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.

One peaceful yet so humid evening, I'm trying to search anything about animé, don't get me wrong here, I'm not really into that stuff... anymore! ;-) Well, I came across with an article claiming that there's a girl who pulls some serious make-up sorcery to appear somehow, just like an anime character. Meet Anastasiya Shpagina, Ukranian, she's 19 years of age as of this writing year 2014, 1.58 meters tall, weighs just 39 kilos and is trying to lose one more in order to look just right. Yes, she's taking this stuff pretty much seriously. She has even taken the name Fukkacumi, to sound more Japanese. Due to her popularity, Anastasiya Shpagina appeared on a lot of TV shows there in Ukrain as well as being interviewed by various Ukrainian newspapers. On one interview, she admitted that a lot of people are freaked out by her look s when they see her on the streets of Odessa. However, she loves bumping into Japanese tourists, some of them try to talk to her, b

I am not that young, though I am not that old to have watched the Manga Series Slum Dunk. A lot of people is being fascinated with the game of basketball. Almost everyone knows how to play the game. Maybe, just maybe, NBA really popularized the sports. Apparently, one story caught my attention, and surely, it is really worth to tell ;-) Slam Dunk (スラムダンク Suramu Danku?) is a sports-themed manga series written by Takehiko Inoue about a basketball team from Shōhoku High School. It was first serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan from 1990 to 1996 and had also been adapted into an anime series by Toei Animation which had been broadcast worldwide, enjoying much popularity particularly in Japan, several other Asian countries and Europe. Inoue later used basketball as a central theme in two subsequent manga titles: Buzzer Beater and Real. In 2010, Inoue received special commendations from the Japan Basketball Association for helping popularize basketball in Japan.