Kanagawa was Japan's strongest prefecture for sports, and it showed up in all kinds of Japanese manga.
The best-known example was Slam Dunk. In the world of basketball, the only member of the strongest four that wasn't from Kanagawa was Sannoh Kogyo, which was from Akita Prefecture.
The other three of the nation's top four—Kainan, Ryonan, and Shoyo—were all from Kanagawa. Even Shohoku, the manga's main characters' school, was from Kanagawa.
Kanagawa could be called a proving ground for all kinds of sports schools.
Any team that managed to fight its way out of there had to be pretty strong.
Of course, this wasn't the world of Slam Dunk, but Kanagawa and the Tokyo area were still like one huge crucible.
Hundreds of teams fought tooth and nail there, and only then did the terrifying monster known as Rikkai Dai finally emerge.
Even in the original story, among the future top four teams in the country, nearly all of them came from the great melting pot that was Tokyo. Only Shitenhoji was from Osaka.
Compared to them, teams from other regions were naturally a step behind in terms of the intensity of competition and internal pressure.
But that was also what had forged Rikkai Dai's kingly bearing.
And the making of a kingly bearing inevitably left a mountain of corpses at its feet!
Now, the school before Muneyoshi was one of the corpses lying beneath Rikkai Dai.
Jōsei Shōnan Academy, Kanagawa.
This school wasn't one created by Konomi, who knew nothing about tennis. It had originated in another work.
Muneyoshi hadn't expected it to actually exist in this world, too.
When Muneyoshi had first arrived in Kanagawa, the appearance of that familiar figure had already prompted him to make a plan for what he would do next.
And that person