School Life

Blue Box (Japanese: アオのハコ, Hepburn: Ao no Hako) is a Japanese romantic comedy and sports manga series written and illustrated by Kouji Miura. It has been serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump since April 2021, with its chapters collected into eleven tankōbon volumes as of August 2023.

I’ve got zero interest in real-life girls! My waifu, Liliel, exists purely in 2D!” Or so thought Manga Club President Okumura, until one day…could it be? Standing right before him, Liliel in the flesh? Shatter the boundary between dimensions in this electrifying cosplay comedy!

Scrawny high school student Hobin Yoo is probably the last guy you’d expect to star in a NewTube channel that revolves around fighting. But after following some advice from a mysterious NewTube channel, Hobin is soon knocking out guys stronger than him and raking in more money than he could have ever dreamed of. Can Hobin keep this up, or will he eventually meet his match?

Slam Dunk (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue. 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. It tells the story of a basketball team from Shōhoku High School in the Shōnan area of Japan. 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. An anime feature film, titled The First Slam Dunk, was released in Japan in December 2022. Slam Dunk has 170 million copies in circulation, making it the seventh best-selling manga series in history. In 1994, it received the 40th Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category. In 2010, Inoue received special commendations from the Japan Basketball Association for helping popularize basketball in Japan.