I’m finally over Slam Dunk. I’ve scoured the pirate,s lair in Quiapo hoping for some closure on this anime that has so fascinated me. I didn’t find any that could bring forth what I needed so I had to resort to alternative means. Instead of the moving animation, I had to settle for the manga version. At least I now know what happened to the Shohoku basketball team in their quest for national supremacy. I’m not gonna be an ass and reveal the ending here– but if anything, the ending was very fitting.
Slam Dunk is just one of those animes (Fighting Ippo, Prince of Tennis, One Piece, to cite a few) I’ve watched that left me hanging. I don’t really have much cause for complaint as the anime DVDs I bought were the bootlegged kind. Still it would have been nice if at the end of watching these DVDs one gets a feeling of finality and not left wondering what happens in the end. For sure the manga version provides the full story, but as far as entertainment value is concerned, drawings can barely compare with its moving and talking counterpart.
But c’est la vie, we take what we can get, even if it’s only partial entertainment.
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Honestly, I like the Slam Dunk manga more than the anime. It’s not that I don’t understand why you’d prefer moving pictures to still pictures, it’s that the manga had better artwork and had more attention to human anatomy. Yeah, maybe that’s a corny reason.
I also liked the manga ending very much.
Anyway, if you’re a fan of Takehiko Inoue, he has a few more mangas worth checking out. Vagabond retells the story of the legendary swordsman Musashi, while Real tells a tragic tale of basketball on wheelchairs, where people fall, lose hope, but rise again.
I’ve watched Slam Dunk before but not really addicted to it. I prefer animations like Code Geass, Fate Stay Night, et cetera. But the Slam Dunk manga was good. Read a few.
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