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Slam Dunk [スラムダンク] #8
Slam Dunk, Vol. 8
186pages. 17x12x1cm. Broché.
186 pages, Paperback
First published June 10, 1992
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Takehiko Inoue
315 books1,525 followersTakehiko Inoue (井上雄彦) is a Japanese manga artist, best known for Slam Dunk and Vagabond.
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May 25, 2023
A lot of secrets about the character Hisashi Mitsui are revealed in this volume. The twist that is revealed was unexpected. It promises more complex relationships between characters in future volumes.
July 14, 2022
What the hell, I can't stop crying!!
Anyway, welcome back, Mitsui! Also, loved the parallelism of Akagi and Mitsui to Sakuragi and Rukawa: brute forces and basketball geniuses.
The only thing that separates Rukawa from Mitsui is that: Rukawa is kinda indifferent if he wants to. Mitsui is too absorbed by all the hails and praises he received that he is overwhelmed when faced with a brute force like Akagi. With him so hopeless and injured and seeing Akagi and the rest of the Shohoku enjoying the tournament, he felt that he ins't needed anymore. He definitely stayed in the past.
Anyway, this was so touching! I swear my lips quivered when I saw Mitsui crying to Coach Anzai. Also, such a beautiful boy!! Team Shohoku is complete!!
Anyway, welcome back, Mitsui! Also, loved the parallelism of Akagi and Mitsui to Sakuragi and Rukawa: brute forces and basketball geniuses.
The only thing that separates Rukawa from Mitsui is that: Rukawa is kinda indifferent if he wants to. Mitsui is too absorbed by all the hails and praises he received that he is overwhelmed when faced with a brute force like Akagi. With him so hopeless and injured and seeing Akagi and the rest of the Shohoku enjoying the tournament, he felt that he ins't needed anymore. He definitely stayed in the past.
Anyway, this was so touching! I swear my lips quivered when I saw Mitsui crying to Coach Anzai. Also, such a beautiful boy!! Team Shohoku is complete!!
September 24, 2018
The team is now complete. I think the Miyagi and Mitsui arc are just okay, necessary stories to complete Shohoku.
February 19, 2023
Incredible.
Volume 8 takes the readers into the past and introduces them to the back story of Mitsui, a journey ending in redemption, after loss, jealousy and self hatred. Well written and amazingly drawn.
Volume 8 takes the readers into the past and introduces them to the back story of Mitsui, a journey ending in redemption, after loss, jealousy and self hatred. Well written and amazingly drawn.
January 26, 2018
What starts being another fight, with Mito against Mitsui and Hanamichi against Tetsuo ends up being one of the most touching moments in the manga, one that reinforces the idea that we can change, that there are reasons behind our behavior, and that our environment, socialization and expectations have a big impact in how we behave and what decisions we take.
Hanamichi is having zero problems against Tetsuo. However, Mitsui is not giving up, and he will continue fighting till Kogure comes and confronts him, telling everyone why Mitsui became the person he is nowadays. Inoue does it with lots of flashbacks that tell us how Mitsui joined Shohoku's basketball team and what happened afterwards. The basketball moments are stretched thin, but the funny moments, the quiet and mindful ones and all the character development is top notch. And the ending of the volume is an amazing moment, one that will moist the reader's eyes. Inoue knows that he has a jewel in Mitsui, and he does his best to flesh him out and make him a real human being, not a two-dimensional character.
And that is the stuff of great stories.
8.5/10
(Original Japanese Version)
Hanamichi is having zero problems against Tetsuo. However, Mitsui is not giving up, and he will continue fighting till Kogure comes and confronts him, telling everyone why Mitsui became the person he is nowadays. Inoue does it with lots of flashbacks that tell us how Mitsui joined Shohoku's basketball team and what happened afterwards. The basketball moments are stretched thin, but the funny moments, the quiet and mindful ones and all the character development is top notch. And the ending of the volume is an amazing moment, one that will moist the reader's eyes. Inoue knows that he has a jewel in Mitsui, and he does his best to flesh him out and make him a real human being, not a two-dimensional character.
