THE LIBRARY

Inoue on the record: the Sannoh game ending was planned, the final page said End of Part One, and 10 Days After was his answer to readers.

101 episodes stopped at the train to the Inter High in 1996. No official reason is on record, and this page labels the fan theories as theories.

The 2022 film of the final game through Ryota Miyagi: five years of prototypes, Matsui's suggestion that Inoue direct, and a $279 million answer.

Reader letters from new players, the Slam Dunk Scholarship, and the Japan Basketball Association commendation that made the phenomenon official.

On Inoue's own say so: his high school basketball club, the empty basketball shelf, Dokaben, and his own start in the sport, mirrored in Sakuragi.

Takehiko Inoue's basketball manga ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1990 to 1996 and follows Shohoku High's impossible run at the national tournament.

Slam Dunk debuted in Jump issue 42 of 1990 and ended in issue 27 of 1996, one of the defining series of the magazine's best-selling era.

The count depends on the edition: 276 chapters collected as 31 tankobon, 24 kanzenban or 20 shinsoban volumes, all complete.

The 2018 shinsoban reorganized 31 volumes into 20, split at match endings and titled by matchup, with every cover newly drawn by Inoue.

Viz's English edition uses the original tankobon cover art. Inoue's 2018 redrawn covers were never used on an English print edition.

The kanzenban is the 24-volume Jump Comics Deluxe edition of 2001-2002, printed larger with the magazine color pages restored.

10 Days After is the 2004 epilogue Inoue drew in chalk on 23 blackboards at a closed Kanagawa school to mark 100 million copies.

Slam Dunk's first digital edition arrived June 2, 2025, all 20 shinsoban volumes, announced by Inoue himself with reading advice.

The film grossed 15.73 billion yen in Japan on its first run and about $279 million worldwide, the most any basketball film has earned.

The film retells the Sannoh game through point guard Ryota Miyagi, adding the family backstory the manga only implied.

Across Asia the film became a generational event, breaking presale records in China and drawing the manga's 1990s readership back to cinemas.

SLAM DUNK JUMP collects 24 chapters selected as the film's basis; re:SOURCE documents the production with Inoue art and a long interview.

The first run lasted about nine months, closing at number one on its final day; revival screenings have continued ever since.

The Toei anime ran 101 episodes from October 1993 to March 1996 and adapts the manga up to Shohoku's departure for the Nationals.

The anime ends as Shohoku departs for the Nationals; continue reading at manga chapter 198 in volume 22, the whole Inter High arc.

Toei released four anime films in 1994 and 1995 with original stories, separate from the 2022 feature.

The anime's last match, against a combined Shoyo-Ryonan team, is anime-original material created to close the series before the Nationals.

Inoue played basketball at school, studied real games closely, and built the manga's motion from observed play rather than invention.

The Slam Dunk Scholarship, established in 2006, supports young Japanese basketball players pursuing the game and study in the United States.

Shohoku starts Akagi, Rukawa, Mitsui, Miyagi and Sakuragi, with Kogure as sixth man: a documented roster, position by position.