Slam Dunk Chapter 276 Discussion
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- #45
Well, I knew some spoilers before I finished reading (Hanamichi was going to get hurt/ Hanamichi realized he really wants to play basketball/ Rukawa would enter in the Japan team/ They would lose in the third game...
But at the same time, this last game was awesome!!
I was really anxious to see Rukawa and Hanamichi getting along well, we can just imagine they became a great pair.
And we have to believe Hanamichi got really good in Basketball and eventually he became Haruko's boyfriend
And I really think Hanamichi was kind of the heart/spirit of team (Akagi was the heart also). I want to believe that Hanamichi in his third year became captain (I really think he has the spirit to be captain of the team).
And It was really nice to see Akagi trusting and depending on Hanamichi, they really liked one another.
This team was great and it would be really hard to substitute, but of course I would like to have a sequence, and see Shouhoku win the championship one year.
Problem with this chapter: it was so rushed!! I didn't understand a lot of stuff (Was mitsui in the team also??, there was a guy that looked like him playing with Ryota...). A lot of people said here all that buildup about other teams for nothing?? It just didn't feel like Inoue was going to finish the manga in that part, I really don't understand his intentions...
Mitsui is still on the team, Akagi and Megane-Kun left to focus on their college entrance exams, that chapter is probably less than two months after the tournament, also there is still the Winter Tournament at the end of the year, and Mitsui can still play it, even though he's a senior.
I feel like Mitsui should've failed his second year in highschool so he would still be a sophomore by the time Rukawa and Hanamichi entered highschool, he was a gangleader for christ's sake, they don't have time to study.
- #46
The best part really is the characters. All of them are likeable and they all feel very real and relatable. I also like how nobody was really left behind, they all got their time to shine. A small detail that really did a lot for me was that Sakuragi actually had a group of friends at the start of the story. It's very common in manga that the main character get all of his/her relationships within the story rather than already having some established ones.
I have never played or even watched a single game of basketball. It does really help that Sakuragi never really learns the rules and keeps fouling, since that keeps him relatable to people like me all throughout the story.
The art is of course also excellent, especially in the later volumes.
Overall, this is a really fun and exciting manga with a lot of heart. I can see why both it and Inoue is so well regarded.
