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The girl was dressed in a dark blue kimono outfit, but a little different from the rest. It looked like the kind of ninja costumes you see in anime and manga (Ch. 434) and by the way, her breasts are not big, which Yuna can relate to (Ch. 436).
Her abdomen is noted to be tighter than Yuna's by Yuna (Ch. 438)
Shinobu’s hair was just tied up in a bundle, but when she untied it, it was long. Ch 491

Shinobu is overly familiar, according to Yuna .


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Shuri usually has shoulder length, brown hair. It is usually tied in two twin tails with two maroon red bows. Her twin tails is also usually very curly. Shuri wears a long and grey pinafore dress and a green long sleeved shirt underneath. She is also seen to wear tights and black shoes.

Shuri is sweet and slightly bashful as she is still a very young child but otherwise is mature for her age. Yuna described Shuri as being fearless as she playfully growled at a snake and was not afraid of it at all.
Although her fearlessness does make her careless at times, such as when she saw some wild berries and ate them, not realizing they were not fully grown and ended up tasting sour as a result.


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Swaying Bear takes the appearance of a Black Bear. It is as big as a large bear in its normal adult form, but it can also change its size to be more compact in its cub form. Whether big or small, Swaying Bear looks like a cute teddy bear.

Swaying Bear is much like Hugging Bear and will sulk when Yuna uses the other more than him.


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Tirumina formely appeared as a weak woman with paled skin but ever since Yuna healed her, Tirumina is now rather bright and active as well as being able to get angry at Yuna. Tirumina has light skin and lime-green eyes, similar to her daughters, Fina and Shuri , including the similar green-ish brown hair, although Tirumina's hair is much longer and is tied loosely to the side. Tirumina does not have much of a fringe but she has two wavy forelocks and a strand of hair across her face. Tirumina also usually wears a gray cardigan on top of a green and white striped ankle length dress.

Tirumina is a caring and motherly figure and having lived in poverty for many years, she is not wasteful. She holds great love for her family and her benefactor Yuna and feels forever grateful towards her.


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Yuna has long bluish-green hair that reaches down to her waist, and red ribbons on her sidelocks. She has reddish-pink eyes. She is described as a beauty by others, but she does not realize it herself. She also claims that she's only slightly shorter than average than most girls her age [2] and that her chest is only slightly smaller than most other girls' [3] .
In the other world that Yuna gets sent to, she wears a bear onesie in which the outside is black, the inside is white, and it is reversible. On her right hand, she wears a Black bear glove, and on her left hand, she wears a White bear glove, while on her feet she wears a Black bear shoe on the right foot and wears a White bear shoe on the left foot. The onesie is secured by the ribbon at her neck, and if she loosens it, then it will fall right off.
In the light novel and anime , Yuna realizes that she doesn't have anything to wear underneath her bear suit except the bear underwear that came with it, so she goes out with Fina to buy shirts to wear underneath.

Yuna is initially presented as a lazy, carefree and lonely NEET. She is someone who spends the time of her daily life in World Fantasy Online , without much interest in real life things, and according to her, life sucks and there is no one that she can consider close, much less a friend. Due to her lonely attitude, she believes that she does not need friends and will be fine on her own, which is supported by her independent personality, being able to live on her own without help from her parents.
She also seems to be an otaku (or a hikikomori ), not only having knowledge in video games but also in light novels of the fantasy theme.
When she gets sent to the other world, Yuna acts skeptically, but later realises that it is actually another world, which does not seem to surprise her much, re-affirming her carefree attitude towards almost anything, and accompanied by her pessimistic thinking about real life, Yuna feels excited to live in another world.
But, Yuna's true personality is much more than that. She is quite confident in terms of her skills and knowledge. She also shows a stoic behaviour in various situations, such as when she was about to face an adventurer whose power she did not know. She also made clear her dislike for this adventurer and people similar to him. That in WFO, there used to be people like that too, that is why she was able to act insensitive, cruel, and ruthless against them, provoking them and then asking them to keep their promise to give up adventurers. Yuna also mentioned that she has a nasty habit of assuming the worst in people. One of her weaknesses is that she has a slight fear of spiders (WN 629).
Despite her somewhat anti-social demeanor, Yuna is exceptionally kind and has a certain sense of justice. She also shows a soft side towards some little sister-like girls, like Fina . She is also quite protective of her friends as she went to great lengths to keep them safe or rescue them.
She doesn't care much about what people think of her, and although she was initially embarrassed to wear the bear suit, she got used to it, even though it's awkward to get so many stares.
Despite being a NEET, Yuna shows a high level of intelligence and resourcefulness. She can make billions of yen from stocks allowing her to live a comfortable life without ever having to leave her home. She is quite knowledgeable in video games and is an experienced player. Also, she can be manipulative at times, like when she heard that the guild remains neutral in the face of conflicts between adventurers, she took the opportunity to say that she had not yet joined the guild; and that because she had been attacked by adventurers, the guild should support her as a citizen.


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Etsuko is a fairly short and heavy-set woman with short brown hair that is lighter than the rest of her family's and a kind face.


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Hibiki has golden blonde hair with eyes that mach in shade. Her ears are pierced with silver hoops and wears dog tags at her neck.
She wears sporty, leisurewear styled clothing.

Hibiki can come across as a punk with a harsh attitude whose wholesome intentions are easily misread and she is often pinned as a culprit of crimes she did not commit. She is a poor liar who is easily flustered and she is not afraid of resorting to violence on her own determination.
Hibiki also displays an overly aggressive nature to hide her shyness.


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Machi has long dark hair that meets her waist. She ties it into twin tails that sit loosely by her shoulders with white ribbon. When she is not in her traditional miko attire, she just uses hair bands to keep them in place. Her bangs are cropped short across her forehead and long wefts frame her face, ending by her ears in length.
Her eyes are light brown, if not amber in shade.

As Machi gets older, her attention diverges to the city and her future. Kumade Village is becoming a dreary to her. She loathes the weather and describes it as something that makes her want to stay inside and sleep all day, getting soft and "fat".
She's at a transitional age right now and is slowly starting to depart from her more childish standards to be content. She wants to grow up and do more maturing, as she is ready to leave the village and experience the city.
She's stubborn when it comes to others telling her that she should stay there in the country because it's all she knows, but she refuses to let that bring her down. She ardently tries to learn more about the city to prepare herself and overcome the obstacles in her path.


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Natsu is a tall brown bear. Though he is a brown bear, his coat is more golden and has white fur on his muzzle. He usually is cute and docile in appearance, but can appear more vicious when needed.

Natsu is very nurturing to Machi and protective. He is also understanding, knowing that he cannot prevent Machi from being sad and keep her in the village forever. He once stated that he will watch over her until she is married off.


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Yoshio has short brown hair and thick eyebrows. He parts his hair off to the side and keeps it out of his face. He usually wears a simple button down shirt and a tie with his Board of Health badge.

Yoshio is very laid back in attitude and is amiable. He gets along with just about anyone with ease.


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She has a blonde hair with a pigtail tied with black ribbon and a fringe on the left side of her head. The black ribbon tying her pigtail is also featured as her symbol.
She puts large scarf on her shoulders and wears blue shorts, knee-high boots and black socks reaching under her knees and jacket which consists of white sleeves whose blue portions with red stripes at the end of each sleeve and blue body.
In OVA, she also wears bikini with the scarf although unsuitable or unnecessary for swimming.

She has an appellation called as "Kirihiko-chan" by Shinkuro and she considers it "cute".
She alleges that she fluently speaks English but actually speaks awkward.
She has naive aspects in which she had squashed the arm of Shinkuro, who was confused by her name "Kirihiko", because the name sounds like a boy, into her breasts although in street and she had noticed Shinkuro that she is a virgin in an obscure ally of the street.
She is feeble to heat and coldness, and she also has pollen allergy and a heat-feeble tongue. Therefore, she considers the Earth as her "enemy".
She is also a dab hand at fighting video games as when she met Shinkuro, then she consecutively accomplished 50 defeats in an arcade game.
Although she is usually a taciturn girl, when she grabs blades, she dramatically changes to verbose and very hostile, and fluently speaks English within slangs and her words also become manly with a male pronoun "ore". So, she usually inclines to avoid to take blades in streets. She also changes her personality by grabbing something sharp such as bamboo leaves or hair even if without blades.
When she fights as an heir of Kirihima, she introduces herself as "Kirihiko LXVI of Kirishima" before a fight.
She is a superior genius of treating blades in Akuu Company and easily defeated strong swordsmen.
Even if taking cheap blades, she could easily defeat and beheaded strong swordsmen momentarily.
Therefore, her dexterous treatment of blades brought her another name "Guillotine",although she is just an ordinary girl except dexterously treating blades.
Other swordsmen including Lin Chengshin hate her as "Kirishima is the enemy of swordsmen, the odious one for all swordsmen dedicating to swordsmanship."
She can distinguish blades whether good or bad. But she doesn't cling to blades themselves, as she had even thrown away Lin's "Bizen Osafune" into dustbin at the end of the battle.


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She is a beautiful, intelligent and bright girl, hence very popular in Seiryo High as a male student of the school likened her as "Yamato Nadeshiko (an alternate name for carnation flower in Japanese and also means the virtuous beauty of Japanese women) means Yuno Hozuki as the dictionary refers to.", although anyone else except Shinkuro are out of her interests as she is never affected by those in the circumference pivoted around her.
She practices to wear the outfit of a shrine maiden for attending to the shrine in behalf of Housen's acquaintance.

She is apparently gentle,  but in fact, she is vehemently stubborn but earnest. Therefore, she occasionally seems pernicious.
Shinkuro Kurenai considers her as if a sister who apprentices to Hozuki clan, as she miscellaneously and thoroughly instructs Shinkuro since childhood to treasure women and repeatedly taught him that "Anyway, you look for the older wife even if wearing golden slippers."
Yuno strongly withstands that Shinkuro leaves Houzuki clan and becomes self-support as well as she hopes Shinkuro back to her family, as she even attended to Shinkuro's class inspections in behalf of his late parents when Shinkuro was a sponger of the Houzuki.
She adores Shinkuro as a man and willingly attempts to drag him into betrothal to Hozuki Clan. However, she is also embarrassed by Shinkuro's popularity as he is very popular by surrounding women because he is decorous, gentle and brave boy. Her propensity shows jealous revulsion to women whom are interested with or intimately treated by Shinkuto, and she struggles to distract him from others by her wording and behavior. She is in habit of strong credulity that Shinkuro especially imparts women but it inclines to mistakable conceit. Even though, her attempts are prone to fizzle thanks to Shinkuro's apathetic attitude.
She hates Murasaki Kuhoin, Ginko Murakami and Benika Juzawa as they are too close to Shinkuro.
She recognizes those who confront against Shinkuro as enemies and tends to thoroughly shatter them.


