Kuroko's Basketball, known in Japan as Kuroko no Basuke (黒子のバスケ), is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Tadatoshi Fujimaki. The English rendering The Basketball Which Kuroko Plays also appears in the artwork of the Japanese version. It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 2008 to September 2014, with the individual chapters collected into 30 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha. It tells the story of a high school basketball team trying to make it to the national tournament.
By April 2014, Kuroko's Basketball had 27 million copies in circulation. It is being adapted into an anime television series by Production I.G that began airing in 2012, with a third season having started in January 2015. A sequel manga by Fujimaki titled Kuroko's Basketball: Extra Game (黒子のバスケ EXTRA GAME) began serialization in Jump Next! on December 29, 2014.
It's about the basketball team of Teikō Middle School rose to distinction by
demolishing all competition. The regulars of the 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 in the
"Generation of Miracles": a phantom sixth man. This mysterious player is
now a freshman at Seirin High, a new school with a powerful, if
little-known, team. Now, Kuroko Tetsuya- the sixth member of the
"Generation of Miracles", and Kagami Taiga- a naturally talented player
who spent most of middle school in the US, aim to bring Seirin to the
top of Japan and begin taking on Kuroko's former teammates one by one.
The series chronicles Seirin's rise to become Japan's number one high
school team. The rest of the Generation of Miracles include Kise Ryota,
Aomine Daiki, Murasakibara Atsushi, Akashi Seijuro and Midorima
Shintaro.
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