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GATSU
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I'm curious to know their heights.
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posterior_praiser
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Just judging from the photos they look to be quite tall. @.@ I'm a shorty myself though so anthing above 5'8" is tall for me  !!!!
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Banken
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Jimmy is pretty clearly half black.
They're probably within the top 99th percentile in Japan, just from looking at their portraits.[/i] |
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strahl
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Viz media publishes slam dunk? when? where??
I haven't seen a volume anywhere... |
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braves
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I believe the first volume comes out in September. It's being serialized in Shonen Jump. |
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ibmman
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That's kind of funny, been to that school before for cross-country races (like 5 years ago). Their XC course was a crazy mountain. Same athletic league as the school I went to.
Pretty good school, hope they do well. Not a bad deal, and even if they don't end up in basketball, it'll look good on a resume. |
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GATSU
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Banken:
Not necessarily. There are darker-skinned Japanese on the more rural islands in the nation. Although I guess you could argue he is, if he's taking an American first name. But I'm wondering if that isn't a trend with the newer generation of kids. I also heard about this brother who had Japanese roots, and he could apparently speak if fluently and even sing enka, and you wouldn't know it, just by looking at him. |
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Banken
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Ok, I take that back; there's a fairly strong chance he's got black heritage... Having lived in Japan I'm fully aware of the spectrum of skin tones, so this is just my educated guess. Not to mention Jimmy isn't a very common or even flatterning Japanese name, since it can sound like the word for "plain/bland."
not trying to imply that it helped him earn a B-ball scholarship, though.  (but it probably wouldn't hurt)
IIRC, the main character from Slam Dunk was over six feet and had hands big enough to grip a basketball with one hand (I can't even do that and I've got fairly large hands)... I just find it ironic that the manga basically makes the character's path to basketball by being well above average in size (like some random side character) rather than commitment and effort (which is more typical for main characters in sports anime). |
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Siegel Clyne
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"The First Black Enka Singer," American born and raised JERO is three fourths African American and one fourth Japanese. His love for enka music is due to his grandmother, who came to the US from Japan. There are more ethnically and racially mixed people in Japan than one may think. A number of them are in the entertainment field. Off the top of my head... Singer Thelma Aoyama is three quarters Japanese and one quarter Trinidadian and Tobagan. Her grandfather came from Trinidad. She looks part black. (The most famous Trinidadian American, perhaps, is legendary basketball center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.) Okinawan born singer Namie Amuro is one quarter Italian. Vocalist LISA, who gained fame with m-flo, is of Japanese and Colombian heritage. Singer Olivia Lufkin (OLIVIA) was born in Japan to a Caucasian American father and an Okinawan Japanese mother. Actress, model, and singer Anna Tsuchiya was born in Japan to a Russian American father and a Japanese mother. Actress Rie Miyazawa was born in Japan to a Dutch father and a Japanese mother. Actress, model, and musician Erika Sawajiri was born in Japan to a Japanese father and a half Japanese, half French-Algerian mother. Singer MIYAVI was born in Japan to a second generation Zainichi Korean father and a Japanese mother. Singer Crystal Kay was born in Japan to an African American father and a third generation Zainichi Korean mother. Voice actress-singer Megumi Nakajima (Ranka Lee in Macross Frontier) was born in Japan to a Japanese father and a Filipina mother. And so on. |
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reanimator
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What fascinates me about this is that Inoue's passion for basketball drives him to do things outside of his professional realm. Those Japanese kids are lucky to have good education and other possible success.
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