping in the winter
- New game: Making video games
Activity is present but not the main focus? Or doesn't get into enough detail about it for my tastes
- Monthly girl's nozaki-kun: Making shojo/romance manga
- Tsuritama: Fishing
- March comes in like a lion: Shoji (japanese chess)
- Kakushigoto: Making manga
- Devil is a part timer: Working in fast food
- Salaryman's club: Office worker's badminton league
- Amagi brilliant park: Running a theme park
- Paradise kiss: Fashion design and modelling
Some I haven't watched yet but plan on getting around to..... someday
- Working!!!: Working in a restaurant
- After school dice club: Board games