Seirin High team fought Ryota Kise's team first in a practice match. The Generation of Miracles include Ryota Kise, Shintaro Midorima, Daiki Aomine, Atsushi Murasakibara, and Seijuro Akashi. The series chronicles Seirin's rise to become Japan's number one high school team. Now, Tetsuya Kuroko – the sixth member of the 'Generation of Miracles', and Taiga Kagami – 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. This mysterious player is now a freshman at Seirin High, a new school with a powerful, if little-known, team. However, a fact known to few is that there was another player in the 'Generation of Miracles': a phantom sixth man.

After graduating from middle school, the five star players went to different high schools with top basketball teams. The all-star players of the team became known as the Generation of Miracles. The Teiko Junior High basketball team rose to distinction by demolishing basketball teams within Japan, winning the junior high Nationals for three consecutive years. Main article: List of Kuroko's Basketball characters

As of November 2020, Kuroko's Basketball had over 31 million copies in circulation. The manga has been licensed for English-language release by Viz Media in North America.

A stage play adaptation opened in April 2016 followed by more stage adaptations. An anime film adaptation of the Kuroko's Basketball: Extra Game manga premiered in Japan in March 2017. A sequel manga by Fujimaki titled Kuroko's Basketball: Extra Game was serialized in Jump Next! from December 2014 to March 2016. It was adapted into an anime television series by Production I.G, which aired for three seasons from April 2012 to June 2015. It tells the story of a high school basketball team trying to make it to the national tournament. It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 2008 to September 2014, with the individual chapters collected into 30 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha. Kuroko's Basketball ( Japanese: 黒子のバスケ, Hepburn: Kuroko no Basuke, The Basketball Which Kuroko Plays in Japan) is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Tadatoshi Fujimaki.

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