Despite the many bad and good things about this anime, I would overall rate it a strong 9.
Some people have said that it is cliche - and I must admit, it was. The different coloured hair, so abnormal that it would make one cringe. Or maybe it was that not every character had a unique add-on?, and seemed like it belonged from some other anime. (Talking about you, green-head glasses guy)
Story: 8
It may just be because I love sports anime, but I thoroughly enjoyed the entertainment and concept of the basketball games. In fact, the only reason why I didn't give it a ten was because of the fact that some of the games went on for literally - what, five episodes? - and some of the characters did nothing but repeat and repeat the same moves. In other words, sometimes it felt like I'd literally re-watched the episode.
(Once again, talking about you, green-head glasses guy)
I got bored once or twice, but the setting between teammates and believing in each other made me want to continue the series even more. Ha, cheesy, I know.
Art: 7
The art wasn't anything to be proud of. Kagami's hair looked like a different version of Jean's from Attack on Titan, so that was quite weird.
And then the classic every-body-has-different-colored-hairs came into place. I'm actually confused - apparently brown hair isn't a thing in the world of Kuroko's Basketball.
Pink hair. Green hair. Navy hair. Light blue hair. Red hair. Hot pink hair. Yellow hair. Purple hair. ALL THE HAIR.
The shading on the characters, however, were more or so interesting. It reminded me of Attack on Titan (another reference, I know) as it wasn't just the casual make-a-shade-darker shading. That added some depth into the anime.
Sound: 10
It actually surprised me how well the sound fitted, apart from the occasional off-lip talking that happened once or twice. The character's running and stopping's sound was directly, to the point and limit, perfect.
Sometimes I did cringe when Kuroko or one of the other's made some weird noise, but that doesn't matter :3
Character: 7
There was only one or two characters that were completely unique (to me, anyway) which was Akashi and Kuroko - maybe Kagami? Let's start off with the Generation on Miracles.
Firstly you have Kise. A classical, charm the girls man who can never keep a straight face. Hmm, that's totally not in every anime that's ever existed.
Then we have Aomine. The man who is kind of a bad-butt and is cold to everyone else.
Murasakibara - no interests in anything at all.
Midorima, I sure as heck have NEVER seen him before *sarcasm*. Like, I've never seen anyone who is a slight bit nerdy, does calculations, wears glasses, has weird interests and bases everything he does of in logic and math.
Akashi. In my eyes, he's more original. He's got a past, he's not all goody-goody and he has a heck of an introduction. I like the way the story adapts with him... but I need more.
Kuroko.... he's not ALL too unique in the story. I've seen about ten other animes where the main character isn't noticed at all (so far I've only watched 51 animes :P). But this one DOES make it a slightly bit more original, seeing that he used his unnoticed aura to his advantage.
Enjoyment: 10
I really enjoyed this anime - obviously as you can see that small-text black 10. Although I mostly spoke about CONS in this review, Kuroko no Basket was one of the very few animes that I've dreamt about and fangirled *very loudly* about. I'm not joking, I've spent two days watching this entire anime and those two nights I had a dream about it. It was great.
I think I mentioned this, but it might just be because I adore sports anime that this one was so great. Although I can't really explain it, think of your favorite anime and try and give it a hundred words. Hard, right? That's how I'm feeling trying to explain why I like it.
Overall: 9
8, 7, 10 , 7 , 10. With those scores, I'm going to give this anime a 9. That may not be correct but... math is boring anyway. I don't need to go into detail WHY it was overall 9, considering I have a habit of putting the wrong things in the wrong category. Heh...
Side Notes:
*slight spoiler*
I do with that the ending had been more elaborated. I, personally, love Akashi and was quite sad I didn't get to see Kuroko and him re-bond in vision. Not only that, but I loved this series so much that I can't actually believe it's over.
And, back on the Akashi topic, we didn't really see much of him apart from the game. I'm sure all the fangirls out there, like myself, would have loved to have seen more of him instead of just having to read fanfictions :(
I also would've liked to have seen the match between Kuroko and his old best friend, but I guess that didn't happen either.
WHAT HAPPENED TO KIYOSHI?
