Zein, you 're aware that Prince of tennis anime was probably more popular in japan than Naruto is?
Mitsuru Adachi made two manga's of over 20 volumes about baseball, Hikaru no go was also as popular as Naruto at it's peak and Yakitate Japan manga has won one of the biggest awards in the manga industry latly.

face it, "and lots of other "shouldnt be an anime" animes" are much better than most of the shonen crap you're probably considering to be 'real anime'...


give me a story about hair cutting and i'll take over any other 'boy suddenly has a mircale power and goes to kick ass with his super stamina and determination',