Before the beginning of the series, he was the MVP in his final year at Takeishi Junior High. They meet again in the last match of the Kanagawa Interhigh Tournament, where he offers to mark Mitsui personally in a box-and-one. Like Riki Takato of Kainan, Domoto also has a tough training regimen, which has motivated his key players such as Sawakita and Masashi Kawata to have previously skipped sessions. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is the central bank of the Republic of the Philippines. He and Akagi are the only two players who have been on the team for all three years, as Mitsui left during their first year, and other players quit the team because they found Akagi's training regimen to be too strenuous. Eiji Sawakita (沢北栄治, Sawakita Eiji) is the small forward and also the ace of Sannoh and best all-round player in Japanese high school basketball. Rukawa kaede … However, Anzai puts up with Sakuragi's antics. Although he hasn't played in a single game, Kuwata can be a reliable person for the team. Hanamichi Sakuragi (桜木 花道, Sakuragi Hanamichi) is the main protagonist of Slam Dunk, serving as Shohoku's power forward. !
He also makes some key mistakes in the game against Shohoku because he underestimates both Sakuragi and Kogure. Soichiro Jin (神 宗一郎, Jin Sōichirō) is the shooting guard of Kainan and one of the best sharpshooters in Kanagawa, matched only by Mitsui. Haruko often appears at matches together with Sakuragi's cohorts and her two best friends, Fujii and Matsui. [1] With the series, Inoue wants to demonstrate the feelings of an athlete such as their thoughts when they win, lose or improve at their sport. Hanagata is known for his fade away shot, which is difficult to block. This was seen during practice, when he challenged his own teammates with an intimidating and menacing look.
any Comic Vine content. Later when he went home, he found his dad lying unconscious. It was revealed in the anime that he is inspired to become better at basketball because of Sakuragi and Rukawa's success as newcomers in the team. I personally am fond of collecting old coins. Rukawa is a scoring machine and once he heats up, it is very hard to stop him. In the original English Dub of the anime, Rukawa's given name becomes 'Kaeda' instead of 'Kaede' in which most of the casts in the English Dub calls this name. Still, Taoka is happy with his current team and believes that out of all the teams he has coached, it has trained the hardest. In some way, Sendoh also contributed Rukawa's growth as a basketball player: Coach Anzai pointed out to Rukawa, that he is below Sendoh, causing Rukawa to think about his playing style. Greeting cards, journals, notebooks, postcards, and more. This was shown when he challenged Hisashi Mitsui, and later Sendoh on 1 on 1 game, vowing to never lose to anyone. However, Coach Anzai believes he is still weaker than Sendoh. Anzai had given him the courage to win in the Junior High tournament by encouraging him during the last seconds of the match. This allows Sakuragi to be in the right place at the right time to intercept more experienced players. He is voiced by Toshiyuki Morikawa. This is shown during the practice match between freshmen against 2nd and 3rd years, especially against Takenori Akagi. However, their major weakness is their weak bench, and as a result must rely completely on their starting lineup. He also shares a similar level of arrogance with Sakuragi, saying that he is the number one point guard in the prefecture, though popular opinion among characters in the series ranks him just behind Shinichi Maki of Kainan and Kenji Fujima of Shoyo.
Despite being merely a first-year high school player, he is the undisputed ace of Shohoku's team. The second time, is during the match against Sannoh, when Sakuragi crashed into the table going after the loose ball saving it from out of bounds and Rukawa praised Sakuragi for saving the ball and told him that he looks very awful after the latter seemed unconscious, showing no sign of mouvements after his crash. During Mitsui's attack on the basketball team, he is matched up with Kaede Rukawa, giving him a bloody head wound with a broken mop head, but in turn gets knocked out by Rukawa. He is voiced by Koji Tsujitani. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat.