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Seirin High School

Tetsuya Kuroko

The protagonist of the manga - pretty obvious given his name is in the title - he was a member of the Generation of Miracles team in his middle school days. Together with Kagami, he now aims to bring all of them down.

Voiced by: Kensho Ono


  • Benched Hero: In the match against Seihou. The secondary reason is so that he can save his energy for the next match against Shuutoku, the primary reason is that the seniors want to avenge their loss against Seihou themselves.
  • Berserk Button: Yeah, he's apathetic most of time but insult or injure his sempais' or friends.... you'd better watch out.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: See above
  • Confusion Fu
  • Curtains Match the Window
  • Deadpan Snarker
  • Foil: To Kagami.
  • High Hopes, Zero Talent: Kuroko was initially this when he was at Teikou, where despite being terrible at the game, he continued playing because of his love for basketball. Subverted later on when he gains his skill of misdirection.
  • Meaningful Name: His name is also the name of stagehands in japanese theater who dress in black and are supposed to be perceived as invisible by the audience.
  • The Nicknamer: Only one instance but...

Riko: His name is Papa Mbaye Siki.
Hyuuga: That Papa Nbai ... what was it?
Kagami: Papa Nba...
Riko: Kuroko-kun! Find a nickname for this guy!
Kuroko: *thinks* 'Papa.' .... Dad.

  • The Nondescript: His ability is a weaponized version of "being ignored": his misdirection skills gives him an advantage in steals, and his assists become nigh unpredictable. But even off-court, his teammates tend to forget he's there.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: With Kagami. If you can't tell who's who, it's...
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience.
    • Averted back in Teikou when his light is Aomine whose color palette is darker shade of his.
  • Sixth Ranger: Because of the nature of his basketball, he tends to be this.
  • Spock Speak: He tends to speak very calmly and politely.
  • Stealth Hi Bye
  • The Stoic
  • Team Spirit: His personal philosophy when it comes to basketball.
  • Weak but Skilled: He doesn't have the talent or the build for basketball, but because of his highly refined and practiced skill at misdirection, he was able to achieve the status of the "Phantom Sixth Player" of the legendary Generation of Miracles. The other genius members of the team also acknowledge his skills, which is definitely saying something considering how arrogant all of them are.
  • You Gotta Have Blue Hair: An especially explicit example, considering he manages to have light blue hair and yet go completely unnoticed, not only in everyday life, but during basketball games, when there are only nine other people besides him on the court.

Taiga Kagami

An extraordinary basketball player, he lived in the United States until partway through middle school. After returning, he finds himself disappointed at the level of basketball in Japan. After learning about the Generation of Miracles, he makes it his goal to take them down with the help of Kuroko.

Voiced by: Yuuki Ono


  • The Ace: For Seirin High.
  • Big Eater: Eats at least thirty hamburgers in one go. Multiple times. Finished X number of 4kg super prime steaks in thirty minutes. Wherein X = the number of Seirin basketball players.
  • Book Dumb: Unbelievably so. Even his English grades are terrible. And he'd just come back from living in the United States for years.
  • Curtains Match the Window
  • Expy: Of Sakuragi. Just look at the tropes after Foil.
  • Foil: To Kuroko.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: He gets somewhat better as the plot goes on, but it's still a continuing issue for him.
  • The Hero: In regards to his place on the Seirin team. In terms of plot significance, he's more of a Deuteragonist.
  • Fiery Redhead
  • Hot-Blooded
  • Idiot Hero
  • In a Single Bound: His jumps.
  • Naive Newcomer: Well not to the sport of basketball, but he is one to the Japanese high school basketball circuit. He doesn't know many of the players from the other teams that Kuroko and the rest know from playing basketball in middle school. More often than not, he's the one asking who's who, prompting someone else on the team to reply him and the audience.
  • Redheaded Hero
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Him and Kuroko. If you can't tell who's who, it's Color-Coded for Your Convenience.
  • Why Did It Have To Be Dogs/Ghost: Doesn't turn out well for him when Kuroko decides to adopt a dog as a Team Pet.
    • In light novel, it revealed he is also afraid of ghost, and of all things He is scared shirtless by classic trick flashlight from below by Kuroko.

