This one gets you with the quiet stuff: a kid with a good jump shot and no working vocabulary for anything he feels. Masaki is the second youngest of four sons, which means he's never once been the son anyone was worried about until his temper made him impossible to ignore, and the wedge between him and his strict father is the kind that doesn't get talked out, it just sits there. The cruelest joke in the setup is where he lands after getting expelled: a school notoriously terrible at basketball, the one thing he's actually good at, which is its own sentence. Then Kanako shows up, willful enough to not flinch at him, and the whole thing tilts. It's a single 1992 OVA, so there's no arc padding, no tournament bracket, just the compressed ache of two people recognizing something in each other before either can name it. Anyone who ever channeled a bad home life into a sport will feel this in the ribs.

Takatou Masaki, the second youngest of four sons, comes across as a born delinquent. His quick temper has driven a wedge between him and his strict father and got him thrown out of one school. He ends up at a new school with a terrible record in basketball, the one thing he excels at. A chance meeting with the headstrong Yuuki Kanako, who feels a connection to him she cannot quite define, draws the two together and may be the push he needs to change. The special is a one-episode romantic drama with a sports backdrop.