Characters / Kuroko's Basketball

• Generation of Miracles ^note Kuroko Tetsuya, Kise Ryouta, Midorima Shintarou, Aomine Daiki, Momoi Satsuki, Murasakibara Atsushi, Akashi Seijuurou

Seirin High School

Tetsuya Kuroko

See Kuroko's Basketball: Generation of Miracles

Taiga Kagami

Position: Power Forward
Height/Weight: 190cm/82kg
Birthday: August 2nd (Leo)
Blood Type: A

Voiced by: Yuki Ono (Japanese), Zeno Robinson (English)

An extraordinary basketball player, he lived in the United States until partway through middle school. Upon 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.

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• The Ace: He's the best Seirin player when it comes to scoring and one-on-one matches.
• Affectionate Nickname: Bakagami.
• Animal Motifs: "Taiga" = Japanese rōmaji for "Tiger".
• Big Eater: He can eat 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 that couldn't finish their own; Kagami's body is pretty much an airplane powered by beef cattle.
• Blood Knight: Or the sport equivalent, anyway. His primary motivation and one of the reasons he loves to play so much is so that he can fight strong players, whether he wins or loses.
• Book Dumb: Unbelievably so. Even his English grades are terrible, despite being a fluent speaker. (This is somehow Justified, as most kids in school don't even pay attention that much to learning proper grammar).
• Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: Kagami injures his legs when he over-exerts himself guarding Midorima during their match with Shuutoku. While Seirin ultimately wins, his injuries continues to plague him going into the Inter-High tournament.
• Brutal Honesty: This often makes him come across as quite rude, especially at the beginning.
• But Now I Must Go: The Anime adaptation of EXTRA GAME ends with Kagami leaving Seirin and returning to America.
• Curtains Match the Window: He has reddish hair and eyes.
• Expy:
  • Of Hanamichi Sakuragi. Just look at the tropes after Foil. Even his jersey number and special ability are similar.
  • Though Kuroko gets all the fancy passes from Manu Ginobili, Taiga gets Manu's penchant for throwing passes between opposing players' legs.
• Faux Fluency: Kagami is presumed to be fluent in English due to his time in the US. The anime makes it clear that his VA is not, as he speaks English with a rather thick Japanese accent. His English grammar is still pretty understandable on the other hand.
• Fiery Redhead: He's a Hot-Blooded Lightning Bruiser with red hair.
• 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.
• Hot-Blooded: Especially at the beginning, when he tends to throw himself at problems instead of listening to his more reasonable teammates.
• Hunk: He's powerfully built and is one of the few important characters drawn without a beautiful face.
• Idiot Hero: Very notable when his teammates discover his grades.
• In a Single Bound: His biggest selling point is that he has some crazy jumps. By the time the game with Rakuzan rolls around, Zone!Kagami almost has his feet at the same height as the basket when he Meteor Jams!
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's brash and arrogant, but does truly care about his teammates. This is established in the first episode when, after spending an entire game insulting Kuroko, he gives Kuroko a hamburger and acknowledges his skill.
• Lightning Bruiser: He's both the fastest and the physically strongest of his team. Especially when he enters the Zone, where he gets Aomine-like speed on top of the strength to block Murasakibara's dunks and the jumping power to easily dunk from the free-throw line.
• Meaningful Name: His name's kanji are literally "Fire God, Big Ego"
• Minor Living Alone: The reason he can cook so well.
• Mirror Character: To Aomine. They're both talented, power-focused players who want worthy opponents to play against. However, while Kagami's a hardworking decent person with a hot temper, Aomine is a lazy Jerk Jock who gave up on basketball a while ago.
• Mr. Fanservice: There are a lot of scenes where he's shirtless or naked.
• Naïve 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.
• The Nose Knows: Claims that he can typically discern his opponents' strength based on their smell. Kuroko strikes him as odd, therefore, because he has no scent at all.
  Kagami (to Kuroko): I can guess the strength of an opponent to some extent. It's like strong guys have a peculiar smell about them. ...But you're weird. Even though you should reek of weakness... you don't smell like anything at all. Your strength is odorless.
• Odd Friendship: With Kuroko.
• Phrase Catcher: Often gets called "dumbass" by Hyuuga whenever he does or says something remotely hotheaded.
• Real Men Cook: The character bible says one of his hobbies is cooking and he taught Riko how to cook some simple dishes before their training camp.
• Real Men Wear Pink: The character bible mentions how he likes to shop as well. He fits this trope so well that in the 2015 "Top 20 Characters Otaku Want to Marry" poll, he tied for 16th in the "Ideal Wife" category.
• Red Baron: "The Miracle who did not become one of the Miracles". A Crowning Moment of Awesome when each of the Generation of Miracles felt a door, which was thought to be unopenable, open.
• Red Is Heroic: He's The Hero of his team, and a Fiery Redhead.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: He's the Hot-Blooded, passionate Red to Kuroko's and Himuro's calm and cool Blue. It's Colour-Coded for Your Convenience with Kuroko and in the case of Himuro in the names (Kagami means "Fire God" while "Hi" in Himuro means "Ice Chamber")
• Tiger Versus Dragon: "Taiga" means "Tiger" while "Tatsu" means "Dragon".
• True Companions: The requirements to enter the Zone is love of the game. The second level of the Zone is opened by The Power of Friendship, and represented by Kuroko being the guard of the second door.
• Unusual Eyebrows: Of the fiery and forked kind.
• Verbal Tic: Has a tendency to forget to speak politely, then correct himself once he notices.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?:
  • Doesn't turn out well for him when Kuroko decides to adopt a dog as a Team Pet, since he is terrified by dogs.
  • In the light novel, it's revealed that he's also afraid of ghosts and he's scared out of his wits by the classic 'flashlight-from-below' trick by Kuroko.

Kouki Furihata

Voiced by: Naoki Mizutani (Japanese), David Errigo Jr. (English)

Position: Point Guard
Height/Weight: 170cm/60kg
Birthday: November 8 (Scorpio)
Blood Type: O

A first year student and Seirin's secondary point guard. Initially spending most of his time on the bench, he eventually sees some play by the Seirin's last two matches in the Winter Cup.

