Best Rivalry TV Shows

2025 • Rating 8.7 • drama

Two of the biggest stars in Major League Hockey are bound by ambition, rivalry, and a magnetic pull neither of them fully understands. What begins as a secret fling between two fresh faced rookies evolves into a years-long journey of love, denial, and self-discovery. Over the next eight years, as they chase glory on the ice, they struggle to navigate their feelings for each other. Torn between the sport they live for and the love they can’t ignore, they must decide if there’s room in their fiercely competitive world for something as fragile – and powerful – as real love.

Genre: Drama

Style:

Audience: Adult, Date Night

Plot: Rivalry, Based On Novel Or Book, Ice Hockey, Romance, Lgbt, Gay Liberation, Secret Relationship, Professional Athlete, Rival, Closeted Homosexual

Time: Year 2025, 2020S, 2025-11-28

Place: Canada, English, Russian

Cast: Hudson Williams, Connor Storrie, François Arnaud

2012 • Rating 8.6 • animation, comedy, sci-fi & fantasy

Nanami was just a normal high school girl down on her luck until a stranger’s lips marked her as the new Land God and turned her world upside down. Now, she’s figuring out the duties of a deity with the help of Tomoe, a reformed fox demon who reluctantly becomes her familiar in a contract sealed with a kiss. The new responsibilities—and boys—are a lot to handle, like the crow demon masquerading as a gorgeous pop idol and the adorable snake spirit who’s chosen the newly minted god to be his bride. As the headstrong Tomoe tries to whip her into shape, Nanami finds that love just might have cute, pointed fox ears. With romance in the air, will the human deity be able to prove herself worthy of her new title?

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Style:

Audience: Family, Teens

Plot: Magic, Friendship, Supernatural, High School, God, Rivalry, Romance, Coming Of Age, School, Religion

Time: Year 2012, 2010S, 2012-10-02

Place: Japan, Japanese

Cast: Yui Horie, Suzuko Mimori, Daisuke Namikawa, Daisuke Kishio, Satomi Sato, Vanilla Yamazaki

2006 • Rating 8.6 • animation, mystery, sci-fi & fantasy

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?

Genre: Animation, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Style: Cerebral, Dark, Psychological, Suspenseful

Audience: Adult, Family, Teens

Plot: Detective, Journalism, Secret Identity, Police, Supernatural, Sociopath, Rivalry, Murder, Serial Killer, Grim Reaper

Time: Year 2006, 2000S, 2006-10-04

Place: Japan, Japanese

Cast: Mamoru Miyano, Shido Nakamura, Aya Hirano, Kappei Yamaguchi, Kimiko Saito, Naoya Uchida