"Actor Aidan Gillen came to see me Today. He plays in Game of Thrones and Mayor of Kingston and The Wire I’m his favorite guy in Pittsburgh. He always stops in to see me"
Slam Dunk shows us what everyone is thinking via background colour
Remember this moment in the Kainan match, right as Sakuragi goes for his epic dunk on Maki? The montage of everyone's reaction is so interesting.
Akagi, Haruko, Takato and Ryota are all telling him to stop/are very alarmed. The colour of their background is black, reflecting that negativity. Takato's the same.
Only two people are depicted differently... it's the two characters with some of the highest basketball IQ we see in the whole of Slam Dunk: Anzai-sensei and Sendoh. Both have white backgrounds, and Sendoh vocalises what must be a shared sentiment: "Go for it."
In that moment, right as our redheaded rookie goes for a dunk against a titan, only two people believed in him and saw what he was capable of, and was cheering him on.
And Inoue showed all this through background colour. This manga is subtle in ways that just deserves multiple re-reads.