Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 10, 2021 to Apr 4, 2021

Premiered: Winter 2021

Broadcast: Sundays at 02:00 (JST)

Producers: Aniplex, Movic, ABC Animation

Licensors: Aniplex of America

Studios: Bones

Source: Original

Genres: Comedy, Sports

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Plot: High school student Reki Kyan is passionate about one thing: skateboarding. When night falls, he heads to "S," an illegal underground race inside a mine where skaters compete in highly dangerous situations. After a loss that results in his skateboard being destroyed and his arm being broken, Reki is now incapable of practicing at all.

While working, Reki runs into his new classmate, Langa Hasegawa, a half-Canadian and half-Japanese boy with no skateboarding experience whatsoever. Langa is in desperate need of money. After they both visit "S" when tasked by Reki's boss, they get into trouble and are forced into a bet that requires Langa to skate in a race. However, the mysterious transfer student holds a trump card that Reki is unaware of, one which might help him win the race in the most unexpected way.

User Review: So, this is my first mal review ever and I'm not a native English speaker but I hope that doesn't effect the review.

This review includes spoilers!

So, first of all I have to say: I'm absolutely disappointed. This anime wasted it's whole potential.

It starts of really nice, I liked Reki and Langa, even though they are a bit cliche but that didn't bother me much. Later some other characters were introduced, I especially liked Cherry and Joe.
The anime first focuses a lot on Reki and Langa and skating in general.
I myself have no clue about skateboarding so I don't know whether "S" is realistic or not but I was fine with it because it was kinda fun to watch the "beefs". But then a certain someone showed up to ruin the mood.
I don't know what the creators were thinking when they planned Adam but this guy ruined the whole anime in my opinion. He is a really, really bad copy of Hisoka from HxH and he is one of the cringiest characters I've ever seen. His blabbering about marrying Langa and finding his Eve was so hard to watch, I cringed every time he opened his mouth. Also his whole behaviour was just ridiculous (I mean, hitting someone with your damn skateboard has nothing to do with skating anymore).
He is one of the most unnecessary and worst written antagonists I've ever came across (he is nearly as unnecessary as the red haired police officer, like, why was she even there?) And he RUINED the whole anime.
Also something that bothered me were the people who are watching the beefs because they give a shit about Cherry getting hit by Adam with his damn skateboard, because he is to "boring" in Adams opinion (tf dude).
I also want to mention Adam's... secretary (I guess? I already forgot his name lmao) because what is wrong with this dude? He is treated like shit by Adam (he calls him dog and it didn't bother the secretary at all) and his only purpose is to bring a bit of "tension" into the tournament and a "sad backstory" for Adam.

What I kinda liked was the "arc" focusing on Reki after he realised he is nothing special in comparison to Langa. I know this feeling very well and I could empathize with him easily. I also liked that he didn't overcame this feeling within one episode and actually needed some time.
One more thing I liked was the whole dynamic between Cherry and Joe.

The last episode was just a cringefest and they didn't spare with cliches. Suddenly Langa makes Adam realise that skating is about fun and not only competing (who would have seen that coming?! Lmao) and they are all best buddies now. Aha.

Overall the anime is full of unrealistic scenarios, bad written characters and a lacking plot (well, if you could call it plot...).
I would have been totally fine watching Reki and Langa imrpove, competing with "normal" characters and Rekis down phase. That would have been enough...
I wouldn't recommend this anime to anyone (and btw I don't get it how this anime has an overall score of 8.13. I don't know if my standards are too high or these of the other people too low lmao).
Yeah, that's it. Thanks for reading^^