(Alhamdulillah, my results were awesome. Really did not expect it, syukur Alhamdulillah..)
Okay, so I'm going to try and explain why I think Kuroko no Basuke is super awesome. Remember, these are only my opinions. I will try and keep it as professional as I can. WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD! PROCEED WITH CAUTION!
Kuroko no Basuke / Kuroko no Basket / Kuroko's Basketball
The Plot:
Kuroko no Basuke (KnB for short, I'm lazy) is about Kuroko Tetsuya, a 16-year old high school freshmen who was a member of Teikou Middle School's Basketball team. His former teammates were all prodigies and was called the Generation of Miracles (or Kiseki no Sedai in Japanese). He was the Phantom Sixth Man of the team as he was not really known and had a really low presence.
All of them decided to go to different high schools (because Akashi decided it will be more fun that way) and this is the story about Kuroko going to Seirin High and meeting Kagami Taiga. Kagami Taiga attended middle school in America and learned basketball there. Both of them joined Seirin's basketball club and the adventure begins.
Apparently, Kagami wanted to play basketball against strong opponents (at first he thought Japanese basketball were all the same and lame) and heard about the GoM (Generation of Miracles). He became excited and wanted to go against them. Kuroko approved of this as he saw potential in Kagami and so he also decided support Kagami and become the 'shadow' to Kagami's 'light'.
TL:DR - Basically it's about Kuroko and Kagami's adventure to defeat the GoM.
What makes it so amazing that even people who are not interested in basketball will enjoy is the sportsmanship, I think.
It is a sport anime, which basically means "No one died but I'm crying"
You can really relate to the all the diverse characters and love/hate them like crazy.
I'm pretty sure everyone had a moment where they were defeated by the people with natural talent. Sometimes you just work so hard and still, you failed. And then you realized the person who succeeded didn't even do his best and still he succeeded because he was just that talented.
For example, Himuro Tatsuya. He was Kagami's older brother figure and he was the one that taught Kagami basketball. As time passed, Kagami just got better and he didn't want to lose to his younger brother.
Himuro was on the Yosen team with Murasakibara Atsushi, a GoM member. Yosen faced Seirin in the Winter Cup and Himuro was defeated. Around the last minutes of the game, Kagami got into 'The Zone' and was unstoppable. Murasakibara decided he didn't want to play anymore as they were losing. Mad with rage, Himuro punched him and even cried.
Imagine his anger. He was so desperate to win the game against Taiga, even when he knew he had no chance as he was just 'as good as a normal person can be' and not a prodigy. But Murasakibara, who was a prodigy and was just so damn talented decided to just throw the game away?
"You have what I desperately want, and yet you're throwing the game? It's making me crazy with rage..."
In the end Murasakibara continued the game and even got into 'The Zone' but they were still defeated. He said he wanted to quit basketball because it was annoying but no one believed him and he even cried.
Murasakibara also brings an interesting question which is related to the real world. Does hard work beat natural talents?
You can argue that hard work will pay off in the end, but not all the time. Sometimes no matter how hard you work you just can't beat natural talents. Of course, Kuroko taught us that hard work will pay off in the end in the Yosen match, but sometimes it doesn't like in the 1st Touou match where they went against Aomine.
Aomine is more of a "Poor him" character than a "I can relate to him" character.
He truly loves playing basketball, and was really good in it. He always gave it his all in the games but then people just gave up when they went against him. You can't enjoy a game where your opponent just stands there and let you do whatever you want. And so he gave up too. He knew he was too good so he just decided to become lazy and not play seriously all the time. All he wanted was a person who was on par with him where he could just play as hard as he could.
Thankfully, he found Kagami (or AoKise shipper would say he found Kise first) and after he was defeated by Kagami and Kuroko he sort of snapped out of it and became our favourite basketball-idiot.
Then, there's the case of the GoM being the biggest jerks on Earth.
Arggh just thinking about it makes me mad. Okay, so this is the biggest spoiler ever so WARNING!
Kuroko had this best friend in elementary school named Ogiwara and they played basketball together. They made a promise with each other that they will have a good match in the future with their respective teams. When the match came the GoMs were all already crazy and Kuroko was injured so he couldn't participate in the match. So he begged Akashi to play a good game and not hold back (because when you love basketball so much you don't want people taking you lightly and holding back and it makes you work even harder to win).
