Synchronizing movements with only momentary eye contact with teammates.
Ultra-speed coordinated play based on Kagami's speed while in the Zone...
Direct Drive Zone!
Stop this and victory's in sight! Wring out all you've got!
The winner... will be me.
It is a century before your time to defeat Rakuzan!
75Q. MANY TIMES OVER
This is the worst... Right when they wanted momentum to inch the lead back to three...
Akashi landing that increases the lead instead! A seven-point game...
Forty seconds left...
RAKUZAN SEIRIN Hurry, Seirin! You have no time!
Defense! Everyone, focus! If we stop this, it's over!
Yeah!
What pressure... right when we can't waste even a second to score...
A double-team!
Not good... At that rate, what little stamina he squeezed out will run out immediately!
Iduki!
Your push is weak! You think you can pull a trick under the basket like that?
- Kiyoshi! - Dammit!
Of course you're the one we're most worried about!
- Less than 30 seconds... - We trust you!
Captain!
This is a lateral long pass!
Don't let your guards down! Hayama! Mayuzumi!
The time... Twenty-seven seconds left!
Defense!
- Give it everything you've got! - Yeah!
De-fense! De-fense!
I'd say this defense couldn't be better.
Yet what composure from Rakuzan...
They aren't budging...
It doesn't look like anyone can steal the ball!
What's with him?
When the team's supposed to be fired up... There's one guy that's all chill instead.
Calm down... Don't get fired up...
This is when I need to stick to being clever...
Even if it's futile with Akashi, it must be possible to catch the other four off guard.
For us to win, cool off... Point guards who have worse specs gotta use their heads!
No good. Rakuzan will never panic and attack.
RAKUZAN SEIRIN No good. Rakuzan will never panic and attack.
They'll use the 24 seconds and won't force a shot. Catching them off guard is...
No... they'll definitely take a shot.
More than reason, their emperor's pride will make them. And they must see...
...Kiyoshi's at his limit!
What?
Run!
Let's go!
Kagami!
- Dammit! - Iduki!
- This pass... - A coincidence?
It's the same as the ones Akashi gives.
- It'll go in... - Without a doubt...
There's one winning hand that's not just a retaliation...
I've never practiced it... But I've seen so many examples I'm sick of it.
If I have an image of it, there is a chance!
It can't be...
Basket counts, one shot!
RAKUZAN SEIRIN Basket counts, one shot!
It went in!
A three!
And a free throw! A four-point play to bring us back from the dead!
Great job, Captain!
Junpei!
What was that...
A four-point game...
We could've won if I let him shoot a normal three... I couldn't help it...
I'm sorry, guys.
Don't apologize.
Now is not the time to blame yourself. The next rebound is the moment of truth.
Leave it to me. I'll make sure to get it.
- I'll jump too. Don't be reckless... - After all this, saying that means nothing.
Rebounds are my job. So make sure not to accidentally sink it, Hyuga.
I don't want to hear "accidentally" from you.
Let's have fun. This is our final play.
One shot!
What the... This sucks... I feel like I'm going to cry.
Oh, dammit... It's because that idiot used the word "final"...
This is the final...
I didn't mean it that way when I said it...
But I guess you could take it that way as well.
This is the final play I'll get with everyone.
But I have no regrets... Not even one.
The only thing left is to give it my all.
Rebound!
Right here and now, I'll put everything I have on the line!
All right!
What? Stop it! Don't let them shoot!
Who? Who'll shoot? Will he go through with it himself?
Or will he pass?
God dammit!
I knew! I was watching for him!
But still, the instant I thought about who'd be shooting, he disappeared from my awareness!
The reason he didn't shoot till now was all a setup for this moment?
Let's go!
Akashi!
This is the end, Kuroko!
No, not yet.
I'm the shadow.
RAKUZAN SEIRIN Time's up! Seirin High...
...wins the Winter Cup!
We did it!
We lost...
So this is defeat...
How horrible... It pains the heart indescribably...
I don't think I can keep my calm up through when we line up.
However, that is why I think...
...I'm glad I've been playing basketball. And glad I was able to cross paths with you.
This is a victory for you... No, for all of you.
Congratulations.
And prepare yourselves... Next time, we are the ones who will win.
Yes.
Let's play again. Next time, the time after that... many times over.
That's right. Many times over.
This isn't the end of everything.
It's more like it's just begun.
We can fight. With the basketball that we love... many times over.
Hey.
Where are our senpai?
- Idiot, what are you saying? - They're sending Kiyoshi-senpai off.
- We had his farewell party, right? - Crap, that's today?
You're spacing out way too much... Even if he said he didn't need a send-off...
Even though I said I didn't need a send-off... Those guys really didn't come?
- You wanted them to? - They're just being honest.
I'm sure they're feeling lonesome.
You take care.
Yeah.
If the surgery succeeds, he'll recover quickly depending on rehab. He'll see them soon enough.
We'll be waiting.
Yeah.
That was an amazing game. I had goosebumps.
Basketball Monthly had a huge feature on Seirin too.
Kuroko, I've made up my mind.
Next year, we're gonna go against you. I'll make sure to play. I promise.
Yes. I'm looking forward to it.
Tetsu-kun!
- Sorry, did you wait long? - No, I'm fine.
This is what I promised you.
Thank you very much.
Wait... Kasamatsu, what's wrong?
Well... I'm actually trying to get into the same college as Kasamatsu...
