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Ahiru no Sora (あひるの空, lit. "Sky of the Duck" or "Sora the Duck") is a Japanese basketball-themed manga series written and illustrated by Takeshi Hinata. It has been serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine since December 2003, with its chapters collected in 51 tankōbon volumes as of June 2019.
Delivers the tension of a sports anime, offers just enough for long term fans." [52] Calum Marsh from The New York Times described the film as an excellent adaptation of the original manga series, written "The First Slam Dunk is a great basketball movie because it understands what’s great about basketball, this feels like real basketball ...
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In TV Asahi's 2005 Top 100 Anime survey of multiple age groups, Slam Dunk ranked as the eighth most popular anime. [102] In another poll from TV Asahi but developed by a website, the series ranked tenth. [103] The home video release of the anime also had good sales, having appeared on Oricon's Japanese Animation DVD and Blu-ray rankings. [104 ...
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.
In a Goo Ranking, Sakuragi and Rukawa were voted as the 4th-best pair of rivals in anime history. [42] When American-born basketball player J. R. Henderson became a naturalized Japanese citizen, he renamed himself to J. R. Sakuragi after the character. [43] Across the manga, Inoue draws parallels with the NBA.
A third game Kuroko's Basketball: Mirai e no Kizuna (黒子のバスケ 未来へのキズナ, Kuroko's Basketball: Bonds for the Future) was released on March 26, 2015, for the Nintendo 3DS. [40] Kuroko also appears as a support character in the Jump crossover fighting game J-Stars Victory VS .