Suppose Kuroko Tetsuya gave up basketball after the National Tournament in his third year of middle school. Instead of going on to Seirin High School to keep playing basketball, he enrolled in the upper division of Seishun Academy and began playing tennis. Now, suppose this is the upper division of Seishun Academy, where some of the plot overlaps with Prince of Tennis. Echizen Ryoma has yet to enroll in the upper division, and Kawamura Takashi has given up tennis...
Basketball was Kuroko Tetsuya's whole life, but in his third year of middle school, he lost everything. Worn down and battered, he enrolled in the upper division of Seishun Academy and, after making friends with the tennis club, was drawn to tennis and began playing. He had no talent for basketball, yet, unexpectedly, he possessed a one-of-a-kind gift for tennis...
