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It takes dedication and discipline to be the best, and the Shohoku High hoops team wants to be just that. They have one last year to make their captain's dream of reaching the finals come true—will they do it? Hanamichi finally gets some game time as a substitute for the slightly injured captain Akagi and quickly goes about making a spectacle of himself. Not only does he manage to strip the ball from Ryonan's veteran center, but he also succeeds in making several key passes that result in some much-needed baskets.

With Shohoku closing in on their opponents' lead, is Hanamichi on the verge of proving that he has what it takes to become the next captain? Tell us what you like and we'll recommend books you'll love. Sign up and get a free ebook! Slam Dunk, Vol. By Takehiko Inoue. As the second half starts, Rukawa decides that he will defeat Sendoh and expand his score.

Meanwhile, Ryonan plans to block all of Mitsui's shots as he is very skilled in three-points. Rukawa succeeds in making Shohoku take the lead, but Sendoh easily makes a comeback. Both teams continue taking advantage over each other, but Uozomi once again makes four fouls, causing him to be subbed. With Uozomi subbed, Shohoku makes a comebacks with shots from most of its starters. However, Sakuragi once again his typical mistakes and ends making two points for Ryonan while trying to defend.

Akagi manages to expand Shohoku's advantage and Sakuragi successfully rebound most of Fukuda's attacks. As there are eight minutes left, Shohoku starts winning by almost ten points. September 2, [47] ISBN With Miyagi scoring, Shohoku continues winning by almost fifteen points. As such, Taoka is forced to make Uozumi return to the game.

Uozumi manages reduce Ryonan's disadvantage with help from Sendoh, and continues rebouding most of Shohoku's attacks. The gameplay from Uozumi along with Sendoh allows them to make Shohoku only win by ten points. Sendoh continues defeating both Rukawa and Sakuragi, and Miyagi has problems to defend due to his fouls.

Rukawa and Sendoh continue scoring making the gap to be expanded and reduced with every shot. However, with only two minutes left, Sendoh reduces the gap to only two points and Mitsui suddenly falls unconscious. November 4, [48] ISBN Being completely tired due to his long break from basketball, Mitsui is unable to continue playing, and is replaced by Kogure. Meanwhile, Ryonan is losing only by one point, but cannot score due to Sakuragi and Akagi's blocks.

When there is only one minute left Kogure scores, expanding the difference to four points. In the last 58 seconds, Sendoh discounts to two points of the difference, but Sakuragi slam dunk in the last moment.

As such, Shohoku wins 70 to 66, allowing them to enter the nationals along with Kainan. One week after the tournament, Sakuragi meets Maki and Kiyota and all go to watch the last game from Aichi's High School Tournament to see what teams will go to the nationals. They watch impressed the game between Sannoh and Aiwa, which is won by the former. Meanwhile, Rukawa tells Aizai that he wants to go to play to America, but Aizai denies as he says he has not even surpassed Sendoh.

December 26, [49] ISBN Aizai's wife tells Rukawa that once one of Aizai's players went to America, but went under a big depression until dying due to various conflicts with his teammates and rivals. However, Rukawa becomes determinated to become the best player from Japan, and plays a 1 on 1 against Mitsui. Sakuragi interrupts him and claims they never had a 1 on 1 as Rukawa is afraid of losing to him.

As such both compete in private, and Rukawa manages to defeat Sakuragi. Due to the poor grades from Sakuragi, Rukawa, Mitsui and Miyagi, Akagi is forced to teach them so that they would be allowed to go to the nationals. Next days, Shohoku starts its one week training, but Aizai does let Sakuragi go. Aizai makes Sakuragi practise his jumping shots by making 20, shots in a week. With help from his gang and Haruko, Sakuragi is successful in his training.

Next week, the Shohoku team takes a train to go to the national tournament. March 3, [50] ISBN C-Rank" In the train, the Shohoku members come to argue with the members from the Toyotama High School, who reveal that Shohoku is a C ranked team in the tournament while Toyotama is A ranked.

As they arrive Hiroshima, Shohoku receives support from Hikoichi who tells them about the players from Toyotama whom they will face in the first round. The game between Toyotama and Shohoku starts, and Miyagi has problems with Toyotama's attacks as most of the players tend to bother him. Sakuragi continues making his typical mistakes to the point he is subbed by the first year Yasuharu Yasuda as Aizai wants to slow down the game.

Akagi and Rukawa manage to make Shohoku tie the game, but the Toyotama captain Tsuyoshi Minami elbows Rukawa's left eye in purpose. Rukawa is then subbed by Sakuragi and the game continues. Toyotama keeps making fouls, but they manage to surpass Shohoku in the end of the first half. While preparing for the second half, Rukawa decides to continue playing with despite his injure.

June 2, [51] ISBN The second half starts and Rukawa returns replacing Yasuda. Miyagi now does not pay attention to Toyotama's insults, allowing to improve Shohoku's attacks. Shohoku starts scoring, and reduce their disadvantage until they tie with both teams having 81 points. During a time Minori Kishimoto from Toyotama has an argument with Minami but as the Minori insults the coach, Kitano, he ends being punched by him.