And that is the stuff of great stories.
8.5/10
(Original Japanese Version)
June 24, 2018
4.25 stars
Fight is over and hoo boy, what an ending.
Review to follow
Fight is over and hoo boy, what an ending.
Review to follow
November 20, 2018
I cry every time i read the last part in the volume 😭😭💔🔥🔥🔥
August 24, 2020
I dont know why, but I love Mitsui< 3
February 15, 2023
mitsui maravilhoso.
May 8, 2023
I WANT TO PLAY BASKETBALL😭😭😭😭😭🙌
August 7, 2023
It was good.
April 2, 2021
What a rough and brutal fight! Surely didn't expect Sakuragi to be that strong! Slay me! Someone who actually does something lol.
Is Mitchi going to join the basketball club? Let's see how it'll turn out. Interesting. Very interesting.
Is Mitchi going to join the basketball club? Let's see how it'll turn out. Interesting. Very interesting.
July 9, 2018
Many fans of Slam Dunk love this volume because there was a famous scene that the end of this manga. "When you give up, that's when the game is over". It is Anzai's line. I love this scene. By the way I could understand about Mitsui's background. He used to join basketball club and played with Akagi and so on. He might be coming soon. I am looking forward to his coming.
April 11, 2019
Slam Dunk, Vol. 8 continues where the previous tankōbon left off and contains the next nine chapters (63–71) of the on-going manga series.
Hisashi Mitsui's gang is defeated just as Takenori Akagi arrives at the gym and confronts him. Kiminobu Kogure then explains that Mitsui was a basketball most valuable player from Takeshi Junior High who joined Shohoku out of his respect and admiration for Mitsuyoshi Anzai, the coach.
In his first practice match, Mitsui joined Kogure in facing Akagi, who was also a first year student. Although Mitsui was very skilled at making three-point shots, Akagi surpassed him with his defense and slam dunks. However, as the match continued, Mitsui sustained a critical injury to his left knee. Wanting to return to play basketball, he left the hospital early to return to the basketball court but he re-injured the knee more severely.
Even after being completely healed, Mitsui decided to quit the team. He became jealous of Ryota Miyagi's success and then returned with his gang to provoke a fight with the basketball team to get them kicked out of the Kanagawa Prefecture Interhigh Tournament due to fighting. Mitsui tries to attack Kogure, but is shocked when Anzai appears, and confesses that he wants to play basketball again.
This tankōbon is written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue. For the most part, I really liked the direction of the narrative. It shows more of the backstory to the other members of the basketball team – in particular Hisashi Mitsui. The dynamics of the older team members are fleshed out more and makes for a very interesting team.
All in all, Slam Dunk, Vol. 8 is a wonderful continuation to a series that seems intriguing and I cannot wait to read more.
Hisashi Mitsui's gang is defeated just as Takenori Akagi arrives at the gym and confronts him. Kiminobu Kogure then explains that Mitsui was a basketball most valuable player from Takeshi Junior High who joined Shohoku out of his respect and admiration for Mitsuyoshi Anzai, the coach.
In his first practice match, Mitsui joined Kogure in facing Akagi, who was also a first year student. Although Mitsui was very skilled at making three-point shots, Akagi surpassed him with his defense and slam dunks. However, as the match continued, Mitsui sustained a critical injury to his left knee. Wanting to return to play basketball, he left the hospital early to return to the basketball court but he re-injured the knee more severely.
Even after being completely healed, Mitsui decided to quit the team. He became jealous of Ryota Miyagi's success and then returned with his gang to provoke a fight with the basketball team to get them kicked out of the Kanagawa Prefecture Interhigh Tournament due to fighting. Mitsui tries to attack Kogure, but is shocked when Anzai appears, and confesses that he wants to play basketball again.
This tankōbon is written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue. For the most part, I really liked the direction of the narrative. It shows more of the backstory to the other members of the basketball team – in particular Hisashi Mitsui. The dynamics of the older team members are fleshed out more and makes for a very interesting team.
