灌篮高手

The TV animation "Slam Dunk" premiered on TV Asahi from October 16, 1993 to March 23, 1996, with 101 episodes in total. Produced by Toei Animation, it is adapted from the manga of the same name created by Japanese manga artist Takehiko Inoue

At the beginning of the story, Hanamichi Sakuragi, who has no basketball background, joins the basketball team just to win the favor of Haruko Akagi, his crush. Knowing that Haruko likes basketball, Sakuragi Hanamichi signed up as soon as his head got hot without considering his basketball foundation. He didn't know that Haruko liked football because she liked Rukawa Kaede, who was a star player since junior high school. If she liked someone, she would also like her hobby. This was the case for Hanamichi Sakuragi and Haruko. In order to please the goddess, Sakuragi Hanamichi practiced hard. With his natural potential and his spirit of never admitting defeat, Sakuragi made rapid progress, and later gradually became an indispensable main player of the Xiangbei basketball team. At the same time, under the leadership of Takenori Akagi and others, since the regional trials, the Xiangbei High School basketball team that Sakuragi Hanamichi joined has bravely entered the National High School Basketball League.