Slam Dunk Volume One is a manga by Takehiko Inoue, and it was published in North America by Viz Media's Shonen Jump imprint in 2008. The series is rated "T" for older teens; after reading this first ...

There was no guarantee that there would be an anime feature film adaptation of Takehiko Inoue’s hugely popular basketball manga series “Slam Dunk,” especially after its successful anime TV series. But ...

There are many manga hits and classics, but only a handful reach the level of becoming masterpieces. Inoue Takehiko’s Slam Dunk is widely acknowledged as being one of them. It continues to gain ...

Takehiko Inoue has drawn some of Japan's most popular mangas, including the basketball-themed Slam Dunk His work is credited with inspiring a generation of Japanese students to take up basketball He ...

Kevin is an accomplished blogger and pop culture writer! Having written about the manga and anime industry since 2004, he's written a wide variety of stories! He has even interviewed legends like Stan ...

With 218 volumes and a serialization dating back to 1968, Golgo 13 is the longest-running manga of all time and boasts an incredible sales figure of over 300 million volumes worldwide. Few manga in ...

Slam Dunk celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2020. First serialized in 1990, the manga has gone on to sell over 120 million volumes. Slam Dunk originally ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1990 to 1996.

👍 What we liked: The animation is flawless, the intensity of the plot, and the way original manga creator Takehiko Inoue skillfully approaches the narrative to breathe new life into it. 👎 What we ...

Premiering at Anime Expo, this was a movie that had some big sneakers to fill. There’s hardly much buildup to the big game in The First Slam Dunk—Takehiko Inoue’s movie adaptation of his classic ...

The legendary manga creator told IndieWire about reframing the narrative and animating the championship game with a new emphasis on pain and struggle. “There were two main challenges,” Inoue told ...