All in all, Slam Dunk, Vol. 8 is a wonderful continuation to a series that seems intriguing and I cannot wait to read more.
July 16, 2020
Sakuragi enters the fray against Mitsui and the fight comes to a close. It turns out Mitsui has a history not just with Miyagi but with the basketball team as a whole, leading in to some backstory about the team and what characters like Akagi were like when they were an inexperienced first year like Sakuragi currently is. The general pacing of the chapter is a constant switch between Sakuragi getting his hands dirty and some flashbacks to a couple years earlier, sometimes switching several times within the span of a single chapters or even a single page. It can be difficult to follow the narrative sometimes, this volume is essential to understanding more about the Shohoku basketball team as a whole. Akagi gets some well-needed backstory that brings his frustration with Sakuragi to new light, Coach Anzai has some words of wisdom after his mostly silent (or just chuckling) appearances so far, and just as Miyagi served as a point of comparison to Sakuragi in the previous volume now we have Mitsui acting as a sort of comparison to other players like Rukawa. What was once a group of individual basketball players is now becoming a tight ensemble cast full of complex interpersonal dynamics, with varying personalities and skill levels being shared (or in opposition) between the members. The volume ends on a gut punch of an emotional blow that marks one of the high points the series thus far, even if it took two volumes of painful fist-fighting to bring it out.
July 12, 2021
At the time of this review, I have read volumes 1-17 back-to-back. As always, I will try to only focus on the current review.
The fight with Mitsui and his crew continues. Once again, I thought this was ridiculous, due to the fighting. Yet, we had a Mitsui flashback, which was emotional. Also can we take a little time to appreciate Coach Anzai? Coach Anzai barely says anything yet he impacts his players so much! With Coach Anzai's mere presence he changed everything at the end of this volume, because Mitsui remembers these words from Coach Anzai: "Don't give up...Cleave to hope till the very end...When you give up, THAT'S when the game is over." Those are words to live by and not just for sports. Pages 186-187 were so touching an emotionally charged. Look at Mitsui's eyes!
Verdict: Oh! What a volume!
The fight with Mitsui and his crew continues. Once again, I thought this was ridiculous, due to the fighting. Yet, we had a Mitsui flashback, which was emotional. Also can we take a little time to appreciate Coach Anzai? Coach Anzai barely says anything yet he impacts his players so much! With Coach Anzai's mere presence he changed everything at the end of this volume, because Mitsui remembers these words from Coach Anzai: "Don't give up...Cleave to hope till the very end...When you give up, THAT'S when the game is over." Those are words to live by and not just for sports. Pages 186-187 were so touching an emotionally charged. Look at Mitsui's eyes!
Verdict: Oh! What a volume!
February 27, 2022
The big brawl morphs into a backstory for the leader of the thugs, Mitsui. He was an up-and-coming player who could have played for any team but wanted Shohoku because the coach inspired him. A persistent injury kept him out and he takes his anger out on the team. Once the coach finally makes it in to the court, Mitsui breaks down and asks to be back on the team. Can Shohoku have three hotheads on one team?
While the backstory made Mitsui more sympathetic, it wasn't enough for me to justify or excuse his bad behavior. Also, it feels like adding more drama for the sake of adding more drama, not as a natural outcome of the storyline. This manga is skating on very thin ice, I'm not sure I'm going to stick with it.
Not recommended.
While the backstory made Mitsui more sympathetic, it wasn't enough for me to justify or excuse his bad behavior. Also, it feels like adding more drama for the sake of adding more drama, not as a natural outcome of the storyline. This manga is skating on very thin ice, I'm not sure I'm going to stick with it.
Not recommended.
December 26, 2021
Slam dunk is growing into one of my new favorite things. In this volume, Takehiko Inoue provides exciting backstory for a new character in the series: Hisashi Mitsui. In doing so, Inoue naturally makes Shohoku a formidable team by bringing in more ace players who have been away from the game because of "distractions" or poor life choices. Through this backstory, the main story of Slam Dunk moves beyond a simple story about Sakuragi Basketball Man who pursues a girl by joining the team to a story with other kinds of tension, like a star player struggling to deal with injury and transition as he moves from junior high to high school.
