Slam Dunk #9 was published by VIZ Media on April 1, 2010, as part of a series that began in 2008. Takehiko Inoue writes. It features Hanamichi Sakuragi, Kaede Rukawa, Takenori Akagi, Mitsuyoshi Anzai and Kiminobu Kogure, among 22 characters cataloged on VerseDB.