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• Ascended Extra: Gets a bit more prominent early on in Season 3, first sent in at the first quarter of the match against Kaijou then later again for a brief time against Rakuzan.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: He has his moments. Particularly in the Rakuzan match when he's the first to realize something's strange about Mayuzumi and, more importantly, Kuroko's Misdirection starting to fade.
• Character Development: Earlier on in the series Furihata's shown to be something of a defeatist, believing from the start that the first years would lose against the second years in their practice match. Though still far from Nerves of Steel, he does show a bit more confidence and love for basketball later on in the series. He convinces Kawahara not to quit the team even if they're on the bench until the very end. Furihata also snaps back at him the night before the Winter Cup finals against Rakuzan when he says Seirin might not even put up a decent fight, let alone win.
  Furihata: Idiot! How are you letting this get to you now?
• Meaningful Name: "Furihata" (降旗) translates to "fallen/surrendered flag," a reference to his cowardly nature.
• Nervous Wreck: Very much so. He's borderline catatonic when he first subs in for Izuki during the Kaijou rematch and is so intimidated by Akashi that he gets Color Failure upon subbing in and falls flat on his face following Akashi to the throw-in.
• Nice Guy: Subtle, but it's there. He worries for his teammates and quickly notices when they're upset, such as when Kuroko gets repeatedly countered by Aomine in the Touou rematch and again during the Rakuzan match. He also readily attends to his team on the bench, offering them towels or water and assisting with taping when necessary.
• The Smart Guy: His observational skills give him shades of this.
• Support Party Member: Noted to rely on his teammates and focuses on supporting them. His cautiousness allows him to catch mistakes and avoid danger, slowing down Seirin's pace and keeping them stable.

Riko Aida

Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō (Japanese), Abby Trott (English)

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.

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• A-Cup Angst: A mild case, mainly only when Momoi or Alex is around.
• Amicable Exes: Word of God says that Riko and Kiyoshi used to date. Even now they're still friends.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: She knows a person's physical statistics just by looking at their bodies.
• Badass Adorable: Don't let her cute persona fool you: she's the team's coach and she's pretty damn good at it.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Her interactions with Hyuuga can be interpreted as this.
• Brainy Brunette: Riko not only had the best school test scores among the team, but she also ranked 2nd out of the whole school.
• Cordon Bleugh Chef: Vitamins and protein powder go into the meals she makes for the team. With Kagami's assistance, her meals look fine, but taste is a completely different matter...
• Cool Big Sis: Hair-Trigger Temper aside, she's very caring about the team and tries to reign them in whenever they get too overblown. Even when she's pissed at them, she understands that the team are just a ragtag bunch of high school boys that are trying to get to the top.
• Cute Sports Club Manager: The guys trying out for the team thinks she's this. She's actually the coach.
• Cuteness Proximity: Has a picture of a kitten on her phone and instantly falls in love with Tetsuya #2.
• Femininity Failure: Makes honey-soaked lemons to give to her team during the break of a tough match. But instead of slicing the lemons, which would allow for them to thoroughly soak in the honey, she leaves the lemons whole. She is outdone by her male teammate.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: She has a better control over it than Kagami and Hyuuga, but it's definitely still present.
• Lethal Chef: She doesn't cut up any of the ingredients, preferring to simply dump everything together in a pot. And she sprinkles the rice she serves the basketball team with vitamin pills and protein powder.
• Shorttank: Her typical outfit.
• Supporting Leader: She's the one who trains the main characters and leads the team.
• Team Mom: Especially towards The Captain Hyuga and the injured Kiyoshi.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Momoi's Girly Girl.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She's the coach of a high school boys' basketball team and has the skills to back it up, but she has no qualms over dressing and acting girly at times. She also adores cute things, specifically animals as seen by her fonding over Tetsuya #2.
• Tranquil Fury: An opposing player from Josei makes the mistake of openly despairing over her lack of sex appeal. She smiles while drawing her thumb across her throat and then pointing it down, signalling to Seirin to destroy Josei.
• You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: While it's not Kuroko levels of terrifying, stay the fuck away from her if you value your life when she's pissed.

Junpei Hyuuga

Position: Shooting Guard
Height/Weight: 178cm/68kg

Voiced by: Yoshimasa Hosoya (Japanese), Alan Lee (English)

The captain of the Seirin basketball team. A reliable clutch-player, he is Seirin's primary pillar of mental support in games.

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• Authority Sounds Deep: He's the Captain of Seirin's Basketball club, and has the deepest, most imposing voice of the group in the Japanese version of the dialogue.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: His interactions with Riko can be interpreted as this.
• The Captain: Other characters point out that he's the one who manages to bring the best out of his teammates with his passion and determination.
• Catchphrase Insult:
  • Often calls people (primarily Kagami and Kiyoshi) a dumbass ^note  It's usually either "daho" or "aho", but he uses "boke" and "baka" with just as much vigor. when they do something that is remotely idiotic in his eyes.
  • Often says "Shut up Izuki" or some other variant whenever Izuki pulls out one of his puns.
• Delinquent Hair: Was long and blonde in his first year. Everybody else think he was ridiculous.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: He had long, blonde hair back when he was trying to be delinquent. After that phase, he cropped his hair and dyed it back to black.
• Expy: Of Mitsui Hisashi. Both are shooting guards with a lethal 3-pointer, they are a bit anger prone, but they are the guy who keeps the team together. Close with the coach as well. Also had a delinquent phase, although Hyuga's is more of a "delinquent".
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He's very quick to anger if someone does or says something that pisses him off.
• Hard Work Hardly Works: Firmly believed this during his anger stage in his first year. His anger at Kiyoshi was because Kiyoshi was a prodigy (albeit still Overshadowed by Awesome) and he was just a regular person. In his words, "A regular person who works hard is just an idiot". Obviously, he outgrew this philosophy.
• Hot-Blooded: And how! He's fiery to a point and extremely passionate when he gets fired up.
• Japanese Delinquents: What he attempted to be in his first year of high school in order to quit basketball. Didn't last long.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: More so in the past, but still present, as he is prone to insult people when angry.
• The Lancer: Team-wise, if Kiyoshi had become the captain as Hyuuga had initially intended, he would have been this.
• The Leader: A mix of headstrong and levelheaded. He's very passionate and boastful about basketball, but he's able to reign in the team when they get out of line and keeps his cool during strenuous matches.
• Nonconformist Dyed Hair: Upon entering Seirin High during his first year, he grew and dyded his hair blond to look like a delinquent. People pointed out the ridiculous look.
• Signature Move: After Interhigh, he develops his own signature shot, the Barrier Jumper, in which he jumps back before making a jump shot.
• Split Personality: A very mild example. During important moments he actually becomes more confident and precise, but he also starts insulting more or less everybody who talks to him.
• Supporting Leader: Despite being The Captain of the team, he's not the main character.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Cloud Cuckoo Lander Kiyoshi.

