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 epsHow 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 epsWhat 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 epsHow 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.