I heard quite a lot about Takehiko Inoue's work lately and when one online acquaintance, who is a huge fan of the guy, told me about Real, I was very interested to get into it.
I think the sports genre is a really popular and lively one in manga and anime, and I have a feeling that somewhere someone already covered every sport conceivable in those types of media. But wheelchair basketball as the crux of a series like that was news to me and considering how much good I heard about the creator's skill to tell and depict good stories, I really wanted to see what he accomplishes with Real.

Volume one did not disappoint either. It has really good pacing, great energetic artwork (also dude can draw great faces), genuinely interesting characters that I'm looking forward to see grow through their problems... and it has a guy shitting on the ground after dropping out of school in the first couple of pages. I was already sold right then and there.