Chapter 585: Those Who Can Control the Rebounds Can Control the Game

"A bad-looking male protagonist?"

"Hahaha, Sakuragi and his best friends are so funny."

"Sakura looks a bit tall, but he's a basketball talent!"

"What a beautiful sister!"

"Brother is cute! Discover a new continent!"

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With the launch of "Slam Dunk", the audience's enthusiasm for the show was quickly aroused and they were discussing it with gusto.

Just after Haruko Akagi appeared on the stage, Hanamichi Sakuragi instantly fell in love with Haruko Akagi at first sight, but Haruko focused on Sakuragi's tall figure.

"That! I'm sorry!"

"Excuse me, do you like basketball?"

This is the first encounter between Sakuragi and Haruko, but at this moment Sakuragi knows nothing about basketball.

"Holy shit!"

"0 basic basketball?"

"What's going on? Sakuragi has zero basics?"

"Oh my god... the old thief is so brave. Aren't you afraid that the pace is too slow?"

Thousands of anime fans were stunned when they learned that Sakuragi knew nothing about basketball, and many anime clubs who were paying attention to this anime also had their eyes widened!

0 basics!

What is this concept?

You know, in today's fast-paced society, if you start from scratch, the rhythm of the plot will inevitably become very slow, and naturally it will not be so exciting.

Not only in anime, but also in Xiazhou's online articles, it is not popular nowadays for the male protagonist to start with 0 basic martial arts.

However, Sakuragi's athletic talent is really terrifying. Not only can he catch the ball with one hand, he also has a height of 193cm and terrifying jumping!

When he showed Haruko a "slam dunk", Sakuragi's terrifying bounce made him take off. Unfortunately, he did not succeed in dunking, but his head hit the backboard directly, and he fell to pieces!

"Hahahahahaha!"

"I'll go! This is a funny anime!"

"No, Sakuragi's jumping is really awesome! He's 193cm, his head hits the backboard, what kind of jumping is this?"

"Awesome athletic talent."

"I like the atmosphere of this anime. Finally, I don't have to fight and kill."

The anime fans laughed and looked at Sakuragi making a fool of himself, but they also confirmed one thing: Sakuragi really has zero basic skills and can't even do the most basic dribbling.

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193cm.

This is Lin Qiu’s height after appropriate modifications. In the original “Slam Dunk”, Sakuragi’s height was only 188cm. This was also criticized by many people. After all, “Slam Dunk” pursues passionate and real basketball. With a height of 188cm, it would be difficult for even a jumping man in the world's top basketball league to achieve the vertical jump and run-up jump of Sakuragi Hanamichi.

With a height of 188cm, in the real basketball world, he can basically only play the position of point guard. In the anime "Slam Dunk", Sakuragi's position is power forward.

Due to the difference in time, Lin Qiu had to increase his height by a few centimeters. After all, the original comics were created decades ago and are different from modern basketball concepts.

When Hanamichi Sakuragi appeared on the scene, he did not show enough charm at first. He was a delinquent boy, a gangster leader, and looked like a single-celled creature at first glance. He was not the type that anime fans would like at first sight.

But Rukawa Kaede is completely different! !

In the previous life, when "Slam Dunk" became popular all over the world, it was Rukawa Kaede who was the first to gain super popularity!

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"Damn! So handsome!"

"The silly guy is the first one! The handsome guy is the second guy!"

"Rukawa Kaede is so handsome, mommy!"

"So indifferent! I like it so much!"

Rukawa Kaede's appearance immediately made thousands of girls look with love in their eyes!

She has a lettuce head, a melon-seed face, sword-shaped eyebrows and dead fish eyes.

He has a cold and handsome appearance, and is still the object of Haruko's secret love. In addition, Rukawa Kaede is also the number one junior high school student in Kanagawa Prefecture. He is very strong in basketball. No matter in every aspect, he is an existence that completely surpasses Sakuragi Hanamichi.

"It's no wonder that Haruko doesn't like Sakuragi. I also like Rukawa Kaede!!"

This is the sentence that pops up the most on the screen.

Rukawa Kaede looked unfeminine and didn't pay much attention to Haruko at all.

As soon as Sakuragi saw Rukawa Kaede, he regarded him as his love rival. When he saw Rukawa Kaede ignoring Haruko, he suddenly became angry and started fighting with Rukawa Kaede...

Later, the reckless Sakuragi directly offended the captain of the basketball team, Takenori Akagi, who was known as the "gorilla". Not only that, the enraged Sakuragi insulted basketball in front of the basketball captain!

