Slam Dunk Tagalog Version Full Movie Inter High
Gifford Brickley
In his initial appearance, Sakuragi had short, distinctive, pompadour styled red hair with fringes at the center of his forehead, and brown eyes. After his loss against Kainan, he shaved his hair semi-bald as a vow that Shohoku will never lose again.
He wears a dark blue standard Shohoku winter school uniform from his initial appearance until their match against Shoyo. Later, he wears a white short sleeve loose shirt until he swaps to a white short sleeve openly loose button shirt.
During basketball training, Sakuragi wears a blue tank top, tucked into his white shorts, and his white running shoes with two blue linings. After his running shoes are destroyed in the end of the practice match against Ryonan, he first wore the Air Jordan 6 - "White Infrared" colorway. However, it also got broke due to his feet size increasing together with his height so he was forced to buy another one. This time, he bought the iconic Air Jordan 1 - "Bred" colorway, which was a great pick to match Shohoku's team color. Later, the color of his tank top was changed to black. His basketball jersey uniform is red and black and alternately red and white.
Throughout the manga, he is very short-tempered, boisterous, arrogant, aggressive, rude, and immature, but as the series progressed, he is now fully controlled with his temper during Toyatama and Sannoh match despite being short-tempered/aggresive, beginning to matured as he also admit that he is a rookie despite still proclaiming himself which shocks his teammates when he was lectured of common sense . He begins regarding himself as a "genius" even though he has not learned any skills.
He can also be regarded as a 'cheap-shot artist', from slide tackles, tripping and not dribbling the basketball against Akagi , to low-blows and headbutts against members and Aota, despite being unaware that both are regarded as illegal fouls in the respective sports. He redeems himself by copying Takenori's standing rear naked choke (sleeper hold) after Takenori was dunked on his head, then choked Sakuragi afterwards. Sakuragi ends the battle with an over-the-shoulder throw, a highly advanced and powerful maneuver.
He also prided himself as the "Rebound King" when his rebounding ability had just started to surface, which was accepted and considered as valid. His most recognizable trait is his red hair, which he shaves as reparation for an error that led to a loss in the interhigh tournament against Kainan.
Despite his violent nature and rude personality, Sakuragi has a soft spot for girls and is extremely vulnerable and sensitive to them. This was seen when he was unable to defend himself from Rukawa fan girls' provocations and insults. While talking with girls, Sakuragi always speaks in a formal and polite way. He also uses honorifics, as he always addresses Haruko as "Haruko-san", which is a way to address a person of higher status.
He is also a simple-minded and naive person. After their loss in the practice match against Ryonan, he felt a bit depressed. However, as soon as Haruko began to compliment him for his hard efforts in the match, he immediately returned to his senses. Another time, when Miyagi explained fakes in basketball, he showed amazement and described it as terrifying for deceiving opponents. His naivety and simple judgement earned him the nickname of "Simpleton King".
He is not the type to accept losses. His persistence started to get into Fukuda when he was totally outplayed at the first half of their game, though it was settled during the practice match against the combined team of Shoyo and Ryonan.
In spite of the setbacks he has had to face, Sakuragi displays a great deal of tenacity and determination that carry him through and helps compensate for his failings, both on and off the court. He also knows how to carry the will of others. These was shown when he told Kogure of postponing his retirement for a while because of him, who is a genius.
As a basketball player, he became a person with a great determination and resolve. Sakuragi began to gain respect from the audience during his dunk against Shoyo, and during the match against Sannoh, when he saved the ball from going out of bounds and injured his back, making the audience cheer for Shohoku. They managed to win everyone's heart with his determination and resolve. His determination to keep playing despite the back injury was the main factor for Shohoku's victory against Sannoh. When facing opponents who are famous and stronger, Sakuragi was excited because it made him a famous player too, because they chose to guard/face him, as seen in his clash with Masashi Kawata.
Although his love for Haruko and rivalry with Rukawa are the main driving forces motivating him to succeed in basketball, his injury during the Sannoh match made him realize that he has actually come to love basketball, leading him to give his all for the team and bring them victory.
Sakuragi used to be nothing more than a high school delinquent, who knows only how to fight, and is unpopular with girls, as he ended up rejected often. His comrades Yohei, Ohkusu, Nozomi and Noma always tease him for his rejections, for which they end up receiving headbutts. Sakuragi also hated basketball, because the 50th girl that rejected him, was in love with a basketball player; considering it to be a game of losers. A tall, hyperactive but angry teenager with zero luck in girls. After getting his feelings turned down exactly 50 times in his previous school, He was simply fed up. With ember Red hair and muscular physique, he thought his chances of finding someone were slim.
