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High school freshman Subaru Hasegawa is forced to stop playing basketball at his school for a while when the team captain gets himself involved in a scandal for being suspected of sexually abusing a little girl, and the club is disbanded for a year. His aunt, Mihoshi Takamura, then assigns him to be an elementary school girls' basketball team ...
Slam Dunk is an anime series adapted from the manga of the same title by Takehiko Inoue. [1] The story follows Hanamichi Sakuragi, who falls in love with a girl named Haruko Akagi, and decides to enter the Shohoku High School Basketball Team in order to attract her, as she is already in love with another Shohoku player, Kaede Rukawa. As ...
Hanamichi Sakuragi is a delinquent very unpopular with girls, having been rejected an astonishing fifty times. In his first year at Shohoku High School, he falls for Haruko Akagi, who, upon recognizing Sakuragi's athleticism, introduces him to the Shohoku basketball team. Sakuragi is reluctant to join the team at first, but he proves to be a ...
The series focuses on Taiki Inomata, a student at Eimei Junior and Senior High, an athletics-oriented school, where he is a member of the boys' badminton team and is considered simply average. Every morning, he trains to get better early in the gym, often at the same time and place as his upperclasswoman Chinatsu Kano, the star of the girls ...
Sports wrote that the work "inspired an entire generation of basketball players in Japan." [110] In a dissertation, PhD student Dexter Thomas of Cornell University stated "The first wave of basketball in Japan was pushed forward by Slam Dunk." [111] Professional basketball players Rui Hachimura and Yuta Watanabe have cited Slam Dunk as ...
Girl Got Game, originally published in Japan as Power!!, is a manga series written and illustrated by Shizuru Seino.Originally serialized in Bessatsu Friend from 1999 until 2002, the individual chapters have been collected and published in ten tankÅbon volumes by Kodansha.
Here are the top 10 girls basketball teams and players in all 16 Kentucky regions, as voted by coaches: First Region. Teams: 1. McCracken County, 2. Graves County, 3.
The Shohoku High School basketball team along with other students from Shohoku, as seen at the end of the manga. The manga and anime series Slam Dunk features a cast of fictional characters created by Takehiko Inoue. The series takes place in Japan, with the main characters being high school basketball players from Kanagawa Prefecture.