Kuroko no basuke

This anime was a really big hit for girl basketball players in my school. I finally decided to check it out. It is A-MA-ZING. I watched season 1 a month or two ago and finished it. I started watching season 2 after my exams last month and stopped halfway. I got distracted by watching other anime.

First off, the characters. This anime is all about basketball based on it's title. I like the fact that they made the main character come out later and not at the start of the anime. I also like that they made the character have an interesting personality. The title of the anime is Kuroko no Basuke. As you can see, Kuroko is the name of the main character. To be honest, the main character doesn't really stand out much and take the spotlight but supports the team. I like this fact very much.

The story goes as a high school named Seirin tries to recruit new students to join the basketball club. The captain of the basketball school team is a guy named Hyuga and the coach is a girl named Riko. They both were in charge of the sign up booth. The other players who were in the basketball team were Hyuga, Teppei Kiyoshi, Shun Izuki, Mitobe, Koganei and Tsuchida.  They are all second years in high school. This also includes the captain and the coach. 

On the first day, a guy named Kagami appeared in their school asking to sign up in the basketball team. His height was 190 cm. the players of the basketball team were intrigued that he was joining the team as well as shocked that he was joining the team. Kagami is original from japan but he spent most of his life in America. He played street basketball in America and is quite skilled at it.

Kagami carrying Koganei.

On the same day itself, Kuroko went to sign up to be in the basketball club. He came from Teiko middle school. Teiko middle school was known for it's winnings as well as the five prodigies in the school. Kuroko wasn't one if the five prodigies but he was the 6th phantom member of the team. Kuroko has very little presence which makes him less noticible to other people. When he signed up for the basketball club, Rika and Hyuga didn't notice that he was even there until later.

Kuroko (left) and Kagami (right)

Soon, Kagami and Kuroko met. Kuroko has a unique style of playing basketball. He isn't skilled in shooting or dribbling. His main strength lies in his passes as well in his misdirections. He can change the balls pathway and direct it to a new one. Most of the players he went up against could never sense him or block him which makes it easier for him to to pass around the ball and later it's course. 

Kagami is very skilled in basketball and always does a slam dunk. He has incredible strength and speed but is very reckless and hot headed. He always need Kuroko to keep him in check. His talents arent in strength or speed but in his jump. He can jump to an incredible height that no one can reach. But, it is not until later that he discovers this talent.

Kagami and Kuroko are in the same class and they don't really get along well at first. But, after a while they got the hang of each other and decided to help each other out to achieve their dreams. Both of their dreams is to beat the five prodigies. Kagami and Kuroko wanted to join Seirin's school basketball team as soon as possible although they were already on the club. Kagami went to Riko who gave him a sign up form and told him to meet her at the school roof on Monday before assembly starts. Riko also did the same thing to Kuroko.

Kagami asking for the sign up form.

After meeting at the roof, they were also the second years there and Rika made them shout out their dreams and goals that they want to achieve by joining the school team. They all shouted their hearts out but as soon as Kuroko was about to shout using a megaphone as his voice wasn't very loud. But, the school principle appeared and stopped them. 

"How did you get that megaphone?" -Riko

Training soon started for the school team. Since Riko was their coach, she trained them. But before doing that, Riko told them to take of their shirts. They were shocked but did it anyway since she was the coach. Riko has a special talent where she can see their weak points in their body as well as their storing points. With this talent, she can tell then the exercises that need to be done to improve themselves in stamina or strength. After examinations all of then, she reached Kagami and find that his body was extremely well built and found no weakness as it was above average. But, when she saw Kuroko's, she was shocked to see that his body was surprisingly weak and below an average person's strength.

Kagami

The basketball players in Seirin met a lot of strong players including some of the five prodigies in their practice games. They met Ryota Kise and Shintaro Midorima. Both these players went to different high schools and Seirin got quite a tough game playing with them. Ryota Kise is highly skilled in copying peoples movements. That includes the way the shoot and dribble. Sintaro Midorima is a very skilled shooter. He range of shooting a basketball in the entire court. Which means that he can stand at the end of one court and shoot it to the other end.

Aomine, Midorima, Akashi, Kise and Murasakibara

There is one part of Kuroko no Basuke which I particularly like. It's when Kuroko met a stray dog and decided to keep him. Riko, the team's coach realised that they both look the same. Kuroko and the dog have the same eyes. They then decided to name the dog Tetsuya No.2. It was hilarious. Kagami seems to be afraid of dogs and won;t go near Tetsuya 2. At one time, Kuroko chases him with Tetsuya 2 in his hands. That was one of my favourite scenes in this anime.

Tetsuya No.2

When Kuroko was in middle schoo, their team had a manager named Momoi. She has a crush on Kuroko and visited him when they were practising in the swimming pool. Momoi went to another high school different from Kuroko. She went to Touhou High with another prodigy named Daiki Aomine. She became the manager of that school's basketball team and is very skilled in analysing and predicting their opponents. She can predict their growth and movements and tells her team to make sure that they are prepared.

Momoi

Soon Seirin managed to enter the Inter-High competition where high schools compete which each other to become the champion. Seirin lost during the semi-finals and did not make it. They trained hard after that and aimed to become champions during the Winter Cup. Another competition where schools compete with each other. But, only the best among the best compete in this competition and Seirin appears to have made it after winning the qualifying round.

Seirin is about to face a harsh competition as they are going up against all five prodigies. All five of them went to different schools. But, all 5 of these high schools already had good basketball players in them.

Serirn managed to get into the semi-finals of the winter cup and will be facing harsh opponents. I finished watching the first and second season of Kuroko no Basuke. The last episode of season 2 is a cliffhanger. The last episode shows that they won against one of the five prodigies and are advancing to the semi-finals. I am excited to see the semi-finals match in the third season which is said to come out in October this year. It's so far away... ಠ_ಠ.

Enjoy Kuroko no Basuke~