黒子のバスケ (The Basketball Which Kuroko Plays.) is 藤巻忠俊‘s debut work, a 30-volume high school boys’ basketball manga. It has a two-volume sequel EXTRA GAME as well as a 6-volume spinoff LN series ーReplaceー, written by 平林佐和子, and a 10-volume spinoff manga Replace PLUS, illustrated by 高橋一郎. It has also been adapted into an anime.
Anyone is welcome to join at any time, with any part of the series, and audiovisual is welcome as well even if this thread is “officially” for the manga and LNs. General spoiler courtesy applies.
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I’m not planning on starting this until tomorrow, but I decided to get the thread up today because why not. Also I’m already on my laptop and who knows if I’ll want to drag my lazy ass over to it tomorrow. It’s a pain making these on my phone with all the links and stuff.
When “read a volume or work in a single day” was chosen as an official prompt for the 2024 Bingo Reading Challenge, I decided I would try to read all of the main 黒バス series within January, because I can already read one volume of manga in a day since a long time ago (I think my record was 5, with ハイキュー!! toward the end of it) but I still haven’t reached a point where I can read a LN in a single day even with pushing and utterly exhausting myself (my record’s only like 120 pages), but you know what I still haven’t done yet? Finished a single manga series longer than like 4 volumes in a reasonable amount of time even when I already owned all volumes when I started.
黒バス has got 30 volumes (32 if I’m counting EXTRA GAME) and January’s got 31 days, so just looking at day vs volume count, that should absolutely be doable—assuming, of course, that I don’t get burned out on a single series, which was at least partially my problem with several of my other longer series. If I wanted to make this more of a challenge, I should have waited until February, but it was literally all I could do not to start it during December or even November, so. January it is staying.
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I’ve been listening to some of the character songs, and it’s kind of wild to me how when I first listened to them (idk, 2016? 2015? or thereabouts), I could understand only tiny bits and pieces of what they were saying even looking at the lyrics, but now I can get at least the gist of it just listening.
Of course, I’ve been more or less “properly” studying the language for a little over two years now, whereas back then I knew kana and a handful of words & kanji and little else, but still. I wonder if that’ll ever start feeling any less wild to me, rediscovering a song that used to just be a song to me and suddenly knowing what it’s saying without having to look up a translation. It’s happened a couple times with ones I’d taught myself to sing phonetically while I was singing it, and that was disorienting, lemme tell ya, to realize as the line was coming out of my mouth that, “Oh, I know what this says now.” For it to suddenly be words when it used to just be sounds.
My listening comprehension’s still leagues behind my reading comprehension—and that’s still got leagues to go—but yeah. I guess it’s just that feeling of quantifiable progress, or something.
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Well I read the first chapter (60 pages, as seems to be the norm for Jump) in 30 minutes, which bodes well for being able to read more than one volume in a day even early on. If I don’t get burned out on one series, maybe I can even read all the manga! That’s only 1.35 vol/day.
Though it also depends on energy. I probably shouldn’t stay up ‘til 2 a.m. playing NWN too many nights…
I forgot Kuroko can be as dramatic as the rest of them. He’s quiet and a wallflower, so he seems aloof and mature, but he’s not remotely shy and also he’s a dork. I adore him.
I’m so glad the NG集 wasn’t an anime-only thing! I loved the outtakes like they’re actors playing characters rather than the characters themselves, and I’m happy at least some chapters will have one at the end.
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lol Kuroko says he’s not good with jokes, but he will be sarcastic. “Look at these guns.” -has zero muscles-
Y’know, he kinda reads as autistic. I wonder if that’s why I was drawn to him. A good portion of my favorite characters seem to be autistic-coded…
Aww, I was looking forward to the “This is Japanese school lunchtime rush!” but Kagami just says, “これが日本の混雑…!!” Not even English at the top and then the Japanese translation at the bottom. I’m sad :(
The scene’s still hilarious, though
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I wonder how canon these NG are. Because if Midorima actually named his frog figure Kerosuke and lucky cat Nyantarou, that would be adorable. Plus the implication that he’s emotionally attached to his lucky items and doesn’t merely see them as objects to maximize his luck? It’s good.
I wonder what he named the other ones…
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The Seirin vs Shuutoku matchup may be my favorite. I mean, I don’t remember the others that well since it’s been a while since I watched the anime, but I’m liking 対Midorima better than 対Kise at least lol. It’s exciting. Something about Midorima’s high-arcing threes and Takao’s Hawk Eye just appeals to me. Though, it could also just be that these two are quite possibly my favorite characters
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I never noticed until now, when I nearly misread 桜井 as 桃井 when she wasn’t even in the scene, but the two people closest to Aomine currently are both a flowering tree + “well.” I wonder if that was intentional or coincidence.
But yay, my 謝りキノコ ♡
And now I get confirmation that I was hearing right and he does say 羽虫 in his character song despite the lyrics I’d found clearly saying 弱虫, and of course it’s after I already put it on my phone. Ay.
I love how Shun gets his punniness from his mother
And now I’m imagining Hyuuga coming over to do homework or hang out together or whatever and Shun and Mama Idzuki tag-teaming and Hyuuga regretting all of his life choices
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50th quarter
やっぱ結局、赤司が言った通りかよ……
黒子のバスケじゃ
勝てねえよ
Ahahahahahahahqha
Ah f*ck I was expecting it to appear exactly like the chapter title like all the ones before, but seeing it with おまえ as the furigana for 黒子 so it’s actually the series title is just.
Man.
That hit me harder than it would have if it were just “おまえのバスケ.”
F*ck
52nd quarter
Oh yeah I forgot they had three straight losses in the 決勝リーグ. Ah man. But on the bright side, Kiyoshi’s making his appearance!! I love him
I could be at least a volume or two further along than vol 7 rn if I would stop freaking trying to (re)write a mayuaka fic when I don’t freaking remember them!! Or barely remember them, at any rate. Why didn’t I wait until I’d finished. I’m p sure I need to because spoilers. Or I at least need to read the majority of it. Also I have no idea if I just forgot (I wanna say that’s not likely bc that’s kind of a major change in Akashi, but it might be actually…) or if I started the original before I finished the anime, but I clearly didn’t touch it after that bc uhhh I used the wrong characterization for Akashi for this being set post–Winter Cup. Which is making this more difficult to write than it otherwise would be.
And clearly the solution is to just keep writing and hope for the best and also to read a few mayuaka fics instead of. y’know. continuing to read the source material until I get to the relevant chapters. Obviously.
I may be even more hopeless than Bakagami.