Shun Izuki

Position: Point Guard
Height/Weight: 174cm/64kg

Voiced by: Hirofumi Nojima (Japanese), Brandon Winckler (English)

Seirin's primary point guard. He knew Hyuuga in middle school. He started playing basketball in 2nd grade, the earliest of anyone in the Seirin team.

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• Awesome by Analysis: His Eagle's Eye allows him to perfectly conceptualize the action on the court from a Top-Down View, an ability he puts to good use in matches.
• Chick Magnet: In Seirin. Though they always run away when he starts telling jokes.
• Incredibly Lame Pun: His puns are usually so lame that almost everyone is dumbfounded by them. The only one who has ever laughed at them is Hayama from Rakuzan.
• Nerves of Steel: During the final match in the original story, Imayoshi points out how Izuki is so calm and focused during the last seconds of the game. Because of Izuki keeping his nerves, Seirin manages to win.
• Only Sane Man: Despite his Pungeon Master tendencies, he's this for his team. Prime example? The hot springs incident.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: His Eagle Eye is portrayed as the weakest of the special Point Guard eyes, with hierarchy going like this: Eagle Eye < Hawk Eye < Emperor Eye < Belial Eye. Izuki developed the Eagle Spear to make up for this and also retains Nerves of Steel in critical situations.
• Phrase Catcher: "Shut up, Izuki!" or "Izuki, shut up!". Hyuuga will say that to him whenever Izuki makes a pun.
• Pungeon Master: He really likes horrible puns. Hyuga often threatens to hit him.
• The Smart Guy: Very notable during the game against Rakuzan, where he manages to outsmart his opponent when he can't defeat him with skill.
• Stealth Pun: Tries to put a couple of those every time he can.
• Weak, but Skilled: He's not physically gifted or superhumanly skilled, but he uses his Eagle's Eye to make plays no-one else could.

Rinnosuke Mitobe

Position: Center
Height/Weight: 186cm/78kg

Voiced by: Phillip Reich (English)

A hook-shooter. He never speaks in-series, though the other 2nd years seem to be able to understand what he's saying through expression alone. Nevertheless, he gives off the impression of a Nice Guy.

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• The Big Guy: Before being replaced by Kiyoshi, he's the starting Center. He's also a very solid defender.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: The oldest of ten siblings.
• Nice Guy: Despite never saying anything, he's shown to be caring and considerate. It's implied he developed this personality caring for his many younger siblings.
• The Reliable One: He's the one who keeps playing normally when his teammates are upset.
• The Stoic: When things get hard, he... keeps being silent and nice.
• Team Chef: The energy food he prepares for the team is absolutely way more effective than of Riko's.
• The Voiceless: Sometimes leads to being the Silent Bob. Especially notable that in the anime he has no Japanese voice actor.

Shinji Koganei

Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi (Japanese), Tom Bauer (English)

Position: Forward
Height/Weight: 170cm/67kg

A Jack of All Stats, he started playing basketball in high school because he thought it looked cool. He's been friends with Mitobe since middle school.

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• Butt-Monkey: He's often the one who comically misses a shot or says the wrong thing.
• Expy: At least physically, he looks very similar to an older Kaoru Koganei.
• The Heart: He's not the most physically built (especially compared to Kagami), but he offers a lot of emotional support and rallies the team together in dire situations.
• Jack of All Trades: And also Master of None. He doesn't specialize in any specific basketball technique but he isn't particularly weak in any either. Also presents itself in his grades, where he's slightly above average for all his subjects.
• The Nicknamer: He likes to give nicknames to his teammates, most prominently Tsuchida who is nicknamed "Tsucchi". He is also the one who named Kuroko's dog, Tetsuya #2.
• Those Two Guys: With Mitobe, due to the fact that Koganei is the only one who can understand him perfectly, and often translates for the rest of the team.

Satoshi Tsuchida

Voiced by: Go Inoue (Japanese), Landon McDonald (English)

Position: Power Forward
Height/Weight: 176cm/70kg

The Generic Guy of the Seirin 2nd years. He specializes in rebounds.

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• 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.
• Eyes Always Shut: His only notable feature.
• The Generic Guy: He never gets a chance to actually show his character.

Teppei Kiyoshi

Position: Center
Height/Weight: 193cm/81kg

Voiced by: Kenji Hamada (Japanese), Jalen K. Cassell (English)

Founder of the Seirin basketball club. Seirin's former ace, and one of the Five Uncrowned Generals. His extremely large hands allow him to hold the basketball as a handball, allowing him to use skills such as the Right of Postponement, and later Vice Claw. While the main center for Seirin, he's also capable as a point guard, allowing him to combine both positions and create his own play style. He suffered a Game-Breaking Injury at the hands of Hanamiya, and the injury is bad enough to force him to have to retire after this year's Winter Cup.

