Search Results for: Kuroko’s Basketball
A lot of people know what it’s like to feel invisible, and they usually don’t like it. Tetsuya Kuroko feels invisible all the time and he’s fine with it—it helps him play a mean game of basketball. The new high school students are signing up …Read more »
Kuroko’s Basketball is preparing to settle in for a extended occupation of Japanese movie theaters. The games will begin in 2016 with a series of three compilation films summarizing the events of the Kuroko’s anime series, which ran from 2009 to 2014. They’ll then go …Read more »
Feast your eyes, Kuroko fans. The first visual for the upcoming Kuroko’s Basketball stage play, Kuroko’s Basketball The Encounter , has been revealed. And yeah, they kept the blue hair. Kuroko’s Basketball The Encounter , which premieres at Sunshine Gekijo in Tokyo in April and …Read more »
An animated Kuroko’s Basketball film is in the works. That’s the word from the official Kuroko’s website, following an event on Sunday in which several of the voice actors from the series appeared. Following the event, the site was updated, letting fans know that a …Read more »
Anyone who’s been to an anime convention knows that when you get thousands of otaku in one place at one time, cell phone reception goes down the drain. So in a bit of good news for visitors to this December’s Comic Market, it appears Japanese …Read more »
Excellent news out this week for fans of Kuroko’s Basketball (or as it’s officially awkwardly translated, The Basketball Which Kuroko Plays ). Comic Market, the twice-yearly Tokyo doujinshi (fan comics) event will be holding a special extra event next year focused solely on Kuroko's . …Read more »
Visitors to this winter’s Comic Market shouldn’t expect to see any merchandise for the manga Kuroko’s Basketball, as fan comics depicting the series have been banned from the event. The ban stems from a series of threatening letters sent to various locations linked to Kuroko’s …Read more »
The first episode of the Kuroko’s Basketball anime—based on the manga written and illustrated by Tadatoshi Fujimaki—aired on April 7, 2012. That means somehow we’re already marking its 10th anniversary! The folks behind the production are celebrating in a few ways, and you can see …Read more »
Long before Kuroko’s Basketball (and heck, even a year before Slam Dunk) there was Dear Boys, the oddly-named but super-popular basketball manga by Hiroki Yagami. Yagami has basically devoted his entire career to Dear Boys: the manga debuted in Shonen Magazine back in 1989 and …Read more »
If you’re suffering from the lack of new Kuroko’s Basketball, suffer no more: basketball manga Ahiru no Sora is getting a TV anime adaptation. The manga, by Takeshi Hinata, has been running in Weekly Shonen Magazine since 2004, and tells the tale of young basketball …Read more »
By all accounts it appears as if sports anime is more popular than ever. It’s taken some time to really sink its hooks into Western fans, but at this point there’s something legally streaming, and either running now or having aired very recently, for pretty …Read more »
What are the most moving anime of all time? That was the question put to readers of Charapedia, who were asked this week, “what are the anime and manga series that have moved you most?” The results themselves may move you (well, move you to …Read more »
There was some discussion online last week about what new Shonen Jump series would come to define the long-running manga magazine next. As if in answer, the coming months mark the debut of six new Jump series, including one about golf by Kuroko’s Basketball writer …Read more »
In November, we Americans will choose our new leaders. Turns out the Japanese have us beat to the punch. Japanese anime fans, that is, who have been asked by pollmasters Charapedia, “who are the anime leaders you’d follow to the bitter end?” Who are anime’s …Read more »
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