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Ginko has a short hair that reaches to her chin and wears glasses while owning a laptop for access to her grandfather's information.
She looks leaner than any of her classmates in figure, although she disapproves of her own poor figure as she tends to increase amount of meals, but never gets fleshy at all.

Ginko is apparently dishonest and gallantly in disposition, though she is actually careful, thoughtful and furtively beautiful genius. She is not good at athletics or sports at all, as she is unable to provide self-defense means.
Ginko hates Benika Juzawa and Hozuki clan, especially Yuno , but she behaves gently to Murasaki because Murasaki is an infant, therefore she is intimate to Murasaki as she had attended in behalf of Murasaki's class inspection.
Ginko tends to attend to the school earlier than any of her classmates for eating breakfast in the classroom, as she likes snack buns.
She deposits the amount of money seemingly as much as eight-figure yen.


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Akane has brown mid-long hair that are held back with a hairband. Like her brother Shinji Koganei , she has a cat-like mouth.

As Shinji Koganei 's big sister, Akane is sometimes rough with him, but she is very supportive.


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Alexandra is a tall, beautiful and athletic American young woman with lower-back length blonde hair that has bangs hanging over her forehead, teal-green eyes, large breasts and classic pink glasses.
She is seen wearing a white shirt, a black sweater and jeans, although she often only wears panties indoors.

Like Satsuki Momoi , Alexandra is a very flirty young woman who has very affectionate feelings towards Taiga Kagami and Tatsuya Himuro , her disciples, even trying to kiss (or successfully kissing) them on occasion. [1] [2] And not only towards her students, but she has also kissed Riko Aida . Alex is very clever and cunning, being highly knowledgeable about basketball tactics and techniques. She is a natural at seeing someone's strength. [3]
Despite her carefree attitude she can be quite intimidating at times, like when she stated that nobody dared to approach her back in her betting days in streetball, also when she aimed a kick at Shōgo Haizaki when he lifted her by the neck. [4]


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Allen is a dark-skinned, tall, and muscular young man. His hair is black and is in the form of a buzz cut. Allen wears a headband along with the Jabberwock jersey number 7. He is the same height as Shutoko's Shintaro Midorima


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Murasakibara is abnormally tall for someone his age. Standing even taller than Papa Mbaye Siki , he is one of the largest players seen in the entire series. He has shoulder length, lavender hair that touches his back and violet eyes.
He wears Yōsen High 's jersey with the number 9. During the fourth quarter of the match against Seirin High School, he is seen with his hair pulled back into a ponytail. He has also been seen wearing a white "Tonicwater" t-shirt paired with unbuttoned khaki overalls.
Even though less emphasis has be placed upon his appearance then, for example, Ryōta Kise , he has occasionally had girls fawn over him, such as when he dress in a princess uniform for the Teikō Junior High School festival. [1]

Contrary to the impression his height gives, Murasakibara acts very lumpish and he fools around at serious times, which is not always well received. He is mildly sadistic and childish. He claims that the only reason he plays basketball, is because he's good at it, he doesn't care for the sport at all. He has always told others that he dislikes, is bored by and even hates players who play basketball with passion, even when they are losing. However, it is hinted that he actually likes basketball from the bottom of his heart due to his activation of Zone. [1] In accordance with his childlike nature, he has a sweet tooth and is seen eating sugar-related foods all the time, except during a match. It is also mentioned that Murasakibara spends every single penny he has on all kinds of junk food. He dislike anyone attempted to take his food when he is willing to use violent to threat them such as Shōgo Haizaki .

Infuriated Murasakibara

According to Tetsuya Kuroko , Murasakibara isn't the calm type and was actually quite the opposite while playing with the Generation of Miracles . He used to be very active in the attacking lineup during his junior high school days at Teikō Junior High , and even set a record of scoring 100 points in a single game when he was enraged. However, since basketball bored him, halfway, he became less aggressive and had been limiting himself to defensive plays only. His actual specialty is offense. During the match against Seirin High , Murasakibara was startled when Seirin managed to cut Yōsen High 's lead from 18 points to just only 5. Murasakibara claims that it is pointless for the weak to struggle any further and then switches to offense after being enraged. [2]
The actual reason of his lazy attitude towards the game is because if he gave his all and went all-out, he may hurt his opponents or even teammates with his huge size. But when he was matched up against Jason Silver who is bigger than him, he smiled for the first time in a game for he doesn't have to worry on anything while giving his all.
Murasakibara also has the tendency to be with people who can make decisions for him. In Teikō, he was always obedient to whatever Seijūrō Akashi ordered him to do. In Yōsen, he is seen listening a lot to Tatsuya Himuro 's advice.


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Mayuzumi has medium-length grey hair and an extremely blank gaze, even blanker than that of Tetsuya Kuroko . He is tall, and of an average build. On court, he wears the blue and white Rakuzan jersey with the number 5. According to Kōki Furihata and Daiki Aomine , Mayuzumi bears a resemblance to a certain someone . [1]

Mayuzumi is quiet to the point of ignoring people who speak to him, as is shown when he disregards Kotarō Hayama 's call during the warm up at the Winter Cup finals. Due to his lack of presence most of his team members had a hard time even remembering anything about his playing style. He has high self respect and only does what makes him happy, such as reading light novels in his free time.
Behind his facade, Mayuzumi is very proud and can't stand being looked down upon. However, he is also a realist and aware of his own limitations. Mayuzumi is resentful and gets easily annoyed, as is shown by how he reacts to his teammates suddenly changing their minds about him after he makes the first string. Mayuzumi can be blunt and quite rude as he swears and criticizes often, at least internally. Despite this, he is diligent and does his job in supporting the team.
In contrast to Tetsuya Kuroko , who dedicates himself to teamwork and supporting others, Mayuzumi has shown little interest in solidarity and claims to only pass for his own sake.


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Ueno is a tall and unusually muscular guy with short black hair.
He wears the Nakamiya South High uniform with the number 8.


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Matsuoka has short brown hair.
He wears a formal light-blue shirt with a dark-red tie.

Matsuoka is a kind and realistic man who didn't force Tetsuya Kuroko to quit the club but merely advised him to as his training results were insufficient. He was happy and congratulated Kuroko after hearing his promotion and had no objections to make.


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Aomine is a tall young man with tan skin and an athletic build. He has short navy blue hair that he parts to his right as well as thin eyebrows and relatively long, slanted eyes of the same color.
On the court, Aomine wears the black and red Tōō Academy jersey with the number 5. During his time at Teikō Junior High and Team Vorpal Swords , he wore each team's jersey with the numbers 6 and 5 respectively. His casual summer clothes consist of a loose, white tank top and tan cargo pants. In the winter, Aomine is often seen with a light woolen shirt, a black hoodie and a dark bodywarmer. [1]

In the past, Aomine was very outgoing and friendly, if not somewhat immature. He had multiple irresponsible habits such as taking food from others when he was hungry [2] and hiding his dirty laundry away in a locker as an excuse not to properly clean it. He was also not a particularly good student, something that persists to this day. [3] He was close friends with Tetsuya Kuroko and often pushed Ryōta Kise around in a friendly, lighthearted manner. Satsuki Momoi has compared this version of Aomine to Taiga Kagami in that they both loved playing basketball and had equal amounts of talent and passion.
As he continued to improve and his true talents blossomed forth, however, Aomine grew more and more distant from the sport and its players. His opponents began to call his talents monstrous and many completely lost their will to play against him, crushing him with both guilt and disappointment and dashing much of his desire to play. Believing that he would never again find a player that stood a chance of being his equal, [4] Aomine made the decision to stop practicing entirely in order to not make his games any more one-sided than they already were.
From this time up to his first year at Tōō Academy , Aomine adopted the saying of "the only one who can beat me is me" and became increasingly careless towards the sport due to his boredom. He openly spoke down to his opponents and taunted them with the fact that their attempts to beat him would be useless, making a show of how little effort he had to expend to win. He was similarly disrespectful to his own teammates and was not above stealing their food or physically harming should they get on his nerves. This general lack of care has extended to his personal life as well, often taking naps or otherwise lazing around without any real goal in mind.

Stopping Haizaki by force

Despite this, Aomine did not fully lose sight of the things he cared for and remained fiercely protective of his former teammates at Teikō Junior High . After hearing a benched teammate insult Tetsuya Kuroko and his style of play during a match against Seirin High , Aomine did not hesitate to slam him against the lockers and warn that he, as someone who couldn't even earn a spot on the court, had no right to comment on the players' performances. [5] Aomine was similarly protective over Ryōta Kise following his match against Fukuda Sōgō Academy , as he chose to wait outside the venue to prevent Shōgo Haizaki from causing any further trouble for Kise or his team. [6]
These echoes of his past self have grown stronger throughout the course of the series, following his reconnection with Kuroko and his first loss to Seirin. This change is and will likely continue to be a gradual one, as while his ego has lessened and his passion for basketball has begun to return, he is ultimately not the same person any longer. His teammates have also taken note of this shift and are now able to more consistently get him to practice, prodding at his rivalry with Taiga Kagami as motivation and threatening to burn his favorite magazines if he misbehaves.

Holding a gravure magazine

Aomine is notably a big fan of gravure idols and magazines. He has an outspoken preference for women with large chests [7] and is rather shameless about this hobby in general, as he had no qualms with rooting around Kagami's apartment for erotic magazines during his very first visit. [8]


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Narumi has combed-back brown hair that has a few strands of hair hanging over his forehead and he is very tall and buff for a high school boy.
He wears the Josei High uniform with the number 9.