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• The Ace: For Seirin, pre-Game-Breaking Injury.
• All-Loving Hero: Kiyoshi is a Nice Guy to everyone, including opponents who antagonized him, such as Hanamiya and Murasakibara.
• Ambiguous Innocence: He acts like a Cloud Cuckoo Lander, but Hyuga is sure that he's always scheming something.
• Amicable Exes: In a Q & A session at the end of vol. 30, Word of God admits that the reason why Kiyoshi and Riko are on First-Name Basis with each other is because they dated at one point. Even now, they get along.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Thick and bushy.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's a very good player, but he really doesn't like to take himself seriously.
• Career-Ending Injury: This Winter Cup will be his last.
• Catchphrase: "Let's have some fun~"
• Cloudcuckoolander: It may be partly Obfuscating Stupidity, as an act to make his teammates feel at home.
• Confusion Fu: His Right of Postponement. It's even said that it's meaningless to predict his moves, because he can change his movements at the last minute.
• Game-Breaking Injury: His knee is the reason why he doesn't appear until Volume 7.
• Keet: Very much during his first year, though he's toned it down in the present.
• Life Imitates Art: Kiyoshi’s playing style is very similar to Nikola Jokic's (admittedly Kiyoshi is quite a bit smaller than the 7'1 juggernaut in question), who wasn’t drafted into the NBA until 2014, the same year the series ended. He would later be crowned MVP in 2021.
• Lightning Bruiser: Despite being a center, he's not noticeably slow.
• The Pollyanna: His injury hasn't affected his disposition. Also, this is the reason why he's known as "Iron-Hearted": every time he gets broken mentally, he quickly bounces back as if nothing's happened.
• Raised by Grandparents: Used to explain why he's attending a school that doesn't have a basketball club at first; his grandparents are getting old and appreciated the company he provided, and Seirin was within walking distance.
• Red Baron: One of the Five Uncrowned Generals, "Iron-Heart".
• Remember the New Guy?: Despite being a founding member of the Seirin High Basketball Club, he's not mentioned or present until Seirin loses the Inter High.
• Take a Third Option: Couldn't decide whether to become a center or a PG, and ended up doing both.
• Team Dad: Occasionally with elements of Papa Wolf, as demonstrated in the match against Kirisaki Daiichi. Has shades of The Lancer to Hyuuga too.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Hyuuga. Kiyoshi always acts friendly towards him, but he has to know that this only aggravates Hyuuga even more. Apparently, they're actually more in sync when they argue, which is demonstrated hilariously during the Serin vs. Kaijou rematch.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: The light novel reveals that he's terrified of rats after watching a horror movie about mutant rats.

Tetsuya #2

Voiced by: Hirofumi Nojima (Japanese), Khoi Dao (English)

Kuroko's small pet husky pup and Seirin's mascot.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: In the manga, he debuts in chapter 74 (which wasn't adapted into the anime, and takes place after the Touou vs Kaijou Inter-High match). In the anime, he first appears in episode 14, which is right after Seirin beats Shutoku.
• Canine Companion: to Kuroko.
• Evil-Detecting Dog: To some extent. When Momoi tried to pet him, he turned his head away from her hand in a huff.
• Precious Puppy: He's an adorable little pooch.
• Team Pet: After Kagami warms up to him, everybody on the team adores him.
• Twirl of Love: Riko does a sped-up version of this once she first sees him.
• Uncatty Resemblance: To his master, Kuroko.

Kaijou High School

Ryouta Kise

See Kuroko's Basketball: Generation of Miracles

Yukio Kasamatsu

Voiced by: Soichiro Hoshi (Japanese), Alejandro Saab (English)

Position: Point Guard
Height/Weight: 178cm/66kg

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• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: A Downplayed Trope as between the two of them, Kise is the uncontested better player, but Karamatsu threatens to throw Kise off the team during his first day if he kept up his disrespectful attitude. This quickly sent the message to Kise that a lot of his antics he got away with while playing with the Generation of Miracles in Middle School were not going to cut it.
• Awesome by Analysis: Owing to being a starting Point Guard, Kasamatsu is proficient at analyzing strategies both on and off the court.
• Badass Normal: Kasamatsu is pointed out as being one of the best non-prodigy players in the league, and it shows; Izuki (his opposite number at Serin) can't even keep up with him unless he relies on the Eagle Spear, and even then Kasamatsu is capable of outmaneuvering him one-on-one. His playstyle (driving against close opponents and shooting accurately against those farther back) is mentioned as being "one of the most orthodox, but powerful," and he's a point guard (read: passing specialist) on top of that. Further emphasized by his fairly average height and build compared to the rest of the known cast. He's also the only person to figure out how to stop Kuroko's Phantom Shot without the use of a unique ability; something even Himuro, who is a master of basketball form, was unable to do.
• Big Brother Mentor: A lot of his Tough Love towards Kise is getting him to realize the importance of what it means to actually play for a team rather than just himself.
• Cannot Talk to Women: Mentioned in the -replace- light novel. According to one of the drama CDs, the girls at Kaijou are aware of this and only ask him "yes or no" questions out of pity.
• The Captain: He puts a lot of emphasis on this, partly because he's the Only Sane Man of his team.
• Dope Slap: Frequently gives these to Kise.
• Flash Step: Izuki had to develop Eagle Spear to be able to steal the ball from him.
• Fragile Speedster: Izuki acknowledges him as the fastest player outside of the Generation of Miracles, despite not being particularly tall or well-built.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Kise.
• The Leader: A levelheaded and headstrong example.
• My Greatest Failure: Has never forgiven himself for failing to catch a critical pass at Inter-High his second year.
• Only Sane Man: On the Kaijou team.
• Supporting Leader: He's a very good player and the pillar of his team, but he knows that Kise is the real star.

Mitsuhiro Hayakawa

Voiced by: Kazunori Nomata (Japanese), Keith Silverstein (English)

Position: Power Forward
Height/Weight: 185cm/77kg

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• Hot-Blooded: This is very useful for him, as a rebound specialist.
• No Indoor Voice: He's constantly shouting about rebounds and how he wants to get them.
• The Unintelligible: He's damn near impossible to understand in the anime; even his teammates have trouble with it.

Yoshitaka Moriyama

Voiced by: Tomoyuki Higuchi (Japanese), Landon McDonald (English)

Position: Shooting Guard
Height/Weight: 181cm/67kg

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• Casanova Wannabe: He's often seen talking with Kise about girls.

Koji Kobori

Voiced by: Sasaki Yoshihito (Japanese), Mick Lauer (English)

Position: Center
Height/Weight: 192cm/74kg

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• Determinator: One of the more overlooked examples. Kobori is pretty average normally, but his intense determination in the Serin vs. Kaijo Semifinal match allows him to go toe-to-toe with the much bulkier, stronger, and more skillful Kiyoshi. Even Kiyoshi himself was impressed, which is saying something.
• Only Sane Man: To a slightly higher degree than Kasamatsu, as Kasamatsu is too busy keeping Kise in line to really bother too much with Moriyama and Hayakawa's unique brands of crazy.
• Stone Wall: His playstyle is mainly defensive, but he's capable of screening out Kiyoshi repeatedly, and forcing Wakamatsu (who is stated to be physically on par with Kagami, minus the insane jump height) to pass rather than attempt to score. Also manages to catch Kise's copied Ignite Pass Kai, which is impressive as only Kagami and Kiyoshi can catch Kuroko's version on Serin's team.

