Generation of Miracles

Kuroko has a deadpan and straightforward personality. He is very hard working and always tries to satisfy the needs of the team above his own. He has no presence and is quite unnoticeable, a trait that goes well with his misdirection. He has also displayed much respect towards fellow passionate basketball players and thinks that while senpais have to have pride, kōhais need to have respect.[2] Despite his initial kind personality, Kuroko gets extremely furious at dirty play, such as when his teammates were threatened and injured by foul methods in the Kirisaki Daīchi game. His aura changes so drastically, that even Kagami gets scared when he sees him like that.[3] When Kuroko gets angry, it gets very hard to beat him, as he is filled up with fighting spirit. When the situation worsens, he seems to turn talkative.[4]

Prior in his days in Teiko, he used to have more emotion, determination, and compassion for basketball at the 5th grade when he watched, he seems exasperated as he struggles for joining, when he is now a regular, he is somehow happy and smiling that he could die, however when Akashi, Aomine, and the rest of the Miracles where becoming distant, Kuroko was fed up due to his team's arrogance, cold-hearted play, and lack of joy for basketball, in the match between Meiko, he couldn't bear watching as he is now filled with sorrow, and grief, as a result, he quits the team and becoming antisocial, however, Ogiwara notes that Kuroko's eyes were just like the Miracles, but filled with warmth, he says to Kuroko to never stop playing basketball,through Mochida, because of this Kuroko is now determined to proved his style of basketball, as he chose Seirin due to their teamplay is filled with fun, encouraging him to join their team.

He has metaphorically referred to himself as a "shadow."[5] He means that he is playing for someone else, and that he becomes stronger when the "light" is stronger. The "light" would be the player he supports during a basketball game. During his Junior High school basketball career, his "light" was Aomine, and now it is Kagami.

His philosophy in teamplay somehow had a point, but after the first Too match, he learns from Kiyoshi and Kagami that its not just teamplay to achieve victory, but also individual skills, leading to his training to improve himself. His mental will proves to be extremely high and somehow "reckless" when Kuroko faces the enemies when it comes to basketball as he did it twice with the bullies of certain school, and Jabberwock, as Kagami pointing his stupidity, even Midorima remarks the unbelievable thing that Kuroko done, and surprising Akashi as he noted himself to Kuroko's straightforward confrontation against Jabberwock.

Outside the court, despite his unnoticeable personality, Kuroko is very gentlemanly when dealing with women. Amongst his friends, Kagami, Aomine and Kise are really shocked to see how easily Kuroko can cheer up Momoi and even knows what to do on a date.[6] Kuroko also lectures Kagami that he should deal with women more delicately.

Tetsuya -2 anime Kuroko and Tetsuya #2 Overall, he is a very calm, rational person, but it is shown that he also has his silly moments. In one omake he says that he can also become noticeable and does so by pulling his jacket over his head, making people automatically see him and laugh. There are times where he uses his misdirection ability to run away, and also a time where he was late for a game but pretended to have been there from the start [7] (until Kagami pointed out the sweat on his brow, indicating that he was actually late and had run all the way to school). While initially antisocial towards his teammates, he gradually warms up and starts to openly express himself more. It has been shown that he has a soft spot for cute animals, like kittens and dogs (Tetsuya #2).

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.

Aomine hits Haizaki 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.

Aomine fan of Japanese Idols 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]

As the only child of an prominent family, Akashi experienced 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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Akashi's original personality is most clearly identified with his use of the personal pronoun 俺 (ore) and his monochromatic red eyes. This is the personality that Akashi was born with and the one considered to be his "true" personality.

Initially, Akashi's personality was that of a person who respected his teammates, while still holding that winners-mentality. Akashi also cared and appreciated his fans that gave him daily support and focused solely on teamplay with his team. He also referred people by their last name as a sign of respect and was overall less menacing.