Kitano allows Minori to keep playing, but crticizes his arrogance and violence while playing. As the game continues, Rukawa starts scoring, and his team takes the lead. Minami tries to hit Rukawa once again to scores, but as he notes Rukawa is note afraid, he stops his attack. However, he injures while falling to the floor and is subbed. With Sakuragi once again scoring, Shohoku starts winning by ten points with only two minutes to end the game.

Minami returns to the game, and all the players from Toyotama decide to play without making fouls. Toyotama tries to catch up, but Shohoku manages to defend the net until the game ends.

After Shohoku wins, Akagi receives a call from the Superindendent Karasawa who congrantulates Shohoku, but warms them that in the next round they will face Sannoh, which is considered to be the strongest high school team from Japan.

September 4, [52] ISBN The members from Shohoku watch VHS containing the final from the nationals from last year, and end surprised with how Sannoh easily defeated Kainan.

As all the starters remain under oppression, Rukawa is visited by Minami who apologizes for hitting him in the previous game. As the day of the match arrives, both teams make a practice in front of the audience. A few players from Shohoku start feeling nervous to the poit that Sakuragi fails to make a slam dunk, hitting with the floor when falling.

After the practice ends, Aizai goes to talk with each starter and easily calms them. The match finally begins, and Miyagi and Sakuragi start by making an ambush. After an Alley-oop from Miyagi, Sakuragi makes the first two points. However, Sannoh easily discounts each time after Shohoku scores. December 1, [53] ISBN Mitsui makes three 3-pointers in a row, and Akagi scores causing Shohoku to take lead.

Although Satoshi Ichinokura from Sannoh blocks Mitsui's attacks, as Miyagi is blocked, Sakuragi accidentally scores with his face. As Sakuragi is temporarily subbed to stop his bleeding, Rukawa faces Sawakita who is considered to be best player from Japan. Sakuragi returns to the game, and Shohoku continues winning. Rukawa and Sawakita are then subbed with Kogure and Mikio Kawata, respectively.

Sakuragi faces Mikio, who easily blocks him due to his enormous height. In a timeout, Aizai makes Sakuragi be Shohoku's offense, but is unable to avoid Masashi Kawata score, making Sannoh lose by only one point. Sakuragi once again confronts Mikio, and is able to score after passing him. The first half ends, and Shohoku is winning 36 to Sawakita and Rukawa return for the second half, and the former makes a 3 pointer, causing Sannoh take the lead.

February 2, [54] ISBN In two minutes and a half, Sannoh presses Shohoku's defense, most notably Mitsui and Miyagi, and surpasses Shohoku by fourteen points. In a time out, Aizai makes Miyagi the only inbounder from Shohoku to counterattack Sannoh. Although Miyagi successfully passes the ball, Rukawa and Sakuragi are unable to score due to Masashi's blocks. Then Masashi easily slam dunks after passing both Akagi and Sakuragi.

Sannoh starts winning almost 20 points, and Akagi continues being unable to block Masahi. With such big difference, most people from the audience leave thinking that Sannoh has already won.

After Shohoku's last time out Aizai replaces Sakuragi with Kogure but only to advise him. Sawakita keeps scoring making Sannoh win by 24 points. Aizai tells Sakuragi to make rebounds to help Shohoku start discounting and all of the first year players support him.

Sakuragi then returns to the game, but he first hits Akagi's butt to relax him. He then jumps to the audience and claims that he will defeat Sannoh. April 4, [55] ISBN Offensive Rebound " With help from Miyagi Sakuragi scores twice after beating Masahiro Nobe, discounting to twenty points. Akagi still remains pressed when confronting Masashi, and misses a good chance to score. Then Uozumi appears in front of Akagi, telling him to stop being afraid of being defeated by Masashi. Akagi then recovers and continues playing his powerful defense.

Also inspired by Uozumi, Mitsui makes starts making various threes. Even though he becomes very exhausted once again, Mitsui continues playing and Sakuragi helps him to score once again. Akagi and Miyagi keep scoring, discouting now to ten points. Masashi returns to block Sakuragi, but Sakuragi manages to stop his shot. June 4, [56] ISBN Rukawa slam dunks, reducing the difference to only eight points. Sawakita confronts Rukawa and has no problems in scoring after passing him. Rukawa cannot beat Sawakita, who is able to block most his shots and scores once again.

Sannoh expands their advantage to sixteen, as none of the players from Shohoku can block Sawakita. A frustrated Rukawa then remembers that when he trained with Sendoh, he told him that there is a player stronger than him called "Kitasawa". Rukawa realizes he made a mistake and that he mean Sawakita. Sawakita expands Sannoh's advantage to almost twenty points once again, but Rukawa becomes determinated to defeat him. Resources and Downloads.

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