Shuutoku High School

Shintarou Midorima

See Kuroko's Basketball: Generation of Miracles

Kazunari Takao

Voiced by: Tatsuhisa Suzuki (Japanese), Sean Chiplock (English)

Position: Point Guard
Height/Weight: 176cm/65kg

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• Butt-Monkey: Frequently drives Midorima around on a rickshaw. Seems to not totally mind when Midorima pushes and orders him around.
• The Gadfly: When he and Midorima arrive at an restaurant and spot Kagami, Kuroko, Kise, and Kasamatsu at a table, he immediately lights up and tells Kasamatsu that he admires him and wishes to hear his stories. He then pulls him away, allowing for Midorima to take Kasamatsu's seat at what becomes the world's most awkward table setting.
  Kasamatsu: You wanted this to happen, didn't you?
  Takao (coyly): What? Of course not.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Midorima, thanks to their friendly rivalry.
• Meaningful Name: One of the kanji in Takao is a homophone for the word for 'hawk', possibly in reference to his Hawk's Eye ability.
• Perpetual Smiler: He seems to really enjoy being The Gadfly, and is usually pretty amused by Midorima's antics.
• Top-Down View: His Hawk's Eye is even better than Izuki's Eagle's Eye.
• True Companions: With Midorima, which plays into their strategy against Rakuzan; even without the ball, Midorima winds up for one of his full court shots and trusts that Takao will be able to pass the ball right into his hands in time for the shot to go off. It actually manages to surprise Akashi at first.

Taisuke Ootsubo

Voiced by: Kensuke Satou (Japanese), Xander Mobus (English)

Position: Center
Height/Weight: 198cm/98kg

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• Badass Normal: Goes head-to-head with both Kiyoshi and Nebuya on separate occasions, and manages to hold his own despite not having a way to match their unique skills.
• The Captain: Even if he's not the best player of the team anymore, the others respect his authority.
• Large and in Charge: Being a center, he's the largest and strongest player of the team.
• Supporting Leader: Playing as a strong and reliable center he supports Midorima and Takao, the real stars of the team.

Kiyoshi Miyaji

Voiced by: Masayuki Shouji (Japanese), Jon Allen (English)

Position: Small Forward
Height/Weight: 191cm/77kg

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• Hair-Trigger Temper: Gets angry easily, especially at overly arrogant underclassmen. Midorima is his particular Berserk Button.

Shinsuke Kimura

Voiced by: Biichi Satou (Japanese), Bill Rogers (English)

Position: Power Forward
Height/Weight: 187cm/80kg

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• Rule of Cool: Lampshaded and subverted; when he scores a layup and Miyaji complains that he should've dunked, he points out that "not everybody can do that!"
• Stone Wall: Kimura's pretty average, but he has the highest number and success rate of offensive screens in the series. He even manages to screen opponents repeatedly, even though they should be expecting it. He also has a stamina rating of 10/10 in the databooks, which is something mainly given to indicate a strong defense.

Touou Academy

Daiki Aomine

See Kuroko's Basketball: Generation of Miracles

Satsuki Momoi

See Kuroko's Basketball: Generation of Miracles

Shouichi Imayoshi

Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai (Japanese), Brian Beacock (English)

Position: Point Guard
Height/Weight: 180cm/71kg

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• Awesomeness by Analysis: He's extremely observant and uses this ability to guess his opponent's thoughts and predict their movements. Does it off the court, too. Hanamiya even calls him "practically psychic."
• The Captain: He's Touou's captain and mastermind.
• Eyes Always Shut: Together with Perpetual Smiler, they show his dangerous personality.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Downplayed. He's not truly malicious, but he likes to taunt, tease and otherwise Troll his opponents. Even Hanamiya thinks he has a terrible personality.
• The Leader: Definitely a mastermind-type leader.
• Manipulative Bastard: He loves playing mind games with his opponents.
• Perpetual Smiler: As appropriate for a Troll as big as this guy.
• Supporting Leader: He explicitely says that Aomine is The Ace of his team and can do whatever he wants as long as they win.
• Terrible Artist: As seen during his studying along with Susa, his art's a bit wonky to say the least. And Imayoshi himself takes a bit offense to that and changes the subject.
• Troll: Pointed out In-Universe as one of the reasons he's so good at marking Kuroko.

Ryou Sakurai

Voiced by: Nobunaga Shimazaki (Japanese), Griffin Burns (English)

Position: Shooting Guard
Height/Weight: 175cm/59kg

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• Apologises a Lot: Pretty much his main character trait.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Usually timid and apologetic...but he gets very competitive with other shooting guards, and then his personality will make a one-eighty and he'll start acting cocky and talking trash.
• Shrinking Violet: A Rare Male Example.
• Split Personality: Another mild example. He hates losing as much as the rest of Touou, particularly in shooting. He became very annoyed when Hyuuga started shooting very well in the match against Seirin, turning more or less into the complete opposite his usual Shrinking Violet personality.

Kousuke Wakamatsu

Voiced by: Kosuke Toriumi (Japanese), Jonah Scott (English)

Position: Center
Height/Weight: 193cm/85kg

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• Berserk Button: Pretty much everything Aomine does. Nobody really cares, though.
• Butt-Monkey: Often the victim of Aomine's antics.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Sure, Aomine is annoying, but Wakamatsu takes thing a little too personally, to the point where even Imayoshi tells him to be quiet.
• Hot-Blooded: He even has high blood pressure.

Susa Yoshinori

Voiced by: Hiroya Murakami (Japanese), Jon Allen (English)

Position: Small Forward
Height/Weight: 190cm/80kg

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• Only Sane Man: Doesn't have any particular highlighted quirks like the rest of the Touou team, and puts up with his teammates without ever complaining.

Yousen High School

Murasakibara Atsushi

See Kuroko's Basketball: Generation of Miracles

Himuro Tatsuya

Position: Shooting Guard
Height/Weight: 183cm/70kg

Voiced by: Kissho Taniyama (Japanese), Howard Wang (English)

Himuro was Kagami’s first friend in America, and also his big brother figure, who basically taught him basketball. Himuro comes back to Japan as one of Yosen’s Aces.

