They are a family well known to fans of NBA, the major American basketball league: Robin and Brook Lopez have announced the release of Transition Game, a manga produced in collaboration with manga artist Katsumi Tatsuzawa, alias Tatsuz. If this name means nothing to you, his career will however resonate with fans of American sports: Tatsuz was one of the assistants of Takehiko Inoue, the mangaka behind the cult work SLAM DUNK , the benchmark of basketball manga for years. 90.
Entitled Transition Gam e , this manga is scripted by Christopher Lopez, the eldest of the family, produced by Robin and Brook Lopez and drawn by Tatsuz.
From Germany to Japan
The first chapter is already available for purchase on the manga's official website . For now, only English and Chinese translations are available - in the hope of a possible French version that would make sense when you know France's love for basketball ...
Transition Game follows the journey of Kameron Ford, an American basketball prodigy living in Stuttgart, Germany, with his mother and two younger brothers. The amateur basketball player will suddenly find himself in a whole different continent when a promotion from his mother, an American naval officer, leads him to move to Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It is in this paradisiacal setting, but terrible unknown for the young family, that Kameron will have to find a place - and discover the too little known universe of Japanese basketball.
Takehiko Inoue also congratulated Robin Lopez on the social network Twitter. The latter, a big fan of SLAM DUNK, called on the mangaka on the social network to promote Transition Game.
In response to the Orlando Magic player's tweet, Inoue congratulated Lopez and his brother on releasing the manga and did not fail to praise Tatsuz's artistic qualities. Inoue was also delighted to learn of the love that Lopez and his brother have for SLAM DUNK .
One of the most emblematic works of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine when it was published from 1990 to 1996, SLAM DUNK greatly contributed to the popularization of basketball in Japan, as evidenced by the Lopez brothers.