His tardiness is tolerated though, because of his abilities. Sakuragi likes to refer to him as "Boss Monkey" because he is as well-built as Akagi, and even taller. Jersey no.#6/190 cm/80 kg/Forward. Despite spending a lot of time on the bench, Kogure brings experience and considerable firepower to the team when he's on the court; he is the player most likely to be subbed in to replace one of the starters. He is voiced by Kouzou Shioya. Before the beginning of the series, he was the MVP in his final year at Takeishi. Yoshinori Miyamasu (宮益 義範, Miyamasu Yoshinori?) Jin became well-versed in 3-pointers as a result of making 500 3 point shots a day after practice. He once tried to make Sakuragi join the judo team because he considered his fighting skills exceptional, and to achieve this, "bribed" him with some photos of Haruko when she was younger. An easygoing person, Sendoh usually has a smile on his face whether on-court or off. As a result, in an exhibition match at Ryonan, Fukuda released his pent-up aggression on Taoka. When he was eleven he slapped her for littering. Ryota Miyagi. He is commonly noted to be appear older than he is; Maki responds by pointing out that Akagi looks even older. Because he was caught by a bunch of other delinquents who beat him severely... and he couldn't get help for his ill father, who ended up dying. His calm and collected attitude contrasts with the temper he had in the past, when he was nicknamed "White-Haired Devil" as a demanding college coach. is Takenori's younger sister and Sakuragi's love interest. This grudge continued until their present age, where their feud is over which team will be National Champion first. He instead suffers an utter defeat which briefly traumatizes him, which reflects the massive gap that still exists between them. Kiyota is known for his leaping ability and ball-handing skills. is Ryonan’s captain. Both of them have known each other since high school. Mitsuyoshi Anzai (安西 光義, Anzai Mitsuyoshi?) Right now there are characters list of Slam Dunk apart from this focusing in schools. Taoka also realized that when Sendoh and Fukuda joined the team that they would become key players. Despite having the opportunity to join more prestigious high schools like Ryonan, he chose to go to Shohoku because of Coach Mitsuyoshi Anzai. He has been known to pose for Ayako during matches. He is able to read and control the flow of the game quite well. Article by Omar Labrak. However, his bad temper and lack of control in game situations has led to serious consequences for his team on more than one occasion. As such, he only enters the court when his presence is really needed, such as when the team is behind and struggling. was an MVP for Takeishi Junior High. Nobunaga Kiyota (清田 信長, Kiyota Nobunaga?) Most of them are very short and would not pass WP: Notability. He also shares a similar level of arrogance with Sakuragi, claiming to be the number one point guard in the prefecture, though popular opinion among characters in the series ranks him just behind Maki of Kainan and Fujima of Shoyo. Jersey no.#5 178 cm/5'10"/70in 65 kg/137 lb. Akira Sendoh is Ryonan's ace and small forward who is considered one of the top players in Kanagawa. He also appears to be the best fighter out of the four aside from Sakuragi himself, having beat Mitsui badly all on his own during the gym fight. Hisashi Mitsui is the shooting guard of the Shohoku team. Yohei Mito (水戸 洋平, Mito Yōhei?) Kiyota is the only starter for Kainan who is a 1st year. Off-court, Miyagi has a reputation for being a bad boy. When he finally arrives in the gym, he uses his cigarette to burn the basketball to Ryota and Sakuragi's understandable outrage. Looking for information on the anime Slam Dunk? Birthday 01/04 Shoe Brand: Nike Air Jordan 1 & 6. An easygoing person, Sendoh usually has a smile on his face whether on-court or off. They also take advantage of him by frequently placing bets on whether his endeavors will succeed, and even charge admission to see Sakuragi's new hairstyle. Haruko Akagi (赤木 晴子, Akagi Haruko?) Kaede Rukawa. Despite Sannoh’s legendary reputation, Domoto does not rest on his laurels and yearly reiterates to his players that no team is guaranteed to win a match. But Tatsuhiko does not give up on trying once in a while. If he had had his way, his dream team would have consisted of Sendoh, Uozomi, Mitsui, Miyagi, and Rukawa, with the latter three playing the same positions they now play for Shohoku. Birthday 07/31 Shoe Brand: Converse. Masahiro Nobe (野辺将広, Nobe Masahiro?) After an initial misunderstanding that caused conflict between them (he was fighting Mitsui when Sakuragi and Ayako came around, and he thought she was dating him), both found comradeship in the fact that they had both been unlucky in love, although Miyagi, having only been rejected 10 times, still falls short of Sakuragi's record of 50 rejections. Although Hanamichi picks on him (Hanamichi calls him "Yasu"), he is no pushover, as demonstrated when he stood up to Mitsui and Tetsuo when they were attempting to get the Shohoku team banned from competition for fighting. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. thanks to his trauma about his missing at the sea older brother, taking a slap to the face from the still not, Her mom later explained that the green earrings were a gift for, actually a Point Foward, since he can also play point guard. He has managed to change the course of many games, such as when he single-handedly brought Shohoku back from a double-digit deficit against Kainan (Rukawa scored 15 straight points for Shohoku in 2 minutes and 5 seconds just before the end of the first half). She, like most girls in Shohoku, only has eyes for Rukawa, although he never reciprocates her feelings and, later in the anime, she acknowledges that he will not love her the way she wants him to and tries to let go of her crush, however unsuccessfully. Unlike Uozomi however, who starts to get emotional in encouraging his teammates to bring Ryonan further the next time around, Ikegami is cool and collected. Before Sakuragi and his Gang arrive, Hotta and his cronies run into Rukawa on the school roof, who singlehandedly knocks out all four of them. The top 25 coolest guys in the anime world. He and Akagi are the only two players who have been on the team for all three years - Mitsui left during their first year, while other players quit the team because they found Akagi's training regimen to be too strenuous. 210 cm/130 kg. He then met Haruko Akagi, a lovely basketball fangirl, whom he fell in love with immediately. zh:植草智之, CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (. However, he started as a very weak player, and was ridiculed and bullied by his upperclassmen for only having height but very little of everything else. Wikis. The arrival of Sakuragi’s Gang enables Mitsui and Sakuragi to break away and head to the 3rd round match (which they are late for), and results in the trouncing of Ryu and all his gang members. Soichiro Jin is the shooting guard of Kainan and one of the best sharpshooters in Kanagawa, matched only by Mitsui. Jersey no.#4/184 cm/79 kg/Point Guard. His errors cost Ryonan, and Taoka acknowledges Shohoku after the game. is the protagonist of Slam Dunk. Yazawa's mother gave Anzai a letter written 4 years prior, in which Yazawa expressed profound regret about his rebellious decision to leave, and the depression from his experience in the unsupportive American college basketball career. SLAM DUNK" is a basketball cartoon written by Takehiko Inoue and serialized in "weekly shonen jump" until 1990 to 1996. Slam Dunk won the 40th Shogakukan Manga Award for best Shounen manga in 1994 and was voted the greatest manga of all time at the 10th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006. As Maki says in volume #10, "As a player, he's far from rational.". He rejoined the team and vowed never to fight again. Domoto remains cool and collected during the Shohoku-Sannoh match, and only makes two mistakes that end up costing Sannoh the match. This comic caused a big basketball boom in the 90's. However, his basketball skills advanced throughout the series. They, along with Rukawa, make Shohoku one of the strongest high school teams from Japan. It is revealed in the National Championships that Jin finishes as the leading scorer in the Kanagawa prefectural tournament, averaging 30.6 points per game(followed closely by Rukawa's 30 points per game). In his first year at Shohoku High School, he meets Haruko Akagi, the girl of his dreams. Slam Dunk ist ein Sport-Manga von Mangaka Takehiko Inoue. The team has mastered the full court press defense and can trap even the fastest point guards and immobilize their opponents' offense. During the National Championships, the relationship between Ayako and Ryota has developed to the point where he can confide in her about his uncertainties about the upcoming Sannoh match when he is alone with her, and during the match Ayako motivates him by writing the words "Number 1 Guard" on his hand to keep him focused and determined. is the player and coach of Shoyo High. From top to bottom: Okusu, Noma, Youhei, Takamiya. In the Kanagawa Interhigh Tournament, he was named one of the top five players, the only first year player so honored. Mitsui becomes the vice-captain of the team after Akagi and Kogure leave the team. He is the tallest player in the Interhigh, followed by Hiroshi Morishige from Meiho High. At the beginning of the series, Sakuragi is a slacker, good for nothing other than fighting. At some point during the gym fight, Ayako tries to stop the mess despite having been slapped to the ground by another one of Mitsui's gang members. However, his play style was as selfish as Rukawa's had been, and eventually Sannoh lost. His skills are typical of a point guard: strong passing and dribbling, as well as an understanding of the game that allows him to be a floor leader. The captain of the Shohoku judo team, Tatsuhiko Aota (青田 龍彦, Aota Tatsuhiko?) However, his reputation for delinquency and destructiveness precedes him, and … 165 cm/52 kg. Kenji Fujima is the point guard and coach of Shoyo. Miyagi becomes the captain of the team