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• Animal Motifs: "Tatsu" means "Dragon".
• Berserker Tears: When yelling at Murasakibara for giving up during the Seirin vs. Yousen match, and also because he realized he could never reach the level of the Generation of Miracles or Kagami.
• Big Brother Mentor: To Kagami, when they first met.
• Can't Catch Up: He's almost on par with the Generation of Miracles, but he's aware that he'll never be able to reach their level.
• Chick Magnet: He's not just popular with high school girls, but with kindergartners and middle-aged women such as a cleaner from Yousen.
• Faux Fluency: Himuro is assumed to be fluent in English due to his time in the US. While his accent is clearer than Kagami's, it's clear in the anime that his VA is definitely not fluent.
• First-Name Basis: Calls Kagami and Murasakibara by their first names, "Taiga" and "Atsushi". Possibly due to his long stay in America.
• Green-Eyed Monster: He always resented that Kagami was the most talented of the two and would have eventually surpassed him.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Kagami, pre-series.
• Meaningful Name: His name uses the kanji for ice (氷), the antithesis of fire (火), which is the kanji used in Kagami's name.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: His dark hair that frames a single eye and his fair skin imparts a mysterious aura. He is a huge Chick Magnet and is arguably the biggest Pretty Boy in the series.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Kagami's Red. ("Himuro" means "Ice Chamber" while "Kagami" means "Fire God").
• Simple, yet Awesome: His playing style: highly refined orthodox moves that become tricky from how good Himuro is at them. Noted to be the polar opposite of Aomine's.
• Tiger Versus Dragon: The "Tatsu" in his name means "Dragon" compared to "Taiga" being a rōmaji pronunciation of "Tiger".

Okamura Kenichi

Voiced by: Kouji Takeda (Japanese), Edward Bosco (English)

Position: Power Forward
Height/Weight: 200cm/98kg

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• Butt-Monkey: His teammates all make fun of him, peers and underclassmen alike. Calling him "gorilla" is just the start. On the court though, they respect and trust his abilities and skills.
• The Captain: He's not very charismatic, but he is the captain.
• Large and in Charge: Or he would be if not for Murasakibara. (Wei Liu is taller by 3 cm, but he's much skinnier.) Kagami even notes that his movements are like a former center's (who's usually the largest guy in the team).
• The Leader: A levelheaded type.
• Supporting Leader: Even more pronounced than the other captains.

Fukui Kensuke

Voiced by: Kaito Ishikawa (Japanese), Chris Hackney (English)

Position: Point Guard
Height/Weight: 176cm/67kg

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• Brutal Honesty: Doesn't hesitate to speak up his mind, and rarely mince his words.
• Fragile Speedster: Particularly notable in a team filled of tall people.
• Height Angst: Used to be self-conscious about his height.
• Number Two: Vice-captain of Yousen's basketball team.
• Older Than They Look: Even more noticable among his taller teammates. His smaller statue alongside his trickster personality don't make him look like a third year at all.

Wei Liu

Voiced by: Shigeyuki Susaki (Japanese), Aleks Le (English)

Position: Small Forward
Height/Weight: 203cm/91kg

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• Funny Foreigner: His speech pattern is very outdated, being comparable to speaking Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe. In NG-Shuu, it's said that Fukui "taught" Liu this way of speaking as a prank, telling him it was a popular way of speaking.
• Verbal Tic: Ends his sentences with "-aru".

Rakuzan High School

Akashi Seijuurou

See Kuroko's Basketball: Generation of Miracles

Hayama Kotarou

Voiced by: Toshiki Masuda (Japanese), Matt Shipman (English)

Position: Small Forward
Height/Weight: 180cm/68kg

One of the Five Uncrowned Generals. His ability is to dribble extremely fast, making the ball hard to steal.

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• Animal Motif: He has the "Wild Animal Instinct" skill, and the animal he's compared to is the leopard, which also suits his fast Lightning Dribble.
• Body Motifs: Fingers. The level of his Lightning Dribble depends on how many fingers he's using, ranging from three to five fingers.
• Cute Little Fangs: Underline his Keet personality.
• Keet: He's happy and energetic, but he can also be a bit of a Jerkass.
• Red Baron: One of the Five Uncrowned Generals, Raijuu.
• Shock and Awe: His Lightning Dribble is portrayed with lightning effects, making the name of his move very literal.
• Worthy Opponent: He increases the level of his Lightning Dribble depending on how worthy he deems his opponent. If he's using it at all, that means the opponent already got some level of respect from him. Izuki gets fired up when Hayama uses Lightning Dribble Level 5 on him.

Mibuchi Reo

Voiced by: Wataru Hatano (Japanese), JP Karliak (English)

Position: Shooting Guard
Height/Weight: 188cm/74kg

One of the Five Uncrowned Generals. He's implied to be good at drawing fouls, especially while shooting three-pointers, resulting in four-point plays.

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• Ambiguously Gay:
  • He sometimes makes passes at his teammates or Hyuuga, but he could be simply Trolling them.
  • In an omake, Mibuchi actually states he has a crush on someone from his own club, leaving Hayama and Nebuya bewildered. The Rakuzan basketball club has no females that readers can see; even the managers that appear are male. There's also the pretty glaring fact that in the fanbook, every male character describes their "Preferred Girl", while Mibuchi is the only one who has "Preferred Type". His sexuality is all but outright stated.
  • No longer ambiguous. According to Character Bible Plus he came out in high school.
• Camp Gay: In tandem with the aforementioned confirmation, he has rather feminine eyelashes and an extremely effeminate vocabulary, complete with the use of atashi, which is a Girly Girl word for "I".
• The Dragon: Among the trio of the Five Uncrowned Generals, Mibuchi serves as this to Akashi's Big Bad role. Mibuchi is the most prominent and most respected of three, he seems to understand Akashi more than Hayama and Nebuya do, and Mibuchi is pitted against Seirin's captain, Hyuuga. Being Rakuzan's Shooting Guards means he also scores more than most of the others, especially since often scores 4 points after drawing fouls. Despite this, the anime pairs Akashi with Mayuzumi as Rakuzan's main duo instead.
• Only Sane Man: Is usually the one to keep the other team members in check when their antics get too wild.
• Red Baron: One of the Five Uncrowned Generals, "Yaksha".

Nebuya Eikichi

Voiced by: Takahiro Fujiwara (Japanese), Imari Williams (English)

Position: Center
Height/Weight: 190cm/94kg

One of the Five Uncrowned Generals. An extremely strong Center (formerly Power Forward) who favors muscle strength over anything else.

