KUROKO NO BASKET

Plot:

"Once upon a time, the basketball team of Teikou Middle School rose to distinction by demolishing all competition. The regulars of this team became known as the "Generation of Miracles". After graduating from middle school, these five stars went to different high schools with top basketball teams. However, a fact few know is that there was another player of the "Generation of Miracles", the phantom sixth player. This mysterious player is now a freshman at Seirin High, a new school with a powerful, if little-known, team. Now, Tetsuya Kuroko, the sixth member of the "Generation of Miracles", and Kagami Taiga, a naturally talented player who spent most of middle school in America, are aiming to bring Seirin to the top of Japan, taking on Kuroko's old teammates one by one."



Height: 168cm
Weight: 57kg
Birthday: January 31
Blood Type: A

He is the sixth and the phantom member of the "Generation of Miracles", Kuroko is Seirin High's new secret weapon. Although he was an essential member of his middle schoolbasketball team, unlike his former teammates, Kuroko is unknown. This is largely because he is so small, frail, and easy to miss. While this means even his friends won't notice him until he is talking to them directly in front of them, Kuroko uses this to great effect on the court by stealing the ball and shifting the trajectories of passes to suit his team without being noticed by the opponents.





Founded only the year before, Seirin High produced abasketball team of freshman who made it all the way to the final league in that year's inter-high school tournament. This year, Seirin's team includes the newcomers Kuroko Tetsuya, a member of the "Generation of Miracles", and Kagami Taiga, a born natural who previously played in America. While young, this team is still renowned for its 'run-and-gun' play style, espousing high on-court speed in order to expedite counterattacks to compensate for their often inadequate defensive play.








Seijuro Akashi (赤司　征十郎 Akashi Seijuuro?)

Voiced by: Hiroshi KamiyaThe final member of the Generation of Miracles, he stood at their head as captain, leading their team to uncontested victory during the three years he played for Teikō Middle School. He is uninterested in winning, simply because victory in his eyes is an absolute given, requisite to his own life as much as breathing. But he has grown tired of victory in the absence of a chance of defeat; thus when it became clear that Aomine would not be able to participate in the final rounds of the inter-high school championship, he also withheld himself from playing and demanded Murasakibara do the same, wanting to make the games at least a little interesting. He upholds an extreme 'winner-take-all' philosophy, believing that victors are granted absolution in all things, while losers are denied everything. He claims never to have lost at anything, and as such he believes himself right in all things; he grows violent towards those who thus defy him, attempting to stab Kagami with a pair of scissors when the latter refused to leave even when told to do so. Respected and feared by the Generation of Miracles, they assemble as he demands, and can't help but heed his words.



Atsushi Murasakibara (紫原 敦 Murasakibara Atsushi?)

Voiced by: Kenichi SuzumuraFormerly playing center for Teikō Middle School's basketball team, he does the same now for Yōsen High School. Beyond possessing shoulder-length, purple hair, Murasakibara is immediately recognizable for his great height, at least ten centimeters taller than any other currently revealed member of the Generation of Miracles. Though his ability as a basketball player has never been disputed, he actually finds the sport uninteresting, simply playing the sport because he is excruciatingly good at it. Mildly sadistic and bemusingly childish, he is easily riled though generally laid-back, and can often be found with some form of candy in his mouth. His abilities have yet to be seen in full, but no one debates dubbing him the greatest center among high school players in Japan.His true abilities are shown during the match between Seiren and Yōsen. Using his incredible height of 208 cm (roughly 6 feet 10 inches) and strength from his weight of 95 kilograms (roughly 210 pounds) to dominate the area around the basket, he is able to tower any opposing player and block any attempts of jump shots, layups, and dunks. In offense, he utilizes his strength and height in conjunction in order to break free of any defense regardless of the players on defense, and overwhelm the opponents. His strength is seen when he breaks free of 3 defenders and is able to break down a basket through sheer talent and force.



Daiki Aomine (青峰 大輝 Aomine Daiki?)

Voiced by: Junichi SuwabeAomine was the ace of Teikō's team, embracing an aggressive and liquid style, made even more powerful by Kuroko's misdirection.[13] However, other players like Kise dislike him, and his style of playing in particular. Incredibly fast and versatile, Aomine's strength lies in his unpredictability, as well as an uncanny ability to shoot from virtually any position, getting the ball in even from behind the backboard; possessing supreme speed coupled with surgical acceleration, very few can block and him, and only Kise Ryota, a fellow member of the Generation of Miracles, has been able to pass him. As a middle schooler, he had a pure love of basketball; but during his second year his skills suddenly exploded, single-handedly bringing his team to victory in point leads of up to 170. As his skill grew more renowned and feared, many players would simply give up in trying to stop him. Coming to the conclusion that he would never find an opponent capable of matching him in skill, Aomine has grown very jaded and sardonic, skipping practice altogether and arriving late for important games. He has been barred from playing in the last games of the Inter High-School Championship due to injuries he sustained in a match against Ryota Kise, who pushed Aomine far harder than he expected was possible. Despite his already supreme skill, he is capable of more, under the right circumstances; when faced against an appropriate opponent, he can enter his 'zone', where he is able to exert 100% of his capabilities. Though players of a certain caliber can all do this, only he is said to be able to do so at least partially of his own will.



