【First Edition】 SLAM DUNK Carddass Masters #NO.23 Shohoku BANDAI 1998 Made in JAPAN Takehiko Inoue Illustration Collection SLAM DUNK #NO.23 TEAM SHOHOKU "Illustration for Private Telephone Card" Slam Dunk Carddass Masters [Team Shohoku] A prefectural high school located in Kanagawa Prefecture. It is attended by "SLAM DUNK" protagonists Hanamichi Sakuragi, Rukawa Kaede, Takenori Akagi, Ryota Miyagi, Hisashi Mitsui, and others. The model for the school building is Musashino Kita High School in Tokyo. Although they were eliminated in the first round of the Inter-High Kanagawa Prefecture preliminaries in the year before last and last year, in this work, they become a prominent team due to the addition and return of strong members. Their basic play style is run-and-gun offense with man-to-man defense. Reporters have described them as "a team that rivals the best in the prefecture for offensive power" and "flashy and visually appealing." Their player depth is thin. The starting lineup from the Shoyo match onwards (Akagi, Mitsui, Ryota, Rukawa, Sakuragi) is nationally recognized, but if even one player is missing, their strength diminishes against strong opponents. On the other hand, due to Sakuragi's consecutive disqualifications and the fact that reserve players other than Kogure had relatively more playing time, they recorded 100-point games in the Inter-High preliminaries up to the fourth round and in the final league match against Murisato, where Sakuragi overslept and did not participate, demonstrating their high offensive power. In the first match of the Inter-High against Toyotama, Kiyota pointed out their "poor start to games," but Mikoshiba, whom they played three times in practice matches during the Shizuoka training camp, commented, "They have many weaknesses, but they are terrifyingly strong when they hit their stride." The comprehensive evaluation of participating schools in the Inter-High by Weekly Basketball magazine is Rank C. They often use the cheer "Defense! Defense!" Notably, it is the only high school explicitly stated to be public in the work. According to Akagi's classmates, it is "a school where ordinary high school students with no particular talents gather," but there are many mysteries about its internal affairs, such as having a prominent figure in the Japanese basketball world as the coach, and being attended by both the academically and athletically gifted Akagi and the failing student Sakuragi. Type: Single Card, 1 card Character Name: Hanamichi Sakuragi Release Year: 1998