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• Baritone of Strength: The most muscular and powerful player in Rakuzan, with a fittingly deep, gruff voice.
• Big Eater: Said to be able to eat more than even Kagami.
• The Brute: Nebuya serves as the big, strong guy to Akashi's Big Bad role.
• Calling Your Attacks: He shouts all of his basic moves "Muscle [X]", much to the annoyance of Mibuchi and Mayuzumi.
• Hot-Blooded: His solution to any problems is "put some more strength into it".
• Insult Backfire: Takes 'Muscle Gorilla' to be a compliment. Justified because he believes strength to be everything.
• Mighty Glacier: Aside from maybe Mayuzumi, he's the slowest of his team, but he's ludicrously powerful and hard to move. He manages to beat Kiyoshi to a rebound, something even Murasakibara had to resort to copying Kiyoshi's Vice Claw to do. On top of that, Kiyoshi can't beat his screen directly even after he throws caution to the wind and pulls out all the stops at the price of weakening his leg even more.
• Perma-Stubble: Despite being an high-school student.
• Red Baron: One of the Five Uncrowned Generals, "Herculean Strength".
• Stout Strength: At least according to him, the more he eats before a match, the stronger he is during the match.
• Unskilled, but Strong: He ditched skills for the sake of pure strength to prove Kiyoshi wrong.
• Worthy Opponent: Considers Kiyoshi to be this. He considers their face-off in the finals to be "fate".

Mayuzumi Chihiro

Voiced by: Ryōta Ōsaka (Japanese), Kyle McCarley (English)

Position: Power Forward
Height/Weight: 182cm/69kg

Rakuzan's 5th man.

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• Armor-Piercing Question: When Akashi has a Villainous Breakdown, Mayuzumi calls him out for it, and then he asks him who he is. This question snaps Akashi out of his inner crisis, allowing the original Akashi to return to the surface again.
• Confusion Fu: Just like Kuroko, he uses misdirection to slip past defenders.
• Evil Counterpart: Well, Antagonistic Counterpart anyway. Just like Kuroko he's skilled at misdirection, but gets very hostile when he's compared to Kuroko, taking such great pains to prove that he's better that it actually damages his misdirection.
• Hero of Another Story: His story at Rakuzan mirrors Kuroko's at Teikou.
• Meaningful Name: His last name means "blacken/blackish", which is a foreshadowing to his playstyle being similar to Kuroko. However, it's only "blackish", not fully "black"; and later chapters prove that his skills can't completely overwrite the "original" Phantom player.
• No Name Given: It's only in chapter 231 that we see his full name.
• The Nondescript: Just like Kuroko, this is part of his style.
• No Social Skills: Rarely talks and doesn't respond when spoken to. He's also a Terse Talker, only uses short phrases and borderline rudeness, a contrast to the unfailingly polite Kuroko.
• Otaku: Reads Light Novels, and they are the only the things that get him excited.
• Out of Focus: Constantly, to Running Gag levels. It's easy to forget that he is the only third-year of Rakuzan's starting lineup, and basically their senior in terms of academic, yet he rarely gets the respect he deserves. Despite this, the anime would later pair him with Akashi as Rakuzan's main duo after the TV series ends.
• Walking Spoiler: To some degree. His existence is not a spoiler, but his relevance is. Most of his appearances are either cut out or blocked by camera angles until the finals, thus making his abilities a suprise factor to both Seirin and the audience.
• Weak, but Skilled: He's a better all-around player than Kuroko, but he's still weak compared to the other Rakuzan regulars, who are all prodigies.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After Mayuzumi ruins his own misdirection in a bid to outplay Kuroko, the rest of the starters demands that he get benched since he screwed his one purpose. Akashi instead decides to keep him playing, merely now as a decoy so that he can pass around Kagami, who is in the Zone.

Others

Makoto Hanamiya

Position: Point Guard
Height/Weight: 179cm/67kg

Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese), Stephen Fu (English)

The captain and coach of the Kirisaki Daiichi team, and one of the Five Uncrowned Generals. Constantly uses underhanded methods and dirty tricks to win the game, but is also very skilled in his own right; his main skill is to steal the ball from his opponents.

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• Awesomeness by Analysis: Analizing the pass courses of his opponents allows him to steal virtually every ball from his opponents.
• The Captain: Also the coach during his second year.
• Catchphrase: "There's no way I'd say that, dumbass."
• Crippling the Competition: All the time. In fact, he was the one who caused Kiyoshi's Game-Breaking Injury.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: After Seirin defeats Kirisaki Daichi during their second Winter Cup, Kiyoshi complements Hanamiya for his amazing shot, despite all the things he has done to him. Hanamiya is dumbfounded by this.
• Evil Eyebrows: Very thick and bushy, more so than in any other characters, and is rotten to the core.
• Evil Feels Good: He's satisfied seeing hardworking teams getting their homes and dreams crushed by his team, and he considers Kiyoshi's knee injury his "masterpiece".
• Evil Genius: His IQ is over 160. This doesn't stop Kuroko from outsmarting him, though.
• For the Evulz: Despite being a very talented player, he finds it more amusing to crush his competition with violence and dirty plays rather than winning the orthodox way, especially if they are hard-workers.
• Jerk Jock: Together with the rest of his team, due to how they coordinate their dirty plays.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Every time he seems to say something nice, he follows up with saying he's kidding.
• Red Baron: One of the Five Uncrowned Generals, "Bad Boy".
• Underestimating Badassery: Due to his foul play, it's easy to forget that he's skilled enough to be considered one of the Five Uncrowned Generals.
• Worthy Opponent: Kiyoshi considers him one after their match after seeing his skills. Unlike most cases though, Hanamiya doesn't take it well.

Shougo Haizaki

Top: High school Haizaki.
Bottom: Middle school Haizaki.

Voiced by: Masakazu Morita (Japanese), Ray Chase (English)

Position: Small Forward
Height/Weight: 188cm/78kg

A former regular of Teikou's first string who was supposedly kicked out for being too violent. Actually it was because Akashi predicted that Kise would eventually surpass him... or it could be both. Kise replaced him on the team.

