<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Anime and Manga portal </Td> </Tr> <P> Kuroko's Basketball, known in Japan as Kuroko no Basket (黒子 の バスケ), is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Tadatoshi Fujimaki . The English rendering The Basketball Which Kuroko Plays also appears in the artwork of the Japanese version . It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 2008 to September 2014, with the individual chapters collected into 30 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha . It tells the story of a high school basketball team trying to make it to the national tournament . </P> <P> By April 2014, Kuroko's Basketball had 27 million copies in circulation . It was adapted into an anime television series by Production I.G that began airing in 2012, with a second season that began airing in October 2013 and a third season that began airing in January 2015 . A sequel manga by Fujimaki titled Kuroko's Basketball: Extra Game (黒子 の バスケ EXTRA GAME) began serialization in Jump Next! on December 29, 2014 . Viz Media has licensed the manga for publication in North America . An anime film adaptation of the Kuroko's Basketball: Extra Game manga premiered in Japan on March 18, 2017 . </P> <P> The basketball team of Teiko Middle School rose to distinction by demolishing all competition . The regulars of the team became known as the "Generation of Miracles". After graduating from middle school, these five stars went to different high schools with top basketball teams . However, a fact few know is that there was another player in the "Generation of Miracles": a phantom sixth man . This mysterious player is now a freshman at Seirin High, a new school with a powerful, if little - known, team . Now, Tetsuya Kuroko--"the sixth member of the "Generation of Miracles", and Taiga Kagami--a naturally talented player who spent most of middle school in the US, aim to bring Seirin to the top of Japan and begin taking on Kuroko's former teammates one by one . The series chronicles Seirin's rise to become Japan's number one high school team . The rest of the Generation of Miracles include Ryota Kise, Shintaro Midorima, Daiki Aomine, Atsushi Murasakibara and Seijuro Akashi . </P>

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