Kuroko is well-known for being the ‘sixth man’ of Teikou High School’s Generation of Miracles, which is said to be the strongest basketball team at the time. He is a polite guy who always talks in a formal and gentle tone. He once said that he cannot yell, so he had to use a megaphone when he underwent Seirin High School’s basketball club test, which required the applicants to shout their goals in front of Seirin’s student mass. Kuroko declared that his goal in joining Seirin’s basketball club is to defeat the Generation of Miracles, the team that he used to play with. He also promised that he would make his fellow teammate, Kagami Taiga, the strongest basketball player in Japan. To fulfill that promise, he pledged to Kagami to take a role as Kagami’s shadow. Looking at what he’s trying to achieve, Kuroko might sound like he’s a very ambitious person who just wants to be the number one at basketball, but that’s not entirely true. Kuroko had a reason to leave the Generation of Miracles, and that is because he felt that there’s something wrong with their basketball way. At first, Kuroko admired his former team, because each of the five team members has an incredible talent in basketball. He also respected the way they pursue their goal for the team and put a lot of effort to win every match. However, they grew to be arrogant and eventually, all that they care about is only about winning. Little by little, they started to forget the meaning of teamwork, and the Generation of Miracles turned into a very individualistic basketball team. Kuroko thought that achieving victory is important, but he also thought that there is more to basketball than victory alone. He turned to hate their way of playing basketball, and in time, he turned to hate his team.
Seirin’s basketball team’s view on basketball is exactly the opposite of his previous team. They care about winning, but more importantly, they care about their teamwork and bond as teammates and friends. All of them are very passionate about baseball, especially Kagami Taiga, who really loves basketball and always seems to be really happy when he plays. This orientation is what Kuroko had been looking for in a basketball team, and this is what made Kuroko believe that Seirin can surpass Teikou’s Generation of Miracles. In the team, Kuroko has the utmost respect for the other senior members and the coach. He’d never intentionally do or say anything that would make them angry, and he always listens to what they instruct him to do. He fears Riko, Seirin’s coach, as much as the other members do, and if Riko wants him to stay at the bench during a game, he’d obey. Except for some occassions when he feels that he really need to get in the game, that is. Kuroko is what you call ‘a man with a thin shadow’. Usually, people who meet Kuroko wouldn’t even notice that he is there, until he says a word! A running gag in the story is that people ask him how long he has been there, and he would answer with, “I’ve been here all this time.” This lack of presence is what granted him a skill called ‘misdirection’. Thanks to this ‘misdirection’ skill, he was able to stand equal with the Generations of Miracles. It was Akashi, the leader of the Generation of Miracles, who discovered this skill, and Kuroko respected him for that.
Kuroko has a small and fragile appearance he almost looks like a weakling. This is what makes people often doubt whether he is dependable or not. It is true that Kuroko is not really athletic, nor does he have a well-built body. Aside from the basic techniques of basketball which he often fails at, he doesn’t have any impressive skill as well, unlike others who are considered talented. However, he is by no means useless at all. Kuroko’s strong points are his brain and his ability to stay level-headed in any given situation. When his team is put on a pinch, he would come up with a strong strategy and tactical plan instead of relying on raw strength to counterattack. With his observant nature, he always manages to read other people’s habits and tendencies, thus making him able to conduct a plan with a high probability of success, especially for his team. However, high probability doesn’t mean that his plans are infallible. There are also times when his plans are being thwarted easily, even though Kuroko had put his every might to build them. Kuroko started his basketball club activity on junior high school. He was driven into it because he had wanted to compete with his best friend at a league, and they had made a promise that they will someday. He was pretty ambitious to fulfill the promise that he worked hard to be a regular player in Teikou’s basketball club which had the tightest competition among its members. Although it was hard, Kuroko was not the kind of person to give up easily. He worked really hard, and he’d stay longer than the other club members to get extra practice time.
Kuroko is quite an individual person. It is rare to find him asking another person for help, unless it’s for teamwork and strategy. He is known mostly for being cool, quiet, calm, rarely expresses himself, contented, independent, and monotone when speaking. Through his junior high time until he reached senior high school, he remained that way. Kuroko is the hardest kind of person to get close to, let alone befriend. He is not an antisocial, though. He is able to adapt with people, but he is picky about who are allowed and not allowed to enter his circle. Perhaps, it is because he is a really calm and quiet person that he is not easily attached to others. But being calm doesn’t mean that Kuroko is without emotion. He looked totally composed and fine even after he almost got rejected from Teikou, but when he was left alone, he broke into tears of despair.
The proof that Kuroko is not an antisocial person could be seen through how he got along well with the Generation of Miracles. He even had gotten attached to a few of the members. Daiki Aomine is the prime example, as he was a person who had influenced Kuroko a lot. Kuroko shows his emotion the most when he’s facing Aomine, expecially because of his ambition to beat every single member of the Generation of Miracles which he felt had no righteousness in their basketball way. The truth is, Aomine plays a large part in Kuroko’s basketball goal, because Aomine’s attitude toward basketball is the one thing that Kuroko wanted to change the most. To Kuroko, Aomine is no longer the same as when they were best mates. He used to be always smiling every time he plays basketball, but now, he never does it again. This emotion drives Kuroko strongly that even the Seirin team members realize, Kuroko is less composed when he’s facing Aomine’s team.
In his daily life with Seirin, Kuroko often acts as a pacifier when his teammates lose their tempers. Kuroko is an observant and critical thinker, and he leans toward rational thought rather than emotion. Thus, he always manages to calm everyone down whenever they’re about to snap. This trait of his got recognized by Seirin’s coach, Riko. She has been using Kuroko often since, in order to calm down the team, especially Kagami, whenever they’re in a high tension or a breakdown. That being said, even Kuroko has his limits. There were some occassions when he was the one who breaks, and, reversed from their usual role, Kagami was the one who brought him back.
Kuroko is also able to become furious at times. This was shown when he found out the dirty tricks of one of his opponent teams, Kirisaki Daiichi High School. The team members—especially Makoto Hanamiya—always cheat on their game, and Kuroko wasn’t able to let that slide. Kuroko respects his seniors in Seirin, and the team of Kirisaki Daiichi made one of his seniors, Teppei, suffer a serious injury during a game, and it was unlikely for him to play basketball anymore. This made Kuroko burst into rage during the game. Kuroko hates anyone who cheats on basketball, because he loves basketball from his heart and he always believes that the true happiness of an achievement comes after you’ve won something with the effort and hard work you gave at the thing you love. This is also what made him fight fiercely when he faced Murasakibara, one of the Generation of Miracles. Murasakibara believed that even if you love something and put a lot of effort at it, there’s no meaning to it if you’re not talented and always remain to be a loser. They obviously would clash when their ideals are brought together.
Being rational, cool, and contented doesn’t mean Kuroko would always be tense and all serious. Sometimes he could pick up some jokes, and even pranks, just like when he forced Kagami to pat a puppy found by Seirin’s team members even though he knew that Kagami had phobia against dogs. His lack of presence and the reaction of people who finally notice him is an amusing comedy situation, along with his sarcastic comments, which are often thrown at just the right timing. In other words, Kuroko is a deadpan snarker.
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Kuroko is well-known for being the ‘sixth man’ of Teikou High School’s Generation of Miracles, which is said to be the strongest basketball team at the time. He is a polite guy who always talks in a formal and gentle tone. He once said that he cannot yell, so he had to use a megaphone when he underwent Seirin High School’s basketball club test, which required the applicants to shout their goals in front of Seirin’s student mass.
Kuroko declared that his goal in joining Seirin’s basketball club is to defeat the Generation of Miracles, the team that he used to play with. He also promised that he would make his fellow teammate, Kagami Taiga, the strongest basketball player in Japan. To fulfill that promise, he pledged to Kagami to take a role as Kagami’s shadow. Looking at what he’s trying to achieve, Kuroko might sound like he’s a very ambitious person who just wants to be the number one at basketball, but that’s not entirely true. Kuroko had a reason to leave the Generation of Miracles, and that is because he felt that there’s something wrong with their basketball way.
At first, Kuroko admired his former team, because each of the five team members has an incredible talent in basketball. He also respected the way they pursue their goal for the team and put a lot of effort to win every match. However, they grew to be arrogant and eventually, all that they care about is only about winning. Little by little, they started to forget the meaning of teamwork, and the Generation of Miracles turned into a very individualistic basketball team. Kuroko thought that achieving victory is important, but he also thought that there is more to basketball than victory alone. He turned to hate their way of playing basketball, and in time, he turned to hate his team.
Seirin’s basketball team’s view on basketball is exactly the opposite of his previous team. They care about winning, but more importantly, they care about their teamwork and bond as teammates and friends. All of them are very passionate about baseball, especially Kagami Taiga, who really loves basketball and always seems to be really happy when he plays. This orientation is what Kuroko had been looking for in a basketball team, and this is what made Kuroko believe that Seirin can surpass Teikou’s Generation of Miracles.
In the team, Kuroko has the utmost respect for the other senior members and the coach. He’d never intentionally do or say anything that would make them angry, and he always listens to what they instruct him to do. He fears Riko, Seirin’s coach, as much as the other members do, and if Riko wants him to stay at the bench during a game, he’d obey. Except for some occassions when he feels that he really need to get in the game, that is.