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• Can't Catch Up:
  • This was Akashi's justification for originally kicking Haizaki off of the Teikou Team. While Haizaki was, at the time the clear better of the two players between himself and Kise, Akashi could tell that Kise had the higher potential and would ultimately be the better of the two. Haizaki's toxic personality led to Akashi's decision that it would be better for him to leave the team all together since Haizaki's ego would never allow him to cope with getting moved to the second string in favor of Kise.
  • This all comes to fruition at the Winter Cup, where Kise surpasses him with Perfect Copy by using the GOM's moves, which Haizaki can't steal.
• Crippling the Competition: Tries to do this to Kise after he realizes he can't win.
• Curtains Match the Window: Though not during his middle school years when his hair was grey instead of black.
• Evil Counterpart: Of Kise. They both are able to immediately mimic the moves of other players. While Kise can mimic them perfectly, Haizaki slightly alters them, so that his opponents will subconsciously be unable to use them, which why he calls it "stealing", not "copying".
• First-Name Basis: To everyone on his former team except Akashi, emphasizing his rude personality.
• Jerk Jock: One of the biggest in the series, and even admits to Kuroko he is no nice guy. Taunts his opponents mercilessly, is violent even off-court, disrespectful towards his own teammates and is a Sore Loser to top it off.
• Meaningful Name: His surname literally means Grey Peninsula. The grey part is the Colourful Theme Naming as he's also from Teikou, when the peninsula part means he's different with the other Teikou alumnus, as he was kicked out and later dyes his hair, like a peninsula that is the only bit of land surrounded by the vast ocean. Still, he is a peninsula, not an island. He is still connected to the Generation of Miracles by the fact they all graduated from Teikou, and he is the player with power closests to them after Kagami. He admits it himself that he feels out of place in Teikou basketball team.
• Power Copying: He has this ability just like Kise, but with slight variations.
• Power Parasite: He copies other player's moves but slightly alters its rhythm, so that when his victim sees the move being used, they are unable to use it anymore.
• Sore Loser: After being defeated by Kise, he tries to beat him up outside the tournament gymnasium, though Aomine stops him.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: While he was never a saint, he was slightly better (if lazy and petulant) in his earlier Teikou days; he even had shades of Comic Relief in his interactions with Nijimura. After Kise arrives and eventually replaces him, any trace of Jerk with a Heart of Gold Haizaki had goes off the window.

Shuuzo Nijimura

Position: Power Forward
Height/Weight: ?

Voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu (Japanese), Clifford Chapin (English)

Teikou's team captain when the Generation of Miracles first joined, and later its vice-captain with Akashi. He steps down in his second year because of familial problems, recommending Akashi take up the captain position fully.

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• Big Brother Mentor: Not strictly a mentor, but older than the Miracles and definitely kept them in line, holding their respect (or fear) while he was around.
• Break the Badass: This is the guy Haizaki of all people fears enough that he prefers to deal with Akashi instead of with Nijimura directly.
• Can't Catch Up: Realizes this, and a partial reason as to why he cedes leadership to Akashi.
• The Captain: Of Teikou when the Miracles formed.
• Japanese Delinquents: In his youth. According to trivia, he even stole a motorcycle once. He still retains his fighting skills from those days.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Has a short temper and shades of Japanese Delinquent in manner and speech, but usually means well with most of his actions.
• Meaningful Name: His surname can be interpreted as 'the gathering of the rainbow'. Literally it means "Rainbow Village" The first kanji (虹) means rainbow, the second kanji (村) means village.
• Stupid Sexy Flanders: In the Replace novels, he apparently can't stop himself from mentioning how beautiful Himuro is.
• Supporting Leader: Until he cedes the leadership to Akashi, although even then he keeps careful watch over the first-string from the sidelines until his graduation.

Alexandra Garcia

Voiced by: Yuki Kaida (Japanese), Allegra Clark (English)

A former college basketball champion and WNBA player who is now a basketball coach. She was Himuro and Kagami's basketball mentor from the States.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Kagami and Himuro only call her "Alex".
• Cool Teacher: A basketball coach that also happens to have been a WNBA player is already pretty darn cool. Add to it that Alex has many Cool Big Sis traits and is also implied to be skilled in fighting and there you have it.
• Eagleland: Mostly a positive example, since Alex is a wise, skillful mentor and a very cool lady, but she also embodies many exaggerated Japanese stereotypes about the ways Westerners look and act, namely, being blonde, blue-eyed, buxom, and very shameless and sexually-open.
• Eccentric Mentor: Has no problem walking naked around her students and even greets them with kisses. And not just them, as Riko can attest.
• First-Name Basis: She refers to her students Kagami and Himuro with their first names, and vice versa.
• Game-Breaking Injury: Her eyesight deteriorated from an unspecified disease, enough to force her to early retirement.
• Gender-Blender Name: When Kagami said that he was going back to the USA to find his mentor "Alex" for dedicated training to prepare for the Winter Cup, everyone in Seirin thought said mentor was a guy since "Alex" sounded like a masculine name to them. It turns out that it's actually a nickname, shortened from the decidedly feminine "Alexandra"^note Technically speaking, "Alex" is a unisex name that can be used as a shortened form of the masculine name "Alexander"..
• Gender-Concealing Writing: Due to Kagami referring to his mentor with a gender-ambiguous nickname that is often used as a masculine name, the impressive reputation surrounding said mentor's basketball skills (since Kagami thinks he still has things to learn from said person), and only being shown as a sexually ambiguous silhouette before actually debuting on-panel/screen, both Seirin and the readers were left with the impression that "Alex" was a man. It's thus understandable for them to be mind-boggled that not only is Kagami's teacher a woman, but a sexy one at that (something that does not seem to trigger any reaction from Kagami, other than embarrassment at her shamelessness).
• Gorgeous Gaijin: She's an American in a story set in Japan, and she seems to have no issue being underdressed or even naked while indoors, even when there are boys around. She even kisses Riko.
• Head-Turning Beauty: The woman is hot, and the fact is definitely noticed by the young men of Team Seirin; about the only ones who don't react at all are Kagami and Kuroko.
• Phenotype Stereotype: Befitting the stereotypical American anime character, she's blonde-haired, blue-eyed, and (being female) big-breasted.
• Retired Badass: She is a WNBA retiree, and took on both Kagami and Himuro as pupils, and still had a few things to teach Kagami when he went back to America to train for the Winter Cup (helping him regain his "animal instinct") as well as before his match with Yosen (teaching him the Meteor Jam). Plus, she knows some self-defense, as shown in her scuffle with Haizaki when he wouldn't take "no" for an answer.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: She seems to not care at all about guys seeing her walking around her home (OK, it's Kagami's apartment, but she seems to treat it as home anyway) in her underwear or even practically naked, not even complete strangers like Kagami's Seirin teammates the first time they met her. Kagami actually has to yell at her to wear clothes, usually punctuated by him throwing said clothes at her.

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