SK8 the Infinity
I’m not usually one for sports anime, but SK8 the Infinity turned me around on the genre and reignited my desire to play Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. It also doesn’t hurt that the anime’s opening theme is a certified banger.
SK8 the Infinity follows Canadian snowboarder Langa Hasegawa, who transferred to a school in Okinawa and quickly became entrenched in the city’s hardcore skateboarding scene. With the help of his best (boy)friend, Reki Kyan, Langa learns to transfer his skills of shredding the slopes to shredding the gnar.
Studio Bone knocked it out of the park this winter with the debut of its original anime. The show serves not only as an explainer for skateboarding terms and tricks but also as an exhibit of smoothly animated skateboarding and a wholesome coming of age story.
