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44. Kuroko's Basketball (2012)
SeabassDebeste (1/4)


This is a show about basketball. Just some plain old teens playing some plain old sport. But they have super powers. If you're looking for a grounded piece of fiction about sports, Kuroko's Basketball is about as far away from what you'd want. The storytelling thrives on creating characters with skill levels that far surpass the physical and cognitive capabilities of a human. Sometimes these are just exaggerations of the necessary skills of a good basketball player, like a guy who can perfectly analyze trajectory and momentum to successfully make a shot from anywhere on the court. Other times, it has no ceiling able to stop the sheer lunacy of the writing, like a character who can steal the abilities of other players by looking at them.

It's hard to actually recommend Kuroko's Basketball While it wholeheartedly embraces it's outlandish nature, anyone looking for a show about sports is probably better suited with a show that can control itself. The author of this may very well have just spent the entire story designing characters around random concepts that popped into his head. As a sports anime, Kuroko is far too insane to work. However, as a superpower battle shounen, Kuroko is excellent. It's a sprawling underdog story about a random dude entering the fray in the same year that the best basketball players ever began high school. He teams up with a teammate of these players, who spent most of his time on the bench, and went unnoticed by the community at large. Seiren, the school of these two protagonists, isn't all that well known, but they slowly gain steam and begin to challenge the "Generation of Miracles". The pacing of the series is one of it's best aspects. Seiren never feel like their improving too quickly, and they have their fair share of losses. The Generation of Miracles is meant to feel unbeatable, and it does a damn fine job of presenting them as powerful.

Of course, animation is where the show excels. Everything is so smooth and beautiful. While the bright colors make the characters look like fujoshi bait, they compliment the quick movements well. Each time a player uses their power, it's accompanied by excellent art and sound design to really hammer in how significant the powers are. It makes for an experience that feels unlike any other (Though my sports anime backlog is high). Even matches that are ultimately there for filler are cool as shit, because there was no holding back on the presentation The show does fall prey to a ton of tropes, but they're ultimately forgivable in the end, since the rest is pretty damn good.
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