Junpei Hyūga (日向 順平 Hyūga Junpei?)

Voiced by: Shinji Kawada (Vomic), Yoshimasa Hosoya (Anime)Captain of the Seirin team, Hyuuga is a clutch shooter, his capabilities escalating immensely when the team is in a pinch.[4] Along with Hyuuga's change in skill comes a change in personality; when the team in not in a pinch, Hyuuga is a collected and calm individual, but when it is, he becomes heated and rude. Nevertheless, he is the best shooter on the team, regularly making three-pointer shots throughout the course of a game. Prior to the addition of Kuroko and Kagami, he was one of the centerpieces of the Seirin team's 'run-and-gun' play style (a style that utilized the team's exceptional offensive structure to counter even the toughest teams where their defense is inadequate), catching balls scooped by Kiyoshi near the net to shoot as three-pointers.







Taiga Kagami (火神 大我 Kagami Taiga?)

Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi (Vomic), Yūki Ono (Anime)A naturally gifted basketball player, Kagami easily makes his way into Seirin's regular line-up as a freshman. When he first returned to Japan, he was disappointed by his homeland's relatively low level of basketball compared to that in the States. However, since starting high school, Kagami has been spurred on by his desire to compete with the "Generation of Miracles". While he is a powerful all-around player, Kagami's unique skill lies in his ability to jump to great heights. This skill facilitates not only his most common move, the dunk, but also allows him to defend well against taller players; he even uses it to break Midorima's perfect shooting. While he generally jumps with his left leg in order to allow him the use of his more dexterous right arm, his right is far stronger, allowing him to touch the top of the backboard as opposed to just hitting the net. The drawback to this capability is that, like certain members of the Generation of Miracles, his body is still too underdeveloped in order to use his jumping prowess at great length without potentially damaging himself. Having trained extensively since the inter-high school championships, he can now dunk from the free-throw line, a feat that may have put him on a level with the Generation of Miracles. As Kuroko has chosen Kagami as his new "Light", Kagami is also bolstered by Kuroko's techniques. His zodiac sign is Leo. He has an extreme fear of dogs.







Ryōta Kise (黄瀬 涼太 Kise Ryōta?)

Voiced by: Ryohei KimuraNow a freshman at Kaijō High, Kise was the rookie of the "Generation of Miracles." Since he only started playing basketball in his second year of middle school, Kise was his team's least experienced member, and notes himself the weakest of the five.[10] Kise's unique skill is his ability to mimic the moves and plays of other players. The only moves he cannot copy are the special skills of truly exceptional players, like the other members of the "Generation of Miracles". Beyond being a strong player in his own right, Kise takes liberal advantage of his good looks and poses as a model after school. He now seems able to mimic the exceptional: faced against Daiki Aomine, he copied his former Ace's nearly impossible style precisely during their game, matching him blow for blow throughout. While he lost when he passed the ball to a team mate, something Aomine himself would never do and could thus predict, he proved his boundless potential.







Shintarō Midorima (緑間 真太郎 Midorima Shintarō?)

Voiced by: Daisuke OnoOnce a member of the "Generation of Miracles," Midorima now serves as the shooting guard of Shūtoku High's basketball team. With his great height and unwavering calm, his skill is a super-accurate shot that can be taken from anywhere on court; as long as his stance and form is unaltered, his shots are said to never miss. With the range of his arm expanding across the entire court, Midorima allows himself and his team to conserve energy during a game by shooting from their side of the court, immediately ready to mount a defense. Midorima is so dedicated to basketball that he tapes his fingers when not playing, presumably to protect them for game time. Beyond this, Midorima believes in the absolute nature of fate, so he frequently checks the horoscope and follows its predictions and recommendations to the letter.Midorima's superstitions and their resulting miracles extend even to his normal life. Beyond being lucky in games of chance, like the flipping of coins, Midorima owns a carved pencil, which he uses on tests. Rolled randomly to give an answer to a multiple choice question, the pencil is correct the vast majority of the time. Midorima's Zodiac sign is Cancer.