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Collector guides, cover censuses, and edition answers, documented issue by issue. Every page answers one specific question, completely.

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How does the Inter High bracket work in Slam Dunk?

Shohoku must survive Kanagawa's prefectural tournament to reach the single-elimination Inter High, where Sannoh waits as champion.

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Why is the Sannoh game the final game?

The Sannoh match is the manga's last because it is the peak: Shohoku against the defending champions at full strength.

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What is Real, Takehiko Inoue's wheelchair basketball manga?

Real, serialized in Weekly Young Jump from 1999, is Inoue's wheelchair basketball manga about disability, pride and starting over.

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What is Piercing, the Slam Dunk one-shot?

Piercing is Inoue's short one-shot about the young Ryota Miyagi, the seed of the film's Miyagi storyline.

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What is INOUE TAKEHIKO ILLUSTRATIONS, the 1997 art book?

The 1997 INOUE TAKEHIKO ILLUSTRATIONS gathers the manga's color art, the baseline book of the Slam Dunk art shelf.

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What is PLUS / SLAM DUNK ILLUSTRATIONS 2?

PLUS, released April 3, 2020 for the 30th anniversary, collects 130 plus illustrations including all 20 shinsoban covers.

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How can you tell a first printing Slam Dunk volume?

First printings are identified from the colophon at the back of each Japanese volume, where the first-edition date is printed.

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What was Inoue Takehiko: The LAST Manga Exhibition?

The LAST Manga Exhibition toured Japanese museums from 2008 to 2010, with Inoue drawing spatial manga installations on site.

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How many copies has Slam Dunk sold?

Slam Dunk passed 100 million copies in Japan in 2004 and 120 million in the years after; worldwide totals run higher.

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What is Buzzer Beater, Takehiko Inoue's web manga?

Buzzer Beater, launched online in 1997, is Inoue's science fiction basketball manga about an Earth team in an intergalactic league.

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