12 Days of Anime #9: Teamwork in Kuroko’s Basketball

“Let’s have fun. This is our final play.” -Kiyoshi Teppei I haven’t been this pumped for a sports anime finale since Prince of Tennis and even then, a tennis match just doesn’t have quite as high of an adrenaline rush as a basketball game does. The success of sports anime really rests on two important factors:

An Interlude: AM’s Top Ten Most Played Anime Openings

Despite being pseudo-musical (mediocre violinist for ten years), I didn’t really start listening to music just for the sake of just listening it until sometime in high school. And even then, it was just a few select songs from some of my favorite anime. In fact, it wasn’t until I got to college that I […]

Valuing Teamwork and Fair Play in Kuroko no Basuke 2

On the tenth day of anime, an anime studio sent to me… …ten starter players. I’ve never been a sports fan. Any sports knowledge I might have is woefully miniscule and would put any bystander to shame. It wasn’t so long ago that I learned that a baseball game has nine innings, touchdowns happened in […]