March 16, 2024
This was such an emotionally charged volume and what starts off as delinquents/gang fighting, it becomes a masterpiece on character building and showing the love for the game and omg Mitsui became such a fascinating character once you get to know his backstory and his love for the game and that last page when he is crying ugh made me emotional and this is just perfect but also in the beginning how powerful is Sakuragi lol?! Loved seeing my boy go full super saiyan there and redemption of this guy and the team becoming so interesting now!!
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October 3, 2020If you give up, the game will end there. "" Mr. Anzai ... !! I want to play basketball ..... "It's a volume that will leave a name in history. Precocious players always hit the wall. It's a reality that even players who were active in minibuses and junior high school are buried in high school. Before they got over that wall, they were caught in a different wall called injury. It's Hisashi Mitsui. SLAM DUNK is also a work that sends ale to people who have given up their dreams like Mitsui.
January 21, 2019
One of the more iconic of sports manga. It's the first series where I actually both read the manga and watched the anime. It has flawed protagonists, growing up pains, colourful characters, and beautiful meaningful relationships, all neatly wrapped around the context of college basketball.
September 24, 2020
4.5
Lo mejor sin dudarlo, la historia a ido poco a poco creciendo. Que el autor se tomara el tiempo de retratar la lesiones y como estas afectan a los deportistas dice mucho de él como persona.
Y bueno, ya que está todo el equipo unido ¿Podemos, ya, empezar con los partidos oficiales?
Lo mejor sin dudarlo, la historia a ido poco a poco creciendo. Que el autor se tomara el tiempo de retratar la lesiones y como estas afectan a los deportistas dice mucho de él como persona.
Y bueno, ya que está todo el equipo unido ¿Podemos, ya, empezar con los partidos oficiales?
May 23, 2021
Why you do this Inoue.
Why do I care about Mitsui now ;_;
but still
Mitsui this was all your fault. This is all on you. Also Sakuragi beating up that other big guy is SO SATISFYING.
Also sakuragi again yells a trans slur here. FUCKIN HELL SAKURAGI YOU PUNK.
Why do I care about Mitsui now ;_;
but still
Mitsui this was all your fault. This is all on you. Also Sakuragi beating up that other big guy is SO SATISFYING.
Also sakuragi again yells a trans slur here. FUCKIN HELL SAKURAGI YOU PUNK.
May 18, 2022
Gostando da introdução do Mitsui porque é inesperado ele ser preparado pra entrar pro time justamente por ele parecer só mais um vilão idiota de começo, mas ir ficando um personagem cada vez mais complexo. Baita volume.
December 30, 2023
In this volume we continue on with the fight.
After that we get the backstory of Mitsui.
His backstory is well written and it made me feel bad for him.
Because he was just a child with Big dreams.
The moment of Mitsui crying on the floor to coach Anzai touched my heart.
After that we get the backstory of Mitsui.
His backstory is well written and it made me feel bad for him.
Because he was just a child with Big dreams.
The moment of Mitsui crying on the floor to coach Anzai touched my heart.
May 15, 2025
Wow. The way this volume got me to go from hating Mitsui to feeling emotional about this lost soul was fantastic. An extremely well crafted and emotional volume that focuses on backstory to complete the Shohoku squad.
February 6, 2017
This series is amazing and this volume doesn't disappoint! This series is quickly becoming my favourite sports series ^_^
January 13, 2018
Me emocioné hasta las lágrimas. Oh, Mitsui!
February 6, 2018
My favorite bebe is here. Mitchi!
I cried as always.
I cried as always.
September 19, 2018
La entrada de 'Gori' y muchos secretos revelarán la última de las cinco piezas de Shohoku.
¡Qué increíble dibuja Takehiko Inoue!
¡Qué increíble dibuja Takehiko Inoue!
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