Kuroko is what you call ‘a man with a thin shadow’. Usually, people who meet Kuroko wouldn’t even notice that he is there, until he says a word! A running gag in the story is that people ask him how long he has been there, and he would answer with, “I’ve been here all this time.” This lack of presence is what granted him a skill called ‘misdirection’. Thanks to this ‘misdirection’ skill, he was able to stand equal with the Generations of Miracles. It was Akashi, the leader of the Generation of Miracles, who discovered this skill, and Kuroko respected him for that.
Kuroko has a small and fragile appearance he almost looks like a weakling. This is what makes people often doubt whether he is dependable or not. It is true that Kuroko is not really athletic, nor does he have a well-built body. Aside from the basic techniques of basketball which he often fails at, he doesn’t have any impressive skill as well, unlike others who are considered talented. However, he is by no means useless at all. Kuroko’s strong points are his brain and his ability to stay level-headed in any given situation. When his team is put on a pinch, he would come up with a strong strategy and tactical plan instead of relying on raw strength to counterattack. With his observant nature, he always manages to read other people’s habits and tendencies, thus making him able to conduct a plan with a high probability of success, especially for his team. However, high probability doesn’t mean that his plans are infallible. There are also times when his plans are being thwarted easily, even though Kuroko had put his every might to build them.
Kuroko started his basketball club activity on junior high school. He was driven into it because he had wanted to compete with his best friend at a league, and they had made a promise that they will someday. He was pretty ambitious to fulfill the promise that he worked hard to be a regular player in Teikou’s basketball club which had the tightest competition among its members. Although it was hard, Kuroko was not the kind of person to give up easily. He worked really hard, and he’d stay longer than the other club members to get extra practice time.
Kuroko is quite an individual person. It is rare to find him asking another person for help, unless it’s for teamwork and strategy. He is known mostly for being cool, quiet, calm, rarely expresses himself, contented, independent, and monotone when speaking. Through his junior high time until he reached senior high school, he remained that way. Kuroko is the hardest kind of person to get close to, let alone befriend. He is not an antisocial, though. He is able to adapt with people, but he is picky about who are allowed and not allowed to enter his circle. Perhaps, it is because he is a really calm and quiet person that he is not easily attached to others. But being calm doesn’t mean that Kuroko is without emotion. He looked totally composed and fine even after he almost got rejected from Teikou, but when he was left alone, he broke into tears of despair.
The proof that Kuroko is not an antisocial person could be seen through how he got along well with the Generation of Miracles. He even had gotten attached to a few of the members. Daiki Aomine is the prime example, as he was a person who had influenced Kuroko a lot. Kuroko shows his emotion the most when he’s facing Aomine, expecially because of his ambition to beat every single member of the Generation of Miracles which he felt had no righteousness in their basketball way. The truth is, Aomine plays a large part in Kuroko’s basketball goal, because Aomine’s attitude toward basketball is the one thing that Kuroko wanted to change the most. To Kuroko, Aomine is no longer the same as when they were best mates. He used to be always smiling every time he plays basketball, but now, he never does it again. This emotion drives Kuroko strongly that even the Seirin team members realize, Kuroko is less composed when he’s facing Aomine’s team.
In his daily life with Seirin, Kuroko often acts as a pacifier when his teammates lose their tempers. Kuroko is an observant and critical thinker, and he leans toward rational thought rather than emotion. Thus, he always manages to calm everyone down whenever they’re about to snap. This trait of his got recognized by Seirin’s coach, Riko. She has been using Kuroko often since, in order to calm down the team, especially Kagami, whenever they’re in a high tension or a breakdown. That being said, even Kuroko has his limits. There were some occassions when he was the one who breaks, and, reversed from their usual role, Kagami was the one who brought him back.
Kuroko is also able to become furious at times. This was shown when he found out the dirty tricks of one of his opponent teams, Kirisaki Daiichi High School. The team members—especially Makoto Hanamiya—always cheat on their game, and Kuroko wasn’t able to let that slide. Kuroko respects his seniors in Seirin, and the team of Kirisaki Daiichi made one of his seniors, Teppei, suffer a serious injury during a game, and it was unlikely for him to play basketball anymore. This made Kuroko burst into rage during the game. Kuroko hates anyone who cheats on basketball, because he loves basketball from his heart and he always believes that the true happiness of an achievement comes after you’ve won something with the effort and hard work you gave at the thing you love. This is also what made him fight fiercely when he faced Murasakibara, one of the Generation of Miracles. Murasakibara believed that even if you love something and put a lot of effort at it, there’s no meaning to it if you’re not talented and always remain to be a loser. They obviously would clash when their ideals are brought together.
Being rational, cool, and contented doesn’t mean Kuroko would always be tense and all serious. Sometimes he could pick up some jokes, and even pranks, just like when he forced Kagami to pat a puppy found by Seirin’s team members even though he knew that Kagami had phobia against dogs. His lack of presence and the reaction of people who finally notice him is an amusing comedy situation, along with his sarcastic comments, which are often thrown at just the right timing. In other words, Kuroko is a deadpan snarker.