Narumi is very arrogant and overconfident in his abilities. As a way of concentration, he listens to heavy metal and reads porn magazines. [1] His love for erotic women is further expressed when he heard that Seirin High had a female coach and he was disappointed when he saw Riko Aida , expecting a sexy woman with nice curves. [2] It seems that his tension on-court goes up when he knows a sexy woman is present, which didn't happen with Riko.


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In his mid 40s, Shirogane is among the older characters of the series and has noticeable wrinkles on his face. He has black swept-back hair with a gray stripe on each side. Shirogane had entirely grey-white hair even in his youth, implying that this is simply his natural hair color rather than being a result of age.
Shirogane dresses in a black business suit with a white collared shirt and purple tie. During his time on the Japanese national team, he wore the jersey number 4.

As a coach, Shirogane is calculating and succinct, trusting his players to take care of small details on their own and placing his faith in Seijūrō Akashi to issue additional correction if needed. [1] He maintains a generally calm demeanor and has an eye for both observation and analysis likely emboldened by experience. Despite this, Shirogane was still completely stunned by their loss against Seirin High alongside the rest of Rakuzan High .


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Nebuya has dark colored skin and a very short beard. He is very tall and has an extremely muscular body, which makes him seem older than he is. He has short black hair, that is styled with two stripes each at the sides of his head. He has been called a "muscle gorilla" by Kotarō Hayama before. [1] He plays with the blue and white Rakuzan High jersey with the number 8.
In Junior High School, he wore his team uniform and was noticeably thinner. He also had bleached blonde-brown hair.

Nebuya is a glutton who is shown to be able to eat comparable amounts or even more than Taiga Kagami . Nebuya even overeats before a game with the thought that meat makes him strong. He frequently burps and lets out gas, which annoys his teammates. He is often called a "Muscle Gorilla" and takes it as a compliment. He also loves to add the word "muscle" while playing such as 'muscle screen-out', 'muscle rebound' or 'muscle dunk', just for further exaggeration. He is quite rude and downsizes his opponents, which shows his too much pride on his strength and build. He also believes that "muscles improve everything" - the main reason he decided to get buffer.
Despite his "macho" personality, he has a softer side to him such as when he begged Teppei Kiyoshi to switch out Kōki Furihata from playing after seeing how much he was shaking at the sight of Seijūrō Akashi . Because of this, Kiyoshi noted that he was "actually pretty kind". He also checked in with Reo Mibuchi during the Final Round, asking what was wrong when he missed two free throws, showing he has compassion for his teammates.


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Both boys have an identical face, rather smug with a long mouth and narrow eyes. Their hair is short and light brown, wiped to the right.
They wear the Kamata West Junior High jersey with the numbers 8 (Sōta) and 9 (Shōta).


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Takeuchi is a thick, middle-aged man. He has stubbles on his face and dresses in every-day clothes, a regular shirt and pants. During the Interhigh , he changed his look: he shaved himself spotless clean and dresses in a black suit. His hair was also more shiny and less tangled. [1]
During his younger years, he had a slender figure and a short spiky hair with a cheerful and easy-going expression.

When Ryōta Kise joined his team, he is more confident in his team's strength and doesn't feel it's necessary to do the very best against, in his eyes, weaker opponent. During the match against Tōō Academy , he felt threatened by Tōō's coach Katsunori Harasawa 's formal appearance and tried to compete with him by dressing himself formal as well. [1]


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Ishida has dark brown spiky hair and flat eyes. He is of average height and build. His face bears a resemblance to Teppei Kiyoshi .
He wears the Fukuda Sōgō Academy uniform with the number 4.

As commented on by Yukio Kasamatsu , Ishida attaches much importance to good sportsmanship and acts accordingly. Using Shōgo Haizaki as a regular brings regret to him, as Haizaki does not respect these values at all. Ishida is also seen as diligent. [1]


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Fukuda has spiky black hair that has a few strands hanging over his forehead and he has rather long eyebrows.
He plays with the red, black and white jersey of Seirin High , wearing the jersey number 13.


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Sakuma has light brown hair and small eyes.
He wears the Josei High uniform with the number 5.


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Yamazaki has spiky orange hair with the fringe in the middle being longer than the sides. He has small eyes and large ears. He is of average height and build.
He plays with jersey number 8.


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Silver is a dark-skinned, tall, and muscular young man, even taller than Murasakibara. He has piercings on his ears and lower lip. He has silver hair, a reference to his surname. Silver wears the jersey number 8. Outside the court, he wears a black hoodie, a white v-neck, necklaces, and baggy pants.

Silver is arrogant and ignorant, and he refers to himself as the "Almighty Me." Along with that he is also very lecherous, only to have much interest in women. He would not care for people in his surroundings, unless Gold Jr. would be the one to do so. Silver also tends to mock those who he sees as weak.
Silver can't seem to stand being bested by someone else or when there is someone stronger than him, and believes that "such person must not exist." This was shown when he kicked the bench out of frustration when he got blocked by Kagami and Aomine, and got the ball stolen by the latter. He also showed this side of him again when he purposely fouled and injured Murasakibara after the latter begun to overwhelm him. Silver played it off saying that it happens every now and then, and it was just a coincidence that Murasakibara got injured. Even after being overwhelmed by Kise and Murasakibara, and losing to Team Vorpal Swords; he still refuses to acknowledge them as the stronger players.


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Hyūga has short dark brown hair and gray eyes. He wears glasses and is of average height and build.
When he joined Seirin High in his first year of high school, Hyūga had slick, bleached blond hair. He also had wore a perpetually arrogant look on his face. After reverting back to his former hairstyle, his fringe becomes shorter.

Hyūga is a brash and rude, yet collected individual. Although pressured into the captain position initially, he has evolved over time into a calm, mature captain, caring for his team and being dependable and responsible.
He is best friends with Izuki and Kiyoshi, and is also good friends with Riko. There are also several hints that Hyūga has romantic feelings toward Riko, although as of now they are still just friends.
When in clutch mode, he becomes heated and rude. [2] He has a habit of cracking his neck when he is confident of victory. In this state, he's at his very best. [3]
He also has much pride as a senpai and as a player from Seirin High . He is never afraid to take control of the game and get Seirin in order. He can get fired up without his clutch ability when someone annoys him, both in the match against Seihō and Tōō .


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Riko's dad is middle-aged. He has short, light brown hair. He has darker eyebrows and sports a trimmed beard.
He is seen wearing regular clothes, at the training camp he wore a black shirt and training pants.

Kagetora is a typical overprotective father who adores his daughter Riko Aida very much and wants to protect her from harm. As a sports trainer, he is also strict and extreme, threatening Seirin High to kill them if they lay a hand on his daughter, even pulling out a gun when he suspected that one of Seirin's players peeked on Riko in the bath. [1]
He has a habit of giving people nicknames such as [2] :

"Four-eyes" ( Junpei Hyūga ) "Pretty boy" ( Shun Izuki ) "Air Head" ( Teppei Kiyoshi ) "Cat Face" ( Shinji Koganei )


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Harasawa is a middle-aged man with slightly curly black hair that reaches his lower neck and is parted on the right side.
He is known for dressing formal: a striped shirt, a tie and sometimes a costume vest.

Harasawa is a sharp and keen individual. As the coach of Tōō Academy , he cares much for victory and trains his players in order to win. He demands Daiki Aomine to not slack off and to play important matches such as against Kaijō High . [1] He has faith in his manager, Satsuki Momoi 's analyzing ability. [2] He also has the habit of fidgeting and playing with his hair.


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Mochizuki has a bald head and he is of average height and build.
He wears the Fukuda Sōgō Academy uniform #11.

Just like his teammates, Mochizuki is drawn back and powerless against Shōgo Haizaki . When Haizaki had hit him, Mochizuki did nothing to defend himself or even fight back.


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Tōyama has brownish-black hair and dark brown eyes.
He wears the Josei High uniform with the number 12.


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Shinagawa has a bald head. He wears glasses and always keeps his eyes closed. He is the tallest member of his team.
Shinagawa wears the Nakamiya South High uniform with the number 5.


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Takao has long, straight black hair. In front, his hair is kept stroked backward, with occasionally a few strands of hair falling down to his eyes. As seen during the training camp, he sometimes keeps his hair out of his eyes by using a hair band. [1] His eyes are also very narrow, and are a slate blue in color, though in some colored pages of the manga and in the PSP game, his eyes are deep amber in color. Sometimes, he is seen with a wide smirk on his face.
In the game, he wears the number 10.

Takao is very easy going and seeks fun everywhere. He enjoys playing basketball and isn't focused on winning or crushing the opponent that much. He is very positive and always tries to persuade Shintarō Midorima into doing fun stuff. He also has a habit of laughing at someone because of their likes, habits etc., such as Midorima's shooting because of it being too high and their captain, Taisuke Ōtsubo 's admiration to an idol. He can get along with anyone, even with Seirin High , their rivals. He has also displayed admiration towards Yukio Kasamatsu , looking up to him as a fellow point guard. It is hinted at that Takao enjoys singing. [2]


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Hara is a tall young man with long, messy purple hair. His hair reaches over his eyes, covering them completely. He is always seen with chewing gum in his mouth, sometimes blowing a bubble. He chews both out and in matches, which is actually forbidden.
He plays with jersey number 10.

Hara has a very carefree personality. He likes to taunt and make a fool of his teammates [1] and makes funny, but dry remarks. [2] He is often kidding around, even during matches. Despite this, he is foul and plays dirty like the rest of his team, but does so very discretely and away from the ref's attention.


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Kobayashi is a tall youngster with a wide posture. He has spiky dark-brown hair that has hair strands reaching his eyes. His eyes are narrow and also light-brown.
He plays with the number 7.


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Okamura is very big and wide. He has rough facial features, with a square head, prominent jawbone, heavy sideburns, high cheekbones, large nose, and thick eyebrows and lips. His black hair is short and spiky.
He wears the Yōsen High jersey with the number 4.

