Slam Dunk. 1

Author: (Japanese) Inoue Takehiko, translated by Zou Ning
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: In his third year of junior high school, Sakuragi Kakehashi continuously faces rejection from girls. When a girl tells him, "I like the boy from the basketball club, Daichi," it deeply hurts him. Even after entering high school, Sakuragi still fails to bounce back. At that moment, a girl named Akagi Haruko appears before him. On the school corridor, Haruko asks with a pleasant voice, "Do you like basketball?" This sentence reignites the passionate flame in Sakuragi's heart. However, things don't go as planned—Haruko has secretly liked a boy named Kuroko since middle school. Kuroko has already become a basketball star since his middle school days, and it is destined that he and Sakuragi become lifelong rivals. By chance, Sakuragi meets Haruko's older brother, the head of the basketball club, Akagi Tsuyoshi, and from then on, the grand chapter of his high school life begins.