One day, a friendly girl named Haruko Akagi approached him and asked him if he likes basketball, Sakuragi immediately falls in love with her and decided to play basketball to please her. She showed him the way around the gym, Haruko informs him about the slam dunk, one of the most exiting and epic moves in basketball. After noticing that he can palm the ball, Haruko asked him to attempt to slam dunk the ball, which the latter does by hitting his head into the backboard. Even though he missed his shot, Haruko was impressed by his jump, and convinced him to join the basketball team. Sakuragi is overjoyed after he found a new love, but his happiness is short-lived when he found out that Haruko is in love with a guy named Kaede Rukawa, a talented basketball player back in junior high, which left him once again heartbroken.
Later, Sakuragi and his gang are challenged by a group of third-year students for a fight. Once arriving in the roof, they found the students already beaten by a high school student who turned out to be Rukawa, the guy that Haruko has a crush on. Sakuragi, overwhelmed with anger and jealousy, introduces himself to Rukawa. Haruko, eventually arrives at the scene and notices that Rukawa is bleeding. Believing Sakuragi is responsible for her crush's injuries, Haruko insulted the latter, saying "I hate you!" After Rukawa coldly rejected Haruko's help, Sakuragi headbutted Rukawa this time for hurting her feelings. Haruko left him emotionally heartbroken, and he tried to commit suicide only to be halted by his comrades.
On his way, he met two basketball players as he headbutted both, until he met Takenori Akagi, who punches the two players' heads and Sakuragi smashed him with the basketball in his face, insulting basketball, which enrages Akagi to challenge him in a 1-on-1 handicap match. Sakuragi is easily outmatched by Akagi who scored 9 baskets, until Haruko intervenes and urged Sakuragi to stop embarassing himself. Mistaking that she is cheering for him, Sakuragi managed to snatch the ball from Akagi, and tearfully regained his senses after Haruko really cheered for him. Sakuragi eventually won the match by a slam dunk, and reconciled with Haruko. Sakuragi began to humorously mock Akagi until he realized that he is in fact Haruko's older brother. After that, Sakuragi officially joins the basketball team in order to compete with Rukawa and earn Haruko's love.
However, he is completely a beginner and had to learn the basics such as dribbling, much to his annoyance. After a week, Sakuragi got into a fight with Akagi, because he couldn't take the pressure of doing a lot of basics so he decided to quit basketball. However, Sakuragi rethinks about his previous decision, and realized that he wanted to return once again. Swallowing his pride, he eventually returns to the team and Kiminobu Kogure suggested that he should learn something other than dribbling. Akagi agreed and gave another basic training of passes. While Sakuragi was at first annoyed, but nevertheless he accepted it with joy.
Some time later, a judo man called Tatsuhiko Aota, a childhood friend of Akagi and a guy who also has a crush on Haruko, wanted to recruit Sakuragi for the judo team because of his athleticism and his brute strength. He even went far into using Haruko's pictures as a way of bribery to lure him into entering the Judo club but Sakuragi ultimately refused. He told Aota that he's going to play basketball because he is a basketball player. Motivated by his words, Akagi decided to teach Sakuragi layups. Unfortunately, Sakuragi found it boring, calling it a commoner's shot. However, he found himself unable to score even one and ended up fighting with Rukawa, which results in Akagi suspending them from practice. The day after, Sakuragi went to the basketball court practicing layup, but with no result. He is eventually found by Haruko and offered to teach him layups since it was the only move she was good at. After several attempts, Sakuragi realized its trick and succeeded in scoring his frst layup, much to his happiness not only at scoring a layup but the training with Haruko. After Anzai informs the team of their incoming practice match against Ryonan High, Sakuragi spent the night before the match with Akagi, learning how to rebound.
The day of the match, Sakuragi was angry at first because he wasn't selected as a starter but Coach Anzai reassured him that he will play because he is their "secret weapon". During the practice match and the start of 2nd half, Sakuragi demonstrates his troublemaking antics such as injecting Coach Taoka's butt, changing the teams' scores and overhearing Coach Taoka's plans for the game as well as personally confronting Akira Sendoh who laughs at his troublemaking antics. All those antics led into Akagi angrily punching him in the head and take him back to the bench.
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