The year is 2XXX AD, and basketball has become the most popular sport in the universe. However, the Intergalactic League - the pinnacle of professional basketball - is completely dominated by extraterrestrials. The being widely renowned as the best of basketball is Gyuma, despite the fact he is merely 19-years-old.
Into this arena steps Yoshimune, an old man who believes that…
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Note: Won an Excellence Prize for manga at the 2001 Japan Media Arts Festival.
This is the exhibition catalog that contains all the works from the "Inoue Takehiko: The LAST Manga Exhibition" held at the Ueno Royal Museum in 2008. Along with readers' impressions and a documentary of the creation process, it three-dimensionally recreates the unique space of the manga exhibition that was limited to that time and place.
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