In contrast with his rough appearance, Okamura is easily moved and has been referred to as having a glass heart. He yearns for a girlfriend and frequently laments his lack of one, occasionally to the point of tears, and this frustration is further exacerbated by the lack of support from those around him. [1] He is weak to criticism and often comments about how none of his teammates are on his side, as they typically either ignore him or insult him further in his times of doubt.
In particular, Wei Liu and Kensuke Fukui are the most openly critical of him, with the former consistently insulting his chin and sideburns while the latter is responsible for keeping his emotional outbursts in check. For these reasons, he does not command much authority as captain, and the issuing of orders usually falls on the team's coach or vice captain in his stead. [2]
When it truly matters, however, Okamura has shown himself to be a serious and reliable captain for his team. He displays good sportsmanship in the face of a loss and is mature enough not to dwell on it. After seeing how strongly the loss affected his teammate, Atsushi Murasakibara , he gave the younger player a reassuring pat on the head, reminded him that he was just getting started, and wished him good luck. [3] Despite initially playing basketball simply to attract popularity, he is genuinely passionate about the sport and cares about the team that he is with.


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Takeda is an old teacher with short gray hair that has bangs swept on either side.
He wears a brown-green shirt and regular pants. He also carries a cane.


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Sakamoto has spiky medium-long black hair. He has an average build and plays with the black and white Seihō High uniform.
He wears the jersey number 7 for Seihō.


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Fukui is a player of average height, making him the shortest player on his team. He has a sharp face, narrow eyes with small pupils, and loosely styled ash-blond hair. Fukui plays with the jersey number 5.

Fukui has a straightforward attitude and easily speaks his mind, often in a bluntly comedic manner. [1] He is able to keep a  smart, generally calm demeanor by addressing his issues quickly and without hesitation, even when confronting others others. He is often the one to keep Kenichi Okamura 's outbursts in check by telling him that he is being too loud or emotional. As a vice captain, he commands authority over his team when needed and has an easier time issuing orders than the actual captain. Fukui is also good at getting children to listen to him. [2]
Fukui has a penchant for mischief, as he finds it funny to take advantage of Wei Liu 's cluelessness in order to "teach" him different things about Japan. He is at least semi-responsible for Liu's archaic patterns of speech after (incorrectly) telling him that certain words, such as アル ( aru ), were trendy. When these lies were at risk of being exposed, Fukui's first instinct was to use his quick thinking in order to cover his tracks with even more lies. [3]


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When Seto doesn't play basketball, he is usually seen with messy, black hair and often sleeping with a sleep mask. When he enters a match, he removes his sleep mask, revealing his mole on his forehead, his high cheekbones and applying wax to his hair, so that he can wear it to the back. According to Kazuya Hara , the strand of hair that is hanging down over his forehead, is there all the time. [1] His eyes are very narrow. As a center, he is also fairly tall. He plays with the jersey number 5.

Seto is extremely smart, he has an IQ of 160. [2] He is composed, calm, but lazy. He knows what he has to do in matches and fulfills his role perfectly.


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Miyaji has a rather slim and tall stature, compared to the other players. He has slightly long, blond hair that is parted in the middle, and wears the jersey number 8.

Miyaji is a very strict and harsh upperclassman. He has a short temper, usually triggered by Midorima 's vagaries. He is not only strict with others, but even more so towards himself. He has goals as a basketball player and lives up to those through hard work. [1] He usually practices late in the evening, even though he is a regular. He is also a good student and possesses good grades.
Miyaji's anger issues gave him a scary reputation in the eyes of the freshmen. Miyaji applies a ruthlessly strict training system to his team, which is so harsh that Takao mentioned that Miyaji is without a doubt the scariest upperclassman. Every time someone gets on his nerves (usually Midorima) his most popular catchphrase is "Someone get me a pineapple/durian." (implying that he wants to throw it at their head).
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Hayama is of average height and build. He is shown to be very agile and athletic. He has short, blond hair and a pair of oval-shaped eyes with dark pupils. He also has a snaggle tooth in the right corner of his mouth. He wears the blue and white Rakuzan jersey with the number 7.

Hayama is energetic to the point of annoyance. He often fools around carelessly like a child, causing his teammates to sometimes scold him. [1] . In addition, he seems to yell most of his sentences instead of speaking at a normal volume. Despite his carelessness, Hayama is very spirited about basketball (and sometimes other sports like skateboarding) and enjoys going against strong opponents, becoming excited when he gets a chance for a one-on-one. He is also an attention-seeker and enjoys showing off his dribbling skills to his team and opponents. Hayama does not seem to be too sharp as is impulsive as he was easily tricked by Izuki to enter Kagami's field of range and also openly admitted his temper gets the best of him.
Although he generally presents with an upbeat personality, Hayama hates to lose and has a tendency to be vengeful towards his opponents such as when Miyaji dribbled past him and Kagami totally dominated him while in the Zone; he requested Akashi to let him mark Kagami one more time for he can't settle down unless he returns the favor. He also takes pride in being an upperclassmen, as he tells Kagami he forgot to add Senpai after his last name.


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Kawahara is a school boy of an average height. His black hair is shaved short.
He wears the red, black and white Seirin High jersey with the number 15.

Kawahara is just as determined to win as the other players at Seirin High . Even if he's just sitting on the bench he still cheers for the team.
He can act funny, like when he just joined Seirin and Riko Aida asked him to shout out his determination, but instead he told the story of his childhood.


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Hiraiwa is a middle-aged man with short gray hair that he parts in the middle.
He wears a light purple buttoned shirt.

Hiraiwa has an intimidating personality, even scaring Papa Mbaye Siki . When his team is losing, he can easily get angered and frustrated.


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Kobori has a rather slim and tall stature compared to the other players. He has spiky, dark brown hair that is styled in an abstract mohawk. He plays with the number 8. He is the same height as Daiki Aomine .

Kobori is a calm, gentle individual that prefers to stay out of trouble. He has been noted to have a subdued, unremarkable presence and is not very good at making himself more noticeable. [2] He is often the one having to calm down his energetic teammates. While he is not always interested in their antics, he usually tags along anyways in order to watch over them.
Kobori is easily embarrassed, particularly when speaking to women, as he became extremely discouraged after his attempts to hit on one was met with laughter. However, it can be noted that he already knew it wouldn't work and only tried in order to cheer up Yukio Kasamatsu , showing the care he has for his teammates. He believes that everyone is inherently good and always tries to see the best in others, even when his generous perception of them is clearly not the case. [3]
On the court, Kobori is determined when need be and has a strong desire for victory, as he was still driven to win even after acknowledging that Teppei Kiyoshi was a better player than him.


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Furuhashi has short, black hair that is sided to the left. His eyes are blank black and it was stated by Junpei Hyūga that his eyes resembles those of a dead fish. [1]
He wears the Kirisaki Daiichi jersey with the number 7.

Furuhashi is just as foul and underhanded as the rest of his team. He doesn't hesitate to injure an opponent. This goes so far that he purposely gave Teppei Kiyoshi a blow to his face with his elbow, when falling down. [2]
Although his captain, Makoto Hanamiya sometimes admits his dirty play, Furuhashi does not. In fact, he always pretends to not know about anything and says that they are just playing basketball. He tells his opponents that when the referee doesn't whistle, it's not a foul. [3]


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Furihata is one of the smaller Seirin players and has nearly the same height as Kuroko. He has medium length brown hair and wide eyes. He plays with the number 12.

Furihata is quiet, and seems to get very easily intimidated. Even when he simply stands in front of the Generation of Miracles , he becomes so nervous that after Akashi asked him to leave, he couldn't move. Despite his timid nature, Furihata is shown to be very observant of everything around him, an important asset as a point guard. His cautious, planned play is what helped "set the pace" when he was subbed into the Kaijo match. Furihata is also a hard worker, as pointed by Mibuchi that his basket against Rakuzan must have took a lot of practice. He was inspired by Kuroko and that leads him to believe that even he can be useful to the team.


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Wakamatsu has spiky, light-blond hair that is short in the front, but longer in the back. He is tall and muscular. During games, he wears the Tōō Academy jersey with the number 6.

Wakamatsu has an imposing and extroverted personality. He is blunt and unafraid to speak his mind, as seen when he asked Ryō Sakurai if the latter had taken his little sister's bento by mistake.
He is passionate about basketball, and is easily excited when watching or playing. He often shouts when excited, annoying both his own teammates ( Shoichi Imayoshi ) as well as his opponents ( Teppei Kiyoshi ).
At the beginning of the series, Wakamatsu is shown to have a short temper, becoming angry whenever Daiki Aomine refuses to attend practice or does something otherwise defiant. He is also visibly irritated by Mitsuhiro Hayakawa 's noisiness and excessive enthusiasm. Much to his shock, both Imayoshi and Yoshinori Susa point out that Wakamatsu is actually quite similar to Hayakawa in that respect.
In spite of his impulsiveness, Wakamatsu is unusually keen when it comes to basketball, observing Taiga Kagami 's change in demeanor and correctly analyzing Kiyoshi's ability. [1] [2]
After becoming captain, Wakamatsu becomes notably calmer. Instead of being angered by Aomine's refusal to attend practice, Wakamatsu works with Satsuki Momoi to convince Aomine to come to practice, poking at the latter's ego in order to motivate him.
Aside from Aomine, Wakamatsu seems to get along fairly well with the rest of the Tōō Academy team. He respects Imayoshi's decisions as captain, and is seen ruffling Sakurai's hair after their victory against Seirin High . Although he dislikes Aomine's arrogance, Wakamatsu acknowledges his skill as a player. In the Last Game , Atsushi Murasakibara instantly decides he doesn't like Wakamatsu upon meeting him, irritating Wakamatsu.


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Shirogane appears as an older man with a few wrinkles and short, thin and combed back light gray hair. He has a well kept circle beard. His eyes are usually narrowed down.
He dresses formal, in a dark business suit, a white shirt and a green tie.

