Great, great manga. Another masterpiece from Takehiko Inoue.

This is not a new Slam Dunk. It deals with much heavier and mature themes, deepens them to an unprecedented level. The love of basketball here is a background and, at the same time, a crucial aspect.

It's a background because the story, at least until now (volume 14), is not about basketball, but it's about people dealing with the various impacts of a physical disability.

It is crucial because it is in the rescue or building of love of basketball that the characters rebuild themselves from trauma and resignify their experiences with the physical disability.

Real basically deals with this: how disability, with its specificities, with its challenges, with all that it brings, is also a possibility of a rescue of the past, of a re-elaboration, a re-signification of oneself, a rescue - and a discovery - of potentialities and of what really matters in life.

The protagonist trio brings together such diverse characteristics, so different ways of dealing with how the physical disability goes through their lives. In common, the fact that their stories intersect from the (re)discovery of basketball as a turning point.

Unmissable.