Butt volleyball anime

Keijo takes anime to new lows while butt-slapping its way to bizarre new heights.

A series as brazenly unapologetic as Keijo!!!!!!!!—don’t you dare forget a single one of those eight exclamation points—deserves a suitably stupid elevator pitch. So, here goes nothing: Imagine an entire anime series based on that one Butt Battle mini-game in the series, except in this world the game is big enough to be a major gambling sensation. The sport of Keijo is simple enough at a glance. Two or more girls get on a platform that’s floating on a body of water. To win, one must either incapacitate the other or knock them into said water using only one’s posterior or breasterior (real word, look it up). There are Keijo s, and the promising athletes who attend command major media attention.

I’m not going to go so far as to say is important; far from it. But maybe we need an anime that s loud proclamations like, “I’ll show you just how strong my butt has gotten!” with a completely straight face. For that alone, we salute this burgeoning sport.

So here’s a fun fact. (or as I used to call it, “pool butt sumo”) is not actually a fantasy sport made up to provide the premise for this anime. It’s also not played only by sexy women. Not unlike kancho, it’s mostly a weird ren’s pasttime where people try to knock each other into the water or off a log or whatever the case may be using only their asses. All this anime version did was add the boob component and jack up some arena-sized hype for it as a globally beloved sport, but you can see references to this weird little game in plenty of other anime, including the recent . (I guess we should all just be glad there’s not a kancho anime.)

So you can imagine my excitement when I heard there was going to be a lady-led beach volleyball anime. You can also imagine my disappointment when I saw the cover art and 90% of the girls were wearing stylish bikinis, their cleavage front-and-center, instead of the practical sports bra-style tops actually worn by athletes. And why did they all look like supermodels? Where were their ripped abs and well-defined shoulders?! What was this moe-girl bullshit?!