"Slam Dunk" author Takehiko Inoue tweeted to celebrate the first silver medal in the history of the Japanese women's basketball team

On August 8, Takehiko Inoue, the author of the famous basketball manga "Slam Dunk", posted a tweet that sparked heated discussions among netizens. It turned out that he was celebrating the Japanese women's basketball team's first silver medal in history. It seems that Japan's basketball dream has finally taken a big step forward.

·Takehiko Inoue was born on January 12, 1967 in Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. He is a well-known Japanese cartoonist, and his works include "Slam Dunk", "The Destiny of the Strong", "Vagabond" and so on. In 1990, he serialized "Slam Dunk" in "Weekly Shonen Jump", which established his status as the king of the youth basketball comics. The sales of the single volume exceeded 100 million copies in Japan, and it swept up a basketball craze in Japan. The cumulative sales have reached 140 million copies.