__Year:__ 1st Year  

Haruko Akagi is the younger sister of Takenori Akagi and the love interest of Hanamichi Sakuragi who was responsible for uncovering his potential in basketball.

She is a kind, sweet and friendly girl with a captivating personality who is always around to cheer on the players, especially her brother Takenori Akagi, who is extremely protective of her and taught her the basics of basketball, and Hanamichi Sakuragi, whom she considers her best friend. Haruko often appears at matches together with Sakuragi's cohorts and her two best friends, Fujii and Matsui. She, like most girls in Shohoku, has a strong obsession for Kaede Rukawa, although he never reciprocates her feelings and, later , she acknowledges that he will not love her the way she wants him to and tries to let go of her crush, however unsuccessfully.

Hanamichi Sakuragi's got no game with girls--none at all! It doesn't help that he's known for throwing down at a moment's notice and always coming out on top. A hopeless bruiser, he's been rejected by 50 girls in a row! All that changes when he meets the girl of his dreams, Haruko, and she's actually not afraid of him! When she introduces him to the game of basketball, his life is changed forever...
 
(Source: Viz Media)

Hanamichi Sakuragi, an entering Shohoku high school freshman holds a record for being rejected by 50 girls during middle school. His nearly 2 meters height and bright red hair causes most students to write him off as a delinquent. 
One day, a girl named Haruko Akagi approaches Hanamichi without any fear. When she asks Hanamichi: "do you like basketball?" Hanamichi falls head over heels for the girl of his dreams. Without missing a beat, Hanamichi tells her he loves basketball, and the two head to the gymnasium where Hanamichi learns about the slam dunk. He also learns of Rukawa, one of the country&rsquo;s top basketball prospects, also a freshman at Shohoku. 
(Source: Funimation)

__Skills &amp; Abilities:__ Drum, Ice skating, Tap dance

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A Mexican voice actress. She is known for being the Latin American Spanish voice of Sakura Kinomoto in _Cardcaptor Sakura_, Blossom in _The Powerpuff Girls_ and Joy in _Inside Out_.
She's the recurring dub voice of Lindsay Lohan and Anne Hathaway.

She is the mother of  [María García](https://anilist.co/staff/203266/Mara-Garca).

Mi Sook Jeong, joined KBS Voice Acting Division in 1984. One of her well known voice acting is Kagome Higurashi.  Although unrelated to anime, she played the voice of Reith in the PS2 game, Magna Carta the Tears of Blood.

Emily Woo Zeller (born November 3, 1983) is an American voice actress and audio book narrator who is best known as the voice of Panam Palmer in CD Projekt Red's 2020 videogame Cyberpunk 2077 and the various Animax dubs in Hong Kong
Emily was previously based in Hong Kong before moving to New York in 2015, then later to Los Angeles in 2018.

Born in Charlottetown, PEI. In addition to being a voice actor she has been in several films and tv series.

Shohoku's “speedster” and point guard, Ryota Miyagi, always plays with brains and lightning speed, running circles around his opponents while feigning composure. Born and raised in Okinawa, Ryota had a brother who was three years older. Following in the footsteps of his older brother, who was a famous local player from a young age, Ryota also became addicted to basketball.
 
In his second year of high school, Ryota plays with the Shohoku High School basketball team along with Sakuragi, Rukawa, Akagi, and Mitsui as they take the stage at the Inter-High School National Championship. And now, they are on the brink of challenging the reigning champions, Sannoh Kogyo High School. 

(Source: GKIDS)

__Favorite Colors:__ Pink, brown
__Hobbies:__ Performing, reading, singing

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Married frequent costar [Kenichi Suzumura](https://anilist.co/staff/95005) on August 8, 2011.

Deborah Morese is an Italian voice actor and TV presenter.  She's born in Milan.

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Jussara Marques de Oliveira is a Brazilian actress, voice actress and dubbing director.

__Non-Anime Roles:__
~!- Debby Ryan (Most of the productions)
- Rebeka "Rebe" Parrilla de Bormujo Ávalos (Elite)
- Valkyrie (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- Jett (Valorant)
- Eloise Bridgerton (Bridgerton)
- Helga Geraldine Pataki (Hey Arnold!)
- Kelsi Willow Nielsen (High School Musical trilogy)
- Mari (Grand Chase and Grand Chase Dimensional Chaser)
- Cobalt-B and Rubilia (Tower of Fantasy)
- Assistant Mayor Dawn Bellwether (Zootopia)
- Danielle Curtin (Prison Break)
- Frankie (The Walking Dead)
- Haley Gwendolyn Dunphy (1st voice - 1st-6th season; Modern Family)
- Emily Elizabeth Howard (1st dub; Clifford the Big Red Dog)
- Jade Chan (1st voice; Jackie Chan Adventures)
- Angel Salvadore (X-Men: First Class)
- Nele Springer (Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty)
- Brianna G. Buttowski (Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil)
!~

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Erika Langarica is a Mexican voice actress, known for being the voice of Suzu Urano from the film "In This Corner of the World"

Sakuragi and the Shohoko team takes on Oda and Takezono High School. This is Sakuragi's second match as he faces Oda, a basketball player who went to the same junior high. 
(Source: Anime News Network)

In 2004, Inoue produced an epilogue titled Slam Dunk: 10 Days After, which was drawn on 23 chalkboards in the former campus of the defunct Misaki High School located in the Kanagawa Prefecture, and was held for public exhibition for three days between December 3 and 5. The epilogue, along with coverage of the event, was reprinted in the February 2005 issue of Switch magazine.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)