As a head coach, Shirogane is an intelligent man that is deeply knowledgeable about basketball. He is proficient in training a team and has high expectations for his players, often spending time observing the team's typical behaviors from the second floor of the gym. While appearing kind at a first glance, he possesses a strong winner's mentality true to the values of Teikō Junior High and makes his decisions based on whether or not they will achieve victory. [1]
For most of the year, Shirogane will entrust everything to the first string coach aside from some general advice or guidance on schedules. He will only take personal command of the team in the time leading up to official matches, with his harsh regimens earning the dread of players who know him and making the previous training schedules seem like child's play in comparison. [2]
Despite this ruthless treatment, Shirogane is ultimately very caring of his players and pays close attention to not only their physical advancement, but their mental state as well. He often spends time silently observing the team's behavior from the second floor of the gym, preferring to see them act as they typically do. He bears a sense of personal responsibility for the effect the team has on its players, personally apologizing to Daiki Aomine for prioritizing victory over his health and asking that he do not give up on basketball for the sake of his own future and love of the sport. [3] His care for the Generation of Miracles in particular is further shown in his smile at a photo of them becoming friends once again. [4]


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Hanamiya is very mischievous looking. He has pale skin and is usually seen with a wide, arrogant smirk on his face. He has almost shoulder-length, dead black hair and greyish brown eyes. He has his hair parted with some locks between his eyes. His eyebrows are considered to look like tadpoles (aka a bushy browed spider).
He plays with the Jersey number 4 on his team.

On the surface, Hanamiya is an excellent actor and has fooled many people with his sportsman-like behavior. [1] He is highly intelligent and has a genius level IQ of well over 160. His aptitude has been noted by Kentarō Seto , who himself said that he was no match for Hanamiya's genius, and by Shoichi Imayoshi , who commented that Hanamiya was always at the top of exams in middle school even without studying. [2] Outside of academics, he also uses his intelligence in order to quickly analyze the possible attack patterns of a game of basketball and plan accordingly.
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However, many of these tactics are rather cruel and dishonest in nature, focusing heavily on injuring, manipulating, or otherwise demoralizing his opponents. Hanamiya is a sadistic and self-serving individual at his core who takes no issue with using others for his own benefit or enjoyment. He openly states that he simply enjoys the suffering of others and finds it fun when other people's hopes and dreams are crushed. [3] He is of the belief that, whether a genius or a prodigy, everyone will only become garbage once broken. [4] He shows no remorse over his behavior. When his motives are questioned by Tetsuya Kuroko , Hanamiya only mocks his concern and continues to openly taunt him and his team while bringing up their schools' previous match .

Hanamiya's sadistic side

Hanamiya has a general lack of respect for players other than his teammates as shown when commenting "rest in piece" to himself while signaling for another player's injury. [5] His attitude and behavior have generated negative rumors and even earned the disapproval of Daiki Aomine , who calls his methods cheap after having playing against him in middle school. [6] Shintarō Midorima also remembers this match and comments that he does not like Hanamiya in the slightest. [7]
While Hanamiya primarily inflicts harm on others for his own enjoyment rather than a particular desire for victory, he does finds it aggravating when things do not go his way. [8] [9] He has no issue with losing a game itself as long as he is personally satisfied.


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Nakatani is a middle-aged man with black hair that is straight along the sides and reaches to his ear lobes.
He wears a formal white shirt with a black tie.

Nakatani is a sharp and keen individual. As the coach of Shūtoku High , he cares much for victory and trains his players in order to win. He allows Shintarō Midorima to have three selfish actions a day. [1]


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Tsubuku has black, messy hair. He sports a small goatee and fuzzy eyebrows. He is fairly tall and muscular.
He wears the Josei High uniform with the number 7.


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Araki is a mature woman with long black hair and shaggy bangs that cover her forehead.  She has dark-blue eyes that are slightly downturned and thin black eyebrows.
She is most often seen dressed in black suit with a white, long-sleeved collared shirt underneath. In her time on the Japanese  basketball team, she wore a pink and white jersey with the number 8 and kept her hair in a ponytail with the same style of bangs.
In Touou Gakuen’s Sleepless Night Special: Aegis Shield of Setsubun, she wears an Oni cosplay costume, consisting of stripped underwear and boots, and a headband with Oni horns.

As a coach, Araki is very intelligent and coaches her team's matches strategically. She is serious and strict with Yōsen High to the point of scolding her players with a shinai when slacking off or misbehaving. [1] [2] She has great faith in them nonetheless, particularly in the team's dual aces of Atsushi Murasakibara and Tatsuya Himuro , [3] and cares for them on a personal level as seen in her smiling at Murasakibara after he grew emotional. [4]
This sort of "tough love" personality may have been influenced by her time in a biker gang, where she commanded great respect from those around her [5] and was similarly violent towards those who annoyed her. [6]
Araki also has good hearing and is sensitive of her age, managing to hear Riko Aida call her a granny from across the court and glaring at her because of it. [7]


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Meguro has dreadlocks and brown skin. He is tall and unusually muscular.
He wears the Nakamiya South High uniform with the number 6.

Meguro can first appear rough, but he is actually a kind and friendly guy who is very emotional.


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Kubota has long black hair that cover his eyes and ears. He is of average height and build.
During his time at Teikō Junior High , he wore the number 10.


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Hayakawa is a tall high school boy. He has short, light brown spiky hair, bushy eyebrows and a big mouth.
He wears the blue and white Kaijō High jersey with the number 10.

Hayakawa is a generally fiery person that experiences all of his emotions rather intensely. He does make much of an effort to to control his energy and approaches every situation with an often irritating level of zeal, [1] carrying himself with a general passion for life that is not limited to basketball. This sincerity applies to his positive and negative emotions alike, leading him to be easily excitable and just as easily moved in emotional situations. He has been seen crying after matches as well as being driven to tears by imagining the personal struggles of Yukio Kasamatsu . [2] . Despite this, Hayakawa has shown himself to be capable of restraining himself when truly necessary, as he was able to pull himself together from a loss after seeing his teammate's injury [3] and being ordered by his captain to hold his head high. [4]
His behavior most often draws the ire of his team in the time surrounding a match, as Hayakawa has a habit of dispelling his nerves through shouting and otherwise disruptive activities. He is not easily discouraged when in this state, even when punched directly in the face, [5] and will continue to maintain this level of passion throughout the rest of the game. This level of energy has been shown to also annoy his opponents [6] and has led him to be compared to Kōsuke Wakamatsu in terms of volume.
Additionally, Hayakawa's unyielding readiness has led him to be rather naïve. He is very easily convinced into doing different things and will approach everything with the same unbridled fervor, even if he is nervous or entirely clueless on how to begin. [7] Like the rest of his team, Hayakawa gets nervous around women and does not have the faintest clue on how to approach one. He is wholly fascinated by the idea of flirting and regards it with the same level of enthusiasm as he does most aspects of life. Due in part both to his lack of knowledge and the sheer respect he holds for his team, Hayakawa is eager to eager to absorb any and all information he can possible get from his teammates and has not once been shown doubting their words. He regards even their failures as valuable lessons to be learned.
Hayakawa struggles to pronounce his L and R sounds and instead incorrectly pronounces one as the other. This problem is worsened when he is excited about something, which when combined with his tendency to also speak quickly, makes him difficult to understand even to his own teammates. This speech pattern is typically translated into English with the use of brackets or parentheses to indicate which words or syllables are mispronounced. (ex. "Mo[ri]yama sure[ly] cannot [miss from] here, how [did] he [miss]?")


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Sanada is a bespectacled man with brown hair and high cheekbones.
He dresses in a black business suit with a white shirt and black tie.

At first, Sanada's strictness can be seen at the beginning of the Teikō flashback arc. However, his weakness started to surface when he failed to change back the team from its wrong ways. He could not help but bear with it just for the sake of winning like letting Daiki Aomine slack off practices and not saying anything on the bench.


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Gold has golden-blond medium long hair and a double piercing in his left ear, he is a all white male, although being able to speak Japanese rather well. He has tribal tattoo on the left side of his neck and left arm. He is tall for his position, having the same build as Kagami . He wears the jersey number 4. His height is the same as Kagami's.

Gold has a two-faced personality. Off the court he is quite calm, polite and even charming. But as a player on the court he is cruel, rude and probably the most arrogant in the team. His arrogance totally humiliated the opposing Team Strky and enraged those who are watching as he spat on Kasamatsu 's hand instead of giving him a handshake and even compared the Japanese people to monkeys, telling them to give up on basketball and kill themselves. Because he thinks too highly of himself and his team, he didn't back down from Kagetora Aida 's challenge and plans to make him pay in another way once he chickens out.
Aside from that, he seems to have a darker personality when he gets serious. This can be seen when he revealed his "Belial Eye" to Akashi. Gold becomes more arrogant, saying that not even God can beat him.
This all seems to stem from a troubled upbringing, as seen when he remembers what he had to do to get to his position when his teammates are backed into a corner.
Despite his bad attitude it seems Gold knows when he has been beaten, as shown when he acknowledges that Team Vorpal Swords was the stronger team while Silver was enraged.


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Nick is a fairly short young man compared to his teammates. His hair is short, spiky and blonde. Nick wears the Jabberwock jersey number 6.

Like the rest of the Jabberwocks, Nick is both arrogant and ignorant. He shows little to no respect to his opponents on and off the court. This is shown in the match with Team STRKY as he looks down and humiliate the team and help trashing the cabaret club.


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Papa has black hair and eyes, and a long face with prominent cheekbones. He is very tall and has especially long arms and legs. He wears jersey number 5.

He views almost everything as a drag and a pain. He is very confident in his height, so he doesn't usually commit much in games. He also thinks the Japanese are little and are bad basketball players. He thinks that height is everything in basketball. [1] When he heard that one of the Generation of Miracles lost to a team with such a small player(Kuroko) he thinks that they are not a big deal. When he was defeated by Seirin , he had no intent of making peace and is still hostile towards them. [2] Unexpectedly, at the Winter cup finals match between Seirin and Rakuzan , he along with the rest of his teammates cheered Seirin on to never give up, which shows that he has finally come to respect them. [3]


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Mochida is of average height with short black hair and dark brown eyes.
He wore the jersey number 4 for Meikō Junior High .

Not much is shown except Mochida's sportsmanship which he showed during his encounter with Tetsuya Kuroko . Despite the latter's team crushing his, he still faced him calmly and talked casually.


