Sports-themed animations always remind people of campus, friendship and passion. There are also many classic works, but the comic that really makes fans think "this is my youth" and is enough to "change life" is "Slam Dunk" It should be a peak that still cannot be surpassed in shounen comics.
Friends who like anime should know that Japanese comics have all kinds of sports themes. Usually, sports-themed works are popular not only because of their excellence, but also because the sport is a popular sport in Japan and everyone likes it and is familiar with it. "Basketball Master", "Soccer Club" and "Baseball Heroes" are collectively known as the three pinnacles of Japanese sports comics. Compared with the popularity of baseball and football, basketball has not received much attention. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is an unpopular sport. Takehiko Inoue painted Slam Dunk because he was passionate about basketball in high school and joined the basketball team without considering the subject matter and audience at the time. This is an example of how interest can lead to life.
"Slam Dunk" began to be serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump" in 1990, and was adapted into an animation of the same name by Toei in 1993. It also spawned games and books. Even after more than 20 years, the popularity and influence of Slam Dunk's IP It's still quite powerful, but to me, the name "A Man Should Become a Bottle" is more familiar.
This work from the 1990s has accompanied and influenced several generations. To this day, Kamakura High School Station, where Haruko waves to Sakuragi in the anime, is still a popular pilgrimage site. When you see the words "Coach, I want to play basketball", a beaten and scarred boy will appear in your mind. As a long-haired man, hearing the impassioned rhythm of "Until the End of the World" makes your DNA tremble. Too many classics have left a deep impression.
The story, characters, and storyboards can all be the excellence of a comic, but it can make readers empathize and even fall in love with basketball without knowing it. They can’t play basketball but become more and more aware of technical terms, and are obsessed with it. Characters, cheering for Shohoku's victory, crying for defeat and the character's resentment, Slam Dunk is a comic that can have such a significant impact on fans.
Sakuragi Hanamichi, who usually does all kinds of stupid things to make people laugh, has been broken up in love, but his concentration and seriousness on the court has transformed him from a little gangster who made people laugh to a brave, passionate, talented and hard-working basketball player. The young man is as charming as Rukawa Kaede.
Rukawa Kaede, the campus idol with good looks, has a heart that refuses to admit defeat under her cold appearance. She only has the focus and seriousness of basketball in her eyes. Which girl would not fall for it.
Haruko Akagi, who has an unrequited love for Rukawa Kaede and is secretly (explicitly) in love with Sakuragi Hanamichi, is gentle, kind and a little slow. When I was a child, I didn’t understand why Sakuragi was so persistent with her. When the whole world thought you were a bad person and shunned you, there was a girl who believed in you and treated you like anyone else. As a friend, she sincerely encouraged, supported, witnessed and accompanied him. With the growth of love, this kind of feeling has surpassed love itself.
Whether it is Sakuragi, Haruko, Rukawa Kaede, captain Akagi, Ryutaro, vice-captain Mumu, Sendō, or other basketball teams and supporting characters, or the girls who admire Rukawa Kaede, we can always see it in one of them. See your own shadow and think of your youth.
Another reason for the strong sense of substitution is that the plot is reasonable and real. Working hard for the goal is touching, but it also tells us that we will definitely succeed without working hard.
When Shohoku defeated the "myth" Sanno Industries in the high school basketball world because of Sakuragi's mid-range shot, everyone thought that Shohoku would finally reach the top after working hard for so long, but Inoue made it easy for Shohoku to lose. Many years later, Inoue Takehiko used chalk to draw what happened ten days after the national competition and the characters' choices on 23 blackboards in an abandoned school building. He erased it after three days of display. The location was the setting of the comic story. The abandoned school building of Misaki High School in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Fans still hold on to a glimmer of hope that they can see Shohoku win the championship, but they don't want to but can only imagine a return to calm daily life.This is a period of youth that belongs to Takehiko Inoue, a comic character, and readers. The colors are gorgeous and make people cry. It has ups and downs and the ending is not satisfactory, leaving regrets.
Looking back at your life and youth, isn’t it the same? Young fans who were once dissatisfied with the ending are no longer obsessed with it. It not only declares that youth with regrets has come to an end, but also knows that life and reality will continue to move forward.
Let those ageless faces that carry the entire youth stay forever. # slam dunk#
