Slam Dunk 🏀 Vol. 31 (Ch 270-276)

:basketball: Welcome to Slam Dunk Chapters 270-276 Discussion :basketball:

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This is an informal book club. Read at your own pace and use the space here to ask questions, post reactions, and get hyped about reading this legendary manga!

The volume/chapters quoted above are for the Tankobon edition

If you are reading from a different edition, see:
Digital/Shinsouban edition: Vol 20 (covers Ch 267-276);
Kanzenban edition: Vol 24 (covers Ch 264-276);
(see note about editions in the home thread)

:closed_book: Details :open_book:

Natively: Level 23

FINAL Poll :loudspeaker:

Readers: How far are you in the story?
  • Just watching for now
  • I hope to start soon!
  • I’m reading this volume
  • I have already read this volume
  • I have FINISHED Slam Dunk!!!
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You are on a streak with these :sweat_smile: cant wait for the notifications when you all start this volume :tada:

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thanks :sweat_smile: I got in the zone and all threads are now up! Everyone can carry on talking about non - Slam Dunk topics now :innocent:

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But why would anyone want to do that

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I finished it last week and what a read it was!
By far this volume was the best out of the 31! So yeah, I just loved everything about this volume and obviously about the whole manga.

For those who finished it, the sequel (あれから十日後) is available on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCxt9q4ZigU
And if you liked Slam Dunk, make sure to read Takehiko Inoue’s “Real”! :eyes:

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同じだ!

Thanks for sharing the video, I’d heard about the あれから stuff but hadn’t seen it before

Agreed that this was the best volume of the bunch, such an amazing ending.

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Notes for this volume
Can’t even separate them by chapter much because it’s just one long, amazing, breath-holding section

Best volume of manga I’ve ever read

Summary

Ch.270

Even by 桜木’s standards he looks like death

指導者失格です

オヤジの栄光時代はいつだよ

オレは今なんだ

出るならで出ろ

Not going to lie, it’s a bit hard at times reading through this seeing his injury

Conflicted feelings, I know too many people who got injured doing sports in real life

ダンコ桜木

Now that is the coolest of cool spreads

湘北に入ってよかった

Everyone switched to 湘北

Wow this is amazing

And he passes to 流川

Wow

Just showing their eyes

Lost track of the chapters

It’s just too amazing

Oh no wait the volume doesn’t show them because it’s too focused on the basketball

Kantoku counting out 桜木

You never count out 桜木

The no text

It’s just amazing

No words

In the film they do the same thing with no sound

He’s running

左手はそえるだけ

And he scores

I’m not crying you’re crying

And 桜木 and 流川 respect

大好きなバスケットが待ってるから

天才ですから

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Haha I had the same reaction when I finished the volume!
btw I love your notes :handshake: I’d love to do the same thing for manga, but since I read on a ereader far from my computer and my phone idk how to implement that.

Spoiler Vol. 31

Also the fact that it doesn’t end with a Slam Dunk but with a simple shoot was so unexpected but so meaningful! For me it represented all the time he spent practicing, specifically that one page that says シュートの練習は楽しかった, so I obviously didn’t shed any tears!

You just made me want to read it again :laughing:

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Slam dunk is the only thing I’ve done notes like this for, I just used my phone/laptop open onto a Google notes file while reading physically so I could stop and type in quickly, but yeah it got in the way of reading occasionally

Yeah I liked the ending and how it really showed his growth into someone who does whatever’s best for the team! Better than him doing a slam dunk like he could do at the start anyway

Also it doesn’t matter to me, but maybe worth putting anything about the ending/spoiler worthy under a spoiler or drop-down, because there’s a few people currently who might read this thread who are still early in the manga and don’t know the ending!

I’d watched the anime first earlier this year, so maybe will take a break from Slam Dunk for now. But give it a few years and I’ll come back and read it again for sure! Got too many other things to read first :joy:

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