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Mibuchi has long black hair that reaches his chin, with two strands of hair falling down to his eyes. He has gentle-looking eyes, with outstandingly long eyelashes. In comparison to the other players, his stature is noticeably taller and more slender.
He wears the blue and white Rakuzan High jersey with the number 6.
In Extra Game, he has cut his hair shorter.

Mibuchi is pretty uptight. He likes to keep things in line and gets annoyed easily when others fool around or act weird. He criticizes them and tries to correct them, although not always successfully. [1] Despite this, his personality itself seems to be cheerful and relaxed, shown by his good-natured way of lecturing the Seirin High 's second years of how to treat a lady ( Riko Aida , in this case), and his affectionate nickname of "Sei-chan" for Seijūrō Akashi . [2] While talking he uses "onee-kotoba" style of speech. He dislikes noisiness and vulgarity and has been noted by Kotarō Hayama in a special CD as being "like a mom" and is called "Reo-nee" (big sis Reo) by him.


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Riko has short to medium length caramel hair that has grown longer along the course of the series, deciding that she will let it grow out until and during the Winter Cup . Before the Winter Cup finals, Riko asked Junpei Hyūga to cut her hair again, reverting to her former short hairstyle. [1] Her hair is typically parted to the left and secured with two thin black barrettes. When needed, she has occasionally kept it in a ponytail with a black hairtie. Two years ago, her hair used to be longer.
While Riko is of average height and build, she is still the shortest character in the entire series (excluding children). She has been noted on multiple occasions to have a flat chest or otherwise boyish figure, with Satsuki Momoi accusing her of a "barely B" cup size and Daisuke Narumi complaining that she was not erotic enough.
Riko is most often seen wearing the Seirin High girl's uniform, consisting of a white shirt beneath a dark blue sweater and a green sailor's necktie. During the summer, she forgoes the sweater and instead wears a white t-shirt with the same tie. She also wears a short, pleated white skirt with knee-height black socks and white or brown shoes. When coaching, she wears a pink whistle around her neck.

Riko cares much for her team, but she doesn't hesitate to submit them to killer-training (Super Hard Training). Or to be exact, because Riko cares for them, she is not afraid to push the team to the very last and force themselves to exert their strength even when past their limit. In order to motivate them, Riko often threatens to double, triple or even quadruple their training menus. [2] [3] All in all, she is very determined for her team to win and as her job as the coach, she actually enjoys raising them up and bringing out the best in them.
Riko attempts to act feminine at times, even trying to reward the team when they win by giving them a kiss at one point. [4] Her attempts often comically backfires though, much to her dismay. She is also shown to be a rather violent person, often comically beating up her team and father, and even locked in a submission hold on Tetsuya Kuroko for going AWOL. Despite the boyish side to her as the coach of a boy's basketball team, Riko likes cute things, proven by the multiple pictures of puppies on her phone and her affection towards Tetsuya #2 . She can also get jealous easily, as she was irritated by Seirin High 's attention towards Satsuki Momoi and even punished them for looking at her. [5] Riko is sensitive about her lacking curvaceous figure and erupts into a rage whenever someone insensitively points it out, such as Daisuke Narumi .
However, despite Riko's lack of lady-likeness or figure, she is undoubtedly devoted towards the Seirin basketball team, and is skilled as their coach, spurring them on even in hard times and rigorously pushing them to their best. She is also intelligent despite her interest in sports, taking second place in the whole cohort of Seirin's previous year exam. Her gender and age has often surprised the crowd when she is revealed as Seirin's coach in important matches, though this can be said to be a further evidence of her experience and skill. It is hinted that Junpei Hyūga holds romantic feelings for her, but Riko appears oblivious and their relationship exists as close childhood friends up to date.


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Mitobe has medium-length black hair that is parted to the sides with one strand of hair between his eyes. He has generally straight or slightly downturned eyes with thick black eyebrows. Mitobe generally does not display much variety in terms of facial expression, most often being seen with a very slight smile or a look of faint worry. Due to his preference not to speak, he typically has his mouth closed, though has been seen with it open in times of strong emotion such as surprise or desperation.
He wears the Seirin High jersey with the number 8. He is also one of the tallest members of the club.

Mitobe is just as determined to win as the other players at Seirin High , but unlike the others, he doesn't show his feelings that often. Most people know him as a quiet, hard worker. According to Riko Aida , no one has ever heard Mitobe talk.

Mitobe is trying to communicate to Riko that the 2-3 zone tactic against Yosen, with Taiga Kagami in the middle isn't working.

Mitobe has a large family and is in charge of making breakfast every morning, thus he is skilled in household chores and cooking. He is naturally caring and often worries about the well-being of his teammates, especially the underclassmen and Shinji Koganei , whom he has known the longest. Somehow, despite the fact that he is mute, most people understand what he is thinking and can even hold a conversation with him, especially Koganei, who seems to understand Mitobe perfectly. He also seems to be somewhat of a pushover, since both Koga and Junpei Hyūga can boss him around easily.


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Sakurai has short, light brown hair and brown eyes. Most of the time, he holds himself diffidently, hunching his shoulders and often clutching onto something nervously. His posture becomes more confident while he is playing. Like Hyūga , he has a clutch personality, indicated by his signature pout. During games, he wears the Tōō jersey with the number 9.

Sakurai is a kind sensitive young man. He apologizes profusely for anything and everything, and often will not stop until someone manages to calm him down. Even when he shoots his three-pointers, he whispers sorry. Sakurai has gone so far as to apologize for being alive, causing Imayoshi to coin him Tōō's kamikaze captain. [1]
As a result of his personality, Sakurai is easily flustered and allows himself to be bullied, usually by Aomine , who often steals his bento or forces Sakurai to bring food for him (Aomine later names Sakurai as the teammate he is probably closest to due to his good bentos). Due to his sensitivity, Sakurai is also unusually observant of the moods of the people around him.
While his teammates put up with his overly apologetic nature, Sakurai's personality annoys some of his opponents, namely Hyūga, who nicknames him the apologetic mushroom.
Like Hyūga, Sakurai has a clutch personality, which first reveals itself during the first round of the Winter Cup . He switches to this personality whenever there is competitive outside shooting involved, be it while he is playing or watching a game. In this state, Sakurai is competitive, aggressive and arrogant, going as far as to tell Hyūga that he is going to win, because he is obviously better. According to Imayoshi, this personality manifests itself because Sakurai takes pride in his ability as a shooting guard and hates losing in this respect.

Sakurai's out-of-character-personality

Towards the end of the series, Sakurai slowly loses his characteristic stutter and his habit of apologizing.


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Kise is a tall young man, and is considered good looking. He has yellow/blond, medium long hair and golden eyes. Another distinct feature he has are his long eyelashes. He also has a piercing in his left ear. He is tall and athletic. Out of games, he is often seen in his school uniform, which consists of a white shirt, black tie, gray vest, and formal pants. During games, he wears the dark blue Kaijō jersey with the number 7.
In LAST GAME, Kise's appearance has slightly changed, with the most noticeable one being his hair now cut short. He retains the piercing on his left ear. He wears the white Vorpal Sword jersey with the number 7.

To people whom he acknowledges, Kise often acts cheerful and outgoing while also being a bit dramatic. Like the other Generation of Miracles, Kise was exceedingly arrogant due to his skills, barely acknowledging Kagami’s existence until he was defeated by him and Kuroko. To those whom he respects he doesn't refrain from interacting with no matter how gloomy and distant they are (for example Midorima ). Kise exclusively adds -cchi to the people who he respects (mostly the Generation of Miracles members) names, such as Kurokocchi ( Kuroko ), Aominecchi ( Aomine ) or Midorimacchi (Midorima), and has the habit of ending his sentence with the suffix -ssu .
Though easy-going when off-court, Kise can be very determined and serious while playing, especially when truly challenged. Because of the way Teikō Junior High played, Kise is a one-man player who would prefer to score himself than playing as a team. While playing against Aomine, he says that he just doesn't care about Kaijō winning, and that he just wants to defeat Aomine himself. [1]
However, he started to change when Kuroko's team beat him as he tasted a loss for the first time. He began to train more, and has also witnessed his teammates' faith towards him during his match against Tōō. Moved by them, he succeeded on copying Aomine. Kise surprised everyone when in a counter-attack and in a one-on-one against Aomine, he tried to pass the ball to Kasamatsu instead of trying to score himself. In the semi-finals of the Winter Cup, Kuroko correctly predicted that if Kise was cornered, he'll pass the ball, which is not what the old Kise would do. Likely this type of personality change also started to rub off on the other Miracles' members as well as they are defeated by Seirin overcoming their odds.
Because Kuroko was Kise's personal instructor in Junior High school when he first started playing basketball, and also because Kuroko is strong in his own unique way, Kise deeply respects Kuroko - almost to the point of obsession. He always tries to point out how amazing Kuroko is and thinks that they were the best of friends [2] (and he was comically upset when Kuroko said the opposite). He claimed to have cried every night after Kuroko rejected his offer to play for Kaijō and once referred to this event as "Kurokocchi dumped me" although right after that Kuroko asked him to stop being so sarcastic at which the look in his eyes instantly changed.
Before getting into playing basketball, Kise was constantly bored and apathetic due to him easily being able to master any sport in a short time. It is mentioned in the manga that whenever he feels disinterested in his surroundings he starts hearing the wind. It was only when he started playing basketball at Teiko that Kise felt his skills truly tested against the other Generation of Miracles.
However, there are times where Kise among the Generation of Miracles tends to be a source of comic relief in that most characters tend to pay him no mind or jab at him at his own expense (and not just by Kuroko dismissing his affections as first shown). This often leaves him to be either jokingly or genuinely irritated at their lack of gratitude (though he's often at mercy by the likes of one such as Yukio Kasamatsu who is not afraid to express his annoyance at Kise far more bluntly than anyone else).
It is worth noting that Kise's personality differs between the manga and the anime, as observed by Tadatoshi Fujimaki himself: "In this match (Haizaki vs Kise), I wanted to depict Kise isn’t necessarily a good guy. In my opinion, Kise in the Anime is little too soft compared to Kise in the Manga. I heard that when Kise used abusive words, one of the Anime staff was very in shock. I am NOT going to deny Anime AT ALL, but in my mind, Kise is a person who only affable to those he admitted & feel worthy after measuring with his own eyes. Other than that, he is usually cold-hearted. I’ve recognized him who has two faces. He is not completely good-boy, you know. That being said, please read Manga thinking Kise in Manga is bit different from Anime."


