The only possible drawback of the Slam Dunk manga is the art quality in its first few volumes. The characters such as Kaede Rukawa, Shinichi Maki, Ryota Miyagi, Takenori Akagi, and Akira Sendoh have almost become as popular as Hanamichi himself. From there, the story goes on a wild and fantastic ride that you will find it impossible to stop reading. To impress Haruko, Sakuragi, a natural athletic freak but has not played basketball before, decides to join the school basketball club. He was dumped by dozens of girls in Junior High before, so he is keen to turn things around in high school in terms of his luck in dating.Īt Shohoku High School, he saw and instantly fell in love with a girl named Haruko Akagi, who happens to like basketball very much.

Slam Dunk revolves around a high school street thug Hanamichi Sakuragi. The story is touching and funny, rolled into one fun-filled basketball adventure.

An example of this is his illustration of the “eye fake” and the triple threat stance. Unless you play basketball, you won’t notice how realistic the creator Takehiko Inoue was in the specifics of the game.

Slam Dunk possesses incredible detail that you won’t see in the anime.

It has already sold 120 million copies in Japan alone and was voted the most popular manga in 2012.

This was even better than the anime version for reasons that we will state below: You saw this coming from a mile away, didn’t you? Well, it doesn’t matter because it truly is one of the best basketball mangas, if not the best, ever created. Wrapping Things Up: The Best Basketball Mangas Our Favorites for the Best Basketball Mangas Slam Dunk

Girl Got Game, Vol. 1 by Shizuru Seino