Chapter 817

"I'm telling you, I'm kind of moved. The music is so emotional, too! It was this close!"

"I've watched nineteen episodes of this anime, and it's only here that I've started to really like the protagonist, Sakuragi Hanamichi! His resolve isn't very strong, and his reasons for playing basketball aren't exactly pure, but in the end, he wore his shoes out during this game, then slammed his head into the basketball court floor because he was so upset!"

"But the ending of this episode was pretty awesome, too. The whole Shohoku Basketball Team lost, then swore they'd beat Ryonan in the high school basketball league. Somehow, it got me fired up."

"Teacher Zhao Qinyin is incredible! She used twelve episodes to make me lose faith in this series, then made me want to keep watching forever with just one game!"

"I wonder what she was doing before this. The practice game should've started right after Sakuragi joined the basketball team. If it had, we'd definitely be in the high school basketball league arc by now!"

"Give me a break. There are still so many haters at this point. Without the earlier Ri Cangjing story, how much would you know about Sakuragi, Rukawa Kaede, Akagi Takenori, Coach Anzai, and the rest? If it were just basketball and you had no connection to the characters, what would you even be watching? You might as well just watch basketball!"

"Exactly. The reason you're moved by an anime is because you've developed feelings for the characters. If it didn't spend so much time introducing them, who'd want to watch the damn thing?"

"Heh. You're still trying to defend Zhao Qinyin? Just admit the early episodes were trash instead of stubbornly arguing!"

"Whatever. I can't be bothered to argue with you haters. Once Slam Dunk