Inoue, Takehiko

"Vince's Tokyo Tigers take on the Chofu Dreams in the Tokyo Wheelchair Basketball Tournament. Before the tournament begins, Coach Yasuda makes Vince (who took his nickname from NBA baller Vince Carter) an offer to join the Dreams, a much superior team to the Tigers. Meanwhile, Nomiya's plan for redemption gets a setback, and the Tigers get a new addition, a grieving young man named Ryo Mizushima who misses his friends." -- website Comic Book Bin.

"Takahashi has an awkward reunion with his father, who has been absent from his life for the past eight years. As father and son struggle with the difficulties of Takahashi's adjustment to life in a wheelchair, they must also come face to face with how much damage was done to Takahashi as a young boy facing the reality of growing up in a broken home." -- from publisher's web site.

Paraplegic and basketball enthusiast Hisanobu Takahashi tries to cope with his demanding physical therapy and the reality that his life is no longer easy.

"Meet Kiyohiko Togawa, a hard-edged, no nonsense wheelchair basketball athlete with a Spartan work ethic and a keen sense of competition. Long before he ever picked up a ball, Kiyohiko was just a skinny little kid in middle school barely beginning to discover his potential to become a track star until a vicious bout with cancer cut off his track career far too soon.".

Shohoku us counting on Kaede Rukawa to make a difference when they are trailing Kainan by fifteen points and the strategy is working until Captain Akagi twists his ankle, shifting the pressure to Sakuragi to step in and save the game.

The much-anticipated game between Ryonan High and Kainan High, in which Kainan has taken the lead and a key player from Ryonan has gotten into foul trouble, has gotten exciting, but the Shohoku team leaves early when they hear that Coach Anzai has collapsed and is in the hospital.

Akagi gets his wish when he and Shohoku are paired against Kainan, the "Kings, " but the skills that have brought Kainan to Nationals sixteen years in a row may cause Akagi to regret his desire.

The Shohoku High team pushes hard to win the game that is their last chance at going to Nationals and they are hanging onto a one point lead in spite of Mitsuo's collapse. As Ryonan keeps the pressure on, Sakuragi steps up defensively, Shohoku's final hope of staying in the tournament.