“Kagami and Kuroko team up to defeat the legendary Generation of Miracles and make Seirin Japan's top basketball team.”
Kuroko's Basketball
黒子のバスケ
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Synopsis
Kagami and Kuroko team up to defeat the legendary Generation of Miracles and make Seirin Japan's top basketball team.
Teikou Middle School is famous for its highly renowned basketball team, which produced the famed "Generation of Miracles": a team of five prodigies, each with their own unique abilities, considered to be undefeatable by the time they became third years. However, blinded by pride, they split up, entering different high schools upon graduation. Taiga Kagami, having just returned from America, joins the basketball team at Seirin High School in search of strong team members. There, he finds Tetsuya Kuroko, a seemingly unimpressive player, only for Kagami to find out that Kuroko was the "Phantom Sixth Man" of the Generation of Miracles: an invisible player who used his impeccable passing skills to support the team from the shadows. Together, they resolve to defeat the Generation of Miracles and make the Seirin basketball team the best in Japan.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 13 sampled reviews
What 13 readers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.50 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↓ 1.38
Running avg · Mar 2012 → Aug 2025
- 8 “The story it's ok; the winter cup saga it's not surprising as the first part, and you can guess the end; also some character don't have much space that they deserve in the plot, all it's focused on...”
- 8 “A sports manga that is pretty iconic. IMO it dwells too much on flashbacks at points where they otherwise cut the tension but that is really my only critique, its a very enticing read, it really...”
- 8 “If not for Slam Dunk, I honestly going to give it a 9. Why? it's my first sports anime and I love it. I remember I was super crazy with this anime with my friend and bought many fanmade merchandise...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 276 × 30 ch × vol
- Total read 36h 48m approx
- Published Dec 2008 – Sep 2014
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M7784 catalog