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After months of anticipation, America’s most iconic basketball brand is finally set to collide with Japan’s most famous basketball animation. Today, the Jordan Brand x Slam Dunk collection gets its official unveiling.

While Slam Dunk, a manga series started by Takehiko Inoue in 1990, roshes nike nz hasn’t made quite the same impact in the United States, it borders on iconic status in Japan and other Asian and European countries. The series, which follows the exploits of the fictional Shōhoku High School basketball team and its social outcast turned superstar, Hanamichi Sakuragi, was not just a weekly must-read for the six years it ran, but it was actually credited — by the Japan Basketball Association, no less! — with helping to popularize the sport in Inoue’s native country.

But last readers saw, when the series ended in 1996, Sakuragi was sidelined with injury. So what has he been doing since? Those lost years inspired a brand new animation by Inoue, one that will never be published. Instead, it will appear exclusively on the new Jordan Super.Fly 3 Slam Dunk, part of an overarching Jordan Brand x Slam Dunk collection, that honors the relationship between “Slam Dunk” and Michael Jordan, who Inoue says has greatly influenced his work.

The collection also includes the hotly anticipated Air Jordan 6 Slam Dunk, cheap nike free shoes free shipping which features animation from the series etched onto the red leather upper in a reflective finish, as well as hats and T-shirts. Each piece boasts the number “10,” the jersey-number of that central character, Sakuragi, instead of Jordan Brand’s usual 23, making this truly a personal collection for the fictional superstar.

The full Jordan Brand x Slam Dunk collection releases October 18 in select Asian market, before launching in the US on November 1.