The facts:
Title: Kuroko’s Basketball
Producers: Production I.G
Directors: Shunsuke Tada
Writers: Noburo Takagi and Tadatoshi Fujimaki
First released: in Japan on the Mainichi Broadcasting System on the 7th of April 2012
Series: Kuroko’s Basketball (3 seasons)
Plot summary:
When Taiga Kagami comes back to Japan from America, he goes to Serin high school. He joins the high school’s basketball team and learns about the Generation of Miracles. At tryouts for the Serin High school team, he meets Kuroko an extremely normal boy who is so plain and bad at basketball that he is impossible to see on the court.
What I like most:
What I like most is how this anime is based on a side character. Most animes that I have seen are based on one extremely powerful character, but this anime’s protagonist can only do one thing and needs to rely on other people around him.
What I like least:
What I like least about this is it suddenly isn’t about how good they are, but it becomes more focused on superpowers. I just wanted to see a sports anime not learn about someone’s emperor eye which lets them see in the future or someone’s perfect copy eyes which allows them to perfectly copy whatever they see.
Interesting fact:
The writer and artist of Kuroko’s Basketball became interested in making manga by drawing pictures of Dragon Ball and Slam Dunk for his friends.
Recommended age:
I would recommend this to kids aged 8+ that are interested in Basketball. It is a light-hearted but sometimes serious high-stakes anime. There is minimal swearing and most of the time it is picked up in the subtitles.
How to explain to your parents:
This is the story of Kuroko and his friend Kagami becoming the best high school basketballers. Throughout this journey, they go through many struggles and hardships but together they push through it.
Film/Tv crossover:
Kuroko’s Basketball has 4 movies, three video games and 30 volumes for viewers to enjoy.
In Bibliography:
Fujimaki, T. 2022, ‘Kuroko’s Basketball’, Crunchyroll [image] Available https://www.crunchyroll.com/kurokos-basketball, Accessed 9 October 2022.
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