Kuroko's Basketball: Last Game

So I have finally lived to see it, and this is, as the title suggests, the true end of the Kuroko's Basketball anime series. It is basically a dream come true for all the fans who wanted to see the whole "miracle generation" play together, and it is kind of a huge trope at the same time. If I was going to come up with the simplest narrative where they all got to play together, this is unquestionably just the first and completely obvious choice. In other words, it probably did not take much work to come up with such a simple screenplay. On the other hand, the American street basketball team named Jabberwock are a bunch of pretty obnoxious and pretentious dudes, so people like me want to give them a hard time. We therefore intensively support our old well known Japanese group again. My only criticism would be the incredibly frequent repetition of the word "monkey" to disparage all the Japanese basketballers by the American challengers. While I understand it is a swear word that the Japanese are probably quite sensitive to (and not only them...), when it is the twentieth time it has been said in half an hour, it seems kind of weird. The rest is the classic Kuroko's Basketball with everything someone like me has grown to love over the last three seasons. Intense confrontations on the court, dynamic play where the atmosphere spills over, superbly portrayed movement and ball handling combined with superhuman tricks so typical of sports shonen anime series. I do not wish to be harsh or review this movie quite critically for the stripped-down and simplistic narrative. This is the ending I was waiting for, and I still enjoyed it, because most of it is about a sport, which I watched every minute with suspense and which again was quite well done. So I guess I am going to give Kuroko's Basketball five stars for the last time even though objectively, it probably does not deserve it this time. 8.5/10. (19/09/2017)