Riko Aida

A second year student at Seirin who's also the coach and manager of the Seirin basketball club. She managed to take the team to the Regionals in her first year of coaching them.

Voiced by: Chiwa Saitou


Junpei Hyuuga

The captain of the Seirin basketball team.

Voiced by: Yoshimasa Hosoya


Shun Izuki

Voiced by: Hirofumi Nojima


Rinnosuke Mitobe


Shinji Koganei

Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi


Satoshi Tsuchida

Voiced by: Tsuyoshi Inoue


  • Demoted to Extra: Not that he was ever that important to begin with, but as the plot goes on, it's very easy to forget that he's one of the Seirin regulars.

Teppei Kiyoshi


Kaijou High School

Ryouta Kise

A former member of the Teikou Middle School Basketball Team, another member of the Generation of Miracles. Was the last to join the GOM, and acknowledged to be the weakest member of the team. That said, being the weakest member of the GOM doesn't mean he can't curb stomp everyone else. He was the first of the GOM to show up.

Voiced by: Ryohei Kimura


Yukio Kasamatsu

Voiced by: Soichiro Hoshi


Mitsuhiro Hayakawa

Voiced by: Kazunori Nomata


Yoshitaka Moriyama

Voiced by: Tomoyuki Higuchi


Shuutoku High School

Shintarou Midorima

Formerly the shooting guard of the Teikou Middle School Basketball Team, he's also a member of the Generation of Miracles. He was the second member of the team to appear.

Voiced by: Daisuke Ono


  • The Ace: For Shuutoku.
  • Because Destiny Says So: He runs on this. He follows morning horoscopes religiously, and gets quite pissed off at Kuroko's attempts to Screw Destiny.
  • Bunny Ears Lawyer: The whole horoscope bit. He checks his horoscope everyday, buys and carries his daily lucky item around him without fail and makes sure no one messes with his lucky item. But he's this trope because he's a phenomenally good shooter, and even does things like tape his fingers off the court to protect them, believing even the slightest injury can throw his shots off.
    • The whole horoscope thing might actually be true too since the first time someone messes with his lucky teddy bear, Shuutoku loses to Seirin.

Ootsubo: I guess it's fine since the coach asked me to forgive three of your whims everyday.

Kazunari Takao

Voiced by: Tatsuhisa Suzuki


Taisuke Ootsubo

Voiced by: Kensuke Satou


Kiyoshi Miyagi

Voiced by: Masayuki Shouji


Shinsuke Kimura

Voiced by: Biichi Satou


Touou High School

Daiki Aomine

The former ace of the Teikou Middle School Basketball Team, he's a member of the Generation of Miracles. Acknowledged to be the best one-on-one basketball player among the six. He was close to Kuroko even before Kuroko became a member of the GOM, taking the time to train Kuroko despite Kuroko being only a third-string basketball player then.

Voiced by: Junichi Suwabe


Satsuki Momoi

Manager of the Touou High Basketball Club. The former manager of the Generation of Miracles, she is also a childhood friend of Aomine's. She has a crush on Kuroko.

Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa


Shoichi Imayoshi

Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai


Ryou Sakurai

Voiced by: Nobunaga Shimazaki


Kousuke Wakamatsu

Voiced by: Kosuke Toriumi


Yoshinori Susa

Yousen High School

Atsushi Murasakibara

The former centre of the Teikou Middle School Basketball Team and a member of the Generation of Miracles. He listens to no one but Akashi and still does even though they are currently in different schools. He didn't play for Yousen in the National High School Basketball Tournament finals because Akashi told him not to.

Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura


Tatsuya Himuro


Kenichi Okamura


Kensuke Fukui

Wei Liu

Rakuzan High School

Seijuuro Akashi

Formerly the captain and point guard of the Teikou Middle School Basketball Team, he's the leader of the Generation of Miracles. He was the one who discovered Kuroko's ability of misdirection, and despite the fact his team is filled with egocentric geniuses, they all listen to him. Evidenced by how the entire Generation of Miracles team turned up when he summoned them, and how Midorima lent him his scissors while he refused to lend it to Murasakibara.


Voiced by: Hiroshi Kamiya



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