is a Japanese anime television series animated by Satelight. Created by Shōji Kawamori and Thomas Romain, the series aired on MBS between April and October 2009. The anime is licensed by Maiden Japan.
Plot
In the world of "Earth Dash," humanity is divided between the highly advanced lunar society and the struggling surface society. One of the most popular sports is BFB (Big Foot Basketball), where players compete while riding mecha known as "Big Foot" in a massive arena. In Rolling Town, Dan JD and his friends discover a passion for the sport and adapt it for street play, renaming it "Basquash." Despite facing numerous obstacles and setbacks, Dan and his team refuse to give up on their dreams of greatness. Along their journey, they must overcome their past hardships and confront powerful opponents to prove their worth in the world of Basquash.
Characters
Main characters
Team Basquash
The main protagonist, Dan, is a young boy who loves basketball but despises BFB due to an accident that crippled his sister. His attempt to demoralize the sport ended up making it more popular when he invaded an official BFB game and awed the crowd with a highly skilled demonstration under his alias, "Dunk Mask," on his own Big Foot, which he named Dangan. As a result of the widespread destruction, he is imprisoned for a year and charged with massive debt, numbering 5.3 billion Rollings (the local currency). This event, as well as Dan himself, has since gained the status of a legend, inspiring the sport of Big Foot Streetball. His dream is to make enough money to pay for his debts and send his sister to the Moon to treat her paralyzed legs. He has developed a strong rivalry with Iceman as an opponent and ally. Near the end of the OCB tournament, Dan realizes Rouge's feelings for him after she played against him without reinforcement medication in an attempt to keep her play honest, resulting in her losing consciousness in the middle of the game. As she left for the Moon, he promised to eventually travel to the Moon himself, asking her to wait for him, hinting that he may have developed feelings for her. Dan can throw a "thunderbolt ball," a basketball that shines with a 'radiant light that traced a shape of the heavens creation.' For this, he is believed to be the Legend, the one destined to save Earthdash and Mooneyes. At the end of the series, it is revealed that he is not the Legend; everyone who is a 'basquasher' (a term for Basquash players that he coined) is a part of the Legend. Using their combined skills and their own 'thunderbolt balls,' the 'basquashers' reactivate the ultimate in Mooneyes by throwing a 'final dunk'' bumping Mooneyes back into orbit, effectively saving Earthdash and Mooneyes, as they were previously in a collision course with each other. In the aftermath, all that is seen of Dan is him about to play basketball with Iceman, affirming that he will continue to play and that he has not lost any passion for basketball, and possibly Basquash, either.