[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-popular-character-in-kuroko-s-basketball":3,"chapter-the-popular-character-in-kuroko-s-basketball-the-popular-character-in-kuroko-s-basketball-chapter-5":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Popular Character in Kuroko's Basketball",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2205976,3844,"Chapter 5","the-popular-character-in-kuroko-s-basketball-chapter-5",5,"\u003Cp>In some respects, it is indeed not wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>People come into contact with basketball at first, indeed because of love.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It's just that it's not feasible to always hold this pure idea.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Modern basketball, or the entire history of basketball, the court is a battlefield!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Whether it's a professional league or an international tournament, every game is a war.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>For victory, players can use war stomps to hit people on the court, or use flying kicks.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In short, a real game is never pure.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Thinking about things, the bullet comments in front of him began to scroll again.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>'Tendo Keigen?'\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>'What are you to Tendo Souji?'\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>'Pre-ordered, the first B-King of this work!'\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>'This guy looks so handsome, he almost threatened me; he must be an important character!'\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>'Wake up upstairs, your looks can only compare to Gian at best!'\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Brain-dead netizens have a lot of fun.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Tendo Keigen felt that this show must have only aired the first episode, and the progress bar still had at least half left; it hadn't even reached the exciting part, and these B's had already started looking for fun for themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Laozi hasn't even operated yet!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Enough idle talk.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After waiting for some time, Shirogane Goro came over with his assistant coach and the current team captain, Nijimura Shuzo.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"First of all, welcome everyone to the Teiko basketball club.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"As you can see, what our basketball club pursues is the philosophy of victory above all else.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Shirogane Goro pointed to the beam hanging above the gym, where the four big characters \"Hundred Battles, Hundred Victories\" were written.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But speaking of which, although Teiko is a regular at the national tournament, the number of national tournament championships they have actually won is not particularly large.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This has to do with the national tournament's competition system, which uses BO1 throughout, meaning a one-game knockout system.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Such a system is recognized as the most cruel and exciting system.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It's not almost, but every year there will definitely be upsets.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Even a stronger team might be cut down because of a sudden explosion of a team, or even the explosion of a player.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So wanting to win consecutive national tournament championships is a very difficult thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It requires not only strength but also luck on your side.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Shirogane Goro saw everyone's expressions become serious, realizing what kind of basketball club Teiko is, and then nodded and continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"We are a victory-ism team. Since it's victory-ism, the joining ceremony will speak with basketball.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"I won't arrange any physical tests for you now; if you want to get a position at Teiko, you can only rely on yourselves.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Now, start group confrontation training. Those whose names are called form a team; your opponents are Teiko's second-string.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Shirogane Goro's arrangement was simple and neat.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Doing physical tests one by one is definitely not feasible because there are too many people.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If they tested everyone, they basically wouldn't have anything else to do today.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Whether it's a donkey or a horse, it'll be clear after a run on the court.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, he had actually already remembered a few faces in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The one that attracted him the most must be Murasakibara Atsushi, who is young and already 190cm tall.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>'Wow, so tall!'\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>'And a three-no!'\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>'Stupid and cute, is this guy really a junior high student?'\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Shirogane Goro held the information in his hand and began to look forward to Murasakibara Atsushi's performance.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Murasakibara Atsushi has been a famous basketball genius since elementary school.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Because of his height, he was naturally spotted by the basketball club coach and pulled to play basketball.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Like the fat guy Morishige Wataru in Slam Dunk, children with this physique and athletic ability will be hailed as treasures in the basketball world.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Murasakibara Atsushi did not disappoint the teacher who expected him.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Standing out from the crowd since he was a child, when he arrived on the court, even if he didn't know much about basketball, he still caused a dimensionality reduction strike to his peers.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In the first year of contact with basketball, he very easily helped his team win the regional championship.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He is a true talent monster.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Soon, the grouping was completed.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Time is limited; Teiko cannot arrange a 40-minute game.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This confrontation match is only 20 minutes per game, adopting a 10-minute half-time method.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Tendo Keigen was lucky; he was assigned to a team with Kuroko, totaling 10 people.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Unsurprisingly, these people will each get 10 minutes to show themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The grouping was completed, and after changing into training clothes, the game started, and several games were going on at the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Tendo Keigen sat on the bench with Kuroko for the first 10 minutes, with the other five freshmen playing first.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Unsurprisingly, these freshmen who were temporarily put together were beaten to a pulp by the seniors of Teiko's second-string.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This doesn't make people feel strange at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>What's more, Teiko's second-string is actually the reserve for the first-string.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Teiko's first-string, that is, the starters, only has a few people; the remaining substitutes will be selected from the players who perform well in the second-string.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In other words, these newcomers are facing the substitutes of the powerhouse Teiko.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This was intentional by Shirogane Goro, giving these newcomers a slap in the face so that these greenhorns would know what's what.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In just five minutes, the score became 16:4; the first-year students on Tendo Keigen's team only scored a mere 4 points in five minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The strength was already inferior to the second-string, and there was no tacit understanding or cooperation; such a score difference is very reasonable.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>'So weak, they were beaten 16:4?'\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>'Didn't you see the opening narration? Teiko is a powerhouse team; it's not strange to beat some rookies, right?'\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>'I'm looking forward to how Kuroko leads the team to reverse; according to the routine, it must be the teammates are CBA, and then the protagonist explodes to reverse, right?'\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The dog-coin netizens guessed it almost right.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But the person leading the reversal today is not the protagonist.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Before developing his own misdirection, Kuroko is a pure rookie.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Wanting Kuroko to lead the team to reverse is completely overthinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The first half of the game soon came to an end.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Tendo Keigen was ready to play, but just as he got up, he found Kuroko's hands were shaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Why do you seem so nervous, Kuroko.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"We're about to play, shouldn't we be excited?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"I... I'm sorry, Tendo-kun, the seniors are all too amazing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Kuroko knows his level very well.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>His love for basketball, he asks himself, will not lose to anyone, but compared to who is weaker, he also doesn't think he will lose to anyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Tendo Keigen certainly knows, but he still confidently spread his legs, hands pressing on both knees to move his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Just this little thing?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Hmm, doesn't Tendo-kun feel nervous at all?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Of course not!\" Tendo Keigen said spiritedly, \"Because I am the strongest!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Chr\u002F>\u003Cp>\u003Cem>— Author's Notes —\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>PS: Here, here, went out in the morning and just came back.\u003C\u002Fp>",1174,"2026-06-17T07:16:51.426Z","2026-06-17T09:02:19.189Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","0645682434d19a0d7791f98cf6758b34662dff2d00a30c1f306e069831bf86b0","the-popular-character-in-kuroko-s-basketball-chapter-6","the-popular-character-in-kuroko-s-basketball-chapter-4",256,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-popular-character-in-kuroko-s-basketball-cover.jpg"]