Missed It: Slam Dunk to Viz



News that Viz has licensed Takehiko Inoue's Slam Dunk interests me on several levels, none of which are probably legit:

* I would love for a sports manga featuring a sport where people sweat to actually get over in a significant way with audiences, and I'm not sure why I feel that way. Viz has a much better chance of making this happen than the title's first North American license-holder.

* To my mind, this is the first big do-over of the modern manga era, meaning this series didn't do all that well with its initial rights holder.

* I may be wrong about this, but I seem to remember that Slam Dunk had a crucial role in the development of North American manga in that Tokyopop's Stuart Levy was inspired in part by his enjoyment of the then-popular animated series version of this manga to pursue publishing such material.
 
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