after Akagi and Kogure leave the team. Unlike a traditional center, he possesses speed and long-range shooting ability to complement his height, power and rebounding. is one of the minor players from Shohoku. It has five members consisting of Hanamichi Sakuragi, Yohei Mito, Chuichiro Noma, Yuji Ohkusu, and Nozomi Takamiya. However, their main weaknesses are the lack of a star point guard and a three-point shooter. She is voiced by Akiko Hiramatsu. Last week on 7 January, Takehiko Inoue, author of … Art of Slam Dunk. His unimposing presence (by comparison, he is 5 cm shorter and 10 kg lighter than Hikoichi Aida) distracts opponents from his real basketball skills, especially his reliable 3 point shooting, the accuracy of which is comparable to Jin's and Mitsui's 3 point shooting. This also changed Anzai's former strict attitude to his now mild temper, for which he is now known as the "White-Haired Buddha.". It is also worth noting that Tatsuhiko has had a crush on Haruko since they were young. Although his love for Haruko and rivalry with Rukawa are the main driving forces motivating him to succeed in basketball, his injury during the Sannoh match makes him realize that he has actually come to love the game, leading him to give his all for his team and bring them victory. Sweet and with a captivating personality, she is always around to cheer on the players, especially her brother Takenori, who is extremely protective of her and taught her the basics of basketball, Kaede Rukawa and Sakuragi, whom she considers her best friend. "Those siblings, they're much more alike than they look! Akagi and Kogure are friends and teammates from their middle school years. Having learned from his mistake, Taoka uses Fukuda to great effect during the match with Kainan. Actually, he knows Sakuragi can put his talents to a better use, but is ashamed to see the immaturity with which he deals with things. keeps playing despite a potentially crippling injury, Who died of a heart-attack when he was in junior high. His teammates trust him wholeheartedly, firmly believing that he can lead Ryonan to victory even if they are trailing. He is voiced by Yoku Shioya. It would appear that he is the gang leader, although he largely defers to Mitsui when they launch their attack on the Shohoku basketball team. Though his personality belies it, he can be as strict as Akagi, but mostly only towards Kiyota. Sendoh's all-round skills are repeatedly displayed throughout the series. Toyotama has an ace in the form of Minori Kishimoto, who earns not only Hikoichi's enmity for Toyotama after he dismisses Sendoh's abilities as a player (Hikoichi in retribution gives Shohoku information on Toyotama), but also from Sakuragi, who spent the first half under intense pressure and could not perform well enough, being substituted for by Yasuda early in the match. Hikoichi Aida (相田 彦一, Aida Hikoichi?) She is almost always accompanied by a bubbly trainee called Nakamura, who does the driving when they need to go from gym to gym even though he drives slowly, as he had just gotten his driving license.She also has a huge crush on Ryonan ace Sendoh. Both men are still friends, but are also rivals. Bursts down crying when Ryonan loses to Shohoku. They are considered the top high school team in Japan and have been a dominant force in high school basketball for years. He has something of a special rivalry going on with Hanamichi from the first time they knew of each other, when the latter was depressed over the loss to Kainan and was near a basketball court where Fukuda was practicing. He and Nagano are knocked down by Sakuragi after the latter dunked on them, but despite the effort Sakuragi still got his fifth foul. He is known for his fade away shot, which is difficult to block. Ryoji Ikegami (池上 良治, Ikegami Ryōji?) They have known each other since high school. A pretty good shooter and tactician, he hit a crucial three-pointer against Ryonan. Sendoh succeeds Uozomi as captain after he and Ikegami leave the team. Masashi seems to be a bit jealous of Sawakita's popularity with the girls. They are an A ranked team and almost all of their starters are third years. Hanamichi Sakuragi, infamous for his temper, massive height, and fire-red hair, enrolls in Shohoku High, hoping to finally get a girlfriend and break his record of being rejected 50 consecutive times in middle school. This and Haruko's encouragement led to him to join the Shohoku basketball team. Downplayed as the series goes on: he never becomes the star he believes himself to be, but he does become a noteworthy player. The manga and anime series Slam Dunk features several fictional characters created by Takehiko Inoue. According to Yohei, they are known as "The Three Stooges of Wakoh Junior High". Haruko often appears at matches together with Sakuragi's cohorts and her two best friends, Fujii and Matsui. He regards himself as a genius though, with self-confidence that borders on arrogance. Akagi considers Uozumi of Ryonan to be his biggest rival, though their rivalry is not antagonistic. 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