What are SLAM DUNK JUMP and THE FIRST SLAM DUNK re:SOURCE?

Two books were published around the film and both belong on the shelf. SLAM DUNK JUMP, released November 8, 2022, collects 24 of the manga's 276 chapters chosen as the foundation of the film's plot, a curated shortcut to the Sannoh game for readers returning after decades away.

THE FIRST SLAM DUNK re:SOURCE, released December 15, 2022, is the production companion: illustrations Inoue drew during the film's making, analysis of the fundamentals of the movie's construction, and a lengthy interview. In the pattern this site sees across franchises, re:SOURCE is the book that ages into the reference, because it holds process art that exists nowhere else.

Together they mark how Inoue controlled the film's print ecosystem himself: the source text he endorsed, and the making-of he authored, rather than licensed filler.