Aaron-Lagann
Banned
The 3rd season of the best sports anime in years has premiered! Let's get hype and talk about it!
Q: What is Kuroko no Basket?
A: It's a Shonen Jump manga series from artist Tadatoshi Fujimaki about Basketball that has been adapted into an anime by Production I.G.
The plot centers around the former members of an unstoppable Middle School basketaball team, Teiko Middle School, this team came to be known as "The Generation of Miracles" due to every player on the team having once in a generation talent. When this team graduated, the five main players from Teiko went to different schools, but there was a 6th member of The Generation of Miracles, Kuroko Tetsuya, who uses misdirection and unrivaled passing skills to assist his team from the shadows. Kuroko is joined in Highschool by Kagami Taiga, a Japanese player who until highschool was living in America. Together with the rest of the Seirin Highschool Basketball Team, these two face off against the members of The Generation of Miracles and learn the true meaning of Basketball.
Q: Sounds like the greatest thing in the world, but is it hype?
A: Yes.
Q: What about Slam Dunks?
A: There are a lot of Dunks.
Q: I've heard there are super powers, is this true?
A: Yes and no, so, every character has skills that are somewhat set within reality, but are played up to such a degree that they appear as though they're super natural. The visual representations of these skills don't help with that perception either, but there's no real magic going on, everything is justified within the universe as just skill. Even if next to none of it makes much of any sense at all.
Q: I've heard there's a lot of yaoi surrounding this show, is it just fanservice for girls and sexy anime boys macking on each other?
A: While there is a very considerable amount of fanart depicting the characters in homosexual/sexual positions, there's very little fanservice in the series for either gender or sexual preference. The characters are very pretty boys, so it just naturally attracts the audience that's into that type of stuff, and if you are, there's plenty of bromance to keep you interested.
Kuroko Tetsuya. - Phantom 6th member of The Generation of Miracles.
Magic Powers: Misdirection and invisibility.
Kagami Taiga. - Just some guy.
Magic Powers: Super Jump.
Ryota Kise. - 5th member of The Generation of Miracles.
Magic Powers: Sharingan eye.
Shintaro Midorima. - 4th member of The Generation of Miracles.
Magic Powers: The ability to look like a green haired Light Yagami, 100% accuracy.
Daiki Aomine. - 3rd member and Ace of the Generation of Miracles.
Magic Powers: Just being good.
Atsushi Murasakibara. - 2nd member of The Generation of Miracles.
Magic Powers: Being tall. Like, really tall.
Seijuro Akashi. - 1st member and leader of The Generation of Miracles.
Magic Powers: ???, Scissors, being crazy.
The music for the Kuroko's Basketball anime series were directed by four different composers. Ryosuke Nakanishi, R・O・N, and Alpha Eastman were in charge of the first season while Yoshihiro Ike was in charge of the second season.
The openings of the series are all done by GRANRODEO and all of them are great... Except maybe the second one. The endings have been done by Hyadain, Old Codex, Kensho Ono and the newest being done by Fo'x Tails.
I'm sorry is this is not at all the formula or style OTs are generally done in, I've never done one of these before but love this series so much I felt it deserved a place to have discussion dedicated to it. Also people were tired of me cluttering up certain other community threads with talking about it to myself. So please give me tips on how to improve this and if one of these already exists, I apologize, I searched but didn't find anything.
Kuroko no Basket 3rd Season premiered January 10th and isn't being streamed on Crunchy Roll. I'll update as soon as I can find a legal method to stream.
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