One popular Japanese sports Manga series is Slam Dunk. I remember when I was watching this via free local broadcasting here in the Philippines, I need to hurry back home from school to catch the show as it is broadcasted here late afternoon on a weekday. I have enjoyed watching this series and now, they are trying to make a movie out of it, this makes a lot of fans excited. Just so you know, according to Wiki, Slam Dunk is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue. It tells the story of a basketball team from Shōhoku High School in the Shōnan area of Japan. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from October 1990 to June 1996, with the chapters collected into 31 tankōbon volumes. The manga was adapted into an anime television series by Toei Animation which aired from October 1993 to March 1996 and has been broadcast worldwide, enjoying much popularity particularly in Japan, several other Asian countries and Europe.