The real Akashi deep inside his consciousness Akashi meets his true self inside his consciousness The real Akashi personality manifests and returns once the second Akashi cracks and falls apart when his Emperor Eye was defeated by the coordination and teamwork of Kuroko and Kagami. Though the original Akashi wanted the second Akashi to fail and lose the match, he decides to take over his rightful place. Once reawakening, Akashi refers to his teammates by their last names once more, giving support (which shocked them) and compliments to their plays, and boosting their morale to the point where the Rakuzan Basketball team was able to enter the "Zone" alongside him. Alongside this, Kuroko notes that because he is the original Akashi, he has also become much more dangerous and more skilled.

Once being defeated in the Winter Cup, Akashi is hurt by his first loss, but thinks of it as a beginning for something much greater and swears that he and his team will become victorious in their next encounter and as a result, became far more approachable as a person as an apology for his prior personality (likely hinting that he no longer feels as pressured to maintain perfection and with such a weight off of his chest for years, only strives for improvement).

Akashi was shown in the Kuroko no Basket: Kiseki no Game to be extremely caring and considerate towards his former teammates. He constantly reminds them of doing things the right way, even in the way they eat and take care of their digestive system. It was much near the point of nagging that Daiki Aomine even called him "mother" jokingly.

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Akashi's alternate personality is most clearly identified with his use of the personal pronoun 僕 (boku) and his heterochromatic eyes, with his right eye being red and his left eye being closer to orange or yellow. This was the personality in control of Akashi during his first appearance in Kuroko no Basuke.

Akashi when first appearing in the series is shown with an extremely intimidating and condescending personality. He is able to control the Generation of Miracles as their leader as they all submit to his requests. Akashi has a certain level of respect for all of his teammates, former and present, and has utter faith in their abilities. Due to the way Akashi grew up during childhood, he developed a strong winners-mentality, believing that winners get everything in life while losers are denied all. Because of the fact that he has never faced defeat before, victory itself is something that is bestowed upon him. Akashi views himself as absolute in power and skill and grows extremely violent when anyone disobeys his commands as shown when he tried to stab Taiga Kagami with the scissors he borrowed from Shintarō Midorima when Kagami disobeyed him. However Kagami revealed that he could sense Akashi already knew he could avoid it.[2]

Gauge eyes out "I will gouge out my eyes, and give them to you." In his Middle School years, Akashi developed a second personality that twists on the original personality. This personality showed extreme hubris and does not tolerate those that belittle him or defy him, stating that those who serve him or earns his respect can look him in the eye. Despite this alternate personality's immense arrogance and sense of superiority, Akashi is still extremely strict, dedicated and demanding, possessing an extremely low tolerance for the incompetence or laziness of players on the field, even if they are his own teammates.

For example, in order to motivate his teammates who had become relaxed due to the initial advantage of the match, Akashi stated that if Rakuzan High lost to Shūtoku High during the Winter Cup, he would gouge his eyes out and give them to his teammates. [3] The reactions from all of his teammates and Midorima implied that they knew Akashi would actually do it, something that Kazunari Takao noticed. When the original personality of Akashi is confronted at the possibility of defeat against fellow teammate Atsushi Murasakibara, the second personality becomes the dominant personality and also activates the Emperor Eye skill for the first time, allowing him to seize victory. This second personality would later sever core teamwork aspects and viewed that coordinated teamplays were not the way to victory, which eventually led to Tetsuya Kuroko leaving the team, and being soundly dominated by Seirin High in his last moments of dominance over the original Akashi. He also referred to his teammates by their first name, rather than their last name. [4] This Akashi personality has his right eye - red and his left eye - orange.

In spite of their prior conflicts, both of Akashi's personalities have come to be on good terms, being able to utilize Emperor Eye especially when deliberately called upon during the Vorpal Swords vs. Jabberwock game. From there, the said other Akashi also grew to be more considerate and amiable, akin to the original Akashi, fearing that his prior position as an enemy and his own playstyle would not mesh with his current team. With this newfound trust between both personalities, the other Akashi was able to adapt more to team play and directly help raise his teammates' morale (while still being as imposing as he was before towards his enemies).

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.

Angered Murasakibara 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.

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."