Daiki Aomine
“The strongest ace of the Generation of Miracles — a genius who believed only he could beat himself, and what happened when he was finally wrong.”
A shot with no fixed form — fired from any body angle, any position. Makes conventional blocking pointless.
The ultimate flow state — every physical and mental attribute maxed out simultaneously.
Direction changes that can't be anticipated — even fast-reacting defenders can't track the randomness.
A born basketball genius whose talent became his curse. The reality that no one could beat him slowly killed his love for the game. On the surface he's aloof and arrogant, but underneath his old pure passion is just dormant, not dead. His arc of awakening through defeat is what makes him one of the most human characters in the series, not just a villain.
- ▸Recovering the pure joy of basketball he had before it turned to boredom
- ▸Finding an opponent who can genuinely beat him
- ▸Responding once more to the basketball Kuroko kept believing in
- ▸Going back to the state where no one can challenge him again
- ▸His feeling for basketball dying completely and permanently
- ▸Gravure magazines (canon running gag)
- ▸Free-form basketball practice