7.3/10179 votesLoading...#1 - A Gutless Afternoon
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/20/1993
Sakuragi Hanamichi has been training in the basics for two weeks under Ayako and he wants to play with the other. Akagi refused to let him play. Out of frustration, he quits the team. But after seeing Haruko's face, he changes his mind again.
Director: Hiromichi Matano
Writer: Yoshiyuki Suga
7.3/10201 votesLoading...#2 - Hanamichi's Crisis! The Judo Man's Snare
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/18/1993
Impressed by Sakuragi's raw power and general brute force, the captain of the judo club tries to recruit him away from the Basketball team.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10142 votesLoading...#3 - Special Secret Love Training for Two!?
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/15/1994
Having mastered dribbling and passing, Sakuragi moves on to shooting, which is a lot harder than he had anticipated. Frustrated by his lack of skil, Sakuragi gets some extra help from an unlikely source: Haruko.
Director: N/A
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7.4/10174 votesLoading...#4 - Rukawa vs. Akagi. The Real Showdown!
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/4/1993
Akagi decides to test Rukawa's skills against his own to see if Rukawa really has the talent everyone says he does.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10148 votesLoading...#5 - The 'Beginner's Shot' ....Is Hard!
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/8/1994
After getting the permission to allow Sakuragi to learn the basics of shooting, Akagi asked Rukawa to demonstrate how to do lay-up shot. But Sakuragi got into a fight with Rukawa instead.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10193 votesLoading...#6 - Basketball Man Hanamichi Joins the Team
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/13/1993
Sakuragi mananges to dunk over/through Akagi. Akagi is intrigued by Sakuragi's raw power, but doesn't think he's got the drive to make it on the team. Still, he ponders what the team would be like if he was to join.
Director: N/A
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7.5/10176 votesLoading...#7 - I Will Play Basketball!
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/25/1993
Sakuragi declines Aota's offer of joining the Judo club. Kogure and Ayako were overjoyed at Sakuragi's refusal and Akagi was very much impressed by Sakuragi's words.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10157 votesLoading...#8 - Beat Ryonan! Hard Training Before the Decisive Game
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/22/1994
The night before their game with Ryounan, Akagi decides to try and teach Sakuragi basic defense, starting with rebounding. Learning quickly, Sakuragi impresses Akagi. After the practice session, Sakuragi encounters a scout from Ryounan, and fills him in on who the REAL star is.....
Director: N/A
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7.5/10137 votesLoading...#9 - Shohoku vs Ryonan the Fired Up Captain!
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/29/1994
Sakuragi is eager to play too, thinking of what Akagi has told him the previuos night. At Ryonan High, Anzai is greeted by Ryonan coach, Moichi Taoka. In the locker room, Anzai finally announces the starting five players who are Akagi, Yasuda, Shiozaki, Kogure and Rukawa.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1099 votesLoading...#10 - The Beginning of Interhigh Preliminaries
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 5/28/1994
The tournament is finally making its approach. Sakuragi is anxious to play against Sendo again, but Shohoku will have to deal with Miuradai first.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10179 votesLoading...#11 - Hanamichi's Debut! Dunk Attack
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/11/1993
After successfully persuading Anzai to let him join the game, Sakuragi shows how much he has improved in basic skills such as dribbling. But in the game, he refuses to pass the ball to Rukawa out of jealousy.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1098 votesLoading...#12 - Hanamichi! Pennant Race Debut
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 6/18/1994
The match starts, and Anzai refuses to put Sakuragi, Rukawa, Mitsui, and Miyagi, in the starting line-up. For what reason? As punishment for fighting. Will Anzai keep it like this for the entire game?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10247 votesLoading...#13 - Die Basketball! Hanamichi vs. Rukawa
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/30/1993
After Rukawa beats up those thugs, Hanamichi is shocked and asks him for his name. When he discovers that he is the one that Haruko has a crush on, he becaomes angry. Then, Haruko comes and helps Rukawa with his wounds, but he dismisses her and this makes Hanamichi very angry. Haruko mistakes Hanamichi for injuring Rukawa and she says that she hates Hanamichi. Hanamichi's world comes tumbling down again.
