Add one more show to the Friday line-up as Crunchyroll has announced that the Kuroko’s Basketball anime series will start on April 7th at 2:30 pm ET. The new series from the manga of the same name by Tadatoshi Fukimaki will be viewable in the following territories: U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. The series began in Weekly Shonen Jump back in 2008 and is ongoing with over sixteen compiled volumes so far. Production I.G. is behind the animation for the series.
Plot Concept: The Teiko Middle School Basketball Team: the class that produced three perfect seasons in a row, with five once-in-a-generation players, called ‘the Miracle Generation.’
There was another player whom all of them respected…a legendary 6th teammate. When up-and-coming power-player Taiga Kagami returns from America, he enrolls in Seirin High School and meets the suprisingly ordinary boy, Tetsuya Kuroko. Kagami is shocked to find that Kuroko isn’t good at basketball—in fact, he’s bad! And he’s so plain that he’s impossible to see.
However, Kuroko’s plainness lets him pass the ball around without the other team noticing him—he was indeed the sixth member of the Miracle Generation. Kuroko makes a pact with Kagami to defeat the other members of the middle school dream team who have all since moved on to play basketball at other high schools. A battle of light (Kagami) and shadow (Kuroko) begins!