Kuroko's Basketball Characters

A first-year at Seirin and the rumoured phantom sixth man of the Generation of Miracles, so lacking in presence that people forget he is there. He plays as a pure passer, using misdirection to redirect the ball where nobody is looking. He quit Teiko's team because its stars cared only about winning, and at Seirin he sets out to beat them as the 'shadow' to Kagami's 'light'. Over the series he learns to beat defenders on the dribble and to shoot, both things he once could not do.

Seirin's first-year power forward, who grew up playing basketball in the United States and came back to Japan during middle school. He is a natural talent with an enormous jump, a short temper and a fear of dogs, and he means to beat every one of the Generation of Miracles. Tatsuya Himuro, his 'brother' from America, got him into the game, and the former WNBA player Alex Garcia trained them both. Before the Winter Cup he flies back to America to train, and against Aomine the two aces end up fighting it out in the Zone.

Seirin's coach, a second-year student and the daughter of the sports trainer Kagetora Aida. Growing up around her father's gym taught her to read a player's physical abilities just by looking at them. She is strict, fiercely devoted to her team and a famously bad cook. She agreed to coach only after the club showed it was serious about reaching the top.

Seirin's captain and shooting guard, a second-year who gets sharper, ruder and more accurate when a game is on the line, a state his teammates call clutch time. After a losing middle-school career he had nearly given up basketball before Kiyoshi talked him into the new club. He is Seirin's best shooter, and his signature move is the Barrier Jumper, a quick step away from his defender into a jump shot.

Seirin's second-year center and the founder of its basketball club, known as the 'Iron Heart', one of the Uncrowned Kings. A knee injury suffered against Kirisaki Daiichi the year before kept him in hospital through the Inter-High, and he comes back knowing that this will be his last year playing for Seirin. He is calm and kind, and he believes a team is made by people supporting each other. After the Winter Cup he goes abroad for surgery on his knee.

Kaijo High's first-year small forward and the last to join the Generation of Miracles. He only took up basketball in his second year at Teiko, after watching Aomine play. He can copy any move after seeing it once, and he works as a model on the side. Kuroko was his first instructor at Teiko, and Seirin's win over Kaijo in a practice match is the first game Kise has ever lost. He later develops Perfect Copy, which lets him reproduce the other Miracles' skills for a few minutes at a time.

Shutoku High's first-year shooting guard and Teiko's former vice-captain, whose high-arcing three-pointers go in from anywhere on the court. He follows the Oha-Asa horoscope religiously, always carries the day's lucky item, often ends his sentences with 'nanodayo', and, unlike some of the other Miracles, never stops practising hard. He sounds harsh but is caring underneath. His teammate Kazunari Takao, whose Hawk Eye sees the whole court, pulls him around town in a cart hitched to his bicycle.

Touou Academy's first-year power forward and the ace of the Generation of Miracles, who was Kuroko's 'light' at Teiko. His talent grew so far beyond everyone else's that he lost interest, stopped going to practice and lived by the line 'the only one who can beat me is me'. He crushes Seirin in the Inter-High preliminaries, but their Winter Cup rematch hands him his first-ever loss. Afterwards he wants to practise again, and asks his childhood friend Momoi to go shopping for new basketball shoes.

Teiko's former manager, now manager at Touou Academy, where she keeps an eye on her childhood friend Aomine, whom she calls 'Dai-chan'. Her real weapon is information: she analyses opponents so closely that she can predict their moves. The only player she cannot read is Kuroko, whom she has adored ever since he handed her a winning ice-lolly stick.

The Generation of Miracles' former center, now at Yosen High in Akita, and at 208 cm the tallest of them. He is lazy, childish and almost always eating snacks, says he only plays because he happens to be good at it, and openly scorns players who try hard without his gifts. In the Winter Cup his Yosen side opens up an 18–0 lead on Seirin, but losing that game leaves him with a new respect for basketball. In middle school he is said to have scored over 100 points in a single game.

The captain of the Generation of Miracles, now captain of Rakuzan High as a first-year. Heir to a powerful family and raised by a demanding father, he believes winning is everything and has never lost a game. At Teiko, when Murasakibara came close to beating him one-on-one, a colder, more ruthless second personality took over. His Emperor Eye reads an opponent's smallest movements, so he can steal the ball or send a defender to the floor.

The coach and captain of Kirisaki Daiichi High and one of the Uncrowned Kings, nicknamed the 'Bad Boy' for his dirty play. He is highly intelligent, and he studies an opponent's passing patterns so that his team can close the lanes and leave him to steal the ball, a trap called the Spider's Web. He was behind the injury that kept Kiyoshi out for a year, and he plays to watch hard-working players suffer. Seirin beat his team in the Winter Cup qualifiers.