Director: Masayuki Akehi
Writer: N/A
7.7/10123 votesLoading...#14 - Basketball Shoes
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/19/1994
The next day, Haruko has to accompany Sakuragi to the sports shop to buy a new pair of shoes because his old shoes are in a bad shape after the practice game with Ryonan.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10100 votesLoading...#15 - Formidable Enemy Miuradai's Secret Weapon
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 7/2/1994
Miuradai revealed a secret weapon of theirs that'll help them try and overcome Shohoku, and that's the ox Nato.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/103 votesLoading...#16 - Ryonan's genius plan
Season 1 Episode 63 - Aired 4/8/1995
The anticipated match up between two of the best teams in the region commences. One of the biggest surprises was how Sendoh was handling point guard duties, and was doing an efficient job of it with Ryonan getting a head start against Kainan.
Director: N/A
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7.7/103 votesLoading...#17 - Guys - Sakuragi Gang
Season 1 Episode 92 - Aired 1/13/1996
The Sakuragi gang look for jobs in order to collect money to afford train tickets to the national games.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10159 votesLoading...#18 - Super Basketball Match! Ryonan's Attack of Angry Waves
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/1994
Sakuragi keeps begging Anzai to let him join the game. At 14 mins, Ryonan has a 0-15 lead, with everyone cheering for Sendoh. Sendoh and Uozumi, both play briliantly. The first half ends with a score of 42-50.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10188 votesLoading...#19 - Mitsui's Peak, Trouble at 15
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 5/14/1994
It seems that Mitsui was once a great basketball player himself before High School. Though something happened during practice that changed his life forever.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/10100 votesLoading...#20 - The Introspective Army's Big Counterattack
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 6/25/1994
With four of Shohoku's best players finally entering in the game, the tables turn quickly as they narrow the lead down to only 2. Sakuragi was hacked on a play, giving him two shots at the freethrow line. Though things were tough for him, as nervousness broke his concentration, and his imagination started running wild.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10291 votesLoading...#21 - The Birth of a Genius Basketman?!?
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/16/1993
After being dumped by Yoko, a girl he really liked in Junior High, Sakuragi Hanamichi was devastated. On the first day of school, he was approached by a girl who asked him whether he likes basketball or not. He immediately said he loves it although he has no idea how to play the sport. His world is filled with hope again.
Director: Nobutaka Nishizawa
Writer: Yoshiyuki Suga
7.9/10172 votesLoading...#22 - The Last Two Minutes! I'm Taking Sendo Down!
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/5/1994
Sendoh is amazed at how good Shohoku has become, thus begins to take the game seriously. Anzai then, calls both Rukawa and Sakuragi to approach, to tell them of his plan.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10122 votesLoading...#23 - The Fool with the Worst Record, A Combination is Born
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 4/16/1994
It seemed like a disaster for two trouble makers in Miyagi and Sakuragi to collide with each other, but it seems things hae turned out much better than expected.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1096 votesLoading...#24 - Gorilla's Initiation, Kill with Your Eyes!
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 8/20/1994
Sakuragi and his fouling troubles continue. He unconsciously went to Akagi's house for help, and in order to help Sakuragi a little bit, Akagi gives him one piece of advice... instill his opponents with fear using his eyes. Sakuragi takes this too literally, with predictable results.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10189 votesLoading...#25 - Hot Blooded Guys
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 8/27/1994
Mitsui got himself caught up in a fight between Ryo and Tetsuo, and was eventually beaten himself. However, an unlikely Sakuragi pops out of nowhere, and comes to aid his teammate when trying to get to the gym.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Slam Dunk
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Sakuragi Hanamichi is a junior high punk used to getting into fights and being rejected by girls but upon entering high school he meets the...
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Worst Episodes Summary
"A Gutless Afternoon" is the worst rated episode of "Slam Dunk". It scored 7.3/10 based on 179 votes. Directed by Hiromichi Matano and written by Yoshiyuki Suga, it aired on 11/20/1993. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Hanamichi's Crisis! The Judo Man's Snare".