SLAM DUNK 1

Legendary manga, fantastic art

This is one of the most influential and best selling manga of all time, and there are many cultural references stemming from it. A dear friend spoke of it so highly that it motivated me to read it. The first volume is really setting us up for the stage of the rest of the series, and I'm glad I knew that going in. So even though I would normally never picked up a sports manga or a high school romance, I loved volume 1. The art is fantastic, the characters are well defined. The humour is surpris

Entertaining!

This is drama-packed shifting you from one emotional character and moment to the next without skipping a beat. The constant drama and reactions keep you reading through the pages. After all, it is a basketball and high school romance story so this is not likely to be interesting to most. And there is a lot of slang, insults and the like so it is probably not the best for language learning (unless this is the only kind of stuff that you can read without falling asleep). And, this is a cultural d

Objectively solid, not for me

I picked this up on a recommendation, and I enjoyed reading volume 1. The comedic timing, characters, and overall direction is very well thought-out, and I can see why this series is as popular as it is. I just don't personally care for the exaggerated high school athlete romance / rivalry dynamics driving the plot here, so I'd rather spend my time on other books right now.

Difficulty wise, there's some slang and 話し言葉 like チワス that pop up, but it's mostly every day vocab plus high school club t