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justsomeaccount
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Over these years I've discovered my love for sports series (honestly way more than the real sport since the super nitty gritty associated to all sports at least there it's only fiction), having read all of Kuroko, Haikyuu, Farewell Dear Cramer, most of Captain Tsubasa and most sports-related series from Mangaplus (Strikeout Pitch is great!), among others. I thought the predictable plot structure and low stakes would make it boring, but honestly, with a few good rising stakes and a likable set of characters with good rapport they work wonderfully, and it even makes you appreciate the ones who take this limiting structure and put a new twist on it to make it fresh (for as many baseball series in Mangaplus that there are, most of them have their unique identity that makes them enjoyable in different ways, which is why I don't mind they do despite not having that much public so I don't know why they do it).
In regards to other basketball series:
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An Unchosen One
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Everyone's going on about the Knicks win now, but my main takeaway was mostly that the fans have been proving themselves to be utterly terrible. From being practically an invasive species at away games to stalking Mitch Johnson after their loss in the finals to outright assaulting fans of other teams, it's like they're out to prove they're worse than the typical southern stereotypes about New Yorkers.
As for anime and manga, my main experiences so far have been making the mistake of watching the Slam Dunk movie before reading the manga and hearing my brother (a fairly hardcore basketball fan) complain about Kuroko no Basuke. I should get around to reading Slam Dunk and Real at some point. |
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kpossibles
Encyclopedia Editor
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Kudos for mentioning Harlem Beat / Rebound. It was a really good basketball manga so if you get a chance to read it, it's worth picking up. It is like really out of print but I got to read it in the library way back in the day!
It's a Kodansha manga so it would be nice for Kodansha to make the ebooks available someday like what they did with some other tokyopop series! |
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IKKIsama
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Kudos for mentioning Deep 3 and Left-Hand Layup.
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