- Because that college has lots of cuties, right? - Take this more seriously!
- You think you can get in with such motives? - But...
NATIONAL APTITUDE MOCK EXAM
That's... Oh...
Say, you're applying for the same college?
It's a backup plan though.
C-Cheer up, Kasamatsu! I know! Let's take a look inside the gym!
- Kicking Kise around cheers you up! - You just said an awful thing!
(L)ook a(r)ound mo(r)e, Kise! Something (l)ike that won't wo(r)k on Sei(r)in!
Yeah, I know that!
- You understand, with the missing syllables? - How do you put it... the gist?
Gist... gist, huh...
One mo(r)e!
Yeah!
Oh, fine... I guess I'll study!
You know... I'll be blunt. Aren't we in trouble?
With what, in fact?
Ootsubo-san, Miyaji-san, Kimura-san... They're all third years.
Shin-chan, you and me are the only ones left.
Every other team has at least three key players coming back.
Isn't this difference pretty huge...
- Looking down on us, huh? - Miyaji-san!
I was a step behind my brother, but I'll surpass him next year.
YUYA MIYAJI, 2ND YEAR / SF (KIYOSHI MIYAJI'S YOUNGER BROTHER) I was a step behind my brother, but I'll surpass him next year.
As captain, I'll prove it with results.
I'm not as forgiving as Ootsubo-senpai. You better be ready.
- I hear Kimura-senpai's brother will join next year. - Seriously?
We still have players with potential and high hopes for new first years.
- Who's left? It's not that simple, is it? - You're right... I'm sorry.
I hear Ootsubo-senpai has a sibling hoping to join too.
Yeah? How many siblings does our team have?
Here's a picture.
- Tae Ootsubo-chan. - That's what you meant? They look nothing alike!
- So how was that mock exam the other day? - So-so, I guess.
- Oh, I saw Kasuga from Seiho at the exam. - Oh? So he's pretty smart, isn't he...
Like, no way... I'm sick of this.
- Of what, Atsushi? - How much it snows in Akita.
True. I thought it was a natural disaster at first.
I could grudgingly accept it if this was gluten-puff snacks...
Sorry, I don't quite get what you mean.
And there's one more thing I thought about... Why are you here?
- Why not? - We didn't graduate yet!
You think school's over after club activities?
Actually, we'll be gone a few days for exams next week.
Since our first choice is a college in Tokyo...
Isn't college a place where you have to study to enter?
That's why we're studying! Seriously, stop mocking us!
Then I'll give you this.
MAIU-BAR / MUST-WIN!! KATSU-CURRY FLAVOR
Do your best!
Yeah!
Cheap sweets?
Team practice, team practice...
You've been smiling more since Aomine-san started coming to practice.
You think so?
Aomine is late? That brat!
Captain...
Hey, Momoi, do you-know-what.
MAI HORIKITA SHOW UP OR WE'LL BURN THIS.
- Give back my Mai-chan! - Oh, you're here.
Using that dirty tactic...
As long as you're here. Watch practice if you don't want to play.
And if you lose a stamina battle against Kagami, oh well.
We'll end up with the same result as before.
Hey, it's going that way! Close in!
Watching means I'll just be bored!
I'm saying I'll do it!
I'm hungry.
But is it okay? We lost, but no practice?
What's that? Today's special, the retirement ceremony for third years.
Retirement, huh... But is it all right? He didn't show up after all.
Mayuzumi-san.
It's you, huh? Wait, "-san"? Where's the casualness?
That was only as captain during extracurriculars... We're just a first year and a third year now.
Thank you for all the hard work until now.
Sure.
Was it all right? Not attending...
I don't like stuff like that anyway. I have no attachment to the team itself.
Not like I had any particularly good memories either. But...
The last year wasn't all that bad, thanks to you.
Right.
So until I graduate, please leave me alone.
If we talk normally after all this, it kinda doesn't look cool and stuff.
- Anyway, what about practice? - Nobody got contacted at all?
Could we have today off?
Not likely, morons!
Captain! Hey!
- What about the send-off? - We're here 'cause it's over!
We can send e-mail overseas these days, and it's not hard to go there.
It's not goodbye forever, so we quickly sent him off!
But Hyuga was the most emotional and withdrawn.
Shut up, Iduki!
Anyway, I can't let what I just heard pass me by... A day off from practice?
After rookie matches, it's the Kanto regionals and interhigh qualifiers!
Since when can you spoiled brats be so easy about things, huh?
You won't escape nude confessions with that outlook!
- I thought we already... - When you do, it resets of course!
We'll do it again in the new term and with new members. And aim even higher!
- You mean back-to-back wins? - Naturally!
The other teams are practicing under new regimes and scouting promising players to bolster their lineups!
If it's just us lounging, it'll show quickly! Come on, we're starting!
But Kuroko still isn't here, is he?
- He was in the team room, so he's coming... - Jeez... Kagami, go look!
Me? Fine...
Hey, Kuroko! Why're you being such a slowpoke... Hurry up and...
Huh? Where did he go?
- Did you call? - You... I told you!
Sorry. I went to get a photo from Momoi-san, and I'm a bit late.
Oh, that thing planned for your birthday?
- No, that's not it! Practice! Let's go! - Oh, right.
KUROKO
You're late, Kuroko! All right, we're gonna start practice!
Seirin, fight!
Yeah!