Kuroko's Basketball

The Seirin High School basketball team was going through intense practice to prepare for the all-out war against the Generation of Miracles at the Winter Cup. On one of their days off, Kuroko and company were taking part in a street basketball tournament, and they bump into Tatsuya Himuro, who was Kagami's elder-brother figure back in the United States.

Atsushi Murasakibara of the Generation of Miracles showed up at a street basketball tournament. Murasakibara's lax attitude seems to belie his giant physique, but he falls for Kagami's taunting and suddenly decides to join the tournament. Kiyoshi, seeing Murasakibara, goes at full throttle from the beginning of the match.

The qualifiers for the Winter Cup finally begin. Seirin's first opponent was Josei High School, featuring the tall new center Narumi who's very strong in the paint. Josei chooses to thoroughly guard Kagami to shut down the game in the paint, but Seirin was much more powerful than before thanks to Kiyoshi's return.

The four schools for the finals league that will determine the two schools representing Tokyo in the Winter Cup have been determined. Seirin first blasts past the reigning Senshinkan. Meanwhile, Midorima and Shutoku High School easily defeat Kirisaki Daiichi, but Kirisaki's first-string team members didn't participate in the Shutoku game and were instead watching and analyzing Seirin's game.

Even in the second quarter, Midorima's shots keep getting blocked by Kagami. The play that Midorima shows Kagami, who struggles to not get shaken off, was a play style that was unthinkable to him before. Shutoku's power as a team, which was boosted by leaps and bounds as a result, bares its fangs at Seirin!

Right before the end of the third quarter, Seirin cuts their trump card and puts Kuroko in. Kuroko uses his new trick, the Vanishing Drive, to blow past Midorima and Takao for several points in a row to tie the score. And in the fourth quarter, by adding Kuroko into the high-speed pass work, they fight back with their kaleidoscopic run-and-gun style.

The battle between Seirin and Shutoku, after both schools gave it everything they've got, ended in a draw. Kuroko and Midorima vow for a rematch at the Winter Cup. Meanwhile, Kagami accidentally overhears Kiyoshi and Hyuga's conversation in the locker room after the game and is shocked. Kiyoshi, withholding his knee pain, says, "This year is my last chance"...

Hyuga, who shrugged everything off and decided to face basketball again, and Riko, who felt how earnest the team members were as they declared their intents on the rooftop, join the team. Seirin's basketball team seriously starts up with their addition. Though their personaliies don't mesh together, Seirin shows an extraordinary advance as a brand-new school.

The final match of the Winter Cup preliminary league, the game between Seirin and Kirisaki Daiichi, began. Hyuga and the Seirin members are worked up facing their nemesis. Kuroko lands a Vanishing Drive as soon as the game starts. It seems like they got the flow of the game, but the Kirisaki Daiichi players engage in rough play in the refs' blind spots.

Thanks to Kiyoshi putting up a good fight physically, Seirin manages to end the second quarter in the lead. Seeing Hanamiya ridicule Kiyoshi and show an insincere attitude towards basketball, Kuroko's anger quietly burns. Entering the third quarter, Kirisaki Daiichi finally introduces Seto.

Convinced by Hyuga and Riko, Kiyoshi, who is bruised all over, falls back to the bench. As both sides fiercely fight for the lead, Hyuga, who had been trapped by his anger for Hanamiya, realizes that the promise he made Kiyoshi was not "to defeat Hanamiya" but "to become number one in Japan" and finally regains his true strength.

With the advancement to the Winter Cup decided, the Seirin members heal their bodies at a hot-springs resort. At the resort, they bump into the Too Gakuen players who just played a practice match nearby. They thought it a coincidence, but Imayoshi and his team said they dropped by to say hi, as the first-round opponent in the recently announced Winter Cup brackets was none other than Too Gakuen

Kagami had separated himself from all other teammates and was practicing under his old mentor from his days in the States. And finally, the Winter Cup begins. After the opening ceremonies, Rakuzan High School's Akashi, the captain of the Generation of Miracles, called out for all Generation of Miracle teammates including Kuroko to gather in one place.

Tôô manages to score first with Aomine's attack as soon as the game begins, but Seirin fights back with Kuroko's new move "Ignite Pass Kai" and Kiyoshi's Right of Postponement. However, they cannot quite overcome the fundamental strength that Tôô has. The ace match between Kagami and Aomine, believed to be red-hot, surprises the audience as Kagami doesn't rush in.

With his new move defeated by Aomine, all of Kuroko's efforts to date were completely denied, leaving Kuroko to shed tears of regret on the bench. With those emotions in mind, Kagami challenges Aomine with stronger feelings than ever before––and he finally awakens!

Not only was Imayoshi acting to shut Kuroko down, Tôô's defense uses Momoi's data and predictions to completely shut out all offense from Seirin. Aomine shows a power stronger than the awakened Kagami and shows that he is in a different class. The lead gradually grows, and misdirection has become ineffective...

Aomine meets Tetsuya Kuroko practising alone at the 4th gymnasium of Teikou Junior High. Despite being a third-string player, Kuroko continued to practice hard. His determination and love for the sport resonated with Aomine. However, no matter how much they practised, the gap between them never narrowed.

In the fourth quarter, Seirin fights back against Tôô with team play, but since both teams are scoring, the lead doesn't diminish at all. However, the desperation triple-team move by Kuroko, Kagami, and Kiyoshi finally manages to stop Aomine, and the lead dwindles to three points.Can nobody stop Aomine now...? The fate of Seirin now rides on their ace, Kagami!

Kagami, with the emotions of his teammates on his shoulders, enters the ZONE alongside Aomine. No one could interfere with the battle between the two, which was at a whole new level, but Aomine somehow looked like he was having fun. In the eleventh hour, Kagami overpowers Aomine, but Aomine won't budge and with only a few seconds left, there was still a three-point lead...

Winning the first game of the Winter Cup, the Seirin team members were enjoying a brief respite at Kagami's place. Suddenly, a beautiful, voluptuous blonde beauty shows up. Her name was Alex. She was the one who was Kagami and Himuro's basketball coach when they lived in the United States, and she flew out to Japan so that she could see the match between her two beloved students.

The second round of the Winter Cup was against Nakamiya Minami. Seirin, in accordance with Riko's command, decides to leave Kuroko and Kagami out of the starting lineup, but the others had an unexpectedly hard time due to everyone not playing at full potential. However, they manage to somehow secure the victory with the strong feeling that they were going to be the national champions of Japan.

The quarter-finals. The game against Yosen High School, led by Murasakibara of the Generation of Miracles and Himuro, Kagami's elder-brother figure from his days in the USA, finally begins! Facing the impregnable defense the "Aegis Shield," which led Yosen to win until now with zero points scored against them.

Seirin makes a huge comeback run starting with a score from Kuroko. Hyuga and Kiyoshi, in order to change their inferior situation, go out with secret tactics to overcome Yosen's impregnable defense known as the "Aegis Shield." Kiyoshi irritates Murasakibara with clever tactics, but due to the risky physical play, his entire body was starting to scream in agony...

Murasakibara finally joined in on the offense! Seirin triple-teams in an effort to block him,and they are blown away with his powerful dunk called Thor's Hammer. Kiyoshi falls onto the court, with both body and soul spent; The Seirin team, starting with Kuroko who came in to replace Kiyoshi, all swear they will get their revenge and start to fight back with their new formation!

Seirin, in their predicament, fights against Yosen with Stealth All-Court Man-to-Man Defense, their new formation that can take best advantage of Kuroko's steals. Kiyoshi, who was back on the bench, puts his bets on re-entering the game and seeks a reckless recovery method together with Riko.