Kuroko's Basketball/Characters

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

A-Cup Angst: B-cup, actually. A mild case, mainly only when Momoi is around.
Awesomeness By Analysis: She knows a person's physical statistics just by looking at that.
Belligerent Sexual Tension: Her interactions with Hyuuga can be interpreted as this.
Cool Big Sis
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.
Team Mom: Has shades of The Chick.

Junpei Hyuuga

The captain of the Seirin basketball team.

Voiced by: Yoshimasa Hosoya

Belligerent Sexual Tension: His interactions with Riko can be interpreted as this.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: More so in the past, but still present.
The Lancer
Split Personality: When he's in Clutch Mode. A mild example, though.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Kiyoshi, arguably.

Shun Izuki

Voiced by: Hirofumi Nojima

Rinnosuke Mitobe

The Big Guy
The Voiceless: Sometimes leads to being the Silent Bob.
- Note that he has no voice actor.

Shinji Koganei

Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi

Butt Monkey
Cat Smile: Constantly.
The Chick
Expy: At least physically, he looks very similar to an older Kaoru Koganei.
Jack of All Trades: And also Master of None.

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

Cloudcuckoolander
Red Baron: One of the five Uncrowned Generals, "Iron-Hearted".
Team Dad: Occasionally with elements of Papa Wolf, as demonstrated in the match against Kirisaki Daiichi. Has shades of The Lancer too.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Hyuuga.

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

The Ace: For Kaijou High.
Awesomeness By Analysis: The true source of his copying abilities.
Basketball Copying: He has the ability to copy any basketball move he sees and make it his own.
Bishonen
Chick Magnet
Curtains Match the Window
Dumb Blonde: Sometimes has shades of this. He's not really stupid, though, just extremely Keet.
Heterosexual Life Partners: With Kasamatsu.
- Thought he was this with Kuroko when they were in Teikou, only for Kuroko to firmly deny this.
Keet
The Nicknamer: He adds "cchi" to the end of the names of people he's acknowledged, whether they want him to or not.
Why Did It Have To Be Earthworms: Thinks they are disgusting.

Yukio Kasamatsu

Voiced by: Soichiro Hoshi

The Captain
Heterosexual Life Partners: With Kise.

Mitsuhiro Hayakawa

Voiced by: Kazunori Nomata

Yoshitaka Moriyama

Voiced by: Tomoyuki Higuchi

Casanova Wannabe

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.

Catch Phrase: The stuff he spouts about how because he has his daily lucky item with him, he can't possibly lose.
- "Man proposes, God disposes."
The Comically Serious
Curtains Match the Window
Heterosexual Life Partners: With Takao. He won't admit it, though.
Tsundere
Why Did It Have To Be Cats: Was scratched once.
You Gotta Have Green Hair

Kazunari Takao

Voiced by: Tatsuhisa Suzuki

Heterosexual Life Partners: With Midorima.
Perpetual Smiler

Taisuke Ootsubo

Voiced by: Kensuke Satou

The Captain

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

The Ace: Of both Touou High School and the Generation of Miracles. However, given his attitude, he's more of a Broken Ace.
Ambiguously Brown
Beyond the Impossible: His entire style of basketball seems to revolve around doing things that should not even be possible.
Brilliant but Lazy: To the core. He prefers to sleep on the rooftop than go to basketball practice and, often shows up for matches at the halfway mark...if he bothers to show up at all. However, he may deconstruct this - he was originally passionate about basketball, and worked hard at it because he loved it. But as he got better and better, his opponents starting giving up more and more easily. Eventually, he gave up on being serious about basketball, because there was no one who could equal him at it.
- With the defeat of Touou at the hands of Seirin, he's started taking basketball more seriously again and begins to properly train.
Catch Phrase: "The only one who can win against me ... is me!"
- Bites him in the ass when he plays against Kise and his copying techniques. Kise loses but Aomine worked so hard for it that he overextended himself, so much that he had to be benched for the remaining matches of the tournament.
Childhood Friends: With Momoi.
Curb Stomp Battle: Most games he participates in become this in short order.
Curtains Match the Window
Heterosexual Life Partners: He was this with Kuroko back in their middle school day
- His Jerkass attitude whenever he played with Seirin or rather Kuroko can be read as Belligerent Sexual Tension if you regard this with Ho Yay google.
Jerkass: His actions often veer into this territory.
Platonic Life Partners: If you don't interpret their interactions as Belligerent Sexual Tension, then he and Momoi are probably this.
Sitting on the Roof: Where he can usually be found by Momoi when he skips basketball training.
Slasher Smile: He's rather fond of these.
Why Did It Have To Be Ghost: His first meeting with Kuroko, His reaction mirrored Kagami in regards to dogs.
- Also Why Did It Have To Be Bees: Was pricked.
You Gotta Have Blue Hair