But Akashi at the time was already broken and psycho. If I'm not mistaken it was Ogiwara, who had a free shot but he missed. Murasakibara caught the ball and said "We gave you a chance but you missed? Looks like I'll do it" and he shoot the ball into their own hoop, which gave Ogiwara's team 1 point. And then the buzzer sounded which means the end of the game and everyone was shocked when they saw the scoreboard.
111-11
It was all planned by Akashi. Which was why Murasakibara scored an own goal, just to make it that score. It made Ogiwara's team feel like "Everything we did was what they expected? The goals we scored were the ones they allowed us to?"
Seriously, it was so mean, rude, basically EVIL. Kuroko cried like crazy when he found out Akashi planned it. It broke my heart seeing Kuroko cry and I'm sure everyone wanted to kill Akashi then (which was weird how he got a high ranking in the character votes. Must be the pretty face).
Anyway, whenever I see or hear 111-11 my heart just sort of clenches.
This post was supposed to be about why I like KnB not a rundown of the plot, okay, sorry, got carried away.
Maybe I should just make a list.
1. The characters
Most of the characters are well-developed and as I mentioned before, you can relate to them. And there's also a lot of antagonist-killer, aka backstory. Seriously, backstories can even make Maleficient a good person. You might hate Akashi now, but by the end of the series you'll cry and say "Akashi you poor baby lemme give you a hug!" (Hanamiya doesn't have any backstory defending the way he is now, but I can't seem to hate him. I like him actually. Hmm.. must be his voice - Fukuyama Jun btw, so hot)
Also, I never knew basketball players were all good looking. Or that having coloured hair that matches your name makes you a prodigy. I don't mind cos I like this kind of stuff.
2. The matches
I've never watched a basketball match before and I have no idea about basketball besides the ball being very bouncy. However, I still can enjoy all the matches and as the show goes on you learn about all the rules and technical terms. Of course most of the matches end with 1 or 2 difference in scores but hey, they have to keep you on the edge of your seat till the end or else it'll be boring right? Combined with killer soundtracks, you really feel the excitement of the game. It's awesome.
3. The powers
Okay, most people argue that KnB has supernatural powers and was like Prince of Tennis. I've never watched Prince of Tennis but from what I've heard they could destroy a house with playing tennis so I'm guessing it's pretty crazy. But I don't think KnB is that crazy.
Kagami's jump are just powerful, Kuroko having low presence is fine and all his techniques are trick of the eye, Kise's copy is a bit far-fetched, Aomine is just awesome, being in 'The Zone' is a real thing, Midorima's threes I admit is supernatural, Murasakibara is just strong, Akashi's eyes are exaggerated but Ankle-Breaking is possible.
Midorima's threes are the really crazy stuff. But somehow, the crazy stuffs are sometimes explained and you sort of get it,you know. Like Kise's Perfect Copy, how they explained the way Kise uses more power in his shooting arm to get the high arc Midorima makes, or how he lowers his min speed to create the same change of pace as Aomine.
Some of it is kinda unrealistic, but hey, it's an anime anyway people
4. The epic lines full of feels
I swear some of the lines in KnB are just so moving and motivational and sometimes just gives you all these feels. I'll list some of my favourites.
"The possibility is only 0% when all the players give up. I refuse to make it 0% myself" - Kuroko Tetsuya
"We don't protect each other because we're a team. We're a team because we protect each other" - Kiyoshi Teppei
"A team is not just something to be protected. A team also protects you" - Kiyoshi Teppei
"There's no such thing as a useless effort" - Kagami Taiga
"No one that loves basketball is a bad guy" - Aomine Daiki
"A burden? No one on this team is a burden. I have confidence that everyone on this team has done all he can" - Midorima Shintarou
"I really want to play more basketball with these guys" - Takao Kazunari
"There's no shame in falling down. True shame is not getting up again" - Midorima Shintarou
There's so many more epic moments and lines but I can't remember anymore. So I guess that's it.
It's already late and I'm getting sleepy so I'll stop here. This post is actually more of a rant on KnB or a syok sendiri post HAH~!
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