Dear Boysディアボーイズ; 灌篮少年; Hoop Days

Aikawa Kazuhiko was the captain of Tendoji high school prestigious basketball team. He moves into a new town to attend Mizuho high school and joins its basketball team. However, Mizuho high's basketball team is far from being prestigious, in fact, it's a now defunct basketball team. Nevertheless to say, Kazuhiko's presistence, passion and basketball skills inspired other team members of the dysfunctional basketball team to gear up and start practicing again. The aim is to play in the national tournaments where all young basketball players meet their opponents in basketball competition. The tale of youth of five protagonist: Fujiwara Takumi, Miura Ranmaru, Ishii Tsutomu, Dobashi Kenji and Aikawa Kazuhiko have just began along with the life of Mizuho high school basketball team.