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Kasuga has medium long, blond hair. He is of average height and build.
He wore the black and white Seihō High jersey with the number 5.

Kasuga is a kind and controlled person who keeps his head cool at all times. He is respectful towards his teammates and towards his opponents. He is sportsmanlike and even acknowledged Seirin High 's strength after they won over Seihō High , even when Seihō won last year. [1]


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Tsuchida has short, spiky black hair. He has very thick eyebrows and his eyes look like they are closed, narrowed down to thin, horizontal lines. He wears the red, black and white Seirin High jersey with the number 9.
When Seirin's past was revealed, it is shown that he hasn't changed at all from last year.

Not much is known about Tsuchida, but he does like to play basketball very much. He is rarely in the center of attention, because he is quite shy. He also likes cats, but when he approaches one, it always bites his hand. [1]


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Momoi is a slender and curvaceous teenage girl with lower-back length bubblegum pink hair that has bangs hanging on either side, large dark-pink eyes and large breasts (Momoi has an F-cup bust size according to Riko Aida 's Scan [1] ).
She is usually seen in her school uniform: a white shirt, a red bow, and a short skirt. She has also been seen multiple times with a skirt, a light green sweater, zipped open.

Momoi generally has a very bubbly and outgoing personality who sometimes acts flirty, especially with Tetsuya Kuroko . She has a romantic vision of love, falling for Kuroko when he gave her a popsicle stick. [2]
Shintarō Midorima has also commented that Momoi is very passionate about basketball, perhaps even more than players themselves. [3] She becomes very serious and almost sly when analyzing the opponents, often saying that men are just too predictable. The only person who she cannot predict is Kuroko, but that only makes her like him more.
She is normally very cheerful and bright, but when it comes to Daiki Aomine , Momoi can get easily agitated. She cares about him deeply, and because of that, she often acts like his mother and lectures him. [4] Despite it, Satsuki gets angry at Aomine when he sees her "lucky panties" by trying to kick him.


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Akashi is of average height and build, which in comparison to the other players around him, makes him appear even smaller. At 173cm tall, he is the shortest member of the Generation of Miracles and the fourth shortest player in the entire series (ahead of Kuroko , Koganei , and Furihata ).
Akashi has spiky, bright red hair befitting his name. During the opening ceremony of the Winter Cup , he personally cut his bangs with a pair of scissors in order to keep it out of his eyes. In EXTRA GAME, he has since grown his hair back out and has mostly returned to his prior appearance.
Akashi's eyes are the same color of his hair and have uniquely vertical pupils. In his original personality, both eyes are the same red color. In his alternate personality, his left eye is instead an orange color, giving him complete heterochromia .
Akashi wears the white and light blue Rakuzan High jersey with the number 4, typically wearing his jacket over his shoulders rather than through the sleeves. In EXTRA GAME, he instead wears the white and cardinal jersey of Team Vorpal Swords with the number 4.

As the only child of an prominent family, Akashi experienced a lot a strict upbringing from the moment he was born and was taught to always stand above the rest. This caused him to adopt the same merciless winning mentality as his father and develop an extremely strong, almost inhumane level of self-discipline that has led Akashi to appear calm and unwaveringly confident in nearly every aspect of life. He regards victory not as something to be sought, but as something as simple and vital for survival as breathing.
Akashi is most notably in possession of two separate, distinctive personalities, both of which refer to themselves as Seijūrō Akashi. This split began in Akashi's fifth year of elementary school, following the death of his beloved mother and the severe workload forced onto him by his increasingly strict father. Around this time, Akashi specifically noticed that he acted differently at home compared to when he was at school. [1]
While the separation between these two personalities became increasingly clearer with time, Akashi did not fully switch from one personality to the other until his third year at Teikō Junior High . In the face of near defeat, Akashi was crushed by his ingrained expectation of victory and forced to split in order to win and to remain ahead of his teammates. His original personality was subsequently pushed to the furthest reaches of his consciousness and did not reawaken until his game against Seirin High . Both personalities are fully aware of one another and are even able to converse if need be.


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Ogiwara has chestnut colored hair, while the lower darker brown. He has brown colored eyes. He is of average height and wears the jersey number 7 for Meikō Junior High .

Ogiwara seems to be very cheerful, friendly, enthusiastic and optimistic person. He is also clumsy and sort of an airhead. He also has a very bad habit of leaving crumbs on his face, assuming he doesn't clean up after eating.
In court, it is shown that Ogiwara has a deep passion towards basketball. This is proven when despite being down by 102 points against Teikō Junior High during the Nationals , Ogiwara still insists on his team to play on until the very final whistle.


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Koganei has relatively short, spiky, dark brown hair and short bangs. His most distinctive feature is his mouth that's curved like a cat's. He's one of the shortest members of the Seirin team and wears the Seirin jersey with the number 6.

Koganei is called Koga by most second year members of Seirin. He is very friendly and talkative, often speaking louder than necessary. He is also scared very quickly and holds admiration for a strong opponent. However he can also be quite pessimistic, even during matches. When Riko raises the team's morale in training, he is usually the first to complain. Despite his open and friendly attitude, he takes matches very seriously. In the match against Seihō High , he fought for his pride. [2] During Seirin vs Rakuzan game, he's seen marking Reo Mibuchi and went all out to stop him even though their skill levels were very far apart, owing to the fact Reo Mibuchi is one of the Uncrowned Kings and the best shooter among high school teams, excluding Shintarō Midorima from Shutoku High.


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Kimura has chiselled facial features, with a wide chin and high cheekbones. He has very narrow eyes and a flat nose. His black hair is shaven short. He is fairly tall and muscular. He wears the number 5 jersey.

Kimura is rather calm and prefers to stay out of the spotlight and trouble. He has goals as a basketball player and lives up to those through hard work. Like Kiyoshi Miyaji , he is annoyed by Shintarō Midorima 's vagaries. As a result, he would offer a real pineapple to Miyaji to throw it at their head.


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Midorima has dark green hair parted to the left that doesn't reach his eyes. He has light green eyes with prominent lower eyelashes, and wears black-framed glasses that are framed on all sides except the top. He is very tall, being the second tallest from the Generation of Miracles. He bandages his left hand outside of matches, so that nothing can influence his left-handed shot. He also files his nails for the same reason. Midorima is often seen with a lucky item, that varies from a stuffed frog, to a bear, to a potted cactus. Out of games, he wears his school uniform: a black jacket that is strapped all the way to his neck and black pants. He plays with jersey number 6 at Shūtoku, and no. 7 at Teiko.

Midorima is usually very reserved. He feels no need for fooling around, although Takao tries to persuade him many times (often ending up with him annoying Midorima). Acting kind to opponents is very hard for him, while his friend Takao has no problem with that. Very confident in his abilities, he often acts high and mighty around others (mostly his teammates).
He strongly believes in the Oha Asa horoscopes and is set at ease when he hears that his zodiac sign, Cancer, will have a lucky day, even going as far as carrying a so-called "lucky item" with him everywhere. [1] [2] He also believes in blood types compatibility, as shown when he said Kuroko's blood type A and his blood type B don't get along. [3] His motto is "Man proposes, God disposes", which means doing your best and fate will decide the rest. Takao once commented on his preparation for matches, ranging from filling his nails, taping his fingers, listening to the Oha Asa horoscopes, and carrying his lucky item of the day accordingly, as some sort of obsession. Likewise, his belief in guaranteed fate/luck in his overall approach leads him to be a rather calculating-and-analytical person in general.

Midorima's determination to win against Seirin

Midorima harbors a reluctant admiration for Kuroko, he seems to resent the fact Kuroko is able to stand against members of The Generation of Miracles despite his lack of natural talent and that he chose a new and relatively unknown team like Seirin . He thinks that Kuroko is stupid to choose a school who cannot use his strength. [4]
Despite usually being calm, he snapped during Shūtoku 's match against Seirin High in the Winter Cup . He told Takao to stop fooling around and had the intent of destroying Seirin completely. Takao compared him to a dangerous wild beast. [5] During the same match, Midorima also let go of his pride and began playing with his team in order to win, likely due to his first loss impacting him. He never relied on others in the past, but now puts winning up front and plays as a true team. In the successful teamplay, he was also seen enjoying the game and laughing, which he rarely does. [6]

Midorima gives Kagami a hint to beat Akashi

Takao often calls him a tsundere, because he tends to help people but denies doing so. Midorima has good insight and is able to understand other people's abilities easily, like Kagami or Kuroko 's. He sometimes gives them advice under the guise of scorn and criticism. He helped Kagami with his aerial understanding [7] and pushed Kuroko to play by himself, leading to the development of the Vanishing Drive. Furthermore, he shared his theory about Akashi's dual unique ability with Kagami and Kuroko. [8] Also with this insight, he out of all the other Generation of Miracles members was the most aware of his own body's limitations handling his supernatural talents and worked to overcome this issue with such knowledge in mind.
As revealed in the flashback, when the Generation of Miracles started to grow arrogant, Midorima was different from the rest. He never stopped practicing and still valued its importance. When the Generation of Miracles would make a bet on getting the most points in a game, he would not participate because all he wanted to do is fulfill his role. He went along with the situation as long as they were winning, although it annoyed him. The other fact that shows that he differs from other the Generation of Miracles is that so far, he is the only one who has had the guts to stand up against Akashi . His passionate hostility towards Akashi during the Winter Cup semi-finals is an example of this. [9] However, it is likely this hostility died down when Akashi's old personality resurfaced with a better acceptance towards others alongside his prior split personality.


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Nakamura has short, ash-blond hair and black, rectangular-framed glasses. His eyes are olive-colored. He is of average height and build.
He wears the blue and white Kaijō High jersey with the number 9.

Nakamura is a passionate player who is seen cheering his team-mates from the bench fervently.