"I hate the basketball team!"

"It's just a pitching trick!"

As soon as these words came out, not only Akagi, the captain of the basketball team, was angry, but even the anime fans outside the screen were a little angry.

Although football is the number one sport in the world, the popularity and participation of basketball are so high that not even football can match it. This is especially true in Xiazhou. There are too many basketball fans who love basketball and regard basketball as a treasure. .

No one who loves basketball can listen to such words.

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"Is this the unflattering protagonist image again?"

"Hey, you don't have to like basketball, but you have to respect basketball."

"It's okay, anyway, I support Rukawa Kaede!"

The audience frowned.

In the plot, in the tit-for-tat confrontation between Akagi and Sakuragi, the two decided to use basketball to decide whether basketball is a trick, which attracted the attention of many students, including Rukawa Kaede who had just signed up for the basketball team.

“Don’t overestimate your own capabilities.”

"A jumping guy with zero basketball skills, if he can beat the captain of the basketball team, I will quit the show on the spot."

"He is just a layman, he can't even dribble the ball, what's the point of a one-on-one fight."

Some viewers who can play basketball shook their heads and sighed.

The situation of this duel was just as they expected. Sakuragi couldn't even lift his head after being beaten. He was beaten 9-0 and couldn't touch the ball at all. However, Sakuragi's "magic operation" in defending Akagi once again stunned thousands of anime fans, and many of them laughed out loud!

Sakuragi actually pulled Akagi's pants off while defending!

He is a funny guy!

But no matter how much tricks he used, it was useless in the face of absolute strength, because Sakuragi couldn't even dribble the ball, and even kicked the ball with his feet, which is a move that only laymen would use.

In basketball, kicking the ball with your feet is a violation.

But just when everyone thought Sakuragi was bound to lose, Sakuragi suddenly recalled the slam dunk method that Haruko taught him that night. After grabbing the ball for the only time, he slammed the basketball into the backboard!

"Fuck!"

"What's going on!"

"Dunk yourself?!"

"Extreme talent!"

Sakuragi slammed the basketball into the backboard, then jumped high, caught the rebounding basketball, and slammed the basketball into the basket!

This is even a super dunk!!

...

With this amazing ball, the progress bar of the second episode of "Slam Dunk" has come to the end, and the rest of the content can only be caught up tomorrow.

"Oh my god! Sakuragi's talent is too invincible, 193 bloody dunk!"

"With such a good talent, it's impossible to learn basketball in a short time. It's a technical job."

"I don't know how Lao Zei will handle the plot, but now it seems that there is something. Rukawa, Akagi, and Sakuragi should be the three main players of the team."

"The basketball moves are portrayed so well. Lao Zei definitely understands basketball."

"Looking forward to it! It's too early to say whether it can be connected to "Attack on Titan" now."

"Slam Dunk" has attracted attention and discussion from many parties as soon as it was broadcast.

The overall animation style is relatively relaxed. For example, the part where Sakuragi directly pulled down Akagi's pants really made the audience laugh.

At present, it seems that the protagonist Sakuragi has no bad intentions, but it seems that he doesn't have much charm. On the contrary, Rukawa's handsome appearance attracts more anime fans.

However, the popularity of supporting roles is greater than that of the protagonists, which is not uncommon in Lao Zei's previous works.

For basketball themes, it is estimated that it is still a group portrait style.

The previous version of Slam Dunk was an anime broadcast in 1993, so both the basketball concept and the animation production were backward, after all, there was a gap of 40 years.

For example, the national competition episode of Slam Dunk was made into a movie and released many years later. In fact, there are many details in basketball tactics that keep up with the times. For example, the "closing door tactics" designed for Mitsui Shou in the movie, also known as the "elevator door tactics", is a modern basketball tactic that appeared in 1993, but it has not been widely used.

In simple terms, it is to use two teammates to cover the shooter of the team, and then the shooter comes out from between the two teammates to catch the ball, and the two teammates immediately "close the door" and block the teammates chasing the shooter "outside the door".

When Lin Qiu was drawing Slam Dunk, he also made a modern analysis of many basketball tactics in the plot.

Fortunately, Lin Qiu knows the sport of basketball very well, so it is not a difficult task.

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The products produced by Lao Zei must be fine products.

Although there are still few episodes and it is hard to tell what is going on, the audience can feel the rhythm and ideas of the plot.

It is estimated that the plot of the entire anime will revolve around the growth process of the basketball rookie "Sakuragi Hanamichi".

But does such an anime really have such a good plot effect?

Some professional anime clubs expressed doubts...

