Teikou Middle School basketball club: an incredibly strong team with over one hundred members and three consecutive championship wins. Amongst their brilliant record, was a generation of five prodigies known as the "Generation of Miracles." However, there was a strange rumour concerning the Generation of Miracles about one more player recognized by the five prodigies... a Phantom Sixth Player.
source: Kuroko no Basket Mangarock
About
Kuroko no Basket is a Japanese sports manga series created and illustrated by Tadatoshi Fujimaki. It was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from December 2008 to September 2014 and is published by Shueisha. It was first adapted into an anime on 2012 by Production I.G upto 2015 running about 75 episodes.
Thoughts
First things first, I am not a big fan of sports anime nor real life sports except if you count e-sports as a sport. The only anime I've ever watched that was related to sports was Slam Dunk and Prince of Tennis. And those two were at least close to reality. I don't really know much about the mechanics and the impossibilities one can do inside the court but I've seen a lot of people complain how unrealistic Kuroko no Basket was, saying how one cannot just simply appear/disappear inside the court, or one cannot just land a shot almost everytime from the other end of a basketball court or how one could predict future movements of opponents. Maybe theoretically it is possible or maybe it's not but all I could say is, it's an anime, of course a little over-the-top skills are to be expected for it to work, if you want a realistic game then go watch an NBA game.
The story is your typical underdog team wanting to be the best basketball team there is. They are joined by a prodigy, an underdog prodigy who shines more as a support to the team. It's about a story of friendship, teamwork and trusting each other. At some point in the anime, I did wish it would throw off some BL romance to spice things up. I mean you do see how feminine Kuroko looks and acts like right? Lol
The strongest suit Kuroko no Basket has is it's character animation and their personalities. The characters are very well drawn. and almost all of them looks so cool. Years ago I can't even count how many people on my Facebook Feed changed their profile picture to that of a character in Kuroko no Basket. That is something. As for the sound and background music it was "meh". Lol sorry
Overall Kuroko no Basket can be summed up by this quote:
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."
It's a fun and entertaining anime show to watch, more so if you are into cool guy characters. The show is light and is easy to follow. Anyway, I'm not even a fan of sports-related anime so I don't really know what people would expect with this genre but I kind of enjoyed this one. I give it an 8/10.
