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Tetsuo Kawaguchi was once a rising basketball star, but a tragic past left him numb — unable to feel joy, pain, or the passion that once drove him. After entering Toshigawa Academy, he drifts through life, indifferent to everything around him. That changes when he picks up a basketball again during a gym session, stirring emotions he thought were gone forever.
Encouraged by his little sister and new teammates who share his love for the game, Tetsuo reluctantly joins the school’s basketball team. On the court, he faces not only opponents but the ghosts of his past. With each game, each struggle, he begins to chip away at the walls he’s built — slowly rediscovering what it means to play, to connect, and to feel again.
This story isn’t about glory or victory — it’s about a boy who once lived for the sound of the ball hitting the court, and now feels nothing at all. Basketball, for Tetsuo, becomes less a game and more a faint echo of what he used to be. Each practice, each shot, is an attempt to reach a part of himself that’s gone quiet.
Through the rhythm of the sport and the people who refuse to let him fade, he starts to sense something beneath the numbness — not hope, not yet, but movement. This is a story about what it means to exist when emotion has left you, and how even in silence, the game still calls.
This story isn’t about glory or victory — it’s about a boy who once lived for the sound of the ball hitting the court, and now feels nothing at all. Basketball, for Tetsuo, becomes less a game and more a faint echo of what he used to be. Each practice, each shot, is ...
