Kuroko's Basketball — Story Arcs & Filler Guide

Episode ranges, plot summaries, and frequently asked questions for every major arc in Kuroko's Basketball. Updated 2026.

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Season 1

Eps 1–25 · 25 eps

How does Kuroko's Basketball begin?

Episodes 1-25 (2012) introduce Taiga Kagami, a returnee from the US who joins Seirin High's basketball team and discovers his unremarkable new teammate, Tetsuya Kuroko, was the legendary 'phantom sixth man' of the middle-school powerhouse Teiko — the team behind the Generation of Miracles, five prodigies Seirin must now face one by one.

Season 2

Eps 26–50 · 25 eps

What does Kuroko's Basketball Season 2 cover?

Episodes 26-50 (2013-2014) continue Seirin's Inter-High tournament run and deepen the backstory of Teiko's Generation of Miracles, building toward the high-stakes Winter Cup that dominates the following season.

Season 3 (Winter Cup)

Eps 51–75 · 25 eps

How does the Kuroko's Basketball anime end, and is there a movie?

Episodes 51-75 (2015) cover the Winter Cup, Seirin's climactic tournament run against the remaining Generation of Miracles teams, ending with the Seirin vs. Rakuzan final. A genuinely new story continues afterward in the 2017 theatrical film Last Game, which adapts the separate Extra Game manga.