Kuroko no Basket (Basket =Basketball in Japanese written in Katagana) is addictive!!
I honestly love this man. Okie, granted it's a shounen manga and it's all about basketball but it's damn addictive. Spent last 2 days reading the manga non stop because it was really hard to put down a good storyline.
If you like SlamDunk, I think you will like this though it's direction reminds me more of Prince of Tennis. Even a couple characters drawn reminded me somewhat of Prince of Tennis. Unless u are a die hard romance Shoujo manga reader only and doesnt care a hood about good storytelling, then this should interest you. It's also rather comical in some chapters that had been laughing quite a bit!
The story starts with a brand new high school Seirin with a brand new basketball team which is only 1 year old, and the seniors doing their recruitment drive. In comes the main character Kagami kun who is determined to be the No1 Basketball player in Japan. Then comes in the other lead character, a mysterious veteran player that no one seemed to "notice".
Apparently, in the middle school, there is one school that dominates the whole game throughout because it has 6 super talented and amazing prodigies players labelled as "Generation of Miracles". They have never lost, have super skills and amazing precision. However, people only rem the 5 players and the 6th was the phantom player and no one knows what he does or who he is.
So the story starts there where the phantom player is Kuroko Tetsuya, someone with so little presence that people always do not notice his existence and that was his skill in basketball. he acknowledges Kagami's burning passion and love for the game and made a pact with him to be his "shadow" and enable him to achieve his wish as No.1.
The chapters developed, about friendship, determination, and challenges they faced with each competition. One by one, Kagami and Kuroko starts to face his past teammates in competitions and that's the exciting part. There's no filler chapters, each week is filled with excitement one after another!
I'm reading up to chapter 140 and still suckered in. Reading pace gotten slower because for the last 4 chapters are no "subbed" and in Japanese so that took a bit longer to digest. However, it's so good that I really cannot just start at the cliff hanger!!
Personally, I like this even better than Prince of Tennis! I want to see how Kuroko developed his skills and grow! Luckily there isnt any major love scene in this series yet and please please stay that way so as not to detract from the focus, The Game!!!
Currently, they have adapted the manga into anime and it's into Ep 3. Those interested can watch the English subbed anime here.
http://anilinkz.com/kuroko-no-basket-episode-1
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