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The Yama-uba (witches) team's home basketball court is secluded in a bamboo forest.
The player is the captain of the hometown basketball team. Before he could prepare his team to win the all-American tournament, he started to have strange dreams about playing basketball in exotic locations against exotic creatures.[3]
Second level is against Kappas (water imps / little turtles) in a pond.
Third level is against Hitotsume-kozō (child cyclops) next to a rainfalls.
Fourth level is against vampires inside a cave of skeletons.
Fifth level is against a team of Yama-uba (witches) on a bamboo forest.
Sixth level is against a troop of Tengu on a shrine.
Each opposing player is represented in a super-deformedanime style.[4] Players can replay the matches that they lost until they finally beat the opposing team. Players must choose between a 15-minute game, a 30-minute game, or a 45-minute game. Several basketball fouls can be called; including traveling, charging (the player with the ball intentionally collides with a defender), and pushing (the defending player intentionally colliding with the ball handler).[3]
There is an alternate mode that allows players to play "international basketball" against countries like the US, Japan, Cuba, China, the German Democratic Republic, the Soviet Union, Canada, and France.[3]
