A Wei's summary of life: A gorgeous and powerful newcomer drops from the sky, her childhood friend fights tooth and nail to win her over, and she's the only normal one.
Nakamori Yui is an ordinary student in Class 3-B at Tomioka Middle School in Kanagawa, and the basketball team's manager.
A model student with excellent grades and conduct, she's the good girl teachers and elders adore. A girl like her should be having a vibrant, exciting adolescence, but her life has always seemed dull and colorless to her. That's only because everyone around her seems to have stepped straight out of a sports manga, brimming with the kind of passion that makes your heart skip a beat.
The single-celled seaweed head next door is always chanting about beating the Big Three. He's devoted body and soul to tennis, competing overseas in fantasy-level matches at a young age. His motto seems to be: whether or not anyone provokes me, I'm going to provoke them.
The gentle boy at the hospital is always smiling and laughing, his smile like springtime. But the moment he steps onto a tennis court, he becomes a decisive and domineering ruler, aiming to win the national title three years in a row and conquer the world.
That once-a-year kid from another family got injured, went abroad for treatment, and somehow ended up on the path to becoming a pro. From then on, he became everyone's untouchable, beloved ideal, no matter how many people challenged him.
Living in the narrow gap between generations crowded with prodigies, A Wei watches her talented peers, who are perfectly ordinary until they pick up a racket and become burning hot. She quietly turns her attention from tennis, where players can take down anyone they meet, to the basketball court, where people are passionate in a perfectly normal way.
But the sleepyhead, who is basically an amoeba, pours all his enthusiasm into basketball. Two hundred shots a day are just the basics. Apart from basketball, his youth consists almost entirely of test papers with barely passing grades and sleeping.
After working herself to the bone as the team's mom, the genuinely *ordinary student* Yui still has to rush off to cram school. Looking at the homework and mystery novel in her hands, she has an epiphany: it's not that everyone else is too passionate. It's that her youth is far too normal.
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One day, during morning practice, A Wei waved a paper fan as she prodded her own team captain.
"Rukawa, why can't you shoot a three-pointer that blazes and shines like the Wind, Forest, Fire, and Mountain technique, or one that blows like the wind? Why can't you take away your opponents' five senses while you're blocking them?"
Rukawa Kaede gave his manager a blank look and couldn't be bothered to answer.
Their captain didn't even have a special move. No wonder Tomioka Middle School couldn't make it to the national middle school basketball tournament.
A Wei sighed with concern, then lowered her expectations. "Then how about you learn an unpredictable serve?"
Rukawa's dot-like eyes glanced at the seaweed head furiously hitting tennis balls against the wall, at the pile of irregular marks left on it, and then at the single hoop on the basketball stand.
Then he put a hand on his manager's head and sighed in resignation. "Idiot."
The seaweed head, who had just hit a ball, heard him and turned around furiously. "Who are you calling an idiot, Rukawa?"
The next moment, a tennis ball rebounded off the wall and smacked him right in the back of the head. He crouched down, clutching his head and wailing.
Rukawa sighed again. He couldn't help being constantly surrounded by idiots.
*** Content warnings:
1. An ensemble cast, with few games shown. This is a slow-paced story about the everyday growth of teenagers, with no supernatural powers.
2. Rikkai and Rukawa are the main focus. The other Princes make few appearances. In high school, there will be a few troublesome kids from Shohoku.
3. The middle school arc follows the three of Churyu, Kirihara, and Sanada as they repeatedly suffer setbacks and stick together. The high school arc focuses on A Wei's growth.
4. The high school arc will include youthful confusion and tender, ambiguous feelings. Romance only appears in the adult bonus chapters.
Theme: You only get one youth, and everyone can make it wonderful.
Kirihara obviously likes Xiao Wei, but Yukimura also treats Xiao Wei differently
My friend from junior high school is getting married on Shi Yi, and I'm the bridesmaid hahaha
"Knowing the slightest bit of this sentence" is a big bug for the author~ meaning
Slam Dunk is really a childhood memory
Yukimura has the right not to accept it. Although Tachikawa sincerely likes him, it's really annoying. I hope he won't be paired with Yukimura in the end.
By the way, who is cp?
Xiaochi who wants to be recognized is really like a pitiful puppy in the rain, so cute and loved
I would like to ask, is the plot involving the Internet King the original?
Chi Ye is so cute. Cute puppy.