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

Awesomeness By Analysis: As the manager, she's in charge of checking out rival teams, and she has the ability to accurately predict what each player would focus on in their training next, allowing her to warn her team what new skills from their opponents they should look out for.
Big Breasts, Big Deal
- Although she absolutely make use of it to suffocate Kuroko whenever she could.
The Chick / The Smart Guy: Plays a combination of these roles for both Touou in the present and Teikou in the past.
Childhood Friends: With Aomine.
Curtains Match the Window
Ms. Fanservice
Platonic Life Partners: If you don't interpret their interactions as Belligerent Sexual Tension, then she and Aomine are probably this.
Rose-Haired Girl
Why Did It Have To Be Frogs: Aomine put a frog on her head once and she burst out crying.

Shoichi Imayoshi

Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai

The Captain
Megane
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Zero soul may be an exaggeration, but when even Hanamiya thinks he has a terrible personality...
Perpetual Smiler

Ryou Sakurai

Voiced by: Nobunaga Shimazaki

Apologises a Lot
Cute Shotaro Boy
Shrinking Violet: A Rare Male Example.
Yamato Nadeshiko: Also a Rare Male Example.

Kousuke Wakamatsu

Voiced by: Kosuke Toriumi

Berserk Button: Pretty much everything Aomine does. Nobody really cares, though.
Butt Monkey
Hair-Trigger Temper

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

Big Eater: He's almost always seen with some sort of snack in hand.
Cloudcuckoolander
Curtains Match the Window
The Giant
Lightning Bruiser
The Nicknamer: Shortens characters' names and adds "-chin" to the end of them. (Ex. Kuro-chin, Aka-chin, etc.)
Why Did It Have To Be Crows: Thinks they make weird sounds.
You Gotta Have Purple Hair

Tatsuya Himuro

Big Brother Mentor: To Kagami.
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.

Kenichi Okamura

Butt Monkey: His teammates don't respect him at all. Calling him "gorilla" is just the start.
The Captain

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

Ax Crazy: The way he attacked Kagami with scissors seems to indicate that he's this.
The Captain
Curtains Match the Window: Partially subverted. While his right eye is red, his left is yellow-orange.
Crazy People Play Chess: Well, we aren't sure if he's actually crazy attacked Kagami with scissors and he was playing Shogi though
Expecting Someone Taller: Furihata is surprised that he's around his and Kuroko's height.
- He is 173 cm which make him the second shortest Generation of Miracle after Kuroko.
The Faceless: He's always shown from the back or the neck down. Even when he's face-to-face with the main characters, he has a Face Framed in Shadow. His face is finally revealed at the end of chapter 113.
First-Name Basis: With everyone else in the GOM, but only on his part. They all call him "Akashi".
Hellish Pupils
Large and In Charge: Subverted. Other than Kuroko, he's the shortest member of the GOM.
Smart People Play Shougi: Might also be Crazy People Play Shougi.
Why Did It Have To Be Dogs: Hates the disobedient ones who don't listen.
You Gotta Have Red Hair: Possibly an Evil Redhead.

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