Given that it preceded Slam Dunk, it’s odd this similarly long running basketball manga full of pretty boys took so long to come to the cartoons. Apparently this is the Initial D of basketball anime, being made by the same production house, similarly low budget and full of Eurobeat. It was released in the US as Hoop Days.

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