While you make a valid point that a person should know about the medium they use for storytelling, you seem to be forgetting the audience for the series. We've both already established that it's a Shounen, obviously enough with the abilities and whatnot that are used.
How am I forgetting the audience? Obviously the audience are
primarily people who have
some kind of interest in basketball, as
that is the selling theme. If you inform one of something they haven't read/seen, most of the time, their first question should be, "what's it about?" and depending on the explanation and whether or not their interests are piqued, they'll view for themselves. Clearly in the title, you see, "Kuroko no
Basket", obviously it is about
basketball, obviously if you pick it up, primarily it is because you have an interest in basketball.
But basketball is different, it's one of those mainstream sports that people see all over the place and it's easily recognizable. It's not about getting the details right, the fact is that basketball's concept in itself is so easy to utilize that it doesn't matter whether or not all of the little things are perfect. Again, KnB is no more about the basketball than it is about the different personalities competing with each other in an extreme way to make for entertainment.
But that
is the point. Basketball is easily recognized, and it doesn't take a guru to realize, "Oh hey! that's not something you can do in basketball". No one is talking about "perfection" and these aren't
minor details; they're obvious "No No's". You're trying to make it seem as if this is okay, because it's not "really about basketball" and that's ludicrous.
Furthermore, it's basketball of all things, if it's an exaggerated Shounen then you don't NEED to know every detail about the game.
But no one is talking about
every detail or even
complex details, these are the
very first fundamental principles one learns when he is initially introduced to the sport.
Are Japanese kids honestly going to be focused on the details of the game when the obvious highlights are the over-the-top, exaggerated nature of the play?
Why are you stating this as if I did some complex soul-searching to find these errors. They were so blatantly obvious that anyone who pays attention to the story-line and events occurring rather than "ZOMG supa kewl grafics" would realize these, it doesn't take a quantum physicist to do so.
The comparison between Kagami and Aomine
Which is very terrible development. At no point is Kagami even shown to be a good player. He cannot dribble with his opposite hand and he barely boasts any decent dribbling prowess with his dominant hand. He has no shooting ability whatsoever, and at the end of the day, all he can do is dunk (which even Midorima states, and proves to him at the beach, stopping him successfully
everytime). So how is it even possible for him to be compared to someone like Aomine? But it gets even worse because they decide to transform Kagami in the middle of the game, from Scrubami to someone on Aomine's tier level in a matter of a couple of minutes... Just that easily.... right... Good development there...
the shifting in the way of the players' thinking after gaining a selfish desire to play their own basketball instead of relying on their comrades
Which is also terrible. Kise loses a
practice match and all of a sudden that induces the "Change of Heart" magic card? I repeat, a
practice match, lolwut? Midorima doesn't really change, he just doesn't want to lose again; he comes up with a plan of beating Seirin that was really a face-palm. But the funny part is the way it was acted out was made to look as if it was Albert Einstein splitting the atom all over again. Already explained Aomine.
the varied personalities among the Generation of Miracles, etc.
Lolwut? Varied? They are all the same (excluding Kuroko). "*sigh* I am better than you... it's too easy... I'm not sure if I even love basketball... blah blah" Kise is the only one who is somewhat different, but not by much, as he wasn't naturally on the rest's tier levels and his motivation for playing basketball was Aomine, so therefore he never reached that level of satiation as did the rest of the crew.
I for one thought it was interesting how Kuroko sought to prevent the mistakes with Aomine from happening again with Kagami and how he works to keep the team united instead of letting them drift off on their own solo tangents the way his old team did.
You seriously found that interesting? That's what happens in sports, you lose and then you figure out what you can do to better prepare yourself for next time... Seriously, are you unknown to the sports world? And Kuroko nor Kagami is keeping the team united. The reason why Kuroko's old team drifted onto their own solo tangents is because they each individually were at the apex of their class, no one could beat them, such is not the case with Seirin: they weren't really a
contending team prior to Kagami and Kuroko, now they are, motivation enough to gauge a successful season.
I for one see it as interesting how Aomine is one possibility for how Kagami COULD turn out in the future, if he were to end up following the same path. Obviously he won't because of the theme of the series and all, but the contrast is still something worth thinking about.
Except that Aomine isn't and it is terrible that the author draws this comparison. The closest person to Aomine is Kise, and at this point, it is arguable that Kise has surpassed Aomine. Kagami's game overall is terrible, not even anywhere near Kise
before he copied Aomine's game, so there is no reason why he should even think about developing an arrogant attitude towards the game. But despite all of the Generation of Miracles being better than Kagami, during game-time at the most convenient of moments, the author forces us to accept that Kagami is all of a sudden on par, if not better, than his current match-up. Terrible.
Can't comment on Aomine there because I haven't gotten that far into the series, the anime stopped earlier. And now I've been completely spoiled for what lies ahead.......fan freaking tastic.
So it wasn't foreseen that Seirin would have a rematch with Touou and win? Seriously... This manga is nothing short of predictable, and I'm not even certain that the anime would even last that long to their rematch. A bunch of moving still pictures... come on now, it is literally
exactly like the manga with very few actual animation going on, therefore it is no need for an anime (but alas, that is business).
And the question now becomes then,
why are you asking for proof if you don't want spoilers?
If you actually pay attention it's really not that difficult a concept to understand. In short, Kuroko screwed with Takao's focus by alternating his misdirection. By doing that, he was effectively able to keep him from properly viewing the whole range of the field, and all Kuroko has to do is alternate that to keep Takao from effectively tracking him.
...wut? So let me get this straight. Takao can see the
entire court, with absolute precision, which is why it isn't a problem for him to track Kuroko; Kuroko "alternates his misdirection" as you put (I'm not sure how that statement alone makes sense to you) and despite Takao retaining the same superb vision he had all throughout the match, despite being able to still view the
entire court with the aforementioned acuity, he can no longer see his foe? Right...
If I am looking straight ahead and directly within my line of sight is a flat-screen TV and a Victoria Secret model; should I decided to focus intently on the model, the TV just doesn't disappear altogether, I still register it being there because it is
still within my field of vision. The
whole court is Takao's field of vision, Kuroko is on the court, how does he avoid Takao's scrunity? Inb4 "u jus dont understand" or "dis is a shounen dat can happen" - no it's not okay for a character's abilities to be severely watered down within a couple pages, with no feasible or logical explanation just for the sake of plot.
Well, I clearly see where this is going. You think that just because this is a Shounen, that that is a reasonable excuse to make silly mistakes in regards to the rules that the manga itself sets up and the rules of the game in which it is oriented around. I would go more into detail, but you would like to do without spoilers and not to mention, you'd just defend the incident with, "this is a shounen! omg! everything doesn't have to be perfect!". So you may say your saving grace and that'd be the last of things.