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Imayoshi has straight, messy black hair and gray eyes that are usually shown closed or squinted. He is most often seen with a calm or mildly amused expression and smiles often. He is somewhat tall and has an average build.
During games, he wears the Tōō Academy jersey with the number 4, which is reserved for the captain. Outside of uniforms, he wears simple clothing such as sweaters and plain shirts.

Speaking in a polite Kansai dialect, Imayoshi appears to be kind and somewhat unassuming at first glance, though this demeanor often unnerves those he speaks to rather than endearing them. Those who have spoken to him for any length of time, from opponents to teammates alike, are generally quick to see that he is not to be trusted and feel somewhat uneasy around him. Even Makoto Hanamiya , a player known for being deplorable in his own right, has remarked that he has "never met a nastier guy in [his] life" and that there is no one better at making people hate him. [1] When confronted about his dislikable self, Imayoshi will typically feign offense and comment on their rudeness despite not actually being bothered.
During matches, Imayoshi frequently taunts his opponents through sarcastic, roundabout remarks on their performance or through comments on his own team's strength. He rarely insults his opponents directly, however, and does not appear to hold a specific distaste for anyone in particular. He has been called a "demon when it comes to reading minds" and is able to discern one's demeanor at a glance [2] as well as read their thought process during a game. His use of this talent is not limited to games and he is fully capable of orchestrating full scenarios by predicting people's behavior and setting them up accordingly. [3]
Due in part to these talents, Imayoshi is able to maintain a rather easygoing demeanor, as he is not easily caught off guard and quick to find a solution when he is. He is not easily bothered and is often seen smiling or laughing, even when he has been directly insulted [3] or his team has been scored on. [4] He has rarely been shown expressing worse than mild exasperation and has only been genuinely unnerved in regards to basketball. After losing his last game at Tōō Academy , Imayoshi continued to assume his position of captain to issue his final orders, though was unable to hide traces of having cried even if he was able to behave as normal. [5]
As captain, he is the one responsible for keeping peace between his players. This involves easing the tension between Kōsuke Wakamatsu and Daiki Aomine as well as calming Ryō Sakurai down during his bouts of anxiety. When requesting something from a player, he will approach and talk them into it, typically by appealing to their pride or sense of responsibility rather than issuing an order. Despite not being a particularly strict captain, he is well respected and effective in keeping them in line. He does not seem to face much, if any real resistance on his decisions. He respects his team (as well as their manager, Satsuki Momoi ) and lets them do as they like as long as they are still performing well in games. His care for his team is made most clear after his retirement, stating that he has faith that they will be fine and that he is not worried. [5]


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Izuki has straight black hair that reaches his eyes. His eyes are narrow and resemble an eagle, which hints to his ability. His eyes are also usually shown without pupils, entirely black. He has a rather small and athletic-looking body, in contrast to his teammates. He plays with the jersey number 5.
His appearance hasn't changed much from the previous year, but in his first year in high school, his hair was shorter and parted on the right side.

On the outside, he has a cool attitude, but on the inside, he has an unfortunate hobby for puns or dajare (word-jokes relying on similar pronunciations). Apart from his puns, he is also very smart. He plays his matches with a cool-headed personality. He is an excellent strategist. Izuki is also loyal to his friends, shown as he followed Hyūga to Seirin so he would have some company, despite knowing that the school did not have a basketball team, the sport Izuki was so passionate about.


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Haizaki is a tall young man with an athletic build. His eyes are very narrow, and he has two piercings on each ear. His dark gray hair styled in cornrows that he keeps in braids to the back. At Fukuda Sōgō, he wears the jersey number 6.
When he was attending Teikō Junior High, his hair was longer, messy, and light grey. He wore the jersey number 8.

Haizaki is an arrogant, ruthlessly selfish individual both on and off the court. He holds a high view of himself and enjoys being a nuisance to others, deriving amusement from being able to make them upset. In particular, he enjoys taking things away from other people and claims that, even if he is not hungry, food always looks more tempting when taken from another's plate. [1] This mentality is carried over to his behavior on the court, where he is able to Pillage moves from others and taunt them for their worsening play afterwards. He has a habit of licking his thumb when he is confident things are going his way.
Vulgar and rude, Haizaki swears often and shows a general lack of respect for everyone he speaks to. He refers to the Generation of Miracles with their given names and has not been shown addressing anyone with honorifics. He is particularly crass in his treatment of women, largely viewing them as objects and going so far as to boast about stealing and subsequently throwing them away as soon as he is "done" with them. [2] He has no issues making vulgar jokes, objectifying them openly, or touching them without permission. [3]
Haizaki dislikes being bored and often shirks his responsibilities in favor of flirting with girls, playing video games, or other delinquent activities. He claims to have no real attachment to basketball and slacks off during practice as he is only there to kill time. Haizaki lies easily, though not effectively, and does not put much effort into his excuses nor does he attempt to apologize afterwards. [4] He appears to show a general lack of remorse or even forethought in most situations, as even under the threat of disqualification, he did not hesitate to start a fight mere minutes before a scheduled tournament match [3] and was not above playing dirty in the middle of a game. [5] When he does face consequences, Haizaki is said to be good at obscuring the details of a situation so as to hide his real behavior and evade blame. [6]

Haizaki hitting his teammate

Despite his love of causing problems for others, Haizaki does not take kindly to those who bother him in any way and is quick to resort to violence. This is most clearly shown in the frequent abuse of his teammates at Fukuda Sōgō Academy , where he is able to leverage his position of ace to order and push them around without consequence. He was known to participate in fights even during his time at Teikō Junior High and was ruthless enough to hospitalize those he beat, though it can be noted that he was not clearly labeled as the instigator even so. [6] Haizaki will only cease this behavior if stopped by force [7] and will rarely stand up to those who have soundly beaten him or to those he perceives as truly above him .
Furthermore, Haizaki's ego is somewhat fragile in spite of its size. He was angry when being ordered to leave the team and subsequently bitter about being excluded from the Generation of Miracles, particularly after being falsely assumed as one of them due to his school uniform. [8] Haizaki is not entirely blinded by this grudge, however, and was able to accept that Akashi's judgement of him was ultimately correct (while remaining a sore loser even so). [5] It is implied by Satsuki Momoi that he does not fully hate his former teammates and holds some—albeit small—level of fondness for them after having played on the same team. [9] In the anime, it is also implied that Haizaki has had somewhat of a change of heart since his days at Teikō and does not hate basketball as much as he claims. [8]


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Higuchi has short brown hair and brown eyes.
While on Team Strky , he wears the number 5 jersey.

Almost nothing is known about Higuchi's personality due to the fact that he has no lines of dialogue. It is clear that he enjoys basketball due to his continued pursuit of it throughout both high school and university, and he is likely supportive of his teammates due to his role as manager of Rakuzan High .


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Nijimura has short black hair with his bangs parted to the left and has light grey eyes.
He is of average height and wears a black armband on his left forearm. Being the captain, he played with the jersey number 4, but after he recommended Akashi as captain, he played with the jersey number 9.

Nijimura is a calm and collected individual, but a severe upperclassman who is not afraid to speak his mind. He didn't hesitate to beat up Haizaki when he suspected the latter to skip matches. He also possesses a sharp mind: he could tell the changing atmosphere due to the arrival of Kuroko or that one day, Nijimura himself will be surpassed by the Generation of Miracles. Being the former captain of the Teikō first string, Nijimura is a leader and is easily listened to.
However, he criticized himself about his hotheadedness that can impinge with his judgement as a captain. Nijimura has also a caring side, as he claimed that he would stop playing basketball right away to visit his hospitalized father if something happened to him.


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Taichi is a young teenage boy with shoulder length brown hair and brown eyes. He does not possess any outstanding physical features like Teppei Kiyoshi or Atsushi Murasakibara , but appears to be of average height and weight. He is only seen wearing his team's jersey, sports clothes during his team's practices and his black school uniform.

Taichi is a cheerful youth who loves basketball. He didn't hesitate to approach Teppei Kiyoshi (even with his large build) to ask him to join the basketball team. The two later on became friends which can suggest that Taichi is sociable and an easy to approach person. When Shōei Junior High lost against Teikō Junior High , Taichi (like the rest of Teikō's opponents) seems to have lost his love for basketball. It is unknown if Taichi abandoned playing basketball altogether or if he has regained his love for the sport.


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Kagami is very muscular for a high school student. He is very tall, giving him an overwhelming aura, which some say is like the intensity of a wild tiger. [2] He has two-toned dark red and black hair and red eyes. His eyes are pointed and narrow and his eyebrows are quite thick and split in two, which Murasakibara does not fail to remark on. He wears the red, black and white Seirin High jersey with the number 10 and wears black and red basketball shoes. He is also occasionally seen with a shiny metal necklace with a ring on it, which represents his brotherhood with Tatsuya Himuro . When he wears his school uniform, he keeps his gakuran unzipped, while wearing a white shirt underneath.

Kagami while at times reserved in the past and towards his upperclassmen in the present via Seirin, is very ambitious, stubborn and determined. He refuses to give up in a difficult situation and he is also very head strong. He is well known for his undying and furious fighting spirit. Kagami enjoys to play against strong opponents and sees no point in playing basketball when there are no challenges; this was evident when Kagami faced Kuroko Tetsuya for the first time. The down-side of this, is that he is also very hot-headed [3] and has a short temper.

Kagami's reaction to Tetsuya #2

When Kuroko brought Tetsuya #2 to training, it is revealed that Kagami is scared of dogs and suffered Cynophobia . [4] This fear originates from his time in America, where he was once bitten by a dog. He overcame this fear when he realized that Tetsuya #2 is a good motivation for the team. He is also a glutton and is able to eat at least five times a normal meal. He is shown to be a great cook when Riko Aida tried to cook for the team to save money, but ended up almost killing everyone with her food, leading to Kagami cooking instead and teaching Riko how to cook too.
During the series, and especially after the Interhigh and during the Winter Cup , Kagami matured a lot. Instead of going up against every provocation and losing his temper quickly, he thinks before he acts and has developed some sort of hindsight that lets him simulate a possible one-on-one battle. Even though he still hates losing, he has somewhat accepted peace with it. Now, he has become a much more clever player that doesn't plunge into battles without thinking first and also has learned to greatly trust his teammates over the course of his time in Seirin. [5]