Now, let's take those tropes and apply them to something where people aren't punching each other or throwing energy beams. Something like...

...sport climbing.

Iwakakeru -Sport Climbing Girls-

Kasahara Konomi was in ballet, which gives her a good sense of her athletic limits. Then she found her favorite thing in video games, particularly puzzle games, and got so into it that she teetered on the edge of NEET territory before grabbing a hold of herself. As she heads into high school, she's looking for something new, and finds it in sport climbing. Going up the wall faster, with as few tries as possible. Physically, she's barely good enough, but mentally...to her, the wall is a puzzle to solve. Cue training montages and rivalry, as she works with her new-found teammates to take the Hanamiya Girls' High School Climbing Club to victory.

Sport climbing too reasonable for you? Fine, let's hit the links!

BIRDIE WING -Golf Girls' Story-

That's right. Golf. Possibly the most boring spectator sport ever, until you make an anime of it.

Eve (short for Evangeline) doesn't remember her parents or her last name. She was found in the Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy™ of Nafrece and taught how to hit a golf ball. When we meet her, she's been using those skills to win bets using the various single-hole courses scattered around the city, and spending the money on a single mother, her adopted children, and the bar they live in. She doesn't just use a normal golf swing, though. No, she's in full CALLING YOUR ATTACK mode. ("Direct attack: Blue Bullet!")

This leads to her meeting Aoi, the daughter of two legendary golf pros, further golf duels in an underground transforming golf course, VR golfing, and eventually heading to Japan to play Aoi again, at which point this series has a brief brush with normality when Eve enrolls in one of Japan's elite golfing schools.

Clearly, whoever pitched this series knew that it would have to be more than a little over the top. And it works.

Peter Eng
--
Also: Evangeline Aleon? They named a character Rose Aleon just for that joke?