Because they have tried this method, but they all failed, and there are many problems. What's more, Lao Zei described the protagonist as a "problem boy" right from the start, which is even more surprising!

However, as long as it is an anime about Lao Zei and Changan, popularity is definitely not a problem.

Since the third episode, after officially entering the plot, the popularity of "Slam Dunk" has been steadily increasing.

Sakuragi wants to join the basketball team not because he loves basketball, but to please Haruko. Captain Akagi saw this and never agreed.

But Sakuragi cleans the basketball hall and wipes the basketball every day.

In addition, Akagi has been unable to enter the coveted national competition in the past two years in the basketball team because he has no good teammates. Sakuragi's strength, explosiveness and speed are extremely outstanding. With polishing, he will definitely be a good seedling.

Due to various reasons, Sakuragi officially joined the Xiangbei basketball team and became a first-year power forward!

At the same time as Sakuragi, there was also Rukawa Kaede, who was about the same height as Sakuragi and played as a small forward!

The main members of the Xiangbei basketball team are worth introducing, including the basketball manager Ayako.

The captain is the "gorilla" Akagi Takenori.

There is also the vice captain, "glasses boy" Mugure Kiminori.

The team coach is a chubby old grandfather named Anxi who wears glasses and is known as the "white-haired Buddha".

The team's goal has always been to win the national championship and dominate the country, but ideals are full and reality is very skinny.

The fact is that Shohoku has never broken out of Kanagawa Prefecture and stood on the stage of a national competition.

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"Wonderful!"

"Wonderful!"

"The old thief actually used this method to spend this necessary growth period with zero foundation!"

The episodes aired in two consecutive days once again made countless animation clubs suddenly realize.

After Sakuragi Hanamichi entered basketball, he had to perform basic exercises every day because he did not have any basic skills.

This plot itself is very boring, and it is also the biggest problem encountered by these animation agencies in creating realistic sports-themed animations before. However, in "Slam Dunk", they used a perfect way to deal with it, that is, " funny"!

This is not ordinary comedy, but nonsensical comedy.

The name Sakuragi Hanamichi is originally a funny character for a single-celled creature. No matter how funny it is, the audience will not be surprised.

But in addition to Sakuragi, Rukawa Kaede is also a single-celled organism, and he is kind of funny who doesn't know he is funny...

Every time he confronts and mocks Sakuragi, Rukawa Kaede, who has always been poor at speaking, turns out to be surprisingly fluent and complete in his sentences, with complex sentence structures...

Coupled with the "Gorilla" Akagi on the side, the entire series is serious where it should be serious and very relaxed where it should be funny!

You know, this is without the other two main players from Shohoku, Miyagi Ryota and Mitsui Hisashi.

These two are both funny guys...

Only when a team comes together will it cause countless jokes.

In this way, even if it is a boring training plot, the portrayal of the old thief and Chang'an can still make animation fans not want to miss every line and every scene.

The worldviews of "Demon Slayer" and "Giant" are full of disasters and survival, and no matter how you engage in daily life, it will cast a shadow.

But "Slam Dunk" is different, it seems really relaxing and comfortable!

Every day after work and school, I have a cup of Coke and watch two episodes of "Slam Dunk". I don't know how comfortable it is.

With the two first-year players Rukawa Kaede and Sakuragi Hanamichi joining the Shohoku basketball team, Shohoku was instantly injected with a different kind of vitality.

Rukawa Kaede's skills are not bad. He can shoot and shoot. He is about the same height as Sakuragi and has the same explosive power. He is handsome and can play. The only shortcoming at the moment is that he is a little "unique" in his playing and his work. I go my own way, so I am often criticized as "arrogant" and "self-centered".

The image of the protagonist Sakuragi Hanamichi is changing in the hearts of the audience unconsciously.

Although the basic skills are still poor, some basic movements can be completed, and many basketball fans question:

"What kind of help can a newbie bring to the game of basketball?"

The anime also gives a direct answer, that is:

"Get a rebound!"

Sakuragi's outstanding physical fitness and amazing jumping ability allow a layman Sakuragi to grab rebounds in front of a group of masters!

This is the most primitive jumping talent.

Although technical skills are highly valued on the basketball court, almost all of these jumping men are master rebounders!

"Slam Dunk" presents a perspective that is different from almost all previous basketball-themed animations -

"Whoever can control the rebound can control the game!!"

Rebounding has always been the top priority on the basketball court, but there has never been any work that has pushed the importance of rebounding to this point and used the protagonist's rebounding ability as the main perspective to advance the plot!

...(End of chapter)