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Slam Dunk

Slam Dunk

Alternative Titles

Japanese: スラムダンク

Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 101
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 16, 1993 to Mar 23, 1996
Duration: 23 min. per episode
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
L represents licensing company

Statistics

Score: 8.521 (scored by 15336 users)
Ranked: #802
Popularity: #663
Members: 27,040
Favorites: 1,102
1 indicates a weighted score
2 based on the top anime page.

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basketball comedy shounen sports

Synopsis

Hanamichi Sakuragi, an entering Shohoku high school freshman holds a record for being rejected by 50 girls during middle school. His nearly 2 meters height and bright red hair causes most students to write him off as a delinquent.

One day, a girl named Haruko Akagi approaches Hanamichi without any fear. When she asks Hanamichi: "do you like basketball?" Hanamichi falls head over heels for the girl of his dreams. Without missing a beat, Hanamichi tells her he loves basketball, and the two head to the gymnasium where Hanamichi learns about the slam dunk. He also learns of Rukawa, one of the country’s top basketball prospects, also a freshman at Shohoku.

(Source: Funimation)

Related Anime

Adaptation: Slam Dunk
Side story: Slam Dunk Movie 1, Slam Dunk Movie 2, Slam Dunk Movie 3, Slam Dunk Movie 4

Characters & Voice Actors

Akagi, Takenori
Akagi, Takenori
Main
Yanada, Kiyoyuki
Japanese
Yanada, Kiyoyuki
Moneta, Claudio
Italian
Moneta, Claudio
...
Mitsui, Hisashi
Mitsui, Hisashi
Main
Okiayu, Ryotaro
Japanese
Okiayu, Ryotaro
Pizzuto, Michael
English
Pizzuto, Michael
...
Miyagi, Ryota
Miyagi, Ryota
Main
Shioya, Yoku
Japanese
Shioya, Yoku
Bridges, Dave
English
Bridges, Dave
...
Rukawa, Kaede
Rukawa, Kaede
Main
Midorikawa, Hikaru
Japanese
Midorikawa, Hikaru
De palma, Ivo
Italian
De palma, Ivo
...

Staff

Shimizu, Junji
Storyboard
Sakai, Izumi
Theme Song Performance
Hosoda, Mamoru
Key Animation
Kagami, Takahiro
Animation Director



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Dec 15, 2007
ChrisVarick
You know that feeling when you don't really want to watch something but when you start doing it, amazingly, you have lots of fun? Well I do because that is what Slam Dunk is doing to me. It is about this basketball team in Shohoku highschool and its main character, Sakuragi, who tries to complete himself as a basketball player and gain the love of a girl, named Haruko. Sounds cheesy but, believe me, it is nothing you have experienced before.

Now, from the first few episodes, you can obviously see that this anime, which received huge acclaim at its time, has a clear goal to read more
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Mar 19, 2008
lowell
Slam Dunk is one of those classics of sports anime. You always hear about it and wonder if it actually is the best thing since sliced bread. Well, it isn't. But it is funny and entertaining and worthwhile if you have the patience for it.

Imagine GTO in high school and determined to learn how to play basketball to get closer to the girl he has a crush on -- tah-dah, Slam Dunk! The story has the expected sort of "learn a skill, show a skill" repetitive story line common to a lot of sports and shounen animes, but it's punched up read more
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Recommendations

You'll notice in an eye beat that both series are very similar:
- both are sports genre, specificately both are about basketball
- both have great artstyle
- both show a quite unique developing of the characters
- both KnB and SD have awesome characters with special abilities and strong personalities
- both also have funny comical scenes alternated sometimes to the normal pace of the story
- they both have great musics and osts

..etc. I could actually continue but truth is that there are way too many things to list..
Slam Dunk is a sure "must watch" between the classics sports anime, while Kuroko no Basket has a very original and interesting plot who makes it definitely another "must watch" between the new sports anime.
Give them a try, you'll get a taste of a very catching pace which you won't regret!

If you liked one of them, you'll most likely love the other too!! ♥
Probably the best 2 sport animes ever!

Opening Theme

#1: "Kimi ga Suki da to Sakebitai" by BAAD (eps 1-61)
#2: "Zettai ni Daremo" by ZYYG (eps 62-101)

Ending Theme

#1: "Anata Dake Mitsumete'ru (あなただけ見つめてる)" by Ooguro Maki (eps 1-24)
#2: "Sekai ga Owaru Made Wa (世界が終るまでは...)" by WANDS (eps 25-49)
#3: "Kirameku Toki ni Torawarete (煌めく瞬間に捕らわれて)" by Manish (eps 50-81)
#4: "My Friend (マイフレンド)" by Zard (eps 81-101)

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