Still, with an undecided title, on August 16, 2021, the committee of the new SLAM DUNK Movie posted another Twitter update informing about the newly opened accounts on Facebook and Instagram. The writer and illustrator of the manga, Takehiko Inoue (@inouetake) quoted a tweet with the teaser video adding stronger reconfirmation to its officialness. The author announced the new Toei Animation movie on January 7, 2021, and the premiere will be in autumn 2022.
The staff must have considered how a great deal of Slam Dunk fans is active on the previously-mentioned SNS, they expressed their thanks to people who will be supporting the upcoming installment on Facebook—the world's most widely used social media platform. After Toei Animation channel's fresh upload of the teaser video heard with fast-paced and energetic background music, on August 13, later it reached number 1 in the section of Popular on YouTube - Japan. Commonly, fans of any Japanese series would discover initial updates on Twitter as Japan, where the popular manga originated, is the second country to have the largest number of Twitter users (according to Statista, one of the most reliable statistics websites).
The manga exists with 31 volumes, it accumulated sales of over 100 million copies worldwide while the TV anime adaptation, with 101 episodes, came along with a total of four films (overview of each film): SLAM DUNK film (March 12, 1994), SLAM DUNK: National Champions, Sakuragi Hanamichi! (July 9, 1994), SLAM DUNK: Shohoku's Greatest Challenge! (March 4, 1995), and SLAM DUNK: Howling Basketman Spirit!! (July 15, 1995). These films were included in a DVD box released on December 10, 2004.
Since we are still months away from the release date, why don't we redo the marathon of enjoying the world's best-selling basketball series?
Slam Dunk anime has been licensed in different regions and it is currently available for streaming with multi-language subtitles on iQIYI in South East Asia. And aficionados of video games can hop in the joy of its several developed games, one of them is the newest mobile game that can be downloaded from the Apple App Store and Android Google Play. For more information, visit the game website.
SLAM DUNK ranked 9th in ORICON NEWS（オリコンニュース） chart of Top-Selling Media Franchises in Japan: 2018 which covered sales from different forms of the product (Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, music CDs, printed novels and manga, games, film screening, digital downloads, and other media sales forms).
What's more, the author heartily launched the ever-progressing Slam Dunk scholarship program starting a long time ago.
It serves as an appreciation for American basketball and encourages Japanese players aiming to compete in the United States as professionals or university-level players (also funded by contributions from IT Planning Co., Ltd., and Shueisha Co., Ltd.). More information on the scholarship with Takehiko Inoue's message can be visited on the SLAM DUNK SCHOLARSHIP website.
To savor the wait, fans of the series can also get inspiration from Takehiko Inoue's another basketball-themed manga called REAL (https://www.viz.com/real) having prime characters on wheelchairs up for challenges.
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