The book that I have chosen to do a review on is slam dunk Takehiko Inoue this book is one of my favourites mostly because it is based on basketball. This book will make you laugh and make you go crazy and you will want to keep reading this book over and over again. A new kid arrives at his new high school and there is a girl that he really likes but he feels like he has no chance with her because she is a second year while he is only a first year. The first time he ever talked to her she talked about loving basketball players, to win her heart he believes that if he becomes a very good basketball player she will fall into his arms he tries out for the basketball team but then finds out it is very hard for a first year to get into the basketball team. He finds out that the girl he likes her brother is in the team and he is very protective and very hard on everyone especially on people who try out for basketball as he takes it very seriously. To win her heart he thinks of an idea taking on the best player of the basketball team and then he finds out the best player was the girls brother the match was very unfair the main character didn’t know how to play basketball the story ends with the story being continued
I would recommend for people who like to laugh I rate it 5 out of 5 ( )

My first manga boook , and it was awesome . I had lots of fun reading . After , i was dont reading this i was already reading volume 2 . Its extremly funny and i couldnt stop reading it . There are very view books i like , this is one of the book i enjoyed :) This book is bout a new guy going to a new school . Meets a girl he likes , but she likes basket ball . He trys out the team , and shocking he finds out that his crush 's bro is the captain of the basket ball team . He doesn't really like the captain and have conficts with each other .
Fun book must read ! O_O ( )

Slam Dunk has the simplest plot of any manga I've read for some time. Boy who has never played sports joins basketball team to gain the favor of a girl he likes. There are some (unsurprising) details beyond that, of course. He's bit of a thug but also not-so-deep-down a bit of a lovable doofus. He's overconfident, brash and impatient but hard-working and ernest. The girl is more attracted to the team's (currently viewed as) most promising new player rather than him, and that makes the main antagonistic towards him, and assumably his rival in the future.

But originality in plot isn't really what sports manga are usually about, though what they ARE about can depend on the series. In this case, Slam Dunk's first volume is about slapstick humor and charming characters, with a side of the excitement of seeing the nobody/degenerate no one thought much of start to turn people's heads. I works, though it is admittedly a little emptier than I generally like my manga. The humor is silly but not quite as over-the-top zany as some humor manga that grate on me, and I even genuinely laughed at a few of the gags. The characters aren't made to be terribly complex, but the main is a bit endearing in his silliness.

Still, his clownishness did wear thin on me occasionally. His tendency to do the #1 dopiest thing possible for every situation got a little repetitive. At times he borders on obnoxious, and this makes it a little harder to root for him in his efforts to show up the more experienced and dignified players.

If Slam Dunk were just any other manga, I'd probably label the first volume an ok experience but drop it there. But being a slash fan, I have a little extra motivation to give it a bit more patience. Slash potential (once it surfaces more, as at the moment it hasn't much) won't usually make me enjoy a series I wouldn't have without it, but it can help me keep trying a little longer. Besides, as of yet there have been no actual basketball games, and I am interested to see one, as this is where another sports manga I was initially extremely skeptical of (Ookiku Furikabutte) won me over, eventually leading me to appreciate even the out-of-game moments in the series.

I doubt Slam Dunk well ever reach for the level of character development in Oofuri, but I do hope the main character will grow to care more about basketball for itself rather than just the girls, and that this dedication will add another dimension to his character that will make him more admirable, and will help the silly side of him from getting old so quickly. This manga may not have the depth of the other basketball manga I've read from this mangaka (Real), but it does have a youthful energy I sometimes wished I could see more in Inoue's other work. If the basketball games are engaging (and what basketball action there was in this volume was semi-promising) and the characters get a smidge less one-note, it could turn out to be an entertaining shounen series. Still, I'll be getting my future